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Today in New Jersey, the Orange Turd praised Hannibal Lecter: "Silence of the Lamb [sic]. Has anyone ever seen The Silence of the Lamb [sic]? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He's a wonderful man."
This deserves a little explanation which ends up making Trump sound even stupider that the snippet above does.
“Hannibal Lecter, how great an actor was he?” said Trump in a mix-up between the fictional character’s name and Anthony Hopkins, the actor who played the cannibal in the 1991 film.
“You know why I like him? Because he said on television on one of the – ‘I love Donald Trump.’ So I love him. I love him. I love him. He said that a long time ago and once he said that, he was in my camp, I was in his camp. I don’t care if he was the worst actor, I’d say he was great to me.”
Hopkins has not publicly supported Trump and neither have other actors who have portrayed Hannibal Lecter including Mads Mikkelsen and Brian Cox, the latter of whom called Trump “such a fucking asshole” and “so full of shit.”
Hopkins, who was born in Wales and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000, told The Guardian that he doesn’t care for Trump and explained that he doesn’t vote because he doesn’t “trust anyone.”
So there you go. Trump's an idiot, but he knows his cult followers will eat up the bullshit.
