As I was writing up yesterday’s story about Donald Trump not saying anything about the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes in America, he was actually saying something about the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes. Easy D took a walk through the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Tuesday, and after his walk, he answered some direct questions from MSNBC about the disturbing hate-crime trend, and then he gave a short speech at the museum where he referenced anti-Semitism again. I don’t know if Ivanka spiked his coffee with a sedative, but Easy D was definitely in a more reflective mood. He specifically referenced the threats against Jewish community centers and more – you can read about his statements here.
Of course, many people thought Easy D’s statements were too little and too f–king late. In his one month in office, it’s almost like the whole administration has been taken over by anti-Semitic white nationalists, right? And so the executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect issued a statement following Trump’s little speech.
“The President’s sudden acknowledgement of anti-Semitism is a Band-Aid on the cancer of Antisemitism that has infected his own Administration. His statement today is a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting Antisemitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record. Make no mistake: The Antisemitism coming out of this Administration is the worst we have ever seen from any Administration.”
“The White House repeatedly refused to mention Jews in its Holocaust remembrance, and had the audacity to take offense when the world pointed out the ramifications of Holocaust denial. And it was only yesterday, Presidents’ Day, that Jewish Community Centers across the nation received bomb threats, and the President said absolutely nothing. When President Trump responds to Antisemitism proactively and in real time, and without pleas and pressure, that’s when we’ll be able to say this President has turned a corner. This is not that moment.”
In a tweet, the center wrote: “.@POTUS @realDonaldTrump do not make us Jews settle for crumbs of condescension. What are you going to do about #Antsemitism in @WhiteHouse.”
ALL OF THIS. While someone maybe-probably spiked Trump’s coffee with something to get him calm, that doesn’t change the fact that throughout his campaign and throughout his first month in office, Trump has baited the anti-Semitic hate groups and worked them up to a frothy violence-prone lather. Anyway, when the director of the Anne Frank Center calls you out on your bullsh-t, maybe it’s time to take a moment and reflect. But no. White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about the director’s comments and this is what Spicey had to say:
“I think [Trump] has been very forceful with his denunciation of people who seek to attack people because of their hate, because — excuse me, because of their religion, because of their gender, because of the color of their skin. This is something that he is going to fight and make very, very clear that has no place in this administration. But I think it’s ironic that no matter how many times he talks about this that it’s never good enough. Today I think was an unbelievably forceful comment by the President as far as his denunciation of the actions that are currently targeted towards Jewish community centers. But I think that he has been very clear previous to this that he wants to be someone that brings this country together and not divide people, especially in those areas. So I saw that statement. I wish that they had praised the President for his leadership in this area. And I think that hopefully as time continues to go by they recognize his commitment to civil rights, to voting rights, to equality for all Americans.”
TL;DR version: Trump was forced into a corner and he said the words Jared Kushner made him say and you a–holes still aren’t happy! This is the worst thing to ever happen in Christian-Jewish relations! Jewish people should be PRAISING Easy D for acknowledging them at long f–king last!!
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Mr. Goldstein was NOT playing yesterday all over CNN. Hahaha loved it. Give it to them!!!
He shredded Kayleigh McEnany’s ridiculous argument that Trump can’t be anti-Semitic because he has a Jewish daughter. He (quite correctly) accused her of having no ethics.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is about six blocks from the White House. Trump really needs to visit so he can truly grasp the power of hate. He is playing a deadly game he does not fully understand.
“He is playing a deadly game he doesn’t fully understand” …
Well if that doesn’t sum up this whole debacle, I don’t know what does.
“He is playing a deadly game he does not fully understand.” More importantly he has no desire to understand or learn. At his core, baby fists lacks any shred of empathy. His sense of entitlement and privilege are astounding.
A visit to the Holocaust Museum will do nothing at all for him. First, he has no empathy. What does he care if millions were slaughtered? Look at his take on wounded or captured soldiers. That’s on them, I’m the best, they’re not. Second, he has chosen to work with known anti-semites and, third, he’s easily swayed, which means that he could be persuaded that the Holocaust was a positive thing. I just have such low hopes for him.
SNL will be even more epic than usual this weekend. Thanks Spicey, for all the material.
Billionaire white man as the victim, it’s just not good enough. Poor trump and his baby fists bruised ego. SAD!
SNL is not on this weekend and won’t be till next week. A long wait but should be worth it.
Nice Freudian slip, Spicy!
Yeah, wow, I hadn’t heard that till reading it just now. What an absolute tool.
As for Trump addressing anti-Semitism “proactively and in real time,” I can’t imagine him in a million years ever doing that. He’s had numerous chances in recent days. The guy. just. doesn’t. get. it.
