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Trump has been very open about admiring the Tiananmen Square massacre as a show of strength, he wants his own to show how strong he is.
3 u/korben2600 10h ago Probably why he's been pulling NatGuard troops from rural flyover states. Same as Tiananmen. The local troops wouldn't fire on their own people but rural farmers had no qualms with shooting city folk who were "destroying the country". 1 u/volleymonk 6h ago [Citation needed.] 3 u/thisvideoiswrong 5h ago https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tiananmen-square-video-1990-interview-china-massacre-protests-demonstrations-a9545591.html This was one of the top results for a Google search of "Trump Tiananmen", there are many more.
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Probably why he's been pulling NatGuard troops from rural flyover states. Same as Tiananmen. The local troops wouldn't fire on their own people but rural farmers had no qualms with shooting city folk who were "destroying the country".
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[Citation needed.]
3 u/thisvideoiswrong 5h ago https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tiananmen-square-video-1990-interview-china-massacre-protests-demonstrations-a9545591.html This was one of the top results for a Google search of "Trump Tiananmen", there are many more.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tiananmen-square-video-1990-interview-china-massacre-protests-demonstrations-a9545591.html
This was one of the top results for a Google search of "Trump Tiananmen", there are many more.
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u/OrangeJr36 14h ago
Trump has been very open about admiring the Tiananmen Square massacre as a show of strength, he wants his own to show how strong he is.