Trump Says Police Violence Against Journalists Is Actually A Beautiful Sight' (2020)
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... During a rally in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, President Trump took his "law and order" message a step further, not only applauding harsh law enforcement treatment of protesters, but of journalists as well. ...

As he often does at rallies, Trump described the state of America's cities in dystopian terms, waxing on at length on ways he claimed protesters have attacked law enforcement -- such as throwing "rocks and cans of tuna fish" -- and mocking the use of the label "police brutality" for retaliation by police.

Trump praised the involvement of National Guard troops in quelling violent protests in Minneapolis, asserting "Minneapolis was cured" after the Guard was deployed.

But Trump also applauded acts of excessive violence by "big, strong" police while narrating them in detail, describing an instance in which, "they grabbed them, they grabbed them, they were grabbing them left and right."

"Sometimes they grab one guy, I'm a reporter! I'm a reporter!" Trump said gleefully, aggressively pantomiming a Guardsman throwing aside the reporter and shouting "get out of here," adding, "they threw him aside like he was a little bag of popcorn."

Trump said "you don't want to do that," but described such instances as "actually a beautiful sight" because of the "crap we've all had to take for so long," mocking reporters for using the term "peaceful protest" to describe protests featuring looting and property damage.

Trump also mocked MSNBC host Ali Velshi " a common target of his aspersions " for getting hit in the knee with a rubber bullet while covering a protest, incorrectly claiming he "got hit in the knee with tear gas and he went down," and mockingly shouting "I got hit! I got hit!"
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