Easy D knows almost nothing about anything, other than his own PR. Yesterday I saw a video contrasting his words about nuclear weapons vs Obama’s. Not surprisingly, Trump comes off like a third grader in comparison to Obama.
But the thing that depresses me the most, as I hear and read discussions about how the Democrats can learn and move on from Trump’s win, is that perhaps the only thing that might appeal to the base and to undecideds is to dumb down a little bit, so as not to be criticized for being too educated, i.e. elitist. I just can’t even believe it, that being educated is now considered a LIABILITY.
Right: “Democrats have to stop using them big words and acting all educated and stuff.”
GMAFB
If anything, I want my politicians to sound way, waaaaaay smarter than me. After all, they have a far greater responsibility to the country and far more influence on the country than I do. They should be BETTER, not equal or lesser than. Ugh.
Me x 1000! I really appreciated the thread about anti-intellectualism in one of the other Trump articles on CB a few days ago. I’ve noticed this especially since the George W. Bush presidency – the ‘I want a President that I could drink a beer with’ mentality. Education is a liberal conspiracy, universities brainwash our innocent children, etc. I haven’t figured out an effective counterargument, mostly because I’m still kind of in shock that I would need to defend the value of education.
Kitten, ITA, as you know. The Pod Save America guys were taking about this in their latest episode, about how Obama sounded “too professorial.” My friend and I were arguing the other night about this, too, she said in his last month of his Presidency she was trying to listen to Obama through the ears of a Trump supporter and she could see why they’d feel stupid and resentful when listening to him. I completely disagree. Yes, he sounds educated. But I think he also explains things well for laypeople and more importantly radiated patience and compassion and empathy. All great qualities in a leader, imo.
It’s just so cynical to me to imagine that anyone who tries to follow in Obama’s footsteps would have to somehow tone down any “obvious” signs of “too much” education. It’s just ludicrous to me.
Wow who knew that in the 21st century, higher education and being intellectually curious would be a bad thing? You know all these anti-intellectuals need to talk to impoverished children in the Global South, especially female children, whose main wish in life is to have the chance to get a higher education.
I grew up in a borderline poor household and I was always told that being an intellectually curious student and getting a solid higher education would be my way out of economic marginalization. In my experience, this has proven to be true.
I caught that too. “Attacking people because of their hate.” So what he’s really mad about is people standing up to fascists?! I hope Melissa McCarthy has a field day with this.
I thought you meant the other Freudian slip. I was watching Spicer on YT last night and he actually said this: “This is something that he is going to fight and make very, very clear that —> HE <—- has no place in this administration." You're damn right, Donald Trump has no place on this administration! I was hoping more people would have caught that.
A year ago, I’d be surprised at the correction of “their hate” in a statement about hate crimes, but this is becoming the new normal. Spicer knows what the Bigot Brigade is capable of, even against their own heroes (here’s looking at you Ben Shapiro) when their collective panties are in a twist. Trump and his Administration simply cannot afford to alienate these prima donnas.
STFU, Spicey.
…and, STFD. I am so sick of this little man’s face and the ignorance it spews.
I think Bannon is the one behind all these pathetic statements. It’s well known that he doesn’t like Jews.
Or blacks, or hispanics, or Islam or anything that is not WHITE, OR HOLIER THAN THOU.
Or women.
Or Asians. Bannon thinks too many of them work for and own “our” tech companies.
They won’t stop with the Muslims and Mexicans and Central Americans…they’ll find something about all of us to hate, for which to get rid of us.
Bannon’s ex-wife said he didn’t even want his children going to school with Jewish kids. He’s hard core antisemitic.
Trump is a mixed bag. He has a curious bias in favor of Jews because he thinks they are all good with money. He said he didn’t want black accountants, he wanted them to be Jewish (and the way he described them, apparently ultra Orthodox). When he and his father were denying apartments to black people, they were giving preference to Jews because they thought they made good tenants (I assume based on the money issue). One of these days he’s going to run into a Jewish person who can’t balance a checkbook and his little mind will be blown.
Anyway, he’s obviously just thinking in stereotypes. Plus my experience has been that -ism people often do make individual exceptions. So the fact that his grandchildren and their parents are Jewish means nothing.
My bet, though, is that Bannon is the source of his reluctance to immediately denounce the bomb threats and desecration of a graveyard. Bannon probably has spun some theory about why that makes sense, along with why it made sense to not even mention Jews when remembering the Holocaust. Yes, Hitler kept adding to his list of undesirables and many other people also died as a result. That needs to be remembered, too. But his first and foremost obsession was with Jews, as a horrible extension of the long history of antisemitism.
