Trump: "I think we're just gonna kill people. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like, dead."

[Miles Archer]

Trump has issued a terrifying threat to keep ordering deadly strikes against his enemies with absolutely no legal authority.

Asked whether he would seek congressional approval or a formal declaration of war in order to give plausible legal cover for the assassinations, he said: “We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead.”

Speaking to reporters during a news conference at the White House on Thursday, the president continued: “I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country,” Trump said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-hes-going-to-continue-killing-drug-smugglers/

[Biophilic]

1. Good grief. How does one think about that?

“We’re just going to kill people.” How can anyone be ok with that statement?

[PatSeg]

22. More and more,

he says the quiet parts out loud. He's not afraid of anything or anyone now except maybe for Putin, but the power has gone to his head to such a degree that maybe even Putin doesn't scare him.

If there is anything he is afraid of, it is probably death and there's not a whole lot he can do about that regardless of how much power he has.

[RVN VET71]

44. He's ripe for a mystic con-man to sell him ritual magic crap

You know, for immortality, and venereal potency, and stuff.

Shoot, Nancy Reagan had an astrologer, why can't President Poopypants have a Dark Magician?

Or does he?

[barbtries]

53. he has stephen miller

will a Jewish nazi do?

[PatSeg]

54. Oh yes, I can picture that!

Who knows, maybe he DOES have a Dark Magician. When fighting off the grim reaper, people have been known to go to absurd extremes. He is definitely the type who would fall for such a con, especially if combined with over-the-top flattery.

I'm writing the script in my head!

[Ursus Rex]

59. The Saudis were WAY ahead of you ;)

.webp

[Evolve Dammit]

62. Draco Malfoy?

[sop]

2. Shoot first, don't ask questions later.

Will the U.S. military follow Trump's illegal orders?

[gab13by13]

6. They have been so far.

The next test is will they kill Americans on American soil?

[sop]

10. He's gradually getting them accustomed to the idea.

[IronLionZion]

14. Who's going to stop them if he gives the order?

There are many comparisons to 1930s Germany.

[sop]

56. Ideally, someone, preferably in command, would refuse to follow the "illegal" order.

Knowing Trump, that individual would be dishonorably discharged, or even court-martialed and imprisoned. Then someone else would be tasked to carry out the order.

[IronLionZion]

57. We may have a repeat of the Nuremburg trials

while some MAGAts will flee to Argentina

[Farmer-Rick]

21. Navy Admirals

Are following illegal orders right now

They are a disgrace. As a retired Naval officer, I am ashamed the Navy so easily ignores law and kisses up to a dick taters.

They are in violation of international law and should be prosecuted.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Spoken like a mob boss and not as a decent human serving his beloved country.

[gab13by13]

7. Spoken like a dictator

Or spoken like MBS.

[Miles Archer]

12. I think we're faced with doing the math on Kashoggi, or not.

There are people who would LOSE THEIR MINDS if anyone suggested that Trump "supported" Bin Salman's murder of Kashoggi, and especially its methodology.

But look at every comment Trump's made about the media, the whole "enemy of the people" thing, and his numerous calls for a violent response to the media at his MAGAt rallies.

WE ALREADY KNOW how much Trump "admires" Putin, Kim Jong Un, basically every authoritarian dictator who crosses his path. Trump hates journalists. Bin Salman had Kashoggi dismembered with a bone saw while he was still alive. Do the math...I think we have to conclude that Trump somehow "admired" that, in the same way that he probably "admired" Kim Jong Un murdering his own uncle with a gun designed to TAKE DOWN AN AIRCRAFT FROM THE SKY.

Then, of course, Trump addressing Bin Salman's involvement in the murder:

'I saved his a--': Trump boasted that he protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder, Woodward's new book says

Trump bragged that he protected Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from congressional scrutiny after the brutal assassination of the American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

*****

"The people at the Post are upset about the Khashoggi killing," Woodward told Trump on January 22, his book says. "That is one of the most gruesome things. You yourself have said."

