‘Why Hannibal Lecter?’ Trump Dodges Reporter’s Question After Praising Fictional Serial Killer

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1. Q. ‘Why Hannibal Lecter?’

   A. Because this “adult” is an edgy child.

2. Trump sounds like a very old man who is mentally and physically spent like a used condom.

3. Yes Donald, do tell.

4. Trump always talks about anything like a third grader doing a book report on a book he didn’t read then gets mad when asked to elaborate.

5. because he prolly just watched the movie and that was the only thing on his feeble tiny brained mind

6. Weirdo probably saw Silence of the Lambs the night before.

7. Why does DTJ pretend to take questions? He just wants to talk at the crowd.

8. Trump has a *modest proposal* for the immigration problem and high food prices.

9. I bet it’s going to come out that Trump is a cannibal. It’s always projection with this guy .

10. Cuz he’s off his rocker and his brain is going random-access. It’s a story your dad might tell, and he references their most memorable takeaway from the movie. I doubt he just saw it, or saw it again, because he’s praised Lecter at previous speeches. From Oct, 2023:

    “Hannibal Lecter, how great an actor was he? You know why I like him? Because he said on television on one of the – ‘I love Donald Trump.’ So I love him. I love him. I love him.”

    Lecter, nor Anthony Hopkins have ever endorsed Trump, as far most can tell.

    Dude’s brain is mush. Or he’s getting MAGA on board with eating people. Place your bets.

11. I feel like trump thinks jon Voight played Hannibal lecter.

12. To him Hannibal was the good guy obviously. Hannibal was smart and escaped from justice. Hannibal went on to continue exercising ultimate power over others (taking their lives). The fact that he was evil, a serial killer, a cannibal, *the bad guy* completely misses the point.

    He’s telling on himself. He knows he’s guilty. He too wants to “win”, escape, and continue a reign of horror. He knows exactly what he did and like a psychopath he has zero remorse – hence the praise for fellow psychopath Hannibal.

13. Talk about desperation. Obviously he thinks needs the cannibal vote to win.

14. He only knows a handful of adjectives. He was probably trying to praise the film and evoke people’s appreciation for it and it came out as “Hannibal Lecter. So big and beautiful and wonderful. Isn’t he big and beautiful and wonderful? Everyone says so. They said to me. Haninibal Lecter. Wonderful also good and big and beautiful.”

15. Because his brain is rotting in real time.

16. I still want to know why he said “late great…”. Lecter didn’t die in the movies.

17. “Why Biden’s failure to state a clear position on Hannibal Lecter leaves Americans wanting” – tomorrow’s NYT, probably.

18. Going to be really funny when we find out the kompromat isn’t just piss tapes but it’s eating the prostitute afterwards.

19. My theory is that he told this joke once 20 years ago and got a huge laugh out of it. When you lose your short term memory, you rely on the few intense memories you still have.

20. My very conservative father-in-law did not enjoy movies or theater. It was silly. I think he had no imagination. He had no empathy. He couldnt put himself into the place of the characters, so it was always just actors in costumes spouting lines. Why would we cry when Ol’ Yeller died? He wasnt really dead. So he rarely went. At home, he watched the “news.”

    I think trump is like this. Maybe he has heard of this Hannibal Lecter guy. Liberals seem to hate and fear him. But that is all he knows. He has never seen Silence of the Lambs. And if he had, he would have thought the writing unrealistic and woke because the crime is solved by a woman.

21. Here’s the reason: He initially confused Hannibal Lecter with Sir Anthony Hopkins a few months ago, whom Trump falsely claimed endorsed him. When confronted with the mixup, rather than admit he confused a fictional character with the actor who played him, Trump DOUBLED DOWN on stating his admiration for Hannibal Lecter. Trump’s ego is so fragile that he’d rather stick with his insane statement about being a fan of Hannibal Lecter than admit he confused the character with the actor.

22. Hannibal was feared and respected. It’s been ages since I’ve seen the movie, but I remember that the whole police force was mobilized for one man (Hannibal).

    Guess who has a fantasy about being feared and respected?

23. Unfortunately the speech about the “late great” Hannibal Lecter” doesn’t get into the top 10 moments for me. I made this list to mock a family member once…. Added Gettysburg Wow a few weeks ago.

    1: Pointing at the eclipse with no eye protection

    2: Saying falsely that doctors were coming out of operating room to meet him after Texas Walmart shooting

    3: saying he Invented the term “prime the pump”

    4: ”Believe it or not, I do not watch much television. People that don’t know me, they like to say I watch television – people with fake sources. You know, fake reporters, fake sources. But I don’t get to watch much television. Primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents.”

    5: Holding up the hurricane map with the sharpie mark to make it look like it would hit Alabama

    6: Trump claims he passed veterans choice more than 150 times. Including a press conference on August 8. “They’ve been trying to get that passed for decades and decades and decades and no president’s ever been able to do it, and we got it done.” The law was signed by Obama in 2014. Chief sponsors of the bipartisan bill were Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the late John McCain of Arizona.

    7. Said that an additional Tax cut was coming after the midterms.

    8. “I have watched ICE liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13”

    9. Said In Japan, “they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and they drop it on the hood of the car. And if the hood dents, then the car doesn’t qualify…It’s horrible, the way we’re treated.”

    10. Said “Bob Corker gave us the Iran Deal,” — Corker voted against it.

    Honorable mention: Gettysburg wow.

24. Isn’t there some theory that he’s mentally trapped in 1991 with most of his references?

25. In two months from now, a reporter needs to ask Donald poopypants about Dr Hannibal Lecter. 9/10 he refuses to say he “doesn’t know him” and if he claims to know him, he will start making up details about said fictional character. He’ll say things like “Dr Lecter, good doctor knows lots of people.”

    And when someone points out he’s a fictional character, he will double down. He can’t remember things longer than a few months anyways.

26. We have three dogs. One’s a poodle. They are all ten times smarter than loser DT.

27. It rubs the lotion on it’s skin or else it won’t be orange again.

28. I am freaking positive he talks about shit other people say around him. Last week he used the word “conflicted” in his posts. Of course he used it incorrectly, which was mildly entertaining, but clearly someone said it and he thought it sounded smart.

    This is EXACTLY like his infamous speech about light and disinfectants in the human body. If you watch he looks at a wallboard sign showing ways to protect yourself from infection.

    He stupidly didn’t read the part mentioning “personal hygiene and safety”. As a nutcase, he instead thought they were going to zap you with a UV bulb and some Clorox.

    He is, in other words, a complete dunce.