Trump has no natural empathy and so he wouldn’t have any impulses of his own to denounce such violence and intimidation. He especially doesn’t like to admit that his supporters may be the culprits, that he has been encouraging hatred and violence and he can’t just aim the result at Muslims – his radicalized supporters have other hatreds in their repertoire. Ivanka and her husband must have convinced him he had to say something and told him what to say. It’s better than nothing, but Trump still doesn’t understand why he has to do it. He is probably baffled about why people are being so mean to him about this.
Every morning I brace myself. His perpetual lying is SO damaging. Politico wrote a really great article about its affects and implications. Please read it if you get the chance – it’s such a critical topic: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658
Anyone else hear about Oklahoma?
http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/02/21/a-new-oklahoma-legislature-gives-men-more-power/
As one commenter in the article stated, the OK legislators are a lot like the Taliban. I seriously hope this bill is strongly challenged in the courts.
OMG that link. HOSTS? Are you kidding me?
I am so sick of the “irresponsible” slur being thrown around. Are people not aware that BC sometimes fails?
Christ, that is just chilling on a whole new level.
So we really are back in the 19th century, then? This mentality is about a half-step from ‘women shouldn’t exercise or read too much because it would addle their delicate little minds’.
SMDH…this is so f*cking abhorrent.
This is just horrific. So as a woman I’m just a host and I know that I will be a host aka will get pregnant when I enter a relationship? Am I allowed to live if I don’t want kids?
God almighty, this is depressing – terrifying – beyond belief. Stunned.
It only got voted out of committee. It will likely not pass the full house. Crazy anti-abortion bills get introduced in state houses all the time. Most don’t get much press attention because they are too crazy to pass or are guaranteed a veto by the governor.
State legislatures always seem to have a handful of kooks. They make noise, blow hot air, but that’s about it. Save your outrage for people who have real power.
I literally cannot believe what I just read! WTF??? It truly has come to mirroring the movie “The Handmaiden’s Tale” This is truly chilling!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) is a work of speculative fiction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, the dystopian novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency.
This is why we march
Some good news re Planned Parenthood from Texas. Excellent decision and summary by the judge.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39050528
Read Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” written during the Reagan era about women as “hosts”. Chilling.
His lies are so damaging.
I thought this article was soooooo well written. It’s written by a Pulitzer Prize winning friend of Daniel Perlman, and from top to bottom, his points are so strong.
“Let me add a fourth point here: our tendency to rationalize.
One of the more fascinating aspects of last year’s presidential campaign was the rise of a class of pundits I call the “TrumpXplainers.” For instance, Trump would give a speech or offer an answer in a debate that amounted to little more than a word jumble.
But rather than quote Trump, or point out that what he had said was grammatically and logically nonsensical, the TrumpXplainers would tell us what he had allegedly meant to say. They became our political semioticians, ascribing pattern and meaning to the rune-stones of Trump’s mind.”
…
“Overall, the process is one in which explanation becomes rationalization, which in turn becomes justification. Trump says X. What he really means is Y. And while you might not like it, he’s giving voice to the angers and anxieties of Z. Who, by the way, you’re not allowed to question or criticize, because anxiety and anger are their own justifications these days.”
http://time.com/4675860/donald-trump-fake-news-attacks/
So why was Steve Bannon made a part of his administration? Where was his disgust at racist groups and high profile individuals using his election win as a call to make “America white again”(their words)? What about the discrimination lawsuits regarding black renters ?
Not saying a person can not change, but I have to side eye his reasons for this speech
The look on Ivanka’s face in that still – “Say it. You better say it. SAY IT!”
It was probably after she got a call from one of her children’s JCC schools.
The prospect of finding a new school is probably what did her in…no need to look for a higher purpose or understanding.
And note that he made the statement at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Because as far as he’s concerned, we all look alike, right?
And then the WH proceeded to tweet that they were at an AA museum for Arts. So they didn’t even get the place right because again we all look alike *sigh*
No, making the statement there was a PR stunt. We’re supposed to see how much he cares about diversity and the needs of all Americans, not just rich white people.
His subdued manner may have been genuine. The exhibit that traces the African American experience from the beginning of slavery to the election of Obama is incredibly powerful and moving. Even someone as soul-less as Trump isn’t immune to its emotional impact.
Genuine? I appreciate your compassion but I think you give Trump WAY too much credit. I tend to agree with Kaiser that the only plausible thing responsible for his subdued manner is pharmaceutical in nature.
