# Donald Trump and Hannibal Lecter. What's up with this?

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**Created:** [July 25, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-hannibal-lecter-whats-up-with-this/1004762 "2024-07-25T04:10:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-hannibal-lecter-whats-up-with-this/1004762/34 "2024-07-25T15:45:11Z")

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trump has a long history of saying something crazy or outrageous, then when the media reaction is ‘WTF?!?’, instead of backing off, he doubles down, hard. Triples down, even.

Check out this recent rally clip that Smapti posted in the ‘Is Trump Confused?’ thread. trump not only brings up the ‘late, great Hannibal Lector’ bit again, he even acknowledges that people are saying he must be ‘cognitively in trouble’ for saying it. To his supporters, this is trump sticking it to the crazy woke far-left libs, and they eat it up with big ol’ serving spoons:

> [@Is Trump confused?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1158):
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> “They say when he talks about Hannibal Lecter he must be in cognitive trouble. No, these are real stories” “Lyin’ Kamala also a total radical on a word called imbolen, you know this, right? A word called, what? Abortion.”

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