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Stop Arguing About What Trump Means

Donald Trump is a babbling idiot, and sometimes babbling idiots have an advantage in that it’s not clear sometimes what the hell they are talking about so some people feel the need to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Hence, once again, there is another debate about what Trump really meant. In this case, it was his “blood bath” statement during his campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday. Some were quick to claim that Trump was not talking about a blood bath as in political violence, but instead was talking about how Biden was going to wreck the auto industry.

Because Trump rambles and jumps all over the place when he is talking, one cannot assume he meant the auto industry. Democratic attorney Eric Columbus has what Trump said here, and points out why his “blood bath” statement was likely not about the auto industry:

All this talk about context is interesting in that Trump said so many terrible things in that speech, from praising the January 6 rioters as hostages and heroes, to more awful talk about immigration, putting drug dealers to death, etc. that perhaps the blood bath comment was the, shall I say, the “least of it.” But for whatever reason, we are once again debating what Trump really meant and there are accusations of the media “taking what Trump said out of context.”

The context is in his speech, and in his history. First off, Trump is infamous for injecting little asides into whatever he is talking about at that particular moment, and often these have nothing to do with the subject. It looks quite likely that he dropped an aside in this case, about something he has talked about in the past regarding how an election loss by him would result in violence.

Trump’s history is also ridden with calls for violence. He has only become worse.

Beyond that, we are once again having a debate over what Trump means, and it always ends up looking very bad for the person giving Trump the benefit of the doubt. People argued over what Trump meant with his “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by” comment during a 2020 presidential debate. Some refused to see that his “will be wild” comment on Twitter helped to fuel January 6.

Thankfully, in this case, it really does seem like the media is responding to this stuff much better than before. ABC News’ opening last night, for example, was notable in how they framed his comments:

So, perhaps there’s some hope that comes out of this, that the people who have forgotten how bad Trump’s presidency was will get a reminder from his Ohio remarks. In the meantime, let’s not pick too many nits about whether a person who has a long history of promoting violence is actually promoting violence.

The last word goes to Sleater-Kinney.

 

One thought on “Stop Arguing About What Trump Means”

  1. I like Rupar a lot. He also has the worst job in the world, but that wasn’t exactly “brutal” IMO, unless there was more to the clip.

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