Posted on 02/28/2016 9:38:35 AM PST by TBBT
Trending on Twitter right now is the retweet by Donald Trump. I'm using an image because I can't imagine this won't be memory-holed at some point:
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Chuck Todd asked Trump about it on Meet the Press:
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TRANSCRIPT
TODD: You know right now on Twitter, there is a trending retweet of yours. You tweeted someone from "ilduce2016″ (okay, I wet myself, are you happy?), it was a Mussolini quote, but you didn't know it was Mussolini when you retweeted it, it said, "It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep."* That's a famous Mussolini quote, you retweeted it, do you like the quote? Did you know it was Mussolini?
TRUMP: It's okay to know it's Mussolini. Yeah, look Mussolini was Mussolini. Its a very good quote, it's a very interesting quote, and I know it... I saw it... I saw what... I know who said it. But what difference does it make whether it's Mussolini or somebody else? It's certainly a very interesting quote.
TODD: Well...
TRUMP: That's probably why...
TODD: Mussolini...
TRUMP: I, between Facebook and Twitter...
TODD: ...was a fascist.
TRUMP: ...have fourteen million people who...
TODD: ...do you want to be associated...
TRUMP: ...want to be able to vote. It's a very interesting quote and people can talk about it. per Tuesday. It could be a big night for you.
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Donald Trump.... WINNER!
Ted State strikes again
Mussolini - he kept walls running on time.
By the way what ever happened to Mussolini? The Italians LOVED him.
Shoulda just quoted hildabitche, threw up his hands and made that horrid face, and said whats the diference?
Probably would have stopped the libtard cold.
Tag line.
TedState cheering on liberals for attacking Trump.
Disgusting.
Reagan's trust but verify is a Soviet\Russian quote.
Lions eat sheep.
If we were to go through history we would find a whole host of quotes attributed to people we might find offensive in today’s world.
The last few days of watching the MSM, GOPe, Romney, along with Cruz and Rubio looking for anything to stick to Trump is almost comical beyond belief.
If all these groups had wanted to try and take Trump out they had their opportunities months ago. Reality is too little, too late I think.
Guess who's moving into the White House soon...
Fascism is just another name for Crony Capitalism — government and corporations scratching each other’s backs. That is what Trump is all about.
Fascism works. It is the current system in China, and China is beating us. Trump will beat China at their own game.
It will be incredible. It will be amazing.
OK, just got a question here. Is the reason we’re supposed to hate Trump because he quoted Mussolini, or because he quoted Hillary?
nothing wrong with that quote.
Please Donald start telling people that Hillary said police “terrorize” black neighborhoods.
That is a direct quote. Of il douche.
I just looked up a 2004 forum post by some language geeks on the origin of that quote. It’s also listed as an Italian or Roman proverb.
Tempest in a teapot.
It’s interesting to see the media and punditry in full out Gotcha mode. Makes one wonder how many are being co-ordinated with the GOPe and how many are free agent attempts at fame and fortune, trying to be the talking head that took down Trump?
He was summarily executed by members of the Italian resistance in 1945.
I like that quote. I’m writing it down right now.
If Trump had retweeted, “workers of the world, unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.” No one would have batted an eye or raised an eyebrow.
The quote itself is not a bad quote. Trump hasn’t endorsed Mussolini’s ideas, so why does it matter who said it?
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