2w ago

Trump slams his own supporters as 'weaklings' for falling for what he now calls the Epstein 'hoax'

President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s handling of much-hyped records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a “Hoax.”

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bull——,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social site, using an expletive in his post. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”

“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he went on.

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1w ago

Trump slams his own supporters as 'weaklings' for falling for what he now calls the Epstein 'hoax'

apnews.com /article/trump-supporters-epstein-sex-trafficking-investigation-bondi-47370e63060d79af64b0b8ac70b970a4

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Man, it would be incredible if Epstein and Trump's inability to shut up about it is what brings this regime down.
- Its a nice thought, but I worry about all the judges he appointed, and how long they last beyond his presidency.
  
  Bullets are cheap.
- Back when Trump put up his tower, Jackie Kennedy Onassis was famously fighting to preserve New York landmarks like Grand Central Station. Trump's own architect told him to leave the façade of the building alone, but Trump overruled him. Trump blew the perfect opportunity to get in good with elites because he was too greedy and arrogant.
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/
  Bonus- there's a guest apperance by John Barron!!
  
  His buildings are just so ugly too, fr. You gotta try hard to be that ugly.
  
  I honestly didn't think my opinion of him could get any lower but here he goes and surprises me. Incredible.
- Out-of all the lies MAGA swallowed line, hook and sinker, this is the one that makes them "weak"? Mmmmkay...
- the best irony considering the qanon pizza pedo crazy bullshit
Dude is freaking out because he's finally being treated like any other politician, and his pathetic ego can't handle it.
- PLEASE let this be the beginning of the end. I've aged like 5 years in the last 6 months.
  Also for anyone seeing this comment, here is the testimony of Katie Johnson who claimed Trump raped her and other 13 year old girls multiple times. Fair warning: it goes into excruciating and brutal details:
  "Katie Johnson's full testimony of 2/11/16", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
  Please save and spread.
  
  Trump went on Howard Stern and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA pageant. He famously perved on his own daughter. This is nothing new
  
  let this be the beginning of the end
  Fascism doesn't voluntarily give up power. There's no way that scandal brings down the regime. They didn't install tech bros as officers in the military because they intend to respect the will of the electorate.
So without a doubt 100% confirmed as legitimate
- Yes. He raped a 13 year old that looked liked Ivanka and a 12 year old. Dressed them as maids. Told them they could have done better after. There's a picture of him with the 13 year old.
  
  Not that it would surprise me. But I have never heard of this story. Do you have a reliable source?
- Yeah… no one screaming this loud is innocent.
Reminds me of this pic I saved from Lemmy recently
- Last panel is garbage. No way trump can run.
  
  He probably got a boost from the mushroom he carries around.
  
  How about a Segway?
This is interesting... In the past when Trump has tried to push back on his followers he's followed the TACO principle. Like when he wanted to take credit for the COVID vaccines but his audience was anti-vax he quickly softened his language to "take it... if you want it tho. Maybe it's poison who knows?"
He's never been a leader - he's just been an amalgamation of all of the racism and conspiracy theories his followers have. He says "yes" or "maybe" to everything. I think this is the first time he's really said "no" though?
- He's organized crime looking to continue his break into fascist dictator. His sycophants he's surrounded himself with don't care and prefer that he's a rapist and a pedo to try to control him, but the people he conned into voting for him buy bumper stickers like this:
  So what happens when the ranks push back on the orders? He'll exile them if he thinks he can get away with throwing them under the same bus as his lawyers, AG, VP, etc or capitulate. But in this case capitulate means he'll probably try to redact himself and his fluffers from the docs then share them and hope they're dumb enough to accept the redacted reports.
  
  I think it's going to blow over eventually. Like half of the big social media people in his base have started accepting the narrative of its probably not as big as we thought and we need to Trust the leader.
- I wonder why he said no this time 🤔
Calls his supporters "weaklings". Bold move, let's see how that works out...
- His supporters love abuse. They will change to fit his vision.
  
  I don't think it's abuse they love exectly, it's being told exactly what to think and how to act. It removes a huge amount of cognative load and uncertainty and leaves them feeling more sure of themselves.
- It could create a situation where a supporter doesn't want to be weak, so they completely shift their stance - almost denying their previous stance. I just threw some popcorn in the microwave for the upcoming show...
  
