In March 2024, a quote from US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who allegedly stated that if he loses in the upcoming elections, was waiting for the country was waiting for the country is waiting for the “bloody bath”. We checked whether the politician said something like that.
March 17 the largest Russian publications ("News" RBC, TASS, "RIA Novosti","Russian newspaper","Gazeta.ru"Et al.) Published notes that Trump at a rally in Ohio warned the Americans: if they did not choose him by the next president, the country is waiting for the" Blood Bath ". According to the TGSTAT service, in the Russian -language segment of Telegram, more than 5.6 million views were gained at the time of writing this analysis. The most popular are the publications of channels "Toport.Live"(816,000 views),"Bloody lady"(405 000),"Dmitry Nicotin"(350 000) and Colonelcassad (291 000). Trump's provocative quote was also shared by users of social networks X, Facebook And Instagram.
The first messages about the unusual “election promise” of Trump, who really played in Ohio, on March 16, appeared That day in American media. The news spread widely on social networks - so fast User @bidenhq in X gained more than 8 million views. In the nine -second video that this blogger published, Trump says: “If they do not elect me, there will be a bloody bathhouse, and this is at least. There will be a bloody bathhouse for the country, and this is at least ”(in the original:“ NOW, if I Don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodBath, for the Whole ... that ’going to bet’ going to be A Bloodbath for the Country.
Among others, this video reputed The current US President Joe Biden, who commented on the opponent’s words as follows: “This guy clearly wants another on January 6.” The politician meant events January 6, 2021, when a crowd of supporters of the loser of Trump's loser stormed the American Capitol. During the riots, hundreds of people, including 174 police officers, were wounded, four people died, one police officer died in the hospital and four more law enforcement officers committed suicide for seven months after the events. Biden He called it That day is the most gloomy in modern American history and accused In the riots of Trump.
Trump's statement in a nine -second video really sounds as if he was predicting a wave of cruelty in the United States in case of his defeat during the November vote. If we turn to the American English dictionary Merriam - Webster, the main meaning of the word Bloodbath - This is a “massacre”, “murder of a large number of people”, “exceptionally cruel or destructive competition or struggle”.
However, in the X short video, there is no context, and in order to understand what Trump had in mind, you need to turn to the full Records His speeches in Ohio. In about the 31st minute of his hour and a half speech, the politician mentioned plan Biden significantly increase the sales of electric vehicles in the United States, which, according to the Republican, will strike the production of cars with an internal combustion engine. Trump also accused China of building automobile plants in Mexico, which, as he believes, will lead to a decrease in the number of jobs in American industry:
“Mexico for 30 years took 34% of the automobile business of our country, just think, - [they] went to Mexico. China is now building a couple of large factories on which they are going to produce cars in Mexico, and they think that they will be able to sell these cars in the USA without taxes on the border. Let me say something to China, if you are listening, President SI, we are friends, but he understands how I am doing business. Those gigantic, monstrous factories for the production of cars that you are now building in Mexico - do you think that you will succeed, that you will not hire Americans, but will sell us these cars? No. We will install a 100 percent fee for each car that will get to us from abroad, and you will not be able to sell these cars. If they elect me. ”
The following was followed by a phrase that got into a nine -second video:
“Well, if they don’t get me, there will be a bloody bath, and this is at least. There will be a bloody bathhouse for the country, and this is at least. But they will not be able to sell these cars, they are building giant factories ... "
Over the next minute, Trump continued to talk about car factories in Mexico and his intentions to introduce a 100 percent duty on the import of cars from abroad.
In this context, the word Bloodbath should be understood in the meaning of "Economic catastrophe." Such an interpretation is present in dictionary Merriam - Webster along with a “massacre” and “brutal struggle”. In English -speaking articles On the economic topics that can be found in Google, a “bloody bath” is often called, for example, a financial crisis, market collapse, high inflation and other negative phenomena in the economy. Apparently, it was precisely such a meaning that Trump put into the word he used.
On March 18, two days after the rally in Ohio, Trump commented on a negative reaction to his statements: “The media of fake news and their partners in the destruction of our nation - the democrats - pretended that I used the expression“ bloody bath ”, although they perfectly understood that I simply had in mind the dishonest Joe Bayden and killing automotive industry " - wrote He is on the social network Truth Social, which he previously created in response to the blocking of his accounts on Twitter and Facebook.
Thus, Trump, apparently, did not promise bloody clashes throughout America in case of his defeat in the elections. Speaking about the “bloody bath”, the politician had in mind the economic catastrophe, which, in his opinion, is waiting for the country if Biden conducts the reforms promised by him. Outside the context, Trump's words acquired a different meaning, and it was in this meaning that supporters of the US Democratic Party in social networks, and then the media in different countries spread them.
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