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  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    During comments about protests against immigration enforcement actions, the president recalled seeing demonstrators yelling at soldiers and other federal law enforcement officers who he said want to “knock the hell out of the person,” but can’t.

    “She starts spitting in his face and he’s not allowed to do anything,” Mr. Trump claimed. “If it’s OK with you, generals and admirals, I’ve taken that off. I say, ‘They spit. We hit.’ Is that OK? We think so.”

    I can’t even

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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        Specifically, he’s mad he hasn’t been able to get popular support for gunning down protestors. Quite literally this man wants every protest in America, over anything vaguely left or center, to be met with a hail of .50cal, tanks, everything.