Trump says his supporters were 'violent'

[txradioguy]

President-elect Donald Trump said Friday his supporters were "violent" during the 2016 campaign.

Trump made the admission Friday night during a rally here on the Florida leg of his "Thank You" tour. During the campaign, he repeatedly downplayed violent outbursts his supporters displayed at times toward protesters and insisted that paid activists were instead responsible for inciting violence at his rallies.

"You people were vicious, violent, screaming, 'Where's the wall? We want the wall!' Screaming, 'Prison! Prison! Lock her up!' I mean you are going crazy. I mean, you were nasty and mean and vicious and you wanted to win, right?" Trump said Friday. "But now, you're mellow and you're cool and you're not nearly as vicious or violent, right? Because we won, right?"

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/16/politics/donald-trump-supporters-vicious-violent/index.html

[ABX]

How precidential

[Cripplecreek]

Sounds to me like he's happily admitting to inciting violence if he didn't win.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Bad link.

[guitar4jesus]

Sounds to me like he's happily admitting to inciting violence if he didn't win.

Aye.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I can't tell what he's trying to do. Calm them down maybe?

[ABX]

fixed

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Sounds like he's just run out of things to say IMO.


Just my reaction watching the video.

[Applewood]

I don't really hear him actively and directly discouraging his minions from committing violence and making terroristic threats. 

Really, both sides have been acting like schoolyard bullies.  Time for all of them to grow up.

[Cripplecreek]

I don't really hear him actively and directly discouraging his minions from committing violence and making terroristic threats. 

Really, both sides have been acting like schoolyard bullies.  Time for all of them to grow up.

On the bright side, they're all cowards.

They're pretty tough when they're all together in an arena but you drop them in the street alone and they immediately start whining about how mistreated they are by the media, police, other races etc.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

On the bright side, they're all cowards.

They're pretty tough when they're all together in an arena but you drop them in the street alone and they immediately start whining about how mistreated they are by the media, police, other races etc.

Very true.

[Emjay]

I can't tell what he's trying to do. Calm them down maybe?

I think he's trying to deflect the inevitable criticism that will come when those vicious, rabid followers realize he didn't mean a word of all that rhetoric.

[Cripplecreek]

I think he's trying to deflect the inevitable criticism that will come when those vicious, rabid followers realize he didn't mean a word of all that rhetoric.

The useful idiots are always the last to know.

Then they're dealt with harshly because they're no longer useful.

[Wingnut]

Don't know about you guys .....but trump is acting so presidential I'm getting so bored.   

[ABX]

On the bright side, they're all cowards.

They're pretty tough when they're all together in an arena but you drop them in the street alone and they immediately start whining about how mistreated they are by the media, police, other races etc.

Yep, just a bunch of chairborne rangers dreaming about CWII, TEOTWAWKI, and SHTF thinking they are going to be some revolutionary or cowboy when in reality, they'll spend most of the time trying to figure out why they can't log on the internet.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Yep, just a bunch of chairborne rangers dreaming about CWII, TEOTWAWKI, and SHTF thinking they are going to be some revolutionary or cowboy when in reality, they'll spend most of the time trying to figure out why they can't log on the internet.

This has always cracked me up about TOS. They're a bunch of unhealthy geriatrics who'd have heart attacks doing half the angry stuff they're shouting about.

[corbe]

  A narcissist would never, ever say "I'm sick of winning'. 
  That is just so stupidly profound, it is an insult to the average THINKING American.

[ABX]

This has always cracked me up about TOS. They're a bunch of unhealthy geriatrics who'd have heart attacks doing half the angry stuff they're shouting about.

Except the one mental patient who decided to try to shoot up a pizza shop because he believed the 4Chan Comet Pizza joke, none of them actually do anything. They pretend some issues are so important to them but the most they do is put a dent in a chair and type woo hoo at donation time.

[Cripplecreek]

This has always cracked me up about TOS. They're a bunch of unhealthy geriatrics who'd have heart attacks doing half the angry stuff they're shouting about.

When I quit smoking a figured out 2 things.

First, it did wonders for my health.

Second, I'm still 52 years old.

Now when I shovel snow I don't get light headed, gasp for breath and feel like my heart is going to explode. I still get to breathing pretty hard but I can lean on the shovel for 2 minutes and I'm good to go again. I used to have to come back in and take a nap before finishing the job.

[corbe]

When I quit smoking a figured out 2 things.

First, it did wonders for my health.

Second, I'm still 52 years old.

Now when I shovel snow I don't get light headed, gasp for breath and feel like my heart is going to explode. I still get to breathing pretty hard but I can lean on the shovel for 2 minutes and I'm good to go again. I used to have to come back in and take a nap before finishing the job.

   Bless your Heart.
   I took the opposite approach, I gave up snow not smokes.
   Whoever dies with the most toys wins!

   

[Gov Bean Counter]

I tried to listen to Trump's speech last night. Couldn't. I have never heard such a stream is stupidity in all my life. My nine month old granddaughter mades more sense.

[corbe]

I tried to listen to Trump's speech last night. Couldn't. I have never heard such a stream is stupidity in all my life. My nine month old granddaughter mades more sense.

   His Slovak wife structures sentences in English on a higher grade level than he does, though her accent is brutal.

[LadyLiberty]

"You people were vicious, violent, screaming, 'Where's the wall? We want the wall!' Screaming, 'Prison! Prison! Lock her up!' I mean you are going crazy. I mean, you were nasty and mean and vicious and you wanted to win, right?" Trump said Friday. "But now, you're mellow and you're cool and you're not nearly as vicious or violent, right? Because we won, right?"

IOW, you used to scream those things, but you're not nearly as excited about those things any longer.  You're just going to have to accept that winning was enough, because there will be no wall and Hillary isn't going to jail. 

[txradioguy]

From the article:

One Trump supporter who obtained a media pass from the Trump transition office shouted from the press pen that Trump's former opponent Hillary Clinton should be waterboarded.

And a Trump supporter threw an empty water bottle at a reporter following the rally, calling the reporter "trash."

That incident came after the President-elect repeatedly called reporters "very dishonest" and suggested without evidence that the media distorted exit polls on Election Day.

[Cripplecreek]

From the article:

Well lets not forget that when Trump was confronted with the allegation that Putin has journalists killed Trump said "Well at least he's a leader".