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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Trump tries to distance himself from 'send her back' rally chant; many Republicans alarmed
By David Morgan WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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quercetum
A man is waiting in a line in Walmart and a woman in front of him is speaking on her cell phone in a foreign language. When she hangs up the man behind her says rudely, “ hey lady I noticed that you are talking in a foreign language, if you are from Mexico stop talking Mexican. You are in America now speak English.” The woman replies “what are you talking about?” The man replies even more rudely “ look if you insist on speaking in Mexican go back to Mexico where you came from. You are in America now speak English.” The woman states “ I’m not Mexican as I was speaking in my native tongue.” The man states “ if you are speaking in your native tongue I don’t care, just go back where you came from. The woman at that point smiles at this man and states “ I’m glad you made that comment as you and I agree on this. I am native American and I was speaking Iroquois. If you insist in speaking in your native tongue which is English why don’t you go back to England where you came from.”
And in this case Trump should go back to Germany where he came from if he doesn’t like the people here, but I just read he is not welcomed in the town his grandfather left. A majority of people that Trump has thrown under a bus, their family history goes back longer than his family in this country. Look who’s calling the kettle black . Draft evasion is in Trump’s DNA as his grandfather was a draft evader in Germany as well.
David Varnes
He didn't distance anything. He sat there, letting the cheer go on, for 13 seconds. Then he so faintly damned it that it was pretty much the equivalent of his 'both sides' Charlottesville speech.
He hasn't walked back anything. In fact, he continued to tear into Omar after the chant, and today continues with the same 'she hates America, she should leave' rhetoric.
So no, he gets no credit. In fact, every time he opens his mouth and goes on about 'they hate America' and 'if they don't love it, leave' trash, he just reinforces that he's not walking back anything.
lincolnman
Nothing makes it more clearer of the death of the Republican Party than to compare two incidents; one in 2008, and the other at Trump's most recent rally;
When a supporter said to John McCain at a campaign event, “I can’t trust Obama. I have read about him, and he’s not, he’s not — he’s an Arab.” He replied; “No ma’am,” McCain said. “He’s a decent family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what this campaign is all about.”
He added later “He is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as President,” McCain said. “If I didn’t think I’d be one heck of a better President I wouldn’t be running, and that’s the point. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments, I will respect him. I want everyone to be respectful, and let’s make sure we are. Because that’s the way politics should be conducted in America.”
That was courage, that was integrity, and that was "being an American"...
Now compare that with Trump's racists tweets of hate and his smirk and silence as the crowd roars "Send Them Back"....
But it's no surprise; one is a dedicated war hero, who's strength of character allowed him to survive an enemy POW camp and torture, and go on to serve his country as a statesman in the Senate.
The other is a cowardly draft dodger, who scammed thousands with a fake University, lost over a billion dollars, and had six bankruptcies - and cavorted with porn stars and weirdos like Jeffrey Epstein.
The Republican Party - spineless cowards who sold every last molecule of their integrity to this third rate reality TV host. They're no longer the party of Reagan and McCain - they're now the party of Donald Trump and Roy Moore...
PTownsend
But it is. It's too late. The toothpaste's out of the tube. Trump (with assistance from alt reich nabobs and their media in the US and 'abroad') has opened his own version Pandora's box and released full-on ugliness.
SuperLib
Great picture. Someone was probably telling Melania to go back to where she came from and that was Trump's reaction.
David Varnes
What this story leaves out is Trump's pathetic defense, saying he tried to stop the chants by speaking over the chants and resuming his speech 'very fast.'
Of course, video clearly shows Trump twice pausing, the second and louder chant having him pause for 13 seconds before starting his speech again... and continuing to slam Omar, giving tacit approval of the chant and the crowd's reaction.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/18/politics/trump-disavows-ilhan-omar-send-her-back-chant/index.html
So no... his racism is still on display, his demagoguery is clear, and his hatred is a cancer on the United States still.
PTownsend
But most are unwilling to do anything about it because they want to continue getting big campaign contributions from the corporations and their executive class benefiting from Trump and the Republican programs. (After all, the Republican Party is the party of the wealthy class.)
And because most Republicans know their base is similar to most in trump's base, i.e. they fear 'those not from their demographic'. (PC talk)
PTownsend
Only in the minds of his staunchest supporters. True believers, after all. It's not surprising the most dishonest president in modern history has attracted so many like-minded followers.
