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On 7/14/2024 4:45 PM, Terri wrote:
You aren't allowed to blame the registered Republican who did it, you
need to blame Democrats.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/14/joe-biden-called-trump-a-genuine-threat-to-this-nation-before-assassination-attempt/
President Joe Biden is under fire for calling former President Donald
Trump a “genuine threat to this nation” two weeks before an
assassination attempt was made on him at a campaign rally.
“Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for,” Biden wrote in a June 28 X post
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/07/14/16-times-hollywood-celebs-fantasized-about-violence-against-trump-compared-him-to-hitler/
Since Trump’s political ascendance in 2016, Hollywood stars have aired numerous violent fantasies involving Trump and his supporters. Here are
just fifteen of the most notable instances.
1. Snoop Dogg “shoots” Trump in the head in music video.
Perhaps the most literal call to violence against Trump came from Snoop Dogg’s 2017 music video for his single “Lavender.”
The video, which has proven to be prophetic, shows the rapper pointing a
mock gun at Trump’s head and pulling the trigger.
2. Kathy Griffin ‘beheads’ Trump in infamous photo.
The anti-Trump comedienne was photographed holding the fake, bloodied, decapitated head of the then-president, which quickly went viral back in
2017. Her publicity stunt prompted a visit from the Secret Service and
ended up getting her fired from CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve broadcast.
But Hollywood has largely forgiven Griffin in the intervening years, and
she has returned to the comedy circuit. She has also continued to
publicly bash Trump.
3. Robert De Niro: “I’d like to punch” Trump “in the face.”
The Raging Bull star has made no secret of his desire to physically
assault Trump.
“He’s a punk, he’s a dog, he’s a pig, he’s a con, he’s a bullshit artist, a mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, doesn’t do his homework, doesn’t care, thinks he’s gaming society, doesn’t pay his taxes,” De Niro said back in 2016.
“He’s an embarrassment to this country,” he added. “He talks [about] how
he wants to punch people in the face… I’d like to punch him in the face.”
4. Madonna: “I’ve thought a lot about blowing up the White House.”
During an anti-Trump Women’s March on Washington in 2017, Madge
expressed her violent fantasy.
“Yes, I’m angry. Yes, I’m outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House, but I know that this won’t change anything,” she told the crowd, to boisterous applause.
5. Bette Midler openly wished for someone to “shiv” or “stab” Trump. She
also fantasized about Trump getting kicked “in the nuts” and being physically “pummeled” in front of the entire country.
In 2020, Bette Midler posted a tweet expressing a wish for Trump to be
stabbed. “He actually looks better here! Maybe someone in his camp can
gently give him a shiv. I mean, shove,” she wrote in the now-deleted tweet.
The same year, Midler urged then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe
Biden to kick then-President Donald Trump “in the nuts” during their
first debate, adding that Biden should pummel the president on behalf of
the 200,000 people she says he “murdered.”
As Breitbart News reported, Saturday’s assassination attempt came one
week after Midler suggested President Joe Biden arrest Republicans and
allow the FBI to use deadly force in order to regain a Democrat Party
majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
6. Barbra Streisand shared an image showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA) impaling Trump with a pointed heel.
In 2019, Barbra Streisand posted a bloody image to Twitter showing Trump
being impaled to death by one of Pelosi’s high heels.
7. Johnny Depp: “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?”
During an appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2017,
the Hollywood star asked the crowd: “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?” — a reference to the assassination of
President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
Depp later apologized, saying: “I apologize for the bad joke I attempted
last night in poor taste about President Trump. It did not come out as intended, and I intended no malice. I was only trying to amuse, not to
harm anyone.”
8. Debra Messing shared her wish that Trump becomes a rape victim.
In a bizarre and violent tweet in 2020, NBC’s Will & Grace star wrote
she was hoping for physical violence on Trump — specifically, that he
becomes a rape victim.
“Rape is an act of violence. Trump has perpetrated violence on hundreds
of millions of people. My hope is (and this is the first time in my
life) that the tables are turned and he is the victim of perpetrators,”
she wrote.