I haven’t been to the African American museum, as it’s been a while since I’ve been to D.C. I did go to the holocaust museum some time back and I was shaking like a leaf by the time i left, and could barely speak for the rest of the day. And I’m someone who has studied European jewish history and holocaust survivor narratives in depth in college, but even knowing what I knew going in I was shook to the core.
But I bet trump walks through and just thinks “fake news, fake news…” and none of it gets into his soul. If he has one.
In order to be moved by something, you have to have empathy, compassion or you know, a heart.
If he actually had a genuine feeling(doubtful), don’t worry, it wore off pretty fast. Didn’t he have to walk around he museum? I think he was just winded and worn out. He’s overweight, flabby, unhealthy. He could drop at any time.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
No, he can definitely not be moved by this museum or any museum for that matter.
I thought the tone in which trump talked about anti semitism was about as dynamic and animated as someone talking about what sandwich they had for lunch. In marked contrast to his animation about, say, Ivanka’s clothing line. Very unconvincing I felt. Shouldn’t one be just a teeny bit annoyed about anti semitic attacks?
If you get to D.C. please make an effort to visit the African History Museum. It opened in September 2016 and just passed its 1,000,000 visitor. It’s a beautiful museum and so educating. I was truly upset that Trump defiled the place with his visit cause it was obviously just a photo op and he learned nothing.
Totally agree. I went there a week after it opened and it is incredible. The museum will make you laugh, cry, think, and be inspired.
I didn’t understand his tweet about it.
Who are the amazing people? the people who organized the tour?
He is so unclear, I know he does it intentionally but it’s driving me bats.
@original Sadly, I think he may have been referring to the people profiled in the exhibit. He clearly has no idea of the depth and breadth of American American history and culture. Just like his pal Freddie Douglas, he thinks Medgar Evers and Ralph Abernathy are doing a bang up job.
Oh he’s going to make very, very clear that hate based on skin color has no place in this administration, Sean? Is that what he’s going to do? Is that before or after he deports and bans all the brown people?
Take a shot every time Melissa McCarthy’s stunt double says “very, very clear” during a briefing. See how fast you get drunk.
Antisemitism is a cancer on humanity. Tr*mp thinks having Jewish friends and family will hide the fact that his entire house of cards is full of white nationalist gangsters who celebrate hate and plot genocide.
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
~Anne Frank, May 7, 1944
Trump thinks he isn’t anti-Semitic because he believes Jews make the best lawyers and accountants.
Exactly. He stereotypes people ALL THE TIME, especially jewish people.
All the -isms are so wrong and stupid, but antisemitism is the most bizarre to me. The sheer intensity and endurance of it just baffles me.
It’s very complicated. I said somewhere above, I studied European Jewish history in college.
I think, if I can offer a small insight, that having a group of people who are “other”, or different from the normal folk (and by that I just mean Europeans), yet who can look like the normal folk and whom the normal folk rely upon (because Jews were the only ones allowed to lend money, Christians were banned from doing so in medieval Europe, so Jews became essential in a monetary society), just gives a very easy target in times of trouble.
Plague hits? The Jews poisoned the wells. Invasion? The Jews plotted with the invaders. Economic problems? The Jews pull all the strings with money… etc.
I believe it got even worse when Jews came out of their own sections of towns, and in some areas such as France and Germany they integrated into the larger population. So there was paranoia about them. You can always see that a black person is black, you can’t always tell if someone is Jewish.
Sorry, I could go on and on.
@Patricia
Thanks for the quick historical explanation of anti-Semitisim. As a Black person it was always clear to me how much we stand out in non-Black societies and so can easily be discriminated against. However I never understood the strong hatred for Jews in non-Jewish societies especially since they can blend in. So the blending in actually scares anti-semites?
Your explanation makes so much sense now, thank you. Your explanation can also be *partially* applied to the American South during slavery when the 1-drop rule was implemented for fear of White appearing mixed raced people blending in to White society or inheriting property. Or a White man accidentially marrying a mixed race woman-the horror!
Jews have been the most persecuted religious group in history and it’s not all down to Israeli statehood and being the traditional medevial money lenders. A few years ago I watched an interesting documentary on the Abrahamic religions of which Judiaism was the first, with Christianity and Islam being later off shoots. There is historical evidence that suggests the conflict between all 3 date back to the times when they were founded and by the people that founded them.
It’s a bit like sibling rivalry with Christianity being the annoying younger brother trying to insert himself into the bickering of his 2 older brothers, Judaism and Islam. I think Christianity is the ‘youngest’ of the 3.
The Jews were first. Abraham was the “father” and his descendants were to be as numerous as the stars in the sky. Unfortunately, his wife Sarah couldn’t conceive. To push along the prophecy, she got her husband to sleep with her servant Hagar who birthed Ishmael. Later Sarah did get pregnant with Isaac. This caused some familial friction, as you can imagine.