  Reminder from Veritaseum not to eat microwave popcorn unless your body needs more PFAs
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY
- I keep reminding people that if he holds on to power past the end of his term, he won't need votes to do it. So his supporters are no longer useful to him.
- He doesn't care. If he can't get reelected he doesn't really want another republican to get the office. That way he can always say " look how everything fell apart after me"
- Every one of those supporters is sitting there thinking "he means everybody but me!"
- They're clearly all masochists so it'll probably work well.
MAGAts are like children refusing to eat their veggies. They're going to resist with this whole Epstein thing until their Daddy looks at them sternly and tells them to fall in line....or else.
It's performative noncompliance. At the end of the day, when the going gets tough, they'll show their support for a felon rapist (pedo?), because that's what they've always done, without fail.
I hope he's so anxious about this that he never has a restful sleep again for the rest of his miserable life. Fucking worst human alive in the 21st century so far
- I aint getting no sleep cause of him, he aint getting no sleep cause of me
  ...kinda
- Netanyahu would like to have a word with you...
  
  I'm good. Tell him I said thanks, though.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
it kills me every time.
- I’m guessing he has seen that enough on letters from companies and lawyers about his fuck ups and it makes him feel weak. So, he uses it when he wants someone else to feel weak.
  
  It feels like a recent development too.... But then I'm not on twitter or truth social so it could just be I didn't notice until recently.
- Best regards,
- Right? What the fuck.
Thinking about how low these folks usually go, I'm wondering why they haven't just worked up a fake hatchet job file selectively incriminating their enemies and exonerating themselves. It possibly wouldn't matter if it were called into question by evidence of tampering. Their devotees are indoctrinated enough to swallow almost anything -especially if it reinforced their biases against people they've already been trained to hate. What fallout are they afraid of in releasing a doctored list? I'd wager this will be the eventual outcome. A fake file that most know to be fake, but will mollify his base.
- I have a feeling that's what the next move will be.
  He already told Pam Bondi to release "whatever she thinks is credible."
  
  Unfortunately Soros and Clinton were the only ones on the list. Weirdly, Trump and his biggest donors aren't implicated.
- I don't know, but I'm glad they chose to deny it. Maybe ot would hit trumps ego too hard 🤡
- I was wondering this myself but I don't want to give them any ideas
There is no war in Ba Sing Se, you hear me? THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE
- Don't look up. The king has warned (once again) that if you do, you're a damn fool.
  
  I actually saw "Don't Look Up" last year for the first time and let me tell ya, it was too real.
The more he reacts, the guiltier he looks. What a morone.
Hopefully he keeps attacking his own base, that's what I want to see
Hmmm. Wonder how this will play out.
He seems awfully angry about a hoax. Just saying
Is anyone actually turning on him because of this?
- They voted for him in November despite him already being a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, not to mention literal traitor for inciting an insurrection and illegally attempting to overturn an election by threatening the Georgia Secretary of State and taking part in the Fake Elector's Scheme.
  Being a child fucker is just another thing for them to throw on the pile of things they've chosen to memory-hole.
  They will ALWAYS support him NO MATTER WHAT. That's how cults work.
- Nope.
  They are turning on his underlings, but I have not seen a single major influencer call Trump out directly. "It’s Bondi's fault," is the party line, which is unreal given how unflinchingly loyal she’s been.
  The headlines claiming Trumps supporters are turning on him feel like clickbait.
  
  Alex Jones is claiming he's done with Trump.
One of Trump's campaign promises was that he'd release the Epstein client list.
So, Trump says it exists when it is convenient for him to say it exists, and then he says it doesn't exist when it is inconvenient for him to say it exists.
The one thing that is in the back of my mind is what is Trump going to do next in order to attempt to cover up this Epstein list situation? Will he declare war on a foreign country? Will he declare war on the people of the United States who stand against him?
- When the last republican president had an approval rating as shitty as trump's, he lucked into the worst terrorist attack in US history.
- It will absolutely be against US citizens because MAGA cares far more about not having foreign wars, than having gestapo disappear US citizens.
  
  I hate that maga is perfectly fine with wars inside the country
- Could be a as simple as:
  Not chicken out on those tariffs that [absolutely nobody actually believes are] going into effect in 14 days.
  And if that hasn't fucked shit up good enough in a month, he could move on to plan B:
  Not chicken out on his "50 days for Russia to end the Ukraine war" ultimatum.
  
