Trump says his support for US furniture makers is ‘why people in countries want to kill me’

by Rod Williams, Sept. 25, 2024- As I watch Trump say one stupid, or racist, or mean-spirited, or idiotic thing after another, I keep thinking this will be the thing that causes people to start walking away. I keep thinking that it will kind of happen all of sudden. He will say something or do something that goes too far and will showcases what a con man or ignoramus or jerk he is and then his star will fall as rapidly as it rose. I think of the story of the young boy who pointed out the emperor had no clothes and when he did, then everyone else who was pretending he did, stopped pretending. I keep expecting something like that to happen.

I thought it might be his false unsubstantiated claim of the stolen election. I thought it might be his encouraging a riot to stop the peaceful transfer of power. I thought it might be his being a convicted felon. I thought it might be a policy issue such as a call for a 20% across the board tariff on imports. Or, I thought it may him selling junk on TV, such as the USA Bible, and gold sneakers, and trading cards. I thought it might be his admiration and affection for dictators.  Or, I thought it might be the ignorant racist claim that Haitians were eating cats and dogs. I thought it might be his close relationship with anti-Semites, racist, and looney toon conspiracy theorist. Unfortunately, nothing seems to cause a collapse of his popularity. Trump is slipping in the polls and as of now, it looks like he is losing. That is good, but I was hoping for something dramatic. I was hoping for a repudiation instead of a little slippage in a close race.

Since nothing seems to sway a Trumpinista from his support for Trump, I don't guess Trump saying one more stupid thing will make a difference, but he said another stupid thing today.  Today he said that it is because of his trade policy, such as his support for US furniture makers, that people want to kill him. Below is the story: 

Trump says his support for US furniture makers is ‘why people in countries want to kill me’

by Josh Marcus, The Independent, Sept. 25, 2024- Donald Trump claimed during a campaign speech in North Carolina that people in other countries want to kill him because of his trade policies.

“All of your furniture makers are going to come back and come back bigger and stronger and better than ever before,” Trump said from the shop floor of the Mosack Group in Mint Hill, a company that makes plumbing components.

“They’re mostly gone. They’re all coming back.

“This is why people in countries want to kill me,” he went on. “They’re not happy with me. It is, it’s a risky business. This is why they want to kill me. They only kill consequential presidents, remember that. But this is why. If you’re one of the countries that’s affected, you’re not happy with what I’m saying. When they used to say they liked Barack Hussein Obama — of course they do, because he did nothing to help us!" (Read more)

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