Trump likens Capitol rioters to WWII Japanese American internees

Anyone else sick of this loser?

"frankly" This guy is nuts. This guy is likely the next USA president.

Bizarre comparison. Trump has lost it.

Sick, deranged, demented...this guy's brain is mush...

Get him into a hospital or institution...at least until his jail sentence comes down...

"Why are they still being held? Nobody's ever been treated like this," Trump said, adding, "Nobody's ever -- maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly."

Mush brains has totally lost it now.

Spewing Random words, time to send him into care. I am sure Obamacare can work for him!!!

More of these violent animals should have been dealt with in the same way Ashli Babbitt was dealt with. Period.

Anyone who votes for this guy has mush in their brain too!!

Inject ourselves with anti-septic to fight corona.

Immigrants are taking away Black jobs.

Pets are being eaten by Haitian immigrants.

I’m kind of surprised Trump even knew that Japanese-American citizens had been interned in America during World War II.

Who cares about Trump. He’s done for. In addition, he’s up at least 34 charges. He’ll lose.

It's going to be fun watching your reaction in the increasingly likely event that he wins. He'll just keep coming out with wacky remarks to drive his detractors stark raving mad.

Stark raving made is a very accurate description of what we've been seeing from this miscreant for the past month. It's clear he is spiraling down into the depths of dementia...his brain is fried...and his campaign knows it since its trying to hide him away...

It's a good time to invest in HMOs that provide mental health services. The clinics will be full of D supporters if he wins.

The streets will be filled with violent MAGA-domestic-terrorists if he loses - which given his increasing desperation is much more likely...

Well, since Trump wants to create "Trump internment camps" like those of that time, isn't he just saying he himself would like to round them all up? or is it another "I single-handedly reversed Roe V. Wade and will protect women's rights more than anyone"?

"Why are they still being held? Nobody's ever been treated like this," Trump said, adding, "Nobody's ever -- maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly."

Moron.

"Why are they still being held? Nobody's ever been treated like this," Trump said, adding, "Nobody's ever -- maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly

It's par for the course and quite shameful to think a former (but hopefully not future) U.S. president could not see or want to see the absurdity and irony of this comment. One group were completely innocent patriots, targeted because of the prejudice and bias of ignorant people just like the ones who stormed Capitol Hill. The stormers are sedition-minded traitors. Let them rot in prison. Many of them should have swung.

"Why are they still being held? Nobody's ever been treated like this,"

Coz they broke the law as per your instructions you dumb fool.

It is bewildering how this man could garner even a single vote never mind be on course to be the next president.

I hate to say it, but Americans are making their country the laughing stock of the world (again) by even considering this incompetent / incontinent thick old crook to lead them.

Makes for interesting news though I suppose.

ClippetyClop: "It is bewildering how this man could garner even a single vote never mind be on course to be the next president."

Well, it's a known fact that the majority of his supporters are uneducated. The rest are hypocrites who have something to gain from him being in power, like the rich who would get further tax cuts, or the otherwise powerful who want a dictatorship and power. Almost all of the latter had called Trump, until he won the Electoral College in 2016 (not the popular vote, not even close!), said he was a moron that would destroy the party and the nation. Heck, even his most loyal posters on here called him a total moron until the very day he won in 2016, one even claiming he never did and changing his name to try and hide from past comments.

Mocheake: "One group were completely innocent patriots, targeted because of the prejudice and bias of ignorant people just like the ones who stormed Capitol Hill. The stormers are sedition-minded traitors. Let them rot in prison. Many of them should have swung."

Agreed. It amazes me, and I respect the people in power, for the restraint they showed in not opening fire on the terrorists who stormed the capitol, but sometimes I think they should have, like on the Floor when they were attacking police and trying to find Pence to hang and Pelosi to kill. Might have avoided a lot of the current mess, albeit it would have created a different one. They should still absolutely rot in prison, and there are many who still will, including Trump himself.

Of course he's completely unfit to be president. My neighbor's cat knows that.

More worryingly, it's become clear to me recently that a significant percentage of the MAGA nut jobs know that too, but still don't care! For many of them, it's just a case of "Our jobs have gone, our little towns are falling apart at the the seams, and we prefer to vote for chaos. Let's bring everything down!" The fact that their towns have been crumbling for 40-odd years doesn't seem to dawn on them.

Then there's the narcissistic tech bro crowd led by Musk, even further up his own backside than Trump, who smell dollars and heightened status down the line. What a miserable wreck of a country the USA has become.

No comparison. Your folks broke the law and tried to start an insurrection. Japanese Americans were sent to the camps unjustly but no one tried to overthrow the government or broke the law. Your followers were tried and sentenced, they are criminals....just as their leader.

The blame for the absurd reality facing Americans of having to go to the polls to vote for or against this septuagenarian Looney Tunes felon must be placed on the shoulders of the Biden/Garland DOJ who have let him run amok ever since January 6 in their desperation to uphold the duopoly's stranglehold on democracy by keeping 45 out of jail while the corrupt Scotus placed a big fat cherry of impunity on the rancid confection of the justice system.

