Ex-president calls Hopkinsā€™ cannibalistic Lecter ā€˜late, greatā€™ while condemning ā€˜people who are being released into our countryā€™

Donald Trump on Saturday praised fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter ā€œas a wonderful manā€ before segueing into comments disparaging people who have immigrated into the US without permission.

The former presidentā€™s remarks to political rally-goers in Wildwood, New Jersey, as he challenges Joe Bidenā€™s re-election in November were a not-so-subtle rhetorical bridge exalting Anthony Hopkinsā€™ cannibalistic Lecter in Silence of the Lambs as ā€œlate [and] greatā€ while simultaneously condemning ā€œpeople who are being released into our country that we donā€™t wantā€.

Trump delivered his address to an estimated crowd of about 80,000 supporters under the shadow of the Great White roller coaster in a 1950s-kitsch seaside resort 90 miles (144.8km) south of Philadelphia.

The occasion served for Trump to renew his stated admiration for Lecter, as heā€™s done before, after the actor Mads Mikkleson ā€“ who previously portrayed Lecter in a television series ā€“ once described Trump as ā€œa fresh wind for some peopleā€.

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    6 months ago

    Heā€™s trying to say that the people coming into the country are dangerous criminals, but heā€™s done the talking points so often by now that neither he nor his audience need the connective tissue between the ideas.

    ā€œOh, now heā€™s doing the Hannibal Lecter bit? Yeah, screw illegals or whatever.ā€

    They have their own coded language at this point where as Trump slips more and more into dementia they still understand what their adoptive hate spewing neo-Nazi grandpa dictator is talking about.

    ā€œAnd then the blargabaghehhhhā€¦ā€

    ā€œExactly. Fuck the blargabaghehhhhā€¦ā€

    Edit: I donā€™t think Iā€™ll ever stop laughing when I see that clip, btw.

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      6 months ago

      This is like when a band that has been doing a song for decades plays about thirty seconds of it and some of the best lyricsā€¦a magamedley.