Trump Quotes Debate

The cluster centers on debates about the accuracy, context, and political implications of statements attributed to Donald Trump, including accusations of misquotation, whataboutism, and defenses against propaganda.

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jbirer Sep 21, 2022 View on HN

Similar things have been said about Trump; "I wish it wasn't Trump who did X good thing". Consider that you might be consuming too much propaganda.

PartiallyTyped Feb 8, 2023 View on HN

They presented the comments made by Trump.Whether you are unaware of it or not doesn’t make them not true.As the commenter said, google is your friend.https://www.axios.com/2023/01/31/trump-transgender-rights-lg...

Hypx Aug 7, 2019 View on HN

It's too bad this is being downvoted. It is exactly something Trump would say in a similar situation.

fsh Dec 23, 2019 View on HN

This is just whataboutism. Trump's insanity doesn't justify giving other politicians a free pass for saying incorrect things.

Drakim Feb 1, 2025 View on HN

Most likely some sort of "liberals get things wrong too, so you shouldn't criticize Trump for lying so much".

herbst May 21, 2025 View on HN

There are several comments in here claiming that is something that trump said but doesn't hold up in real numbers

lovich Jun 20, 2016 View on HN

The man isn't defending trumps views. He's making a point that Trump is being misquoted to support an argument. It doesn't matter how right or wrong you make trump out to be because it's not about that.

roughly Jul 22, 2024 View on HN

This is the other problem with this election cycle: Trump is saying truly deranged things, but they’re so far outside of what people think would be reasonable for a person to say that he’s not getting the kind of blowback for them he should be because nobody believes he’s actually saying them.(A contributing factor is that he actually Has been misrepresented a few times by the media - the “bloodbath” comment was very clearly about the auto industry in context, so the right feels rightly aggri

epistasis Dec 7, 2016 View on HN

It wasn't trump supporter comments, it was comments that said exactly "fuck spez." Misrepresenting it as "trump supporters" gives it a decidedly different, post-truth spin.

elevenfist Apr 28, 2017 View on HN

No, that's not even remotely close to what I'm saying or believe, you've constructed a strawman.But your comment is shockingly similar to what I've heard from people who still support Trump irl. Do you personally ever talk about what's actually happening in washington, or just stick to this he-said she-said crap?