@u_s__reamer

The blame for the absurd reality facing Americans of having to go to the polls to vote for or against this septuagenarian Looney Tunes felon must be placed on the shoulders of the Biden/Garland DOJ who have let him run amok ever since January 6

Not true. While Biden hasn't been perfect (and still fails to get the credit he deserves for steering the economy in a competent manner), the reason 45 seems to have gotten away with it is that he stacked the judicial system with his pick of ultra-conservative judges around the country, and most particularly with the 3 new troglodytes in the supreme court. This was the most devastating legacy of his first (and PLEASE ... last) term.

deanzaZZR

"frankly" This guy is nuts. This guy is likely the next USA president.

I wouldn't say "likely". But, the fact that it's even this close, and that he has a real chance of winning is both mind-boggling, sad, and scary.

LOL. The stuff that comes out of Trump's mouth just keeps getting crazier and dumber by the day as we get closer to to Nov 5th. It boggles the mind that so many Americans continue to support this convicted felon, sex absuer, insurectionist, grifter and con-man.

Trump is not "likely to be the next President". At least not if he abides by the rules. But he is certainly likely to cause another violent riot (or worse) againt the dely elected US government.

Trump needs to lose the election and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and be incarcerated and kicked out of US politics for the rest of his insurrectionist life.

@OssanAmerica

Trump needs to lose the election and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and be incarcerated and kicked out of US politics for the rest of his insurrectionist life.

Sure. No doubt about it. But I think you and others here might be missing the bigger picture. Trump is just the front man, the "charismatic face" (god help us all) for a really sinister, deep-lying, racist, ultra-conservative movement. If a bullet were to finally find it's mark, the big picture wouldn't change. There's a determined push by white supremacists, whether they be wearing suits & ties (e.g. Stephen Miller & co) working to take voting rights away from people they don't like, or your garden variety, assault rifle-toting thugs who just want to put "darky" in his place, to hijack democracy in the US...and they're winning.

BlackstarToday  07:56 pm JST

@OssanAmerica

Trump needs to lose the election and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and be incarcerated and kicked out of US politics for the rest of his insurrectionist life.

Sure. No doubt about it. But I think you and others here might be missing the bigger picture. Trump is just the front man, the "charismatic face" (god help us all) for a really sinister, deep-lying, racist, ultra-conservative movement. If a bullet were to finally find it's mark, the big picture wouldn't change. 

No I think you are the one missing the big picture. Exactly as you say, there will always be a portion of the country (hopefully small) who are a sinister deep-lying racist ultra-conservative movement. But they are powerless without a political leader who commands an entire Political Party of sycophants and enablers willing to justify and excuse his criminal and insane behavior.

Let's Make America Great Again by permanently removing Donald Trump from US politics. Not all Judges and Prosecutors are in his MAGA pocket. The rule of Law will ultimately prevail.

He's just lost the Asian American vote. Bravo.

Trump should have been more forthright and said the ethnic Japanese were sent to relocation centers for good reason... they were enemy aliens.... 25% of them all.

And he should have said most of the American citizens among them were children, and so naturally to be kept with their enemy alien parents.

And Trump should have also said that up to half of those children had dual citizenship. Of course, had he done so, he would soon have realized there can be no analogy between Jan. 6 and the so-called internment. WWII was going on.

Kyodo News has a bit of explaining to do regarding their phrase, "around 120,000 innocent people of Japanese descent."

The fact that we haven't heard from our resident Trump Groupies, 25 comments in, suggests that this is a blooper even by Trump's standards.

”Why are they still being held? Nobody's ever been treated like this," Trump said, adding, "Nobody's ever -- maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly."

—tactless, unfortunate and inappropriate comment. But he's still a much better choice than Kamala; Trump is not presidential and says stupid things, but his administration will do a good job on some of the major issues affecting the American people—true intelligence is when you can distinguish important things from less important things and prioritize what needs to be prioritized at the right time—more than half of the American population understands this—and that's why he will win.

Trump is unfit for any office. He is delusional.

McConnell was sickened by what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The insurrectionists were “narcissistic, just like Donald Trump, sitting in the vice president’s chair taking pictures of themselves," Tackett's book quotes him saying. The events were “further evidence of Donald Trump’s complete unfitness for office."

Ref: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-privately-called-trump-despicable-human-unfit-office-new-boo-rcna175960

Turned in my ballot yesterday. Chose the least worst option who I agree with on about 30% of the issues rather than vote for a narcissist who is completely unfitness for office.

I look forward to Trump being found insane in a court and placed into a wheel chair to spend his days playing Monopoly because his family knows he cannot be trusted with $20.

Worse than this evil moron is the fact that so many want him as president. Still, it only took Germany half a century to get over a world war and 6 million Jews murdered. Maybe America can do the same one day.

Worse than this evil moron is the fact that so many want him as president.

True but he’s the better of the two candidates. Tells you how beautiful the U.S. system is: one is evil and the other is dumb.

