“What do you think they [protesters] want?” Harris Faulkner of Fox News asked the president. “What do you think they need, right now, from you?”

 

Here was Trump’s answer, verbatim:

"Protesters for different reasons. You’re protesting also because, you know, they just didn’t know. I’ve watch - I watched very closely. Why are you here? They really weren’t able to say, but they were there for a reason, perhaps.

“But a lot of them really were there because they’re following the crowd. A lot of them were there because what we witnessed was a terrible thing. What we saw was a terrible thing. And we’ve seen it over the years. We haven’t, you know, this was one horrible example, but you’ve seen other terrible examples. You know that better than anybody who would know it. And I know it. I’ve seen it, too. I’ve seen it before I was president. I’ve seen it. I think it’s a shame. I think it’s a disgrace. And it’s got to stop.”

Edit: This quote was from 2020

  • Zeppo
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    323 months ago

    Just one of his usual bizarre non-answers where he has no idea what they’re talking about and thorws out some mishmash that he thinks might be applicable.

      • Pennomi
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        53 months ago

        LLMs would easily be a better president than Trump. Like, it’s not even close.

        • @TronBronson@lemmy.world
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          13 months ago

          I mean they are using LLM to draft executive orders, and used it to create their tariff plan. This is the first AI president. LLMs can only do so much when the prompter is a moron.

    • @the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      23 months ago

      Pretty typical conman tactic. And as much as I hate saying anything positive about him, he’s really good at it. You can’t argue with results.