Posted on 05/12/2024 1:16:55 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy
Former president tells 100,000 supporters people from mental institutions are being let into US
Donald Trump praised “the late great Hannibal Lecter” as a “wonderful man” at a rare campaign rally while complaining that the Biden administration was admitting migrants from insane asylums into the US.
During a 90-minute speech in front of an estimated 100,000 supporters in Wildwood, New Jersey – a record for a political rally in the state – the former president baffled his crowd by recalling the 1991 horror films.
“He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner,” he said.
“But Hannibal Lecter. Congratulations, the late great Hannibal Lecter. We have people who are being released into our country that we don’t want in our country, and they’re coming in totally unchecked, totally unvetted.”
Trump had previously been talking about pressure on the US border, saying other countries were bringing their “people from insane asylums and mental institutions” to the US under Joe Biden.
Tangents are not unusual in Mr Trump’s unscripted campaign speeches which, to the delight of his supporters, veer between political rhetoric, insults and conspiracy theories.
His campaign speech on Saturday night – one of the few he has been able to give while on trial – also included a reference to wind farms damaging whales, a claim that has been largely debunked.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Exactly so. The far Left is notorious for its lack of humor.
He was suggesting the world is taking advantage of our porous border by sending it’s Hannibal Lectors our way. We’re stupidly letting them in, of course.
I thought Hannibal Lector was still alive.
Neocons like most media labeled righties
That’s true
Only sarcasm
Louisiana snake head is on occasion funny
So is Larry David
I actually watch his shows
Tony Hedgecliffe (sic) too
And bill hicks too
Occasionally slick was funny honestly
So there’s a handful
Some people just don’t understand sarcasm-when DJT says someone was/is wonderful in that ton e of voice, it is like someone in the South, Texas, etc saying “bless his/her heart’ in that same tone-a polite f*** him/her...
The author probably does not even know that the character of Hannibal Lecter was not a real person-it is fictional and based on a couple of real-life serial killers...
It was a joke, Hannibal Lecter had friends for dinner...GET IT?
Millward (a British national residing in Maine) has done this before. Some examples:
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Trump warns of ‘bloodbath’ if he loses presidential election
Former president ratchets up tension as he addresses supporters at rally in Ohio
David Millward,
US CORRESPONDENT
17 March 2024 • 4:30pm
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2023/11/10/donald-trump-weaponise-government-us-president/
Trump ready to ‘weaponise’ FBI against opponents as US president
Leading Republican candidate for White House plans to get his own back following ‘politically motivated’ cases brought against him
David Millward,
US CORRESPONDENT
10 November 2023 • 7:56pm
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/06/donald-trump-far-right-immigrants-poison-blood-us/
Fury as Donald Trump says immigrants ‘poison blood’ of US
Former president’s remarks likened to Hitler’s Mein Kampf as critics accuse him of nativist and xenophobic rhetoric
David Millward,
US CORRESPONDENT
6 October 2023 • 3:15pm
I got it.
Like saying, Hannibal Lector now there’s beute for you.
Biden is letting nice people like him on to the country.
Zactly
So?... We’re all voting for Biden now?
Hahaha
Thanks a lot for the links! Mr Millward appears to have form when it comes to “misunderstanding” PDJT.
A bit busy now but I will read through them thoroughly once I finished a few “musts”. Could eventually end up writing a letter to the DT about their US correspondent.
Well....it appears Millward thinks Trump is going for the cannibal segment of the voters only. :-)
He has obviously problem understanding US vernacular as Fedora points out in post #48.
I watched the rally. The crowd totally “got” what he was saying and they were all laughing.
The person who wrote this article is an idiot.
It was a JOKE. Not his best, but just a joke. A cannibal, having a friend for dinner.
Something about Hannibal Lector really eats away at me.
I’m having a hard time digesting that joke.
Hannibal Lector doesn’t have the stomach for politics.
which is good, because he would simply devour any opponant.
He’d chew up anyone who faced him in a debate.
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