True but he’s the better of the two candidates. Tells you how beautiful the U.S. system is: one is evil and the other is dumb.

You think Trump isn't dumb?

The man thought that he could nuke hurricanes and that bleach could be effective against Covid. He's dumber than my cat.

I’m kind of surprised Trump even knew that Japanese-American citizens had been interned in America during World War II.

rcchToday  10:17 pm JST

But he's still a much better choice than Kamala; Trump is not presidential and says stupid things, but his administration will do a good job on some of the major issues affecting the American people—

Yet you haven't specified what those issues are or what his administration will do about them. What are the major issues he's not going to do anything about?

”Why are they still being held? Nobody's ever been treated like this," Trump said, adding, "Nobody's ever -- maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly."

—tactless, unfortunate and inappropriate comment

Just call it stupid.

I think you’ve read an enormous amount about WW2.

Call it what it is.

This doesn't even make the top 10 list of stupid things Trump has said in the past week

Whether you love or hate him, Trump will be the next president of the United States.

CSToday  01:38 am JST

Whether you love or hate him, Trump will be the next president of the United States

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” — bertrand russell

What a pathetic clown..

the internees committed no crimes, had no due process and had their possessions and property seized.

the jan 6th insurrectionists committed violent crimes, were indicted, tried by due process and convicted.

no sane person can make the comparison.

dementia don strikes again.

This man is an insult on American citizens intelligence. How dare he compare himself to Japanese Americans who lost their freedom and their life belongings during the war.

Trump, is an individual who has no integrity and or morals and will use anyone for his personal gain and should have been locked up long ago.

More nonsense spewed by the former Insurrectionist-in-Chief … enough already.

quercetum

Tells you how beautiful the U.S. system is: one is evil and the other is dumb.

No. One is both evil and dumb. The other is neither evil nor dumb. She simply endorses policies and beliefs you disagree with.

You miss the point which is the system produces evil and dumb.

You just added that not just one but both are dumb.

Japanese Americans blast Trump for comparing Jan 6 rioters, WWII internment camps

https://www.yahoo.com/news/japanese-americans-blast-trump-comparing-144605019.html

“It’s flat-out offensive. It’s a night-and-day difference what happened,” David Inoue, executive director of the Japanese American Citizens League, said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Japanese Americans’ whole families were incarcerated without any sort of trial — their own crime was they were of Japanese descent.”

> “For these January 6 people, they have had their day in court, they’ve either been indicted or convicted of crimes, and that is why they’re being incarcerated,” Inoue added.

Doctors join calls for Trump to release medical records as his speeches continue to go off the rails.

Cognitive decline is apparent in weird DonOLD J Trump!

lincolnman

The streets will be filled with violent MAGA-domestic-terrorists if he loses - which given his increasing desperation is much more likely...

Did not happen last time, and would not happen this time. However, the reverse is true: if he wins, you expect a re-run of the BLM "summer of love". Go easy on those projections.

"Why are they still being held? Nobody's ever been treated like this," Trump said, adding, "Nobody's ever -- maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly."

Well, it is hyperbole, but he does have a point. The people who not violent, but simply at the wrong place at the wrong time are victims of political persecution.

@OssanAmericaOct. 19  08:24 pm JST

BlackstarToday  07:56 pm JST

@OssanAmerica

Trump needs to lose the election and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and be incarcerated and kicked out of US politics for the rest of his insurrectionist life.

Sure. No doubt about it. But I think you and others here might be missing the bigger picture. Trump is just the front man, the "charismatic face" (god help us all) for a really sinister, deep-lying, racist, ultra-conservative movement. If a bullet were to finally find it's mark, the big picture wouldn't change. 

No I think you are the one missing the big picture. Exactly as you say, there will always be a portion of the country (hopefully small) who are a sinister deep-lying racist ultra-conservative movement. But they are powerless without a political leader who commands an entire Political Party of sycophants and enablers willing to justify and excuse his criminal and insane behavior.

Let's Make America Great Again by permanently removing Donald Trump from US politics. Not all Judges and Prosecutors are in his MAGA pocket. The rule of Law will ultimately prevail.

I hope with all my heart that you're right, but don't overlook the weirdness of the US electoral system that potentially allows "electors" in a state to overturn a result. A couple of states in recent times, I forget which...check yourself... Georgia?, Arizona? have been officially stacked with MAGA type operatives who will act as the "electors" and are potentially/most likely willing to overturn the democratic vote if it doesn't go their way. This is what they tried in 2020 but didn't have things set up in advance. Even then democracy only narrowly prevailed because of a few heroic figures. Now the fascists are better prepared.

The only rioters and looters being held are those found guilty of a crime and sentenced to prison terms. About 800 arrests. It's insulting to compare them to the Japanese internees.

2,000-2,500 people entered the Capitol Building. 1,186 were arrested. 561 were sentenced. 365 received prison terms.

Traitors from top to bottom. It's a damn shame that Trump isn't doing time in prison along with those he led to riot on Jan. 6th. He's the most guilty, yet he's busy running for president again. Go figure.