c/news · by Mudface@lemmy.world · 2y

Trump Suggests Feeding Migrants to Alligators at Overrun Border in Apparent Joke: ‘New Border Security, Will Work for Food’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-suggests-feeding-migrants-to-alligators-at-overrun-border-in-apparent-joke-new-border-security-will-work-for-food/ar-AA1h0Wow

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It's always "just a joke" when it's discovered to be too appalling for him to claim it's serious.

xtr0n@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Dude has zero clue what the word “joke” means. Since when has making completely fucked up statements with no comic structure or punchline ever been considered a joke?

Although, to be fair, more often than not, Trump is completely serious and not claiming that he’s joking. It’s his handlers that lean the most on the “iTs OnLY a jOKe” bullshit

Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y

It's common for conservatives - their humor is pretty much entirely based on mocking or laughing at a marginalized group they consider lower than themselves.

PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 2y (2 replies)

He’s made this “joke” before.

Trump also proposed digging a water-filled moat and stocking it with snakes and alligators. If he was kidding, his aides didn’t think so, as they sought a cost estimate for the cartoonishly ludicrous proposal. Trump also wanted the wall to be electrified, and topped with spikes that could “pierce human flesh.”

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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y (1 reply)

8 year old boys come up with more fleshed out defenses

Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y

To be fair, Trump did say that he's the same as when he was 6.

who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Republicans don’t have “humor” they just laugh at disgusting statements

Syreniac@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

The joke is that it's happening to someone other than them.

reversebananimals@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y (1 reply)

While we're at it let's also put them in front of the capitol to eat all the Republican rioters.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y