David Varnes
LOL. The man who's the pssy grabber in chief, who wants to get those 'sons of bitches' off the field, who nicknamed Adam Schiff 'Adam Schitt' and talked about shthole countries, who uses the term BS constantly... this man supposedly deserves an apology?
I'd have comments about that, but they wouldn't be very Presidential. Then again, neither is Donald Trump.
SimondB
....led by a clown.
David Varnes
Yet another Trump-hood. The poll that Trump's talking point comes from is a poll of white non-college voters who supported Trump in 2016 and was done on the website Axios.
You might as well say that Trump's polling in the single digits by asking LGBTQ PhDs who voted for HRC in 2016.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-aoc-ilhan-omar-polling-tweet-racist-democrat-congress-a9007961.html
TumbleDry
What a circus...
Strangerland
Actually, I see people criticizing Trump telling Americans to go back to their countries. You have made up this silly idea that this equates to support of her policies.
Just became you guys hate Obama, you seem to be blind to the warning signs of Trump.
Strangerland
Ahh I see how this justifies Trump's racist comments. Got it.
Strangerland
Hah, the right love a straight talker, until that straight talker says something they don't like. Then suddenly it's all MSM this and liberal media that.
Face it. Your boy is a racist. He stated it straight out for the world to hear.
Oh sorry, you weren't expecting us to play along with this silly little farce you're trying to peddle are you?
Sorry, we're straight talkers.
PTownsend
Good point. Avenatti is definitely a good example of the kinds of corrupt creeps that have come out during the Trump era. Trump's been a creep-attracting magnet.
Something about the pot...
PTownsend
One perspective. Another is he's flat out prevaricating. For the 11,000the time.
Strangerland
In Trump's comments.
Trump's comments.
In Trump's racist comments.
STRAIGHT TALKING!!!
CrazyJoe
13 seconds is a LOOONG time. Sit there and watch a clock for 13 seconds and imagine a crowd chanting all that time. He obviously approved of the chant and was basking in the hate as long as he could.
Hey trumpies, he is always going to throw people under the bus to save his ample behind. It's your turn now. Womp, womp.
u_s__reamer
"The four horsewomen of the Apocalypse" are not the only women coming for Trump. Stormy is number five, still there in his rear mirror catching up fast to join her sisters in bringing a well-deserved Apocalypse to an abysmal administration.
CrazyJoe
You can be either pro-Trump or pro-America, but you can't be both.
Strangerland
There you have it. An attempt to deflect from Trump's racist comments through some made up crap from the bubble, not actually based in reality.
Deplorable.
lincolnman
Caption to above photo....
Reporter: Mr President, we've just discovered some new video of the party you hosted at Mar-A Lago with Jeffrey Epstein and 28 women (some no doubt underage) - and it shows you demonstrating what you said you do on the Access Hollywood tape - do you have any comment?
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-epstein-party-at-mar-a-lago-women-2019-7
Melania: Donnie, first Stormy, then McDougal, then 19 other women, then E Jean Carroll, then this - maybe the green card for myself and my parents wasn't worth it...
Simon Foston
From https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rally-press-conference-ilhan-omar-send-her-back-chant-video-a9011286.html:
Yes Donald, that'll do it. Masterful. Show them who's boss.
Strangerland
Even Trump is starting to realize that people have figured out his comments were racist:
He feels badly that they have figured him out. He was hoping he wouldn't get called out for speaking straight about his racism.
lincolnman
Quoting Stormy?
Pure BS...
Read them...
Typical Trumper - smear a war hero...they really hate our military...
Thanks for agreeing with me...
Every "But What About" attempt at a dodge begins with the predicate "Yes, that's true - but what about...."
So thanks for agreeing with me - Trump and Roy Moore - the face of the GOP - Gropers, Ogres, and Perverts.
gokai_wo_maneku
Yesterday, I was told that all three of the US guys at the office have started the process of getting Japanese citizenship. They are not interested in going back to the US. It is not the US they knew when they came to Japan between 10 and 15 years ago.
Strangerland
Oh sorry, are we talking about what he actually said, or the ignorance you guys are feigning?
I think I'll straight-talk thank you. His comments were all about race.
