Thread by @SethAbramson

BREAKING: Research Shows Trump, Trump Family and Trump Surrogates Have Used Term “Bloodbath” for Years—Always to Mean Violence or Mass Electoral Defeat, Never Financial Crisis (Which Trump Says the US Is Already In, So He’d Never Posit It As a Hypothetical Future Outcome, Anyway)

(PS) Trump wasn’t discussing electoral defeat—as he said (twice) that harm to the auto industry would be “the least of” America’s worries if he lost, as it would be a “bloodbath” for the “whole country”—leaving us with only the possibility of a *regular* Trump topic: violence.

(PS2) In the full clip Trump explains his reference to a bloodbath by saying that if he’s not elected there will be no future elections—a reference to a far-right conspiracy theory that if Biden wins the left will use violence to erect a dictatorship (which *Trump* has promised).

(PS3) Research on past Trump rallies shows (1) an obsession with violent rhetoric, (2) an obsession with the idea that if he loses, society will collapse (largely due to violence). I could find no evidence of him using a secondary definition of bloodbath to mean financial crisis.

(PS4) Trump says at every rally—including this one—that America is in a historic economic crisis *now*.

It would make no sense for him to say that there *will* be an economic crisis if he’s not elected, which would mean there *isn’t* one now—the *opposite* of his daily rhetoric.

(PS5) All of the evidence—history, present context (full clip), past/current rhetoric, past/current word usage—confirms major media reports as correct: Trump *was* discussing the auto industry, then as an aside said his defeat would cause a “bloodbath” beyond any economic issues.

(PS6) Trump has been obsessed with blood/violence at every rally—and has never once said what his fans wish he meant here: the idea that America is doing well now economically but will face economic ruin if he loses. (In Ohio, he said Black voters had been “stabbed in the back.”)

(PS7) We know MAGAs know Trump meant violence because they’re already changing what he said to fit a narrative. Here’s Elon toadie @cb_doge *making up the words* he *wish* Trump had said (which isn’t at all what he said) in a meme popular on the far right:

https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1769349635292729374

@cb_doge (PS8) Feel free to watch the full clip (while also adding to it the unmistakable context—Trump believes America is *already* in a historic election crisis, he believes a Biden win would lead to *violent repression*, he is obsessed with blood and violence):

@cb_doge (PS9) The far-right hoax that holds Trump was using a secondary definition of a word he’s never used in that way before, to mean a *future* economic crisis he never speaks of—he always says we’re in it now—was spread by Elon pal “End Wokeness,” widely thought to be Jack Posobiec.

@cb_doge (PS10) The big question left is: why lie? Yes—Posobiec has an intelligence background and crows about running domestic psyops, but we all *saw* January 6 and we *know* Trump is violent and the MAGAs *already* hate media. Are they worried Trump is revealing what *they all* intend?

(NOTE) Anyone else notice that the MAGAs—who hate the liberal arts, hate higher ed, hate educational attainment, hate the very notion of intelligence itself—suddenly put on their reading glasses and become self-declared reading-comp savants whenever Trump needs to be bailed out?

(NOTE2) Weeks and weeks ago, media began publishing articles about how Trump has recently become obsessed with “blood”—actual human blood—in his speeches, from talking about the pure “blood” of Americans to murder victims to “bloodthirsty” criminals.

🔗: cnn.com/2023/12/18/pol…

(NOTE3) Research that Trump may be obsessed with blood—again, actual human blood—more than any politician in American history, making the idea that he commonly uses the word or associated words in metaphoric ways historically preposterous. That is simply not his modus operandi.

(NOTE4) But as this December 2023 Ohio Capital Journal article confirms, Trump has been *specifically* obsessed with the idea that America is headed toward a literal bloodbath only he can prevent—meaning if he loses in November, it will (in his deranged vision) come to pass. See:

(NOTE5) The long obsession Trump has had with the word “blood” and words that include “blood” appears linked to neo-Nazism, which may be a reason “End Wokeness”—a feed that posts content perceived by some as inspired by neo-Nazism—is so sensitive about it. the-independent.com/news/world/ame…