Messing later deleted the tweet.
The same year, Messing tweeted that she hopes Trump ends up in jail
where he will become the “most popular boyfriend” among the inmates. The tweet received online blowback for its homophobic subtext, which the
actress denied, saying that she is an “LGBTQIA” ally.
9. Jim Carrey drew Donald Trump burning at the stake.
The Hollywood actor and comedian posted an illustration of
then-President Trump burning at the stake back in 2018.
10. Comedian George Lopez shared an illustration of drug lord El Chapo decapitating Trump.
The Mexican-American actor and TV host shared the gruesome graphic,
sandwiched by the text “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” in February 2016 as
the Republican primary was in full swing.
He has never taken down the post, after eight full years, despite being
clearly triggered when an anonymous user replied to his tweet with a
parody of the message — a meme showing Trump as the Terminator holding Lopez’s severed head. The celebrity lost his cool and replied, “fuck you.”
11. Former Hollywood studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg compared Trump to
Hitler just two months ago.
The former Disney and DreamWorks boss — who serves as Biden’s campaign co-chair — compared Trump to Hitler at an elite gathering in May in West Hollywood.
“When I was in high school, we were studying Third Reich Germany and the
rise of Hitler, and over the holiday, our teacher suggested to the class
that, to the degree which we could, please go home and talk to your grandparents,” Katzenberg reportedly said. “Ask them, what did they
read? “What did they see? What did they hear? What they do?”
12. Jane Fonda said Trump-era has “parallels” to “Hitler and the Third Reich.”
In 2018, Jane Fonda compared President Donald Trump’s passionate defense against false reportage by the establishment media to Adolf Hitler’s
attacks on the German press.
“It has never been more important. Our democracy is fragile and it’s
under attack. Civility is under attack,” Fonda said. “We don’t have to take it anymore. Voting is the way to stop it. Everybody has to vote and
I think they will.”
She added: “If you have read anything about the rise of the Third Reich
and Adolf Hitler you will see the parallels.”
13. Robert De Niro compared Trump’s political rise to Nazi Germany.
The actor appeared on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour in May, where he compared Trump’s political rise to Adolf Hitler’s in 1930s Germany.
“I don’t understand it. I don’t I don’t think they understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes president. I don’t
think they really understand. And historically, from what I see, even in
Nazi Germany, they had it with Hitler. They don’t take him seriously. He looks like a clown. Acts like a clown,” De Niro said.
The MSNBC interviewer didn’t challenge De Niro on his incendiary rhetoric.
14. Rosie O’Donnell: “I want to send the military to the White House to
get him.”
The comedienne and longtime Trump nemesis aired her fantasies of a
military coup against Trump.
“I want to send the military to the White House to get him,” she sad in
a 2018 interview.
“I actually got physically sick that night,” she said of election night 2016. “I thought to myself, this cannot be happening. When he got the nomination, I thought I just have to wait until election day. And then
he won. It took a good year to compose myself in public again. I took a
year out of the spotlight.”
15. Paul Schrader contemplates giving screenwriting students an
assignment about a plot to kill then-President Donald Trump.
The Taxi Driver screenwriter posted a bizarre Facebook message in 2020
in which he pondered the possibility of giving his screenwriting
students an assignment about a plot to kill President Donald Trump.
“Would my students be in trouble for doing the assignment? Would my
students be in trouble if they researched the assignment? Or am I in
already in trouble in Trump’s America for writing this post?” he wrote.
Schrader later publicly revealed that his post prompted a visit from
government officials.
16. Actress Carole Cook joked about Trump’s assassination.
In 2018, the stage star joked about the assassination of then-President
Trump in September, saying, “Where’s John Wilkes Booth when you need him?”
Post-script: Without a doubt the most graphic depiction of violence
against Trump came from New York’s Public Theater, which staged the
gruesome stabbing death of the then-president during its infamous 2017 production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Directed by the Public’s top artistic executive Oskar Eustis, the
staging showed Trump being murdered in the Senate in a gory,
over-the-top display of knife play.
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