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Trump's press gaggle after Fort Bragg speech all about protests [1]

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Date: 2025-06-11

Trump had already given his speech filled with vitriol at Fort Bragg. Some organizations are still calling it Fort Liberty, the name it was given, instead of the Confederate general traitor named Bragg. Can they keep the news names for the forts, instead of reverting back to the Confederate names Trump announced yesterday? It could be another Gulf of Mexico instead of Gulf of America moment.

Trump got the troops to boo President Biden and call the Governor of California: Newscum.

He arrived back at Joint Base Andrews, and there were reporters waiting for him.

Reporter: Mr. President, is there something that you think you can do to de-escalate tension with Governor Newsom?

Trump: Not with the governor, but, uh, there is --- I mean, I've always had a good relationship with him. He just doesn't do a very good job. He should never have been allowed to start. And if we didn't get involved, uh, Los Angeles would be burning down right now, just like the houses burned down.

He should never have been allowed to start. Is he talking about Newsom being elected governor and not being able to continue in office?

Reporter: Are you concerned about anything that might go wrong by having the military there? They're trained for a different situation.

Trump: Yeah. No, it can only go right. By having the military, it de-escalates. I mean, that was the only way. These people are, uh, agitators. They're troublemakers. I believe many of them are paid. I watched them breaking up sidewalks with a big hammer handing pieces of concrete to other people.

Paid troublemakers. Protesters in groups, especially ones against Trump, always have to be paid to be there. I certainly would like to know who's footing the payroll.

Reporter: Who do you think is paying for that?

Trump: Somebody's paying for it. Thank you... somebody's paying for that. I watched total professionals, he's banging the curb, banging the granite, banging the, uh, concrete, and he had a whole group of people. They lined up like totally professional, grabbed the big chunks, and they dropped it on the soldiers, they dropped it on the Los Angeles police.

Professional concrete breakers. Not only that, but they're so tall that they can drop it on soldiers and police.

Trump: these are insurrectionists. They are agitators or troublemakers. At a minimum, they're troublemakers.

Then, the infamous phone call that never happened, but now he remembers it was on a different day.

Reporter: Mr. President, Governor Newsom said he did not speak to you a day ago, as you said -—

Trump: Yep.

Reporter: --- Uh, in the Oval Office. What's your response to that?

Trump: Well, I gave him --- it wasn't a day ago. It was a little longer than that....we actually spent 16 point something minutes on the phone, and I told him he's got to get his act together because you're going to have some bad times in Los Angeles if he doesn't. We had a pleasant conversation.

Trump had also not ordered National Guard into Los Angeles yet. It could have been a pleasant conversation.

Trump: Uh, the pr --- the proof was from the phone company. It was from the phone company. So I spoke to him at a certain time. I'm sure you all saw it. You saw that. You saw -—

Reporter: Friday.

Trump goes right on talking about the 16 minute conversation on Friday, ignoring the question about him lying about speaking to Newsom after that. And the proof is in the phone records. What president has ever released phone records of their calls?

Trump: We have a lot of people all over the world watching Los Angeles. We've got the Olympics, and we have this guy allowing this to happen. Let me tell you, when you watch these agitators breaking up concrete and handing it out to people as they stood on line to get it, these have to be paid troublemakers.

I searched for videos on those exact "concrete breaking up and standing in line," and I can't find a single one. I figured Trump was just making it up, but now I'm sure. If anyone finds one, leave a link in the comments and I'll change this.

Reporter: Mr President --- to say that's the governor and mayor paid them? Do you believe that the governor and the mayor pays the agitator?

Trump: No, I don't see the governor or mayor. I said that somebody's paying them, I think... I've never seen somebody with a big hammer so professional. Now they took the bricks away from them.

He is absolutely stuck on professionals. Concrete breakers with hammers. And they, we have no idea who they is, took the bricks away from them. But later he says they were throwing bricks. Not a single reporter video can I find.

Trump: So they say, "How do we get in? The military did. How do we get in, and what do we do?" They said, "I have an idea. Let's break up the concrete. And that's even better than bricks." And that's what happened.

Somehow, I'm not believing Trump's play by play announcing at all. He's even making up dialogue now.

Talking about the military show at Fort Bragg:

Trump: You know, they really, really put on a good show. I asked them did you do that for Biden? They said, no, (laughs) they didn't do it for Biden. I wonder why?

Because Biden never asked them to kneel and kiss the ring.

Reporter: There could be some really big protests this weekend.

Trump: ... But they did not a lot of damage, other than they broke up a lot of concrete looking for weapons. You know, these are weapons, if that hit somebody in the head, that person's dead. You know that, right?... Uh, they used weapons. That concrete is a weapon, a dangerous weapon, worse than a brick, heavier than a brick.

Trump is as thick as a brick. (Jethro Tull reference).

Trump: And they were dropping it off bridges and throwing it at soldiers and police. They're not doing that. They're not doing that.

First he says that they are, and then he says that they aren't. He's just so confused he can't keep track of what he's lying about. There were reports of all kinds of objects being dropped off of bridges onto cars.

Reporter: ... set a hearing for Thursday on, from Governor's lawsuit, do you think your administration will be successful Thursday for the hearing?

Trump: Well, even Senator Fetterman said that this is horrible what they're doing...I think this is in a league with, and maybe even worse than a true sense, what they're doing now is worse than men in women's sports. I think that it's a ridiculous thing. Uh, open borders. You take a look at open borders.

No transition at all. But, the protesting in LA is worse than men in women's sports. Only in Donald Trump's mind can a comparison be made.

Reporter: As Commander in Chief, sir, what Rules of Engagement do you want for the military? What limitations -—

Trump: A very simple rule of engagement. If they're dangerous, if they're throwing concrete or bricks, if they're spitting in the face of the police or whoever's in front of them, if they're punching people, if they're doing all of the things that you see done for the last three nights, uh, that I would say is engagement.

Trump doesn't even know what rules of engagement means. It's not that you respond. It's how you respond. Definitely not qualified to be Commander in Chief.

Trump: We want to keep our city str -- I wanna save Los Angeles. And Newsom is totally incompetent. He's not gonna do it. Look at all the fires he had. He had fires where it seemed half the city burned down. What was it? 25,000 houses, all because he wouldn't take water. I release the water from the Pacific Northwest and it came down, millions of gallons a day.

Yeah, well, it was 11,000 houses. And the water being released flooded farmlands, washing away crops and topsoil. Great job, Donald.

Trump: All I want in terms of engagement, I just wanna see peace. If there's peace, we get out. If there's even a no chance of peace, we stay there until they're at peace. And a lot of people are being arrested.

He still has no clue about rules of engagement, and he has no concept of what constitutes peace. To Trump, it probably means the peace of the dead. He won't be happy until people actually die in LA.

Trump: They, the rioters, or whatever you wanna call them, they better know, a lot of people are being arrested. They're gonna be in jail for a long time. Thank you very much.

And then he was off to grab the helicopter to the White House.

All of this was before Governor Newsom's wonderful speech last night. I'm still waiting for Trump to respond to it. It will be a classic. I can't believe that he would shut up at this time. Maybe Stephen Miller's telling him not to respond and make a fool of himself. Sorry, he's already done that.

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