F---ing nightmare': Trump team does damage control after he dines with Ye and Nick Fuentes

[brooklynite]

NBC News

A person familiar with the dinner conversation who is not involved in Trump's presidential campaign and two Trump advisers briefed on the dinner corroborated Trump's claim that he didn't know Fuentes' identity when they dined together. The three sources spoke on condition on anonymity given the nature of the controversy.

But despite Trump suggesting that the event was “uneventful,” the fallout over his dinner with Fuentes appears to have thrown Trump’s campaign into damage control mode. The former president took hours to respond publicly after multiple media outlets reported that Fuentes was present at the dinner.

Even the two Trump advisers winced at how a Holocaust denier like Fuentes was able to wind up with Trump at dinner — even if it was by mistake — along with the rapper, who had just had his Twitter account restored but lost major endorsement deals for making antisemitic remarks.

"This is a f---ing nightmare," said one longtime Trump adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of stoking the former president's ire at "disloyal" people who criticize him. "If people are looking at [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis to run against Trump, here's another reason why."

[Fullduplexxx]

1. im surprised they didnt save this for their book

[Hotler]

31. Money seems to trump a spine. nt

[agingdem]

2. Hey, longtime Trump advisor, your client is a fucking nightmare

and a whore to ass-kissing praise...Trump says he didn't know Fuentes, supposedly an uninvited guest, was an antisemite, but not to worry because three virulent Jew-haters shared a meal and not one of those vile cretins spewed a stereotypical trope....now that's what I call gaslighting!!!

[Cha]

4. Yeah, I don't believe it, either. nt

[calimary]

15. Same here.

[MissMillie]

17. Yeah, that's where I was going to go with this

no matter how good you think your recipe is, if the ingredients suck you get a bad dish.

[Cha]

3. Uh huh

[David__77]

5. It was totally, obviously, completely intentional.

He is powerfully communicating that he is not a “conservative Republican” - he is an anti-Semitic national-conservative. Like the old German national-conservatives, he is comfortable and at ease dining with a national socialist.

[Dorian Gray]

22. Right

the people expect us to believe that nobody did a background check on these visitors? Doesn't he have secret service agents there? Handlers?

It's so stupid.

[bullwinkle428]

6. He didn't know David Duke. He didn't know the Proud Boys. Now, he doesn't

know Fuentes.

I'm starting to sense a pattern here.

[MissMillie]

18. don't forget Q-Anon... he denied knowing anything about them too

But he was right about one thing... no matter what he does, INCLUDING a public rejection of knowing these groups, he won't lose their votes. He'll stand in front of a camera and deny them, posts his denials of them on his platform,... (you name it, he'll take whatever press he can get (as usual)) and DENY any association with them or even any knowledge of them and they will STILL support him.

[purr-rat beauty]

7. Who Regularly Hires, Promotes, does Business, and Dines With...

....people they don't know?

I'm waiting for the day trump says he doesn't know himself when his tiny little maggot balls are pinched.

[NJCher]

12. And who thinks 'didn't know'

Is an acceptable excuse?

In any other world, it is not.

In academia, for example, if you were unaware of a commentator whose remarks affected your area of expertise and you said you were unaware, no one would believe you.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Agreed.

Who truly believes that TFG didn't know exactly who was at HIS table? It's set apart from the other diners with velvet ropes. The "privilege" of dining with The Donald is not serendipity.

[MissMillie]

19. not only a terrible "excuse"

but it makes him look even more ridiculous.

There isn't anyone following this that believe TFG isn't aware of his most ardent supporters. He's too much of a narcissist to not be following the folks that bow down before him.

[GoCubsGo]

25. It's his go-to excuse.

He has plead ignorance so frequently that nobody even takes it seriously anymore. Unfortunately, the media take it as a cue to just move on. Granted, it's not like they're ever going to get an honest answer from Trump or his toadies.

[Cha]

34. he was shocked I

tell ya. totally shocked he broke bread 🥖 with a nasty NaZi who wants America run by a Dictator

[ShazzieB]

8. Anyone who works for Trump deserves to have nightmares.

Really, really awful ones, in retaliation for the nightmares they're helping to unleash on the rest of the world. Nightmares that malke them wake up screaming at least half a dozen times every night.

[TigressDem]

9. Just like he didn't know David Duke when the KKK man endorsed him in 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke_1988_presidential_campaign
David Duke (KKK Grand Master who failed at Presidential Run in 1988)


https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/28/politics/donald-trump-white-supremacists

Despite what he said Sunday, Trump apparently did know Duke in 2000 – citing him, as well as Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani – in a statement that year explaining why he had decided to end his brief flirtation with a Reform Party presidential campaign.