Other than his entire comment being about her color and religion, you're correct.
Nope. Racist comments.
Chip Star
That's because racist slander is not a cause of action. As I've suggested before, leave the lawyering to the lawyers.
lincolnman
Trumper fantasy-land...
Trump: "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the _____. You can do anything."
Trumpers: "Nothing about sexual assault"...
Strangerland
STRAIGHT TALKIN'
SuperLib
Credibility.
Strangerland
Heh, the right acts like children for eight years of Obama, then try to get indignant about having to lie in the beds they've made.
Moderator
Readers, please stop bickering or we'll give some of you the rest of the day off.
Alistair Carnell
Caption for the picture....
”No, no not THAT video !”
Sneezy
No.
Strangerland
You're right, and literally everyone knows it.
Strangerland
HAHAHAHAHAHA
You ended a whine about catch phrases, in a thread where you praise your Dear Leader, a man who thrives on catch phrases. But here is where I love how awesome you are, you ended it with one of his catchphrases! "Sad"!
But to address you're point, would you say the same about:
LOCK HER UP
and
DRAIN THE SWAMP?
Hahaha
STRAIGHT TALKIN!™
stormcrow
Trump is winning with his xenophobic style speeches because audience thrives on it.
It's him but it's also them. Hopefully they won't be numerous enough to re-elect him for president in 2020.
taj
Maybe he tried to follow his kindergarten teacher, er, I mean, anger management coach's advice to count to 10, which he eventually managed to do.
Strangerland
Tulsi Gabbard.
Who, unlike the president, served in the military.
...and isn't a racist.
sunfunbun
Chants of 'send her back' smacks of the Nazi era. The reason is people feel entitled to let loose the worst of themselves, usually held back with discretion, in a non Trump era. This leader allows them to freely say and express terrible ideals of nationalistic and racial hate, like group chanting 'send her back'. Disgusting. It doesn't matter if some believe Trump isn't a racist, he definitely shows poor taste in how he acts and what he says. People who don't condemn, but find excuses to spin what he says into a more positive light, should realize they're digging into the far depth of their worst part of their souls, to do so, which was a trait of people who followed the Nazi's.
PTownsend
Those who voted for Trump calling for him to undermine US systems, those who want Trump and his fellow elite to be above the law (because laws are for peasants har har) those who attack free speech when it comes from someone whose beliefs are different from theirs, especially when they're women from a different demographic, and those who say it's acceptable for 'foreign' states to 'meddle' in US politics - as long as the meddling benefits Trump and his 'elite' -
should look in the mirror before calling someone anti-American.
Sean Morris
Trump and the GOP are the minority. They are in a struggle for life as they try to retain a minority rule. In the process the GOP base is shrinking as Trump debases conservative values and sensibilities. Without foreign interference there would be no Trump 2016 victory and it's his only hope for 2020.
SuperLib
Tomorrow Trump will reverse his reversal.
Trump fans, check his tweets to know what to say.
Strangerland
Are you trying to say that racism justifies racism?
ulysses
Trump did not walk back, he just threw his supporters under the bus, after leading them to it.
Not only he is a racist, he is a cowardly racist!!
Republican rallies resemble those in a European country in the 1930s, emboldening the racists, bringing the bigots out of the woodworks. The sorry part is that there were only 4 republicans who had the courage to condemn this bigotry bonanza the GOP rallies have become. The rest of them are like neutered puppies competing in playing fetch for Donny.
Jimizo
You can guarantee that if the same situation arose in a second term of Trump, the reaction would not be the same.
gokai_wo_maneku
Now the news organizations are re-reporting lots of very negative things Trump had to say about America when he started to run for president. Maybe he should go back where he came from.
lincolnman
1950: Four women of color, all US citizens, get on a bus in Alabama - the driver tells them they have to sit in the back...
2019: Four women of color, all US citizens, get elected to the Congress - and Trump tells them to "go back to where you came from"...
Trump and Trumpers are correct when they say they "want to take our country back"....back to the "good 'ole days"....
No wonder David Duke and Richard Spencer are such vocal Trump supporters...
Maybe next he'll suggest making all those illegals he employs at his properties slaves...(maybe they are already)...
MAWA Baby! Make America White Again!
