Official White House transcript of Trump remarks on July 31 at a meeting of police organizations:
In cities across the nation, we’ve also seen police officers assaulted with bricks, rocks, bats, Molotov cocktails, frozen bottles of water. Somebody said last night, one of the protesters — I saw it — he said, “It’s only water. How can water hurt you?” Yeah, they don’t say it’s frozen, in a bottle the size of a football. And they throw it at the police. It’s unbelievable. “It’s water.”
And then they have cans of soup. Soup. And they throw the cans of soup. That’s better than a brick because you can’t throw a brick; it’s too heavy. But a can of soup, you can really put some power into that, right?
MR. MCHALE: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: And then, when they get caught, they say, “No, this is soup for my family.” They’re so innocent. “This is soup for my family.” It’s incredible. And you have people coming over with bags of soup — big bags of soup. And they lay it on the ground, and the anarchists take it and they start throwing it at our cops, at our police. And if it hits you, that’s worse than a brick because that’s got force. It’s the perfect size. It’s, like, made perfect.
And when they get caught, they say, “No, this is just soup for my family.” And then the media says, “This is just soup. These people are very, very innocent. They’re innocent people. These are just protesters. Isn’t it wonderful to allow protesting?” No, there’s — and, by the way, the media knows it better than we do. They know what’s going on. I don’t know what’s wrong with them. They’re doing our country a tremendous disservice — I’ll say that.
Three times he said “This is soup for my family.”
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6 responses to “Soup of the evening, beautiful soup”
Would Goya beans work better than soup? Or is Trump going to shut down Campbell’s Soup Company?
In any case, the nuttiness is never without purpose. Trump wants to put an end to democracy in America, and so do his sycophants. If he’s not defeated in November – and maybe even if he is – the American experiment with democracy will be over.
https://eand.co/we-dont-know-how-to-warn-you-any-harder-america-is-dying-26ff80912391
I guess the other night, those Trump caravaners in Portland had paintballs for their families, right?
But in their case it was THE TRUTH.
YNnB: the paintballs were for painting the family house. Literally shooting paint at the walls: I can’t think of a more Republican American way of decorating.
From Trump’s stream of near-consiousness:
OK, it may be a minor thing in the grand scheme of things, but the structure of that sentence makes my teeth itch. It isn’t the bottles that are frozen*, it’s the water. Is bottles of frozen water really that difficult to say? It’s as bad as the too-often heard empty bottle of wine.
* Unless glass and plastic that have cooled sufficiently to solidify from a molten liquid state are considered frozen, in which case every bottle of water is a frozen bottle of water regardless of the state of the contents and the word frozen is redundant.
AoS, I see a lot of groaners. Even professional journalists are subject to that sort of syntax error (I do it myself, but try to clear it out in editing, because I read my work before I hit send…most of the time. When I don’t, Ophelia fixes it for me, because she is nice that way).
@Papito #1:
The problem I have with articles like that (and not the authors) is it becomes a case of “yes, you’ve warned me, what do I do?”
If he wins in November centralized government is going to collapse even more so than democracy. Balkanization is inevitable.