"That's why it was one of the great presidencies, they say. Even the opponents sometimes say he did very well, I have to say. 'Take it back,' they scream. his people say 'Take it back.' From that day on, our opponents, a lot of opponents, but we've been waging an all-out war on American democracy."
Doesn't sound like a gaffe to me. He has been waging a war on American democracy, literally tried a coup.
It's not even the mask slipping. This is saying what they want and their supporters going right along with it. They don't even bother lying or beating around the bush anymore.
Yeah I've been waiting for the day he decides to own the term fascist the way he's taken other terms. I don't see a downside for him either really, the base would eat it up
Of course that's mean more people suffered in actions that gave him power. More people suffering/working for his goals is all that matters, as long as goals are achieved of course.
Actually, no. We're not laughing. We're horrified. It would be funny if this wasn't the most powerful country on earth about to once again give command of the most powerful military on earth to a certified moron and clinical psychopath. If this was happening in Liechtenstein or Andorra, it would be funny.
The US also has a tendency of exporting its nonsense to the rest of the world. So it's not like we're safe out here watching the clown show.
See Myanmar justifying its 2021 coup d'état by "election fraud" (wonder where they got that idea) and Bolsonaro's fanbase doing a more violent copycat version of Jan 6 in Brasil as examples.
Trump is a viable politician. He's winning the Republican primary by a wide margin and he's up a few points on Biden in the general. He could win, that's the definition of viable.
Snopes' take on this is really weird. They seem to be bending over backwards to invent an alternative narrative for him for some reason.
Listening to the videos, it sounds pretty clear to me that Trump did in fact say "we've been waging an all-out a war on American democracy." Not in. _In _doesn't even make any sense in the context. You wage war _in _a place, like Ukraine or Palestine. You wage war _on _a concept, like terror or democracy.
That said, I can definitely give him a pass that he didn't mean what he said. I can believe that it was very much a gaffe, because he is such a goddamned moron who rambles on without thinking. It sounds to me like he wanted to express that he is fighting in a war that his opponents are waging on American democracy, and he just said it wrong because he's a fucking idiot. It seems obvious that's what he meant to say, and he just said it wrong.
Which is what makes this snopes article so weird... why call the claim false and then defend him in this way? Why not rate this as mixture? Oh well...
What kinda sucks here is that to me, it does sound like "in America." So you're going to have people thinking it's one way or the other, people are going to argue over the semantics, and completely ignore the implications of another Trump presidency in favor of inane bickering.
Not everyone who replied to the post had a negative opinion about Trump, with the verified account Jordan Vegan Patriot said: "What do you consider the definition of democracy to be? I'm curious, give me your definition, I'll wait right here."
Yes, and one who thinks he's especially witty. Incidentally, I once got to have lunch with David Malki, who came up with the term. He was a super nice guy.
How old is this article? Is this one of those articles that the onion releases every week like "No way to prevent this says only nation where this regularly happens"?
Former President Donald Trump became the subject of jokes and memes after his gaffe about waging all-out war on American democracy, which he later corrected, went viral.
"We want to put our country first; they haven't done that in a long time, but we did it for four years and that's why we did so well," Trump, who is the current favorite to claim the Republican nomination, told a supportive crowd in Cedar Rapids.
The segment of the speech containing the "all-out war" gaffe went viral on X, formerly Twitter, after being uploaded by Acyn, a researcher for the self-styled "pro-democracy" MeidasTouch Network.
Verified account VBrian Resists responded to Acyn's post with a cartoon of Trump placing dynamite at the base of a statue with the word "Democracy," and added the caption "No ****."
Not everyone who replied to the post had a negative opinion about Trump, with the verified account Jordan Vegan Patriot said: "What do you consider the definition of democracy to be?
An unedited version of the speech at Iowa shared by Right Side Broadcasting Network, a Trump-supporting channel, also showed the former president seeming to attempt to correct himself shortly after making the gaffe.
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The Founding Fathers DEFINITELY meant to Protect School Shooters when creating America but DEFINITELY didn't want to base the Country off of ANY form of Democracy! They LITERALLY made this country to be a Catholic Country that Kills Children!