This would be pretty funny if it wasn’t contributing to the possibility that we won’t get to vote any more for quite awhile:

Donald Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney is a “war hawk” who should be fired upon, as he raged against one of his most prominent intra-party critics while campaigning Thursday night in Arizona.

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” the former president said at a campaign event in Glendale with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Trump also hurled insults at Cheney, once the third-ranking Republican in House leadership, calling her “very dumb,” a “stupid person” and “the moron.”

Trump’s suggestion that Cheney be fired upon represents an escalation of the violent language he has used to target his political foes. And it comes days before an election in which the former president — who never accepted his 2020 loss — has already undermined public confidence. In recent weeks, he has also suggested a military crackdown on political opponents he has described as “the enemy within.”

Me read many books with big words for make cultural learnings, but I have literally never seen this locution before. When a politician says one of his opponents should be shot, the customary way to phrase that is that this politician over here said that one of his opponents should be shot. Not “fired upon,” which makes it all sound vaguely like some sort of elaborate social science experiment, as opposed to propping up your political opponents in front of firing squads, which frankly sounds just a wee bit like a faintly fascist kind of thing to suggest (whoops I just created three more fascist voters by saying that mean thing using the f word sorry my bad).

Hey I wonder if the New York Times could screw this up even worse than CNN did?

Trump Attacks Liz Cheney Using Violent War Imagery.

Yeah “violent war imagery,” that’s the ticket.

During an onstage interview with Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host and a top Trump ally, Mr. Trump hurled personal attacks at Ms. Cheney, who is campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris. Then, taking issue with her foreign policy approach, he suggested she should be put in a war zone.

Why don’t you just come out once and scream it?