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bigtree

(94,698 posts)
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 09:38 PM Yesterday

Trump tells farmers today, 'Your life is much better than my life'

___Addressing a crowd of farmers in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, President Donald Trump told the crowd, “Your life is much better than my life.”

"You wouldn’t trade my life, you wouldn’t want my life — believe me, you don’t want it," he said. "Your life is much better than my life, I will tell you. Your ear wasn’t a little pierced over here. You didn’t get pierced. You have a nice, safe, beautiful life."

Here, Trump was referencing the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against him at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. During the attack, a gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop, grazing Trump’s right ear and drawing blood as Secret Service agents rushed him offstage. One rally attendee was killed, and two others were critically wounded before the shooter, Thomas Crooks, was fatally shot by law enforcement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tells-farmers-your-life-is-much-better-than-my-life/ar-AA24Xs7E

Fri, June 5
Trump shows farmers printed pictures of his reflecting pool project during rambling roundtable event

Despite the Chippewa Falls event being labeled as a roundtable, it was more of a rally-style gathering with Trump doing the majority of the talking and then asking other participants at the table to speak "quickly" so he could "get back to fighting a war."

Early in his speech — which he gave sitting down at a horseshoe-shaped table with the likes of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Republican Representative Derrick Van Orden — Trump showed off a graphic about the size of his reflecting pool compared to famous skyscrapers.

"It's double and triple the size in terms of area" of the Willis Tower in Chicago and the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center in New York City, Trump said of the reflecting pool while holding up a graphic printed on computer paper.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-shows-farmers-printed-pictures-233702533.html

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Trump tells farmers today, 'Your life is much better than my life' (Original Post) bigtree Yesterday OP
Fertilize your crops with that, all you who voted for him. RockRaven Yesterday #1
Honestly... Did these farmers really remain silent after that offensive lie after lie after hlthe2b Yesterday #2
LOL. That is not the reason I wouldn't trade places with him. LuvLoogie Yesterday #3
What a completely tone-deaf, self-centered shitweasel! Ocelot II Yesterday #4
"While you were planting cotton on the farm, I was pulling down cotton panties on Epstein's Island"--DJT RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Yesterday #5
Sorry, Trump... GenThePerservering Yesterday #6
what a FUCKING disgrace tOrange POS is...... democratsruletheday 23 hrs ago #7

hlthe2b

(114,902 posts)
2. Honestly... Did these farmers really remain silent after that offensive lie after lie after
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 09:46 PM
Yesterday

unbelievably condescending and ignorant (and demented) bullshit?

Ocelot II

(131,518 posts)
4. What a completely tone-deaf, self-centered shitweasel!
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 10:02 PM
Yesterday

Farmers are going broke because of his tariffs and his stupid war, and all he can talk about is how he got his ear nicked and he's building a reflecting pool that's taller than skyscrapers, using tax money paid by, among others, farmers who can't get fertilizer or pay for diesel. Will any of them break away from the cult now?

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,346 posts)
5. "While you were planting cotton on the farm, I was pulling down cotton panties on Epstein's Island"--DJT
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 10:02 PM
Yesterday

democratsruletheday

(1,950 posts)
7. what a FUCKING disgrace tOrange POS is......
Sat Jun 6, 2026, 12:19 AM
23 hrs ago

and those are HIS peeps. They overwhelmingly voted for him in 3 straight elections. So he rewards them with utter BS and blather. They deserve it and more. Fuck them.

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