This was surely former Donald Trump’s reaction to the media feeding frenzy this weekend when a deceptively edited and framed video — known in editorial circles as a “Rupar hoax” — picked up traction and became the source of illimitable disinformation articles that were published from sea to shining sea.
Or at least, that is the dramatic re-enactment of what must have went through the media mogul’s mind. That’s because President Donald Trump is seeking to turn the blossoming left-wing hoax industry into a campaign goldmine.
This is the video and context of Trump’s now-infamous “bloodbath” remarks:
They think that they’re going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border. Let me tell you something to China. If you’re listening President Xi [Jinping], and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal: Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re gonna get that, you’re gonna not hire Americans and you’re gonna sell the cars to us — no.
We’re gonna put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not gonna be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it, it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the country, that’ll be the least of it.
A new Trump campaign email recaps the numerous times the Democratic Party tried to weaponize this fake news and asked supporters to donate:
At a rally on Saturday, I predicted a bloodbath for our auto industry if Crooked Joe Biden were to win in November.
Then immediately, the LIARS in the Fake News & Democrat Party pushed their biggest HOAX of the election.
They used edited clips to viciously misquote me.
They said that YOU were a dangerous threat to our country.
They even had Nancy Pelosi push this HOAX live on CNN! She lied directly to the American people!
The FAKE NEWS and their allies in the Democrat Party truly HATE OUR COUNTRY!
They will push hoaxes, fake headlines, and outright LIES to keep control.
That’s why I’m depending on YOUR SUPPORT to win back the White House!
Before the day is over, I’m asking EVERY SINGLE ONE of my supporters to chip in and say, I STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP! >
STAND WITH TRUMP
Remember, support from Patriots like YOU is what’s going to get us back into the White House.
So that’s why I’m asking my STRONGEST supporters to deliver the LIARS in the Fake News a message that they’ll NEVER FORGET!
Please chip in today >
WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Thank you,
Donald J. Trump
45th President of the United States
STAND WITH TRUMP
Bloodbath, incidentally, is defined by Merriam-Webster as either a notably fierce, violent or destructive contest or struggle (“the campaign has become a bloodbath”) or a major economic disaster (“a market bloodbath”).
The corporate media’s hack journalists nonetheless pretended that they no longer understand the meaning of words.
Donald Trump’s use of “bloodbath” to describe a loss of jobs must have been super scary to a U.S. media that has never used it that way beforepic.twitter.com/1LHvJdU29O
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) March 18, 2024
They say “all’s fair in love and war,” and as far as these lying journalists are concerned, this is the equivalent of “shooting themselves in the foot.” It’s not even a Pyrrhic victory for these gutless, zero-integrity losers. It’s a complete rout that the media carried out on themselves.
It is time for the American people to stop playing along with these propagandists masquerading as journalists like they care about facts and truth. It is sufficient to call them shameless liars and then mock them mercilessly. That is the only treatment they deserve.
