Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric against the media at a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, saying he wouldn’t “mind” if someone shot “through the fake news.”

The former president called the media “so damn bad” to cheers from the crowd before talking about the bullet-proof glass he was forced to speak behind following two failed assassination attempts.

“I have this piece of glass here, but all we have really over here is the fake news, right?” Trump said to audience laughter.

“And, to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much, ’cause I don’t mind. I don’t mind that,” Trump said as the crowd roared.

Trump rambled on about the bullet-proof glass before discussing the method behind the “brilliant” weaves and bobs of his speeches that the media doesn’t have the skill to report on accurately:

I’m a very smart person! You know, they refuse to — you know, now they are saying, that was the most brilliant speech. They’re saying — it’s a weave, you go — and then you’re here, and then? What happens is, while you’re here, there’s a point having to do with that point, and you go “wing, wing” and you come here, then you do another weave, “nee, nee, nee,” and it’s a very complex, but then it gets very simple because it gets all comes brilliantly and beautifully together.

And they actually acknowledge this total genius. They don’t, not all of them do. Most of them are failed writers, they’re not even good writers, Okay? They’re bad writers. So, they don’t understand the weave. They’ll never be able to do it.

Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung issued the following statement on the former president’s remarks:

President Trump was brilliantly talking about the two assassination attempts on his own life, including one that came within 1/4 of an inch from killing him, something that the Media constantly talks and jokes about. The President’s statement about protective glass placement has nothing to do with the Media being harmed, or anything else. It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats. In fact, President Trump was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also. There can be no other interpretation of what was said. He was actually looking out for their welfare, far more than his own!

Last week, Trump made what some interpreted as violent remarks against former congresswoman Liz Cheney, whom he called a “war hawk.”

Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, ok? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all warhawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’

Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.

 

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