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