{"id":15783,"date":"2022-04-27T22:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?p=15783"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:12:34","slug":"trump-says-fruit-is-dangerous-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2022\/04\/trump-says-fruit-is-dangerous-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Throwing Fruit Is “Dangerous Stuff”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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In the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office, a civil investigation of financial wrongdoing of the Trump Organization is going on. It was just revealed yesterday that former U.S. President Donald Trump sat for a deposition for it last October in which he expressed his disdain for throwing fruit, saying it is \u201cdangerous stuff.\u201d Thus, it seems to be another one of his several phobias besides the main one\u2013being a clean freak.<\/p>\n

The occasion was a discussion about what Trump had said at a political rally to his supporters back in 2016. He told attendees, \u201cIf you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you?\u201d He even said he would pay their legal fees if any were involved.<\/p>\n

A deposition lawyer then asked Trump why he said that about fruit. Trump revealed that his campaign staff had told him in advance of the rally, apparently due to their security information, that someone in the crowd was \u201cgoing to throw fruit.\u201d Trump explained, \u201cYou get hit with fruit, it\u2019s\u2013no, it\u2019s very violent stuff. We were on alert for that. . . . But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it\u2019s very dangerous. There was an alert out that day. I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do fruit? When people say \u201cdo fruit,\u201d Donald, they usually mean eat it. But then, maybe you were thinking of a food fight, to which \u201cdo fruit\u201d would apply. \u201cDo fruit\u201d sounds to me like more of Trump\u2019s New York mobster talk. Did the Mafia ever \u201cdo fruit\u201d?<\/p>\n

Trump further explained his somber revelation, \u201cSome fruit is a lot worse. Tomatoes are bad, by the way. But it\u2019s very dangerous.\u201d He even admitted that he further instructed the crowd that if some protestors did throw fruit, \u201cknock the crap out of them.\u201d The lawyer asked him, \u201cIs it your expectation that if your security guards see someone about to throw a tomato that they should knock the crap out of them?\u201d Trump answered, \u201cyes.\u201d He then added, \u201cA tomato, a pineapple, a lot of other things they throw. . . . Because if that happens, you can be killed if that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Really! Does The Donald know about that popular, annual tomato festival in Bunol, Spain, where they throw tomatoes at each other all day long just for fun. Lovely, bright red, but crushed, tomatoes are all over the place. I don\u2019t know of anyone ever being killed from that. Donald, you should go there and try it out just to sooth your fear of getting whacked by a tomato and learning that it won\u2019t kill you.<\/p>\n

Asked if he meant literally hitting someone for throwing fruit at them, Trump said that if someone in the crowd had a tomato in his hand and wound up to throw it, people, including his guards if then can, should exercise \u201cthe use of physical force\u201d against that person. And he added, \u201cTo stop somebody from throwing pineapples, tomatoes, bananas, stuff like that, yeah. It\u2019s dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

[This info is taken from today\u2019s article by Bess Levin in Vanity Fair<\/em> entitled \u201cIn Sworn Testimony, Trump Says He Has Real Concerns About Being Killed By a Piece of Fruit.\u201d]<\/p>\n

I wonder what Rex Tillerson\u2013former longtime CEO of Mobil-Exxon and briefly President Trump\u2019s Secretary of State\u2013would say about this, since he reportedly called Trump \u201ca moron\u201d in a closed governmental meeting in which Trump was not present.<\/p>\n

I also wonder if The Donald has ever visited a zoo and watched those big, muscular, gray gorillas. I am so fascinated with those great apes that I can watch them for hours. Some of them like to throw stuff at their human visitors. I\u2019ve had it happen. It\u2019s usually a banana peel or their excrement. If one of them ever threw that stuff at Donald Trump, I wonder if he would order his security guards to go after the big brute with \u201cthe use of physical force.\u201d And which would The Donald think was more dangerous\u2013the gorilla throwing a banana at him or his guard tangling with that massive, frowning, gray-furry guy.<\/p>\n

Get Kermit\u2019s new and prescient book about Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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