Current Events > trump: "neo nazi protesters were simply defending their heritage"

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-white-nationalists.html
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He's going to shit that foot out if he shoves it any deeper down his throat.
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God Trump is so bad, this is just next level bad. This is flat out embarassing.

I cant imagine any decent and semi-intelligent person, left or right, thinking this guy is a good president.

Annnnd Trump has now passed Dubya by over a hundred meters in the "Dumbest President of All Time" footrace -___-
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a trumpanzee will defend this within the next 10 posts
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Trump never said that though...
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Yep, Republicans are done with him. Wouldn't be surprised to hear the I-word getting thrown around throughout Congress in the next few days.
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doesn't he have handlers? isn't someone supposed to tell him to shut the fuck up now?
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Is it just a staffer saying he said that? No actual quote?
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Trump never said that though...

Not seeing this in the article either. Fake news?
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I think Seth Meyers said a few nights ago: In a presidency defined by low moments, this has been by far the lowest.

Even on my FB I'm seeing the usual trumpanzees saying we can't tolerate nazis. And then of course they'll share some ridiculous anti-Obama meme but at least they are capable of criticizing dear leader on this one issue.
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Trump will go down in history as one of the all time worst president of the United States
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

*heavy breathing*

It shouldn't be a real quote....

But it is.

It's literally not a real quote

emblem boy posted...

Is it just a staffer saying he said that? No actual quote?

A staffer and he didn't even say what was quoted.

Trump's line has been that there were conservative protesters just trying to hold onto history and the media ignored them to pretend they were all nazis.

Which is a dumb line, but you give it validity when you lie and pretend he said something else.

Attack the reality. Don't create lies, that's how you lose.
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most everything he says to his aides ends up being true anyway. so yeah i believe it and lets be honest it is something he would say
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Jagr_68 posted...

Annnnd Trump has now passed Dubya by over a hundred meters in the "Dumbest President of All Time" footrace -___-

At least GWB's dimness was kind of endearing. This is flat out embarrassing. >_>
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AlisLandale posted...

Jagr_68 posted...

Annnnd Trump has now passed Dubya by over a hundred meters in the "Dumbest President of All Time" footrace -___-

At least GWB's dimness was kind of endearing. This is flat out embarrassing. >_>

Disagree.

GWB's "When I first laid eyes on Putin and saw that he was wearing his Grandmother's golden crucifix I could tell he was a kind and decent man." takes the cake.

Trump has said nothing that tops that.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

AlisLandale posted...

Jagr_68 posted...

Annnnd Trump has now passed Dubya by over a hundred meters in the "Dumbest President of All Time" footrace -___-

At least GWB's dimness was kind of endearing. This is flat out embarrassing. >_>

Disagree.

GWB's "When I first laid eyes on Putin and saw that he was wearing his Grandmother's golden crucifix I could tell he was a kind and decent man." takes the cake.

Trump has said nothing that tops that.

Trump has said much much worse than that. Thanks for making it obvious that none of us should take you seriously.

DanHarenChamp posted...

Trump has said much much worse than that.

Okay give us an example of w-


And he was never seen again
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Okay give us an example of w-

That time he told a crowd a racist myth about General Pershing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-lambers/trump-got-the-pershing-st_b_9307508.html

The whole McCain fiasco
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317

Every time he implied Obama wasn't born in this country
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Bush's Putin quote is worse.

He literally believed because a man was overtly Christian that means he is a good person.

That's both stupider and more dangerous than getting a myth wrong or praising soldiers
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Holy crap, so much jerking in this thread over a quote he literally did not say. You guys are fucking pathetic.

UnfairRepresent posted...

GWB's "When I first laid eyes on Putin and saw that he was wearing his Grandmother's golden crucifix I could tell he was a kind and decent man." takes the cake.

Not finding this anywhere. Not saying it doesn't exist, but allI see is something on Reddit about "I knew right away, when I saw that crucifix around his neck, Putin was a man I could work with" and even then the link it's going to has no mention of that quote.
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Trump has irreversibly fucked this up. It was a perfect opportunity to indisputably distance himself from the alt-right pricks and isolate them as their own, impotent cause and even if he was waiting to make a statement for all the facts to come in, there was at the very least enough available for him to issue stern and general condemnation of the alt-right and supremacists and release more specifics as more info came in.

And even if there were antifa there solely to start and escalate violence, the nazis having killed someone makes them the sole party to condemn. They may not be solely responsible, but they are absolutely the only ones who should be condemned the same god damn week of the event.

I don't think it is malice on his part, rather I think it is stupidity and severe lack of leadership and speaking skills. I also think it is childish stubbornness to not want to immediate do what he thinks the media wants him to do and what the vast, vast majority of the country wants him to do. That is not a quality we should tolerate in a leader.

I don't think Trump is as bad as the media constantly portrays him and I don't see his "both sides" or "fine people" comments as supporting the neo-nazis, no matter how stupid, untimely, and unnecessary the comments were.

My thoughts on this pretty much mirror Ben Shapiro's, who released a 40 or so minute segment on this and gave a very objective and bipartisan perspective on this. Even if there was violence coming from both sides, which there was, there is a time and place to bring it up, and within days of the disgusting tragedy was absolutely not it.

NathanX95 posted...

Holy crap, so much jerking in this thread over a quote he literally did not say. You guys are fucking pathetic.

Uh, I'm jerking to something completely unrelated
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NathanX95 posted...

Holy crap, so much jerking in this thread over a quote he literally did not say. You guys are fucking pathetic.

They learn how to change what he said from CNN (biggest joke ever), NBC (literally owned by Comcast), ABC (literally owned by Disney), CBS (owns this biased website), and all of the fake news media giants.
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DanHarenChamp posted...