"Yeah, but Iran is killing 36 people a day, so —" Trump began, before Woodward redirected the conversation and continued to press Trump about MBS's role in ordering Khashoggi's killing.

"I saved his ass," Trump had said amid the US outcry following Khashoggi's murder, the book says. "I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop."

[Swede]

4. I think any American contemplating a trip abroad, better think twice.

What comes around, goes around. The orange buffoon never thinks more than one step ahead.

[maxsolomon]

43. You're saying that foreign governments will kill Americans abroad as reprisal?

All of them, or just Venezuela?

I'm not going to "think twice" about foreign travel. I'm going to do it.

[Swede]

60. I'm saying there are a lot of people out there enraged with what America is doing.

Lone wolf, religious fanatics, political fanatics. The crazies. They can't hurt the USA, but they sure can do it to some tourist.

[maxsolomon]

61. That's always been the case.

The danger hasn't increased to the point where people should forego overseas travel. Just don't wear a MAGA hat.

[58Sunliner]

51. Most people are more rational, thankfully.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. He sounds like a school shooter with voices inside his head.

[GiqueCee]

8. The Orange Ogre...

... is imitating Rodrigo Duterte's policy toward drug dealers in the Philippines: extrajudicial summary executions with little or no evidence or justification. Duterte is currently in prison, I believe. Perhaps we can rendition Trump to the Philippines so he can share a cell with someone as repulsively evil as he is. Say, Rodrigo Duterte.

[delisen]

9. Famous presidential quotes for posterity.

As Trump gives up on his dream of being the most lauded leader in the world, he will settle for being the most despised. And that is when our national nightmare truly begins.

[Ping Tung]

11. The wannabee Capo di tutti capi.

[KS Toronado]

13. Here's the short video

[littlemissmartypants]

18. He's so stupid and such a psychopath that he doesn't care...

That he's putting himself* and all Americans ALL OVER THE WORLD** in danger.

*meh

**WTA(EL)***F

***EVER LIVING

❤️ RESIST!! ✊️

8 Possible Signs of Psychopathic Tendencies
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201910/8-possible-signs-of-psychopathic-tendencies

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

[KS Toronado]

36. Oh boy #19

[Blues Heron]

15. He's tapping into his inner gilgo beach serial killer. Those guys were separated at birth, clearly.

[czarjak]

16. The Chosen One?

What do we have to lose, indeed.

[CaptainTruth]

17. What Trump is doing to America is far worse than drugs...

...so what does that imply, according to his own words?

[Mc Mike]

19. He's, like, really smart. It's those great genes.

No formal declaration of war, just kill people.

That way he's still in the running for that Nobel he's so eager to get.

[Lonestarblue]

20. Venezuela isn't even a major supplier of illegal drugs. That would be Mexico.

So will he just declare that all Mexicans are drug dealers and have them murdered.

[WestMichRad]

23. Well there's your proclamation

“I am a dictator.”

[tavernier]

24. I live in the Florida Keys

How safe are our fishermen or any of our locals and tourists out on the ocean in boats?

[no_hypocrisy]

34. In a different era, he'd be bombing Ernest Hemingway.

[Hope22]

40. I think of this on the Great Lakes

When we make it to port I text home ‘Marked Safe’. What a crazy place he has made this.

[wiggs]

25. 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely.' nt

[Blues Heron]

26. He said he's going to kill anybody bringing drugs into the us, that's quite a broad statement

[Hope22]

41. Better check the bags of his children first!!

[Chasstev365]

27. THIS IS ON ALL REPUBLICANS, JOHN ROBERTS, AND THE DUMBFUCK MAGA VOTERS!

Im

[Squaredeal]

45. Murder is legal now, according to the Court.

Because the King can do no wrong.

[Farmer-Rick]

28. Why is the Navy going along with this?????

It is illegal to murder people even if they are drug runners.

