Chinese government and Tiananmen Square
“They put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country right now is perceived as weak.”
Donald Trump said in a 1990 Playboy interview that the Chinese government’s reaction to the student-led protests in 1989 were vicious and horrible but that they ultimately showed strength. He admired the government’s strength in fighting off the protestors and said that our own nation is seen as weak to foreign countries. The incident he’s talking about is the Tiananmen Square protests, in which China shot and killed hundreds to thousands of its own unarmed citizens if they were blocking the military’s path to Tiananmen Square.
Saddam Hussein (again)
“Saddam Hussein throws a little gas, everyone goes crazy, ‘Oh he’s using gas!'”
Donald said this as he made a mockery of those who were outraged at Hussein’s use of chemical weapons in 1988. The deadly gas killed more than 5,000 Kurds living in northern Iraq, but Trump’s cavalier attitude towards the killing of innocent civilians is no less disturbing than this brutal attack.
If your answer to the question of whether or not you would want Trump as the next president of the U.S. is still “yes” after reading this, perhaps it would be best to reevaluate how citizens are meant to be treated in America. If Americans wish to preserve their freedom and at least some semblance of democracy, not voting for Trump would be in their best interest.
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