Friday afternoon saw clashes between protesters and Donald Trump supporters outside a Trump rally in St. Louis, MO, which basically makes this a day ending in “y,” but with media attention mounting over the increased violence and tense atmosphere at Trump rallies, his supporters are under a microscope.
It can be a tough sale to hang the actions of random supporters on a candidate, but Trump has repeatedly given his seal of approval, and even incitement, from the stage, so he bears some responsibility for this sort of behavior. Raw Story has a roundup of social media video clips of various clashes outside today’s rally, but there were a couple that stood out.
For example, this guy, who has managed to find the most Trumpian way possible to praise Jesus:
Ayy, fuck Islam, Allah is a whore, Jesus is the most high God, and you bitches are done! (makes gun-fingers) Fuck you!
I guess he didn’t want to be politically correct.
Also of note is this clip in which a middle-aged Trump supporter calls a young woman (who says she’s 16 years old) “bitch,” and a younger Trumper calls her “whore”:
Aside from the content, this clip is noteworthy because it wasn’t shot by some liberal counter-protester, it was shot by Lachlan Markay of the conservative Free Beacon. You don’t shoot crowd footage unless you’re looking for this kind