• moon@lemmy.ml
      12·
      3 months ago

      This is also why he loves bringing up Hannibal Lector. Who he refers to as ‘the late great Hannibal Lector’ and is occasionally confused about whether he’s real or not. He will literally give a speech about how immigrants coming in are like Hannibal Lector because he doesn’t understand what asylum seeker means

      • jballsOPEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I never made that connection before. How deep does this rabbit hole go?!

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      61·
      3 months ago

      Vaush has been saying this for a while… I’m glad more people are coming to the same conclusion; it really does feel like the most likely explanation.

  • BossDj@lemm.ee
    65·
    3 months ago

    Holy shit, I always wondered. This is absolutely what is happening, isn’t it

    • jballsOPEnglish
      40·
      3 months ago

      It’s just like the COVID injecting bleach and light thing. He saw a sign about hospital cleaning protocols right before making a speech. Rather than plan a speech and have experts review it, he just said what sounded right in his head.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        331·
        3 months ago

        I relate this quite a bit, so maybe you’ve heard it. The bleach and UV thing was dumber than most know.

        Can’t find the whole video anymore, now they only show Trump speaking at the podium. But what came before is the real meat of the story.

        Trump enters stage right to do a press briefing on COVID. He stops for a minute to examine a CDC infographic, gives a quick nod and mounts the stage.

        Y’all. It was a poster about methods for disinfecting surfaces. This idiot scanned it and started spewing nonsense in an effort to look knowledgeable.

        • jballsOPEnglish
          18·
          3 months ago

          Yeah that’s exactly what I was referring to! Imagine being the President of the United States, arguably the most powerful position in the world, and just winging it.

          • bradinutah@thelemmy.club
            4·
            3 months ago

            DonOLD is legitimately mentally unwell. The Weird Orange is a great example of why it’s a bad idea to give power to a narcissist. Look at how many people followed 34’s bad advice about hydroxychloroquine and died, either from COVID (because it’s ineffective against COVID) or from malaria (because of the shortages his misinformation created and kept from people who actually needed it). People have already forgotten how bad things were with the Sleepy Rambler in charge.