Speaker Johnson on Trump’s Poo Dumping Video: ‘He Is Not Calling for the Murder of His Political Opponents’

reporter: “Speaker Johnson you say that Democrats had a ‘Hate America’ rally, but what does it say that the president of the United States over the weekend released a video of him pooping on the American people?” (Laughter)
Johnson: “The president uses social media to make a point — you can argue, he’s probably the most affect the person who’s ever used social media for that. He is using a satire to make a point. He is not calling for the murder of his political opponents. And that’s what these people are doing. I mean, in one of these photos, I think there’s a picture of the president hanging in effigy by a noose on one of these, the one on the far end. I mean, it’s unconscionable. Look, America is built on the idea of free speech. You have the right to protest. Of course, we jealously guard that. I mean, Chip and I are attorneys, we’ve defended that right in the courts. But what they’re doing right now is different. I mean, they are trying to incite violence. It’s not funny. You don’t mock a president who has already had two failed assassination attempts on his life. This is not a game. And the idea that communists would be supporting this is unconscionable to us. Look, when we give tours of the House chamber and we bring in constituents and we point out all the historical facts and images around the building, we always start — I always start with, in God we trust, which, of course, is right above the rostrum of the speaker’s podium. And if you look in the visitor’s guide to the House chamber, it says on page 14, when was that put there? Well, it was put there in the early 60s, 1961, as I recall. And it says in the guide that it was put there — Congress voted to put that there as a rebuke to the Cold War era Soviets. Why? Because of their philosophy, that’s what it says, a rebuke to their philosophy. Their philosophy was Marxism. Marxism begins with the premise that there is no God. It is antithetical to who we are as Americans. The Declaration of Independence says we’re created by God, and he’s the one that gave us our rights. It is in God whom we trust, that is the national motto. That’s what America is built on. What those people are advocating for is, at its essence, UN-American. And when they go to next step and they call for violence on political officials in an environment that is already — it’s already a heightened threat environment, it’s dangerous stuff. They had the right to do it. Congratulations. They didn’t burn any buildings down. That’s a big achievement for the left to have some kind of gathering where they don’t have a loot in and riots and burn a building down. There was, I think, some in Portland. They threw bottles and bricks and stuff at the ICE facility because that’s what they do for fun now out there. But, you know, they had a free speech event. Congratulations. But you need to look past that and look at what it is they’re advocating for openly, and it’s really scary stuff. Yes, ma’am. Second row. Yes, ma’am.”