Trump closed out his presidential campaign by threatening Michelle Obama yesterday. In a video on X that already has one million views, Trump asked the assembled Klan members if he was “allowed to hit her now”, inferring he would be free to punch her if he were to be elected.
Trump: Michelle.. I was so nice to her out of respect. She hit me the other day. I was going to say, am I allowed to hit her now? pic.twitter.com/u0E8oXnOpD
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 4, 2024
That's a change in his divisive script that went from trying to frighten cisgender women with anti-trans ads to threatening the beloved wife of Barrack Obama
Importantly, Trump, last night used racist tropes while disparaging Barrack Obama and has never threatened violence against him.
Trump had already appeared to threaten Michelle Obama at a previous rally, noting ominously that she’d made “a big mistake” by criticizing him, but his latest outburst is an escalation in his language and appears to deliberately lean into the ambiguity of the word “hit,” reports HuffPost.
Apparently recounting a conversation with his advisers, Trump said, “Michelle ... I was so nice to her out of respect. She hit me the other day. I was going to say: ‘Am I allowed to hit her now?’ They said: ‘Take it easy, sir.’ My geniuses, they said, ‘Just take it easy.’ ‘What do you mean? She said that about me, I can’t hit back?’ ‘Sir, you’re winning. Just relax.’”
“Is that good or bad advice?” he asked the crowd. “I think it’s neutral.”
He then asked, “What do the ladies of North Carolina think, hit back or just relax?” before admitting, “I’d actually love to hit back, but we’ll hold it a little while.”
Trump has to escalate his violent rhetoric or lose voters who have become bored of the same old story.
Lots of people were leaving the Trump rally early today. pic.twitter.com/YstB4DNPPc
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) November 4, 2024
