Trump causes confusion by sharing meme calling Jan 6 a ‘government staged riot’ even though he was in power

The meme has been liked nearly 9,000 times and shared 2,400 times as of Monday. In reaction to Mr Trump’s repost, journalist Aaron Rupar sarcastically wrote on Twitter: “rubbing my last 2 brain cells together as I try to remember who ran the government on January 6.”

The former president shared the meme despite a House committee that investigated January 6 declaring Mr Trump the “central cause” of the day’s events. “None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” the House panel wrote in its final report.

crusa187,

Is it confusing when he is honest or what? I don’t get it. Even a broken clock can be right twice per day.

Trump and other republicans in government power staged an attempted coups on Jan 6. It’s not a conspiracy theory or anything, I didn’t even realize this was debated, it’s literally what happened.

aski3252,

According to the article, the meme said "January 6 will go down in history as the day the government staged a riot to cover up the fact that they certified a fraudulent election.”, which is pretty comfusing if you try to look at it logically.

But of course, within Trump’s fantasy world he built, it makes somewhat sense because of course it’s actually “the deep state” that is behind everything…

transmatrix,

Right, but it wasn’t to “cover up a stolen election” it was to try and steal an election Trump lost.

GunnarRunnar,

He probably just got confused. You know like how old people sometimes get. Jokes aside this makes most sense to me.

Delusional,

Well you know how republicans deal with indisputable proven facts, they ignore them and make up their own story on what really happened.

TechyDad,
@TechyDad@lemmy.world avatar

The meme said that it was a government staged riot and that the government also knew that the election was fraudulent. Obviously, neither are true.

Trump is trying to claim that the government somehow staged 1/6 like the crowd wasn’t really Trump supporters whipped up into a frenzy by him and set loose on the Capitol. Instead, it was some mixture of deep state FBI agents and antifa who conspired to make it seem like Trump did this.

It’s total garbage and is easily debunked, but Trump doesn’t care about the truth. That explanation would absolve him if any guilt so he’ll cling to that regardless of the facts

Poggervania,
Poggervania avatar

It’s “debated” (and I use that term very loosely) because the current US Fascist Republican party and its voter base need to keep gaslighting the general public about what actually happened on Jan 6.

Like, any rational person knows that Jan 6 was obviously an insurrection attempt, which I like to think is the majority of the US - but apparently there’s a very vocal sect of citizens who would be pretty okay with a fascist state so long as it’s branded with a big red R.

Space_Jamke,

70 million people with a pulse voted for this guy and made life-size plastic idols of him in his honor. What amazes me is that they’ll do it again. Trump has no loyalty to even his most fanatic worshippers and no coherent plan for America other than cashing out for himself at anyone else’s expense. And he keeps telling everyone as much because he has no filter and uses our two-tiered justice system to keep getting away with it.

What kind of reason besides spite or greed could possibly motivate people to fawn over a blatantly awful man who already threw them under the bus a few times the moment it suited him better?

overzeetop,
@overzeetop@lemmy.world avatar

What amazes me is that they’ll do it again.

They’re all living vicariously through his “sticking it to The Man” act. They love him because this is what they think they would do if they were in power. They cheer him getting away with it because it’s exactly how they would write fan fiction about themselves (were they literate).

Supervisor194,
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world avatar

It owns the libs. They literally don’t give a fuck about anything else.

Meanwhile, I would just like to feel confident that if I had to go to the hospital I could, and it wouldn’t bankrupt me. But I’m getting owned so hard lol Trump MAGA lol

fne8w2ah,

A broken clock is right twice a day…

PeckerBrown,

The shit that he calls his brain is making more jenkem.

popemichael,
@popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Its always news worthy when Trump tells the truth

CodeMonkeyDance,

Big Dumb Ape

Fordiman,

Does that technically count as a confession?

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Not technically, that is a confession.

Hazdaz,

I’ll leave this here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPfRGJRMbN8

HawlSera,

Not even surprised

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever,

I want to say that is “crazy” but it really is not. It has pretty much been on brand with the qanon lines the republicans have been embracing since even the baby bush era.

The stuff they want? That was on them and you should be thankful. The stuff they don’t want? That was the deep state run by jewish space lizards and Obama.

FaeDrifter,

It’s not crazy, it’s supposed to make everyone else feel crazy. Jan 6 rioters are “very special and very loved”. They’re an antifa false flag. They’re real American patriots. They’re a government inside job. Constant flipping back and forth of the story.

If you’ve ever had an abusive, narcissistic, gaslighting partner, this is immediately recognizable.

Grant_M,
@Grant_M@lemmy.ca avatar

The guy raped E Jean Carroll and his cult worshipers don’t care.

JingJang,

That’s because, in their minds they see the judicial system as rigged against him.

(No judges agreed with him that the election was stolen or that he won so “obviously” they’re all democrats or whatever else he calles non cult members now)

If anything, they’d point at the judges ruling in Jean Carroll’s case as an example or how “broken America is”.

Trainguyrom,

I find it hard to imagine she’s the only one. Given what he himself has said regarding attractive women, about interacting with women he’s attracted to, etc. I’m not going to be surprised at all if more people come forward with allegations at some point

Grant_M,
@Grant_M@lemmy.ca avatar

From 2016 vox.com/…/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-jo…

Trainguyrom,

Holy crap. There’ve been so many scandals surrounding trump I entirely forgot he had that many rape allegations back in 2016

jzzvid,
@jzzvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

His not shutting up is going to be what breaks him. The trials are going to be very fun to watch. I can’t wait to see this guy get dragged by the prosecution.

randon31415,

Obama just sat there and let 9/11 happen!

MixedRaceHumanAI,

Obama melted steel beams!

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Obama was Building 7!

AFKBRBChocolate,

And he totally bungled the Katrina response!

strangehill2dieon,

Thanks, Obama.

kromem,

Truth is stranger than fiction

soulifix,

We all sat and let 9/11 happen. Guess we’ll all just turn ourselves in. All 300+ million of us.

HeavenAndHell,

To think this idiot is what’s influencing the right of far right in the rest of the world is just fucking sad

Thedogspaw,
@Thedogspaw@midwest.social avatar

He’s so used to calling things staged fake news he fails to realize that if the riot was staged He’s 1 admitting the riot was a riot and 2 that it was staged by him

InternetUser2012,

He’s a moron, his last two remaining brain cells are fighting for third place.

over_clox,

Two? 😂

Fordiman,

The axon and dendrite of the one cell don’t speak to one another anymore, so we have to treat them as two.

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