Trump used the stage to deliver a profanity-filled version of his usual rally speech that again painted an apocalyptic picture of the country if Biden wins a second term.

"If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country…

Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer accused Trump of doubling “down on his threats of political violence.”

“He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge,” Singer charged in a statement.

A one-time Trump critic, Moreno, a wealthy Cleveland businessman, supported Marco Rubio for president in the 2016 Republican primary, and once tweeted that listening to Trump was “like watching a car accident that makes you sick, but you can stop looking.” In 2021, NBC News reported on an email exchange around the time of Trump’s first presidential run in which Moreno referred to Trump as a “lunatic” and a “maniac.”

On Saturday, however, Moreno praised Trump as a “great American” and railed against those in his party who have been critical of the former president, who this week became his party’s presumptive nominee for a third straight election.

“I am so sick and tired of Republicans that say, ‘I support President Trump’s policies but I don’t like the man,’” he said as he joined Trump on stage.

Trump also continued to criticize Biden over his handling of the border as he cast migrants as less than human. “In some cases, they’re not people, in my opinion,” he said. … He also criticized the Dolan family, which owns Cleveland’s baseball team, for changing its name from the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    381·
    8 months ago

    I don’t understand why he is allowed to say these things without consequences. Bloodbaths? Seriously?! It’s beyond the pale now.

      • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
        252·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, he didn’t mean it like that! We should totally give the benefit of the doubt to the guy who tried to do a violent coup once already!

        • Windex007@lemmy.world
          84·
          8 months ago

          You don’t have to give anyone the benefit of anything.

          If you read the article, the bloodbath statement was during a rant about how the continual outsourcing of production of the American auto industry will result in an industry bloodbath.

          I HATE Trump.

          But even more than that, I hate that as a result of 9 years of this constant nonsense from him, I hate that all of the adults have just given up.

          NPR heard the word “bloodbath” and “immigration” 20 minutes and several distinct topics away from eachother? That’s the headline. Done.

          Then people like you, read the headline and then literally nothing else. It wouldn’t be so bad if you only read the headline and then kept your mouth shut, but you read … What is that FOURTEEN words, and feel like you’re prepared to have an adult conversation on that basis?

          Like what the fuck happened to us as a society. Like, was it Trump? Was it earlier, with the Bushian notion of “truthiness”? Was it capitalism crushing news media out of the realm of fact and objectivity into what it is now: literally argued in court to merely be “entertainment”? How has it come to be that speaking about something you know nothing about is societally viewed as “fine”, rather than an embarrassment… Yet asking people to actually read something before commenting on it gets you mocked?

          Are you allergic to reading?

          • assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            8 months ago

            I honestly think it’s the internet as a whole that’s done that to us.

            You used to be able to not know things, but now I’m expected to have encyclopedic knowledge of every factor going into any individual choice I make as though I’ve gotta min/max my life. I think the expectation that everyone needs to have an opinion on everything because “the information is available, just Google it!”, combined with the fact that we have a limited rate of knowledge consumption and limited bandwidth has led to people just skimming information. Shortest path to having an “informed” opinion on every topic, because God forbid you don’t know something online.

            I think in order to increase our media literacy we must return to partial ignorance.