Beginning at minute 2:46, Trump said:

I love what he said, like three Super Bowls a day for a month. That’s what it is. That’s really amazing when you think of it. I’ve never heard that expression. That’s a lot. You know when we made this [plan] it was made during my term, my first term, and it was so sad because they said, ‘Can you imagine? I’m [you’re] not going to be president. And that’s too bad.’ And what happened is, they rigged the election, and I became president. So that was a good thing, that was a good thing, that was quite an achievement for both of us. So I’ll be president during the World Cup.

Although the clip is unaltered and the quote in question is authentic, Trump did not specify whether he was referring to the 2020 or 2024 presidential election.

  • YamahaRevstar@lemmy.world
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    I think he was saying “they” rigged the election and he still won. “They” being the Democrats. He is dumb as shit though, and I can see him slipping up and saying the truth out loud when he wasn’t supposed to.

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    It doesn’t seem that unclear to me. He said “this plan was made during my first term”, then said that they said “you’re not going to be president”. That’s all during the first term, when he’s already president, so it sounds to me like he’s referring to the second election, where he did become president.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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    I hate that we have to even entertain his utterances as if they were anything but the Cerenkov radiation emanating from his psychic void through the medium of his legion enablers.

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      nah, this is mental masturbation by some to ease a lot of pain right now. none of this is taken seriously and gets pushed back on pretty quickly. not saying that this isnt being nefariously pushed to incite the crazy, but the world has much bigger problems to address and almost everyone knows it.

      I will, however, emphatically state (with no hard evidence) that trump is a cultivated russian asset.