Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/12/trump-rally-speech-hannibal-lecter

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  2. Trump’s imaginary friends: Putin, Xi, Orban, Un, and Lecter.

  3. > [Trump] exalt[ed] Anthony Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter in Silence of the Lambs as “late ..great” … to an estimated crowd of about 80,000 supporters under the shadow of the Great **White** roller coaster /emphasis mine

    Totally on brand as the GOP wants to speed executions and add more people (you know who) to Death Row

    Vote wisely..

  4. So apparently the context of this gibberish is that the moron started lying about Democrats letting cannibals into the country. It’s still fucking stupid (Hannibal didn’t die in the movie nor is he an illegal immigrant), but that’s why he brought this up. 

  5. Having read those books, there’s almost nothing I could say about Lecter that wouldn’t get me banned on this sub…but Trump somehow can use him as a campaign topic.

  6. He talked about Hannibal 6 months ago also. Found a YouTube while searching for this one.

  7. I want to just pretend he keeps referencing hannibal because trump’s cognition started deteriorating around the early 2000s when it was a relevant pop culture reference, but it’s probably more fucked up than that.

  8. If he was my dad, I would have put him in a home a long time ago. Preferably the one we saw on 60 minutes.

  9. “Leopards ate my face” takes on a whole new meaning now.

  10. Kind of think he is mixing up Anthony Hopkins up with an actor who may support him. Maybe Jon Voigt

  11. He can 100k people to show up for a rally and Biden cannot get anyone to show up. Biden gets booed everywhere he goes. This quote is probably being taken out of context as usual.

  12. He was probably visualizing Steve Bannon at the time. . .

  13. Wait, hasn’t he been telling his flock of sheep that Dems are importing cannibalistic immigrants or something? I could have sworn I read that somewhere but I can’t find it now.

  14. Why “late”? Neither the character (canonically) or any of the actors that portrayed Lecter are dead

  15. Oh come on Guardian, you can’t even share the whole quote?

  16. Who cares anymore? He will not lose his idiot following, only way forward is to do everything to outvote the despicables, and ensure the votes are counted.

  18. And it was to 80,000… no… 100,000 people!!

    /s

  19. > I ate his liver with some chicken nuggets — and a nice Diet Coke

  25. How sad is it that it wouldn’t even surprise me at this point to learn that Trump has eaten man meat.

    (And I’m not talking about Putin’s dingus.)

  28. You kind of wonder what will happen when he has dementia during important meetings with world leaders..

    But putin has bin unhinged for way longer so maybe no one will notice..

  29. I’m just hoping his dementia accelerates to the point of in say 3 months being a walking potato.

    Seriously, he is so off the hinges, but until he literally cannot have a conversation, his base will follow him. Maybe after too.

    Biden’s team would be wise to schedule any debates at times when dementia patients commonly sundown.

  30. >Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech. Ex-president calls Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’

    That indicted criminal Trump is unhinged there is no doubt. Well, except among his cult following, Yes-men, political opportunists and the rightwing power brokers behind the national nightmare that is the Republican fascist movement.

    But what I find to be even more unhinged, disturbing and scary are his followers who continue to support and cheer him on despite the mountains of evidence of Trump’s criminality and clinically malignant narcissism, e.g., Trump has more than amply demonstrated he doesn’t give a shit about anyone other than himself, especially not any of his adoring cult of fools.

    I find Trump supporters to be even scarier than Trump, because, like the cartoon Minion characters, if Trump were to lose the election or otherwise drop out of the race, Trump cultists will just latch on to the next charismatic demagogue.

    In this regard Trump cultists and the pro-fascist power brokers will remain an ever-present threat to democracy that will require an equally ever-present vigilance on the part of those who value and support democracy.

  31. What an annoying article. It didn’t even quote the full sentence where he praised Hannibal Lecter, terrible writing. 

  32. How old is that movie now? Did he think it was a documentary?

  33. He must’ve watched that movie last night, and thought Hannibal was the hero.

  34. Where are the bothsiders when Trump is showing signs of dementia.

  36. Delusional! This is a man calling a guy in the presidential race without indictments, counts against him, or sitting at a defense table as a criminal defendant… crooked. What’s next calling, Biden a sexual abuser

  37. Is this where this cult is going? I didn’t expect that. 

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