God Trump is so bad, this is just next level bad. This is flat out embarassing.

I cant imagine any decent and semi-intelligent person, left or right, thinking this guy is a good president.

Exactly

Mal and caution are sad

NathanX95 posted...

Holy crap, so much jerking in this thread over a quote he literally did not say. You guys are fucking pathetic.

NathanX95 posted...

Holy crap, so much jerking in this thread over a quote he literally did not say. You guys are fucking pathetic.

Not even the first one. There's been several since at least yesterday where people have just been inserting Nazi or neo-Nazi at the beginning of an actual quote, then basically just hoping nobody actually reads the article they post.
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apocalyptic_4 posted...

Trump will go down in history as one of the all time worst president of the United States

YOU ELECTED HIM, MAN.

*Washes hands with lye.*
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But his unifying tone, which his staff characterized as more traditionally presidential, quickly gave way to a more familiar Trump approach. No sooner had he delivered the Monday statement than he began railing privately to his staff about the news media. He fumed to aides about how unfairly he was being treated, and expressed sympathy with nonviolent protesters who he said were defending their “heritage,” according to a West Wing official.

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Antifar posted...

He fumed to aides about how unfairly he was being treated, and expressed sympathy with nonviolent protesters who he said were defending their “heritage,” according to a West Wing official.

Which doesn't mean he was talking about neo nazis. He could have been talking about the people who showed up to protest the removal of civil war statues. The fact that the only word in quotes is "heritage" means they're leaving out a ton of the context of what he said, and that kind of reporting pisses me off. They need to either give us the full quote in context, or fuck off.

For all of Trump's flaws, his "fake news" rhetoric isn't exactly false.
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That_Happened posted...

He could have been talking about the people who showed up to protest the removal of civil war statues.

These are those people
https://twitter.com/TheAnonJournal/status/896203496952868864
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHAe_8VV0AAERvE.jpg
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UnfairRepresent posted...

AlisLandale posted...

Jagr_68 posted...

Annnnd Trump has now passed Dubya by over a hundred meters in the "Dumbest President of All Time" footrace -___-

At least GWB's dimness was kind of endearing. This is flat out embarrassing. >_>

Disagree.

GWB's "When I first laid eyes on Putin and saw that he was wearing his Grandmother's golden crucifix I could tell he was a kind and decent man." takes the cake.

Trump has said nothing that tops that.

Shut up. Criticizing the "alt left" for baiting the alt right is several times over worse.
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He'll probably just yell out "fake news" "I never said such a thing" "total lies" like he did with those phone calls and then the transcripts were later released proving the exact same rumors. In the same sentence he'll say that it's a crime that there was a leak but also claim it's totally fake.

He's so incompetent that he can't keep his staff from leaking to the press.
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The fine people of this country put a Nazi sympathizer in the Oval Office
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Kim Kusanagi posted...

Shut up. Criticizing the "alt left" for baiting the alt right is several times over worse.

I don't agree at all
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Kim Kusanagi posted...

Shut up. Criticizing the "alt left" for baiting the alt right is several times over worse.

I don't agree at all

That's your opinion. Stop pretending Dubya was worse when he genuinely wasn't.
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Dubya starts a war under false pretenses gets thousands killed.

Kim Kusanagi: "Eh no big deal. Don't care."

Trump hurts his feelings

Kim Kusanagi: "IMPEACHMENT!!!!"
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This guy was a CEO, how does he not understand how PR works?!?!?!?
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Caution999 posted...

Dubya starts a war under false pretenses gets thousands killed.

Kim Kusanagi: "Eh no big deal. Don't care."

Assumption of yours. I always opposed Dubya, and while his war was immoral and he'll go downstairs when his time comes for it, Dubya never risked nuclear global war outside and promoted white supremacism inside.
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He never said that.

This topic: "Boo hoo"
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Only in your warped mind is Trump promoting white supremacy. He condemns that behavior.

That's all.
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Caution999 posted...

He condemns that behavior.

Like this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-alt-left-fact-check.html

“What about the ‘alt-left’ that came charging at, as you say, the ‘alt-right’?” he asked. “Let me ask you this: What about the fact they came charging — that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do.”

Literally blaming the pedestrians and the "alt left" whatever that might be.
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If you make up your own quote and then attribute it to another person, you are making a dishonest claim.

The New York Times is basing its article on information from an unnamed West Wing official. Maybe it's true, or maybe not.
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Solid Sonic posted...

apocalyptic_4 posted...

Trump will go down in history as one of the all time worst president of the United States

YOU ELECTED HIM, MAN.

*Washes hands with lye.*

I'm Canadian ha
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

If you make up your own quote and then attribute it to another person, you are making a dishonest claim.

The New York Times is basing its article on information from an unnamed West Wing official. Maybe it's true, or maybe not.

It is obviously true. What does this "unnamed WW official" gain by making BS up?
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Kim Kusanagi posted...

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

If you make up your own quote and then attribute it to another person, you are making a dishonest claim.

The New York Times is basing its article on information from an unnamed West Wing official. Maybe it's true, or maybe not.

It is obviously true. What does this "unnamed WW official" gain by making BS up?

This is bad logic
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Kim Kusanagi posted...

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

If you make up your own quote and then attribute it to another person, you are making a dishonest claim.

The New York Times is basing its article on information from an unnamed West Wing official. Maybe it's true, or maybe not.

It is obviously true. What does this "unnamed WW official" gain by making BS up?

This is bad logic

Yea but I want to read his answer.
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apocalyptic_4 posted...

Trump will go down in history as one of the all time worst president of the United States

At least he will go down as a president.

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