  Not chicken out on his “50 days for Russia to end the Ukraine war” ultimatum.
  Remember when he said he'd have the russia-ukraine war ended within a few days of being in office? Yep, what a tosser.
- Jesus these takes...
- He will nuke Iran
Urrrp!
"You stupid people fell for the hoax I promoted."
Bold strategy, let's see how that works out for him 🍿
Hit em with the ole slammy whammy eh?
Can we stop using this word? It's not the WWE were talking about and it's lost all meaning
- Well, he IS in the WWE hall of fame.
- I am literally in the wrestling business and I hear that term less there then I do reading headlines.
Every day the gymnastics needed for a Trump supporter gets more and more convoluted. First, he was speaking up in favor of H1B workers (so much for support of American workers), then his "no new wars" turned into broad support of Israel and military actions taken, now his "drain the swamp" has turned into "it's not permitted to even talk about Epstein".
More proof that he is a shameless huckster with no honor in him at all. Sadly, much of his base is quite used to making excuses on his behalf and I'd imagine they can keep this up for quite a while. What a scumbag. I won't be upset when he leaves the White House, whether that's due to health problems, impeachment or running out the clock.
- Black book link gives me 403
There’s not enough popcorn for this
That face is a face that is about to cry.
- I like that look for him.
John Steward actually wrote a poem to conservatives about this situation, it goes like this:
How, Does, My, Ass, Taste, Now ?
Woah ho ho, buddy! Keep escalating. Call them names. Gaslight them. They care so much about this. Just keep pissing them off so that they can’t ever let go. I love it. For once, I completely approve.
Child rapist says what?
"Hoax" ia the same term he used to refer to the well-documented evidence that he's a Russian stooge.
Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!
Need*
You don't need their support anymore. Best case scenario you can't run again, worst case it's all rigged and you'll win no matter what. They got you in and the Heritage foundation is completing their decades long effort to essentially overthrow the US government.
So when do we get to the cult leader showing weakness and losing control of his enraged mob who tear him apart part?
- They should Gaddafi Trump
  
  I was thinking batman: the cult. But I get where you're headed.
How is a man baby in charge of the free world?
- He isn't. He's in charge of the United States of America.
- Because the Americans are all idiots.
  
  The gaslighting by Trump is absolutely insane, and what's worse is the republicans who are supposed to be grown men copy catting his childish behaviour.
  
  not all of us
  
  No, because HitlerPig is a text book psychopath who has no feelings or emotions other than greed and hate, and he teamed up with the two richest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs to RIG the election. All of the have no loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see it as a fat, lazy target, to be ruthlessly exploited.
  The election was rigged, and we all know it. HitlerPig and The Goblin have all but admitted it in numerous statements.
if its a hoax, why keep denying thiers no list, or its made up.
His supporters and the whole maga movement are born out of qanon and pizzagate. There's no way he's going to handwave his way into them giving up on their one unifying cause.
They are weaklings. Because they are gonna roll over and show their bellies till Faux "News" tells them their opinions. They'll mental gymnastics Epstein Island into Yam Tits being on the lists because he was trying to save those kids.
He's a fucking pedofile and MAGAts are pedo-supporters.
- the grifters are already saying "it doesnt matter or they dont care"
  
  When Berlusconi was rumored to have had sex with a minor most if not all members of Parliament and senators in his coalition voted to certify that a 17-year-old girl was Mubarak's niece and that Berlusconi called a police station where she was being held in order to avoid a scandal.
I just watched this scene like 2 days ago. Parker flips out and fires all his loyal henchmen because Clown asks him a question, and he's an utter and insane moron. It's a pretty cliche trope. But in that one, Riri beats beats the shit out of him with a mech suit.
- Praying for someone to beat the shit out of Trump with a mech suit
I'm guessing this is why they are working on rigging the elections. So he'll be insulated even from people that peel off due to his pedophile platform.
- exactly. he doesn't need them anymore.
  
  He does need them, though he may not think so. Support isn't just for voting. His narcissism needs people to like him, and his entire personality can collapse without it (possibly to suicidal levels). They support him in more tangible ways, as well, such as counter protest actions.
  Just in general, fascism needs to maintain the illusion of widespread, inevitable "populist" support. That's one reason why big public protests are important even if they don't have tangible results right away.
Trump's a paedo himself, ofc hes's gonna get all defensive over this
slam
You mean the hoax you and your followers have been harping on and on about
Donny really trying to sweep this under the rug, he will continue to alienate many who support him
My wife and I have been discussing this. My take is they’re gonna graduate from the list isn’t real to “Epstein isn’t real.” They’re gonna double speak the man out of existence to cull this list talk.
- AI generated revamp of that video of Trump and Epstein where Trump whispers to "nobody" and then does that weird little lip bite dance
"Somebody broke my nose. Dump the whole balcony."
- Nook at my dose, nook at it
This is one of those really rare moments where you get to say “you’re right, Alex Jones.”
https://files.catbox.moe/ylmhm3.mp4
Love to see it.
lol this has been fun to sort of follow occasionally when I’m scrolling. Flounder away, fuck bag. I hope this all ends in the worst possible way for him
i wonder if this makes anyone go "hmm, i wonder what else he called a hoax just to cover his ass"
DARVO. we are now at attack phase.
I could've sworn Trump pushed pizza gate stuff in 2016 but maybe he never directly did. (Not that I'm expecting him to remain consistent on anything.)

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