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The former president didnt just denounce The Apprentice movie. He also lamented the fact that filmmakers are allowed to say whatever they want.
Link to tweet
Almost 7 years to the day earlier, he said it's disgusting that the nations press can write whatever it wants.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-furious-condemnation-apprentice-film-matters-rcna175283
Former President Trump is slamming The Apprentice, calling the film about his early rise in New York fake and classless. Its a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country, Trump wrote in an early morning Truth Social post on Monday.
The 150-word missive, published shortly before 1 a.m. ET, covered some predictable ground, including the Republican expressing hope that the film will bomb.
But there was one sentence in the online piece that stood out for me: So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want......
Trump is also arguing that his rivals shouldnt be allowed to run against him, targeting immigrants with Hitler-style rhetoric while promising to create militarized mass deportations and detention camps, speaking with greater frequency about deporting people who entered the United States legally, promising pardons to politically aligned criminals, raising the specter of military tribunals for his perceived domestic political foes, and talking about expanding the use of the U.S. military on American soil.
But specifically when it comes to the First Amendment, Trump recently insisted that those who criticize judges and Supreme Court justices that he likes should be put in jail, pushed for CBS to be pulled from the nations airwaves, made veiled threats against the nations largest newspaper, and asserted in writing that its awful to see filmmakers being allowed to say whatever they want.
Its almost as if the former president were running on an authoritarian-style platform.
In early 2017, the then-president delivered a speech in which he boasted, I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody.
It was ridiculous at the time. Its vastly worse now.
dweller
(24,644 posts)Fact checking ?
Make up your mind , Dotard
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MayReasonRule
(1,601 posts)He may sue, but will not stay through discovery because there is zero chance he wants the criminal truths revealed.
This is more posturing in an attempt to increase his declining chances of regaining POTUS.
He's full of shit as always... except of course for what's in his diaper or running down his leg and dripping on the floor...
Scrivener7
(52,250 posts)Help make this movie a success!
Dave Bowman
(3,391 posts)Thanks for the free publicity, fake and classless moron.
electric_blue68
(17,270 posts)NameAlreadyTaken
(1,362 posts)Freedom of speech for him, but not for anyone else.
Ilsa
(62,161 posts)progressoid
(50,552 posts)His supporters won't watch it.
As a member of the loyal opposition, I don't want to watch it.
A lot of people are just sick of hearing about his orangeness.
So that leaves those nebulous voters in the middle who don't seem all that interested in politics to begin with. Why would they spend money to watch this?
It could be 100% accurate (it might be) but I don't think it will make a difference in the election.
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