I have been involved with drug interdiction in the Navy and we never murdered anyone.

As of 22 October, at least 37 people have been killed, seven in the Caribbean and two in the Pacific. The legality of the killings are seriously questionable under both US law and international law. Colombia and Venezuela have accused the US of extrajudicial murder.

Trump has turned the Navy into nothing more than his hitmen. Way to go South Com. It's a joint command and since Admiral Halsey is stepping down the Deputy Commander is Air Force Lt. Gen. Evan L. Pettus. He's an Arkansas native.

Just because Halsey is stepping down it doesn't relieve him of responsibility for violations of international law and murder. Maybe he refused and that's why they forced him out.

I wonder if Pettus is now the white guy in charge? But there are many more officers along the chain of command responsible for carrying out these murders and each one better watch out because they can be prosecuted. Just following orders is no excuse.

[Blues Heron]

29. How do you come back from this? We're going to be bombing boats until he's gone, no way he pulls back.

This will be a daily thing, the Caribbean will be awash in blood and body parts.

[Hope22]

47. It's only a matter of time until he turns the killing on us.

He’s totally pissed that he can’t get the maggots fired up enough to kill their neighbors. He wants death and killing so by god he will shoot boats until he gets what he wants.

[Botany]

30. Those boats ARE NOT bringing drugs into America.

In the videos you can see those boats are outboard motor boats. How many hundreds of miles is
It from where those people were murdered by Trump is it just to American waters let alone to
American land? So are there floating gas stations that those boats can stop at to refuel?

These murders are all because Trump is scared shitless of being exposed as not only a child rapist
but as an active member of the Epstein and Putin international child sex trafficking ring.

EPSTEIN!

[bluestarone]

31. Wonder what China would do if TSF pulled this shit with

A Chinese vessel?

[Attilatheblond]

49. Maybe something along the line of

[Grins]

32. Is this surprising...?

Trump's entire life has been wretchedly defined by his cruelty. He thrives on personal retaliation. On revenge. On getting even. A sadist who gets off on hurting others. Only greed and spite motivate him.

[no_hypocrisy]

33. A wannabe mob boss

[Rebl2]

35. More and more

he is becoming a one man terrorist/mob boss.

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. DJT: "When I grow up, I want to be a war criminal."

Creepy and criminal.

[maliaSmith]

38. Trump killing people

If Trunp keeps killing the so-called drug dealers, how will Jr get his cocaine?

[Blues Heron]

42. From the other guys probably, the ones that pay the cocaine tarrif

[chowder66]

39. The fucking Republicans (including those on the Supreme Court) need to do their fucking jobs and stop him.

[Renew Deal]

46. Doing his best Duterte impression

[NoMoreRepugs]

48. At a point in the not to distant future that will be modified to "I can KILL whomever I want."

This ShitStain needs to take his dirtnap real soon.

[Attilatheblond]

50. Re: killing whomever he wants - Indications are he is already thinking it.

And I still have some doubt that Ivana took a fatal fall all herself just as the NDA he made her sign at their divorce was expiring.

[Captain Zero]

52. This disrespect for the lives of others

can turn around on one.
Karma can come calling.

[GreenWave]

55. some trump places may not be safe soon.

[rsdsharp]

58. I've said for years that Trump wants to be one of the "Big Guys."

Putin, Erdoğon, Duterte. . . this guys all get to kill people. Donnie wants to have fun, too!

And now he is! He’s a Big Guy, too!

[Crunchy Frog]

63. This is the same guy who keeps screaming "stop the killing!!!1!"

about the war in Ukraine, without any distractions as to who is the aggressor and who is simply defending their own country.

Makes me suspect that he actually doesn't have any objection to killing iin principle, just to russians getting killed while trying to take things that Putin wants but has no claim to.

[Emile]

64. Fascists have no shame.

They are too stupid to feel anything.