This is what the Republican Party has become...Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush 1, would be astonished and ashamed..
Sean Morris
Anyone chanting "Send her back!" or supporting those chants, including Trump, are not Americans at heart or in spirit. They are the enemy within that is seeking to overturn our nation's government and install a neo-fascist authoritarian regime. Putin is pleased with this crowd and will work hard to secure a second term for Trump.
PTownsend
Wallace, Orval Faubus, southern racism at its worst, the era Trump and his supporters want to return to, the last time their demographic ruled. Can anyone name a civilization that improved by going back in time? Especially back to its hideous past?
And yes Trump supporters, I'm well aware Faubus, Wallace and most racist southern politicians were Democrats. Now it's many Republicans who've taken that ugly position.
Sneezy
The self-awareness.
lincolnman
Trump at 0300 in the Lincoln bedroom bathroom: Let's see, this week they'll be more pictures of cages at the border... The Epstein mess is going to come out and there's video with me and him at Mar-A Lago.... The judge will release testimony and evidence on my cover-up payoff to Stormy.... Next week Mueller testifies.... Gotta change the subject....
There, that should do it...
Jimizo
I’m more inclined to think it was his handlers in his ear.
He’s got to stay on the edge with his racism but not fall into the precipice. He’s got to give himself and other disingenuous people just enough of a sliver to deny it’s racism. This is an example.
I think this will be superfluous if he got a second term.
Simon Foston
stormcrowToday 11:21 am JST
I'm reminded of V For Vendetta:
Trump is only one deranged, senile old bigot. He wouldn't really be a problem if it weren't for all the people that support him.
Sneezy
It isn't.
wtfjapan
...led by a clown.
with yellow makeup to suit
gcbel
if you want an example of a shutting down a racist that was John McCain in ‘08. This president did no such thing. “Distancing “ himself... oh please.
Madverts
I wonder if Trump's brown-shirts are finally out of control.
This isn't the last time the braying hysterical mobs chant this racist slogan, I'll wager on that.
Oh and the Republicans get everything they deserve as Trump's enablers.
Silvafan
Yeah, Trumpsters like to call him strong and say it like it is. Yet, reality shows that he always denying saying anything and whining that he is being treated badly. He is the biggest crybaby in US presidential history!
When are the Trumpsters going to start wearing their arm bands in solidarity with Dump?
Chip Star
Hilarious that liberals not allowing conservatives to push ridiculously false narratives results in threats of suspensions.
pointofview
If the 'Squad' wasn't so racist and sexist, people wouldn't have chanted anything.
itsonlyrocknroll
Donald Trumps tweeter outbursts, perhaps prevaricating politicly our own prejudice, intolerant blusters, rants the media so rigorously, self righteously disseminate as consummate to President Trumps own administration.
Could it not be the same illusion, society as a whole deludes itself, the huff and puff that Donald Trump shouts aloud is what we are all are sometime guilty of.
Send them back? Honesty have you never given that sentiment a occasional thought, I have shamefully.
bass4funk
He beat 16 establishment Republicans, 1 leading Democrat Secretary of State, sounds brilliant to me, if he’s senile, then the Democrats are totally inept and as for bigotry no one seems to be able to explain to me how the President is a bigot because he never mentioned anything about the color or race of the women, so there goes that analogy...
Thank God for us. Trump/Pence 2020
Blacklabel
It’s not my entire contribution to the thread just saying people are wrong, adding nothing to explain why they are wrong, screaming racism and then trying to add a dumb catch phrase. It’s useless to the discussion adults are trying to have.
So Dems have one reasonable candidate, I agree. But she’s not getting the nomination so it’s irrelevant that she even exists in this.
Texas A&M Aggie
The democrat socialists haven't had a good week: they were forced to support a "squad" of anti-American congresswomen, and their attempt at advancing an impeachment resolution was a dismal failure; so, they are now reduced to clutching their pearls over a spontaneous chant at a political rally. If that is all they have, Election Night next year is going to be an epic blowout for President Trump.
Serrano
many Republicans alarmed
Many Democrats are alarmed that they don't have a candidate who can beat Trump in 2020.
Blacklabel
Who isn’t far left enough or hateful enough of Trump for your party. She’s out. What place is she in like 18th?
bass4funk
Nothing about race.