“The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep,” Trump said in a statement reported then by The New York Times.

He had also indicated he knew of Duke during a Friday press conference, when he was asked similar questions and said: “David Duke endorsed me? OK, all right. I disavow, OK?”

[Abolishinist]

10. This would be mildly amusing if it weren't for the former's ominous presence.

Ye said in his video debrief that Trump was angry.

“When Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was going to lose, I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history?” the rapper said. “I’m like hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Trump. You’re talkin’ to Ye.”

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Here's the video about this guy from Meidas Touch:

Just posting a warning, I watch the whole exposé of this sick piece of work and now I don't feel so well...

Trump hosts Holocaust denier at Mar-A-Lago for Dinner on Thanksgiving Week - Meidas Touch
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017786027

[AnrothElf]

13. Mealy mouthed motherfucking whitewashed mainstream media BULLSHIT

Fuck you NBC. This is war then. The corporations are taking the Republican side? Then we BURY YOU

[Justice matters.]

14. These leaches ("advisers") have been whining it's a F---ing nightmare since 2017

almost every single day. Do they know what being F---ing masochists means?

[Martin Eden]

20. Fuentes promotes White Christian Nationalism

Doesn't that make him a mainstream Republican these days?

He's just more out in the open with his antisemitism, which kinda makes him more honest.

Still a vile POS, but doesn't try to hide it.

[Dorian Gray]

21. lol

the chaos is insane.

I think BOTH Ye AND Trump got played by Milo and Nick.

Chaos agents gonna chaos.

What's sad: Did this dinner happen on Thanksgiving? Don't any of these people have families that want to spend a holiday with them?

[GoCubsGo]

23. Milo's a British citizen, so he probably doesn't celebrate the holiday.

I'm sure his attendance was purely opportunism. I'm betting Fuentes' family probably doesn't want him around.

Noel Casler, who worked with Trump on "The Apprentice," said on Twitter the Nazi podcast boys were invited because Trump is trying to "out extreme" Ron DeKKKlantis. I think this probably the most accurate explanation. DeSantis is stealing attention away from him, and he HATES that (and he also apparently hates DeSantis, himself.) He wants to keep those two dregs of humanity in his court. What better time to invite them to a dinner than one that will draw more attention from the media?

[David__77]

28. The "out-extreme" assessment is a correct one.

DeSantis certainly cannot compete when it comes to that. The fascists anti-Semites and white supremacists know in their bones that Trump is “their guy” while they know DeSantis is not.

[Dorian Gray]

32. If that's true

he played himself.

I don't know that anything will actually destroy trump of his base's adoration. But he will never attract anybody else with this nonsense.

[MaryMagdaline]

24. And Netanyahu will continue to back Trump.

When your useful idiot is a Holocaust denier …

[spanone]

26. He's been a fucking nightmare his entire life.

[gulliver]

27. Trump's getting away with the worst part due to it going right over the media's head (as usual)

Trump just said he didn't know who Fuentes was. And the media is in mere guilt-by-association trope mode, so they don't notice the true headline. "Trump doesn't disavow white nationalist leader after dining with him"

In all this mess, no one seems to notice that Trump didn't say, "I didn't know who Fuentes was, and if I did, I wouldn't have had dinner with him." That leaves Fuentes's followers thinking Trump is into them. And he probably is. He needs his little brown shirted broken unit corps to stand down and stand by.

[David__77]

29. He absolutely is with them and he won't disavow them.

And that is exemplary of why he is overwhelming favorite to win nomination.

He can be stopped, yes- the cost would be quite high, including potentially the destruction of the Republican Party.

[Dorian Gray]

33. Nick Fuentes is 145 lbs soaking wet

he can stand by all he likes. He's a loser.

[BWdem4life]

30. "Trump's campaign"

That was a jarring phrase.

[Johnny2X2X]

35. Zero Trump supporters will care

He could praise anyone he wants at his club. Skies t matter to them.

This is so sick, but the country doesn’t care. Only thing it might matter is the GOP is looking for a reason to dump him and they might add this to the pile of reasons.

[ck4829]

36. Kick

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[Kashkakat v.2.0]

37. These enablers are even worse than the true cultists, IMHO

Theres always been extremist fringe presidential candidates with bizarre and/or extreme views. The enablers were, and are again the true problem.