At yet another campaign stop in North Carolina, Donald Trump went off the rails again while speaking. I honestly believe, however, that he plans some of these forays into insanity beforehand. Maybe they’re not all off-teleprompter gaffes. There are just too many.
As he was about to introduce the GOP candidate for Governor of the state, Mark Robinson, he made some cheeky remarks about the structural stability of the stage. “He’s a great one. And I think we have a lot of our sheriffs here. Don’t we have — where are they? Will this stage hold them?” he rhetorically asked.
Then Trump invited the sheriffs who were present onto the stage, while continuing to fire off the fat jokes: “If you weigh more than 200 pounds, don’t come up. I’m only kidding.”
After hosting them for a moment, the clearly over-200-pound former president called for Robinson specifically, and the hits kept coming: “These are great people, but I want to get them the hell off the stage because I guarantee they didn’t have this in mind when they built this. Thank goodness Mark lost a lot of weight over the last couple of months. You did actually!”
Trump had already endorsed Robinson prior to the primary. But don’t let this be a defense of Mark Robinson just because Trump made fun of him. He’s as bad as Trump himself. His white supremacist views are a little surprising, considering he is a Black man, but make no mistake — his beliefs are awful
During a speech at a small church back at the end of June, Robinson told congregants and supporters that “Some folks need killing! It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!”
That in itself may not sound like white supremacy, but coupled with him quoting Hitler in a Facebook post and calling the Holocaust “hogwash,” I think it’s fair to make some assumptions.
He’s also conveniently swapped out the first letter of a popular term among homophobes, calling LGBTQ+ people “maggots” and once agreed with a cult leader on his podcast that Jewish bankers were one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, along with China, the CIA, and Muslims.
You see, Donald Trump only endorses the best people, even if he does think they’re too fat to stand on a stage with him.
Trump brings extremist Mark Robinson on stage and then jokes about his weight pic.twitter.com/wmyexT2Fec [1]
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 21, 2024 [2]