Nothing and not a mention a out her color or religion
Ok, so nothing, but maybe insensitive comments. That’s why she could never sue him for racist slander, she wouldn’t even have a case. Lol
Blacklabel
Also see your liberal friends in the other thread about the drone. Military isn’t to be trusted either, according to liberals. So anyone with military service is out.
Serrano
Their physical safety and security was emerging as an issue.
Their anti-Americanism has hurt many Americans.
What a circus... led by a clown
4 clowns actually.
Ilhan Omar
Ayanna Pressley
Rashida Tlaib
AOC
The 4 idiots who will end the Democratic Party.
bass4funk
Where was she racially attacked? What was RACIST and where did her race as an African woman or Muslim come up?
Sh1mon M4sada
Seems to me like it doesn't matter what the situation is, you'll always spin it as a negative development.
To me, and note I'm no fan of Trump, Trump is walking back from what is obviously a very fluid situation. Yes, he made a mistake originally, but he is consciously walking back. Some credit is due for both Republican and Dems in condemning Trump's original racist rant, which has resulted in a public reversal by Trump. Isn't that worth noting?
If no credit is given, nobody would bother in the future and democratic debate would simply become 'dissers will always diss'.
Blacklabel
So how much longer are we going to have deflections about a party in 1992? Has nothing to do with anything.
Omar is saying the wrong things and has questions about marriage, immigration and tax fraud. Once Dems realize she is a risk, they will take her out themselves. Just like the liberal media pretended they never knew Avenatti.
Blacklabel
so when Omar gets prosecuted for tax, immigration, marriage or campaign finance fraud, I’m sure “fraud” will be “racist” too.
Blacklabel
He said nothing “racist”. That’s your liberal media feeding you that.
bass4funk
Come again?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kevin-mccarthy-fundraising-haul-breaks-record-among-house-republicans
That was in public, privately he couldn’t stand the guy and remember, he publicly sniped and attacked Trump publicly, so McCain spoke out of both sides of his mouth as well as being contradictory.
How? Tell all of us how they were racist? Where did he attack any of these women based on race, color or religion. I don’t care about opinions, where did he racially attack them, please be specific.
Tlaib smiled as well when she called the President a MF as well as Omar disparaging the President. So let me get this straight, if you are a woman and a minority, you can smile and take glee when your supporters back you in the condemnation of your opponent, but if you are White and a male, smirking equates to getting a needle in your arm now?
Who was bitter later because he couldn’t make the Presidency and was bested by an outsider, classic.
Who still made it to the Presidency and destroyed 16 career politicians and one of the most corrupt Secretary of State the country has seen to rise to the highest office in the land.
The Democrat is not the party of JFK and Jefferson anymore, they’re embracement of radical socialism is the very thing that will give this President 4 more years. Than you.....Democrats?
Blacklabel
This whole thing has an Avenatti feel to it. Liberals going all in to support someone who is involved in a lot of questionable actions and who says questionable things. Just because she hates Trump, liberals seem to be blind to the warning signs.
bass4funk
And then later in a statement he publicly said, he disavowed the chant. So now that he did that, what’s the problem? I understand if he would have said, I stand by the statement, but he didn’t, so good on him, now when will Omar apologize for vile comments about Jews and Israel? When will Rashida Tlaib apologize for using profanity to describe the President? When will AOC apologize plethora of idiotic comments she made? When will Ayanna Pressley apologize for calling the President the occupier of the White House?
Which the media took completely out of context....nothing surprising.
bass4funk
That goes for both sides, that a political survival and both parties do it. So you’re right on that, nothing wrong with it, if both sides wouldn’t do it, politics in the US and in most countries would be like some of these banana republics.
Same thing on the Dems side. For all the big mouth talk of AOC and the rest of her intelligent squad, in the end, they know where their bread is buttered and they know Pelosi runs the ship behind the scenes.
Doesn’t matter, politically, optically, it was a smart move, let Omar dig her own grave.
Dishonest? Disagree. I think the last President was the most sneakiest and dishonest.
bass4funk
Well, he distanced himself from the “send her back” smart, smart move, let Omar and her squad of crazies dig their own graves. The President needs to step back and let this woman do it herself. Omar is polling at a pathetic 9%, she’s doing a great making herself look radical and it’s showing.