The revelation came during the former president’s testimony to lawyers representing a group of protesters suing for their violent removal from a 2015 Trump campaign rally. According to the minutes of the deposition, when asked about his statement to the crowd that “If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just throw the shit, like this”, Trump replied: “These are very dangerous things. You can kill yourself with these things. “We were threatened,” he added. “They were going to throw fruit. They threatened us. We had a threat. Trump also said: “I wanted people to be ready because they put us on the alert that they were going to pay off.” “What do you mean by ‘I make fruit’?” said Late Night presenter Seth Meyers in Thursday episode. “What do you mean they put you on alert?” Is there a fruit alert system? Is it like the level of threat to internal security? The red tomato, the yellow is for the banana and the green for the avocado. “You know what they say,” Meyers added, “if you get hit by an avocado, you’re toast. Trump testified that he perceived the threat of being hit by a tomato because the Secret Service warned him: “We were told. I thought the Secret Service was involved, in fact. And you hit with fruit, it’s very violent things. Tomato, when they start doing these things, it’s very dangerous. There was an alarm that day.” Perhaps aware of the potentially serious consequences of admitting that he intended security personnel or other participants in the rally to commit violence, Trump insisted that his comment was a joke. “It simply came to our notice then. But maybe, you know, a little truth in that. I wanted people to be ready because we were awake that they were going to make fruit. And some fruits are much worse than… tomatoes are bad by the way. “But it is very dangerous; they would hit very hard.” The videotaped deposition took place in New York County, Bronx in October 2021. Noah, on his show, simply read the transcript aloud, because “no comedian is going to find anything funnier than Trump’s deposition.”