Ultimately, Jesus descends from David, who descends from Isaac. He wanted to reform the Jewish religion (think Martin Luther) and is responsible for Christianity. Medieval Christians blamed the Jews for executing Christ. In moments of anti-Semitism, they’d whip crowds into a frenzy by calling for justice against the “Christ-Killers”.
About 700 years later, Mohammed, a descendant of Ishmael, chatted with an angel in a cave and came out with the religion of Islam. This is an oversimplified, children’s story version of the situation. Hope it helps.
@Greymatters – thanks that was helpful. I know it had something familial to it.
“A History of God” book by Karen Armstrong explains the development of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). I think there’s a youtube video documentary about it as well.
Just to clarify Unicorn, Islam is the youngest of the three Abrahmic religions, not Christianity.
@littlestat – Thanks for clarifying. I couldn’t quite remember the order in which they came. Started researching and then got distracted with emails.
As a nun once told me, “the Jews killed Jesus” (actually it was the Romans). No reference to the fact that Jesus lived and died as a Jew (if you believe he was a historical figure). I do think that there is also an element in anti semitism concerned that “they” are not always easily identifiable and can blend in, rather than being easy to “track”. I think anti semitism is at least as strong as the bigotry expressed towards other groups, though generally the same people hate more or less everyone. It’s a blot on humanity.
Trump as usual is late to the party when it comes to behaving with decency. I was totally loving Mr. Goldstein and how he boldly made his points in the face of so-called president Trump’s explainers and apologists. There is this weird cultist fawning for Trump that is disgraceful and disgusting. He would have none of it. I want to see more of Mr. Goldstein.
It’s like we have to be grateful that after weeks he talked about antisemetism!
The actions of your cabinet speaks a lot louder than your hollow words!
But did you see the so-called christians destroyed a Jewish cementary and a Muslim group raised the funds to fix it? You know those evil terrorists that are trying to destroy the Us and all.
The real terrorists are clearly a bunch of rich white men
And they did so in less than one day
I saw that too and some of the Twitter responses to a post about it almost made me tear my hair out — stuff like “why are Muslims butting into this, they need to stay in their lane, etc.” I thought I’d reached my lowest point of despairing for humanity but each day brings a new low.
I agree Esmom everyday is a new low for humanity
This is what I’ve been saying about social media: I was better off not knowing about these people.
These people are absolutely soulless.
I swear that they’re dead inside.
On the bright side, he looks worse and worse each day.
Keep chowing down that KFC, Twitler!
Right? He looks old, tired, unwell.
at least three full rounds off golf on the weekend when you’re 70 years old and your arteries are stuffed with the most “tremendous” taco bowls from the Trump Tower restaurant and KFC chicken on Air Force One will do that to you.
Whenever I read a statement now from Spicer, I just picture melissa Mccarthy saying it. Lol.
When is he going to comment on the threats made against mosques in his name?
Never.
Spicey, babyfists’ life depends on being divisive and pitting people against each other. And you know this first hand, so stop lying. You look so stupid. And desperate.
I just got blocked on FB by a former boss who loves tRump through and through. He forwarded some Breitbart post so I called him out that Breitbart is ok, but the other MSM are the only liars, did I get that right? I only found out bc I went back to say to him that it’s ok if we disagree, the world will not stop spinning. Nope. Blocked. Snowflake.
Ridiculous when people like that can’t handle someone not having the same opinion. Sad to see politics dividing the country like this.
It is impossible to reason with these people. They are not seeing the lies, or the danger that this administration is really putting this country in. They’re too busy frothing at the mouth wearing their rose-colored glasses. I just need to scroll past the pro-Trump comments for my own sanity.
well, I am blocking a lot these days. People I thought were kind, compassionate, considerate are slowly showing themselves to be not those things at all.
I’m not making exceptions any longer- if someone posts pro trump, out they go. I have zero tolerance for it.
So while your former boss is a moron for supporting trump, I am doing the same only in reverse.
Right, I haven’t blocked all my Trump-supporting friends & family but that’s because most of them aren’t posting about Trump 24/7 on social media, saying how awesome he is.
(they’re “low key” Trumpsters)
That being said, I’m sure I’ve been blocked by a shit ton of people for my anti-Trump political posts. Don’t care.
We have to acknowledge the very real fact that Trump wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for his legion of Kool-Aid drinking supporters who continue to enable and perpetuate his lies. At what point do we admit that they are as big of a problem for this country as Trump is? I have said again and again that Trump will continue to lie as long as he sees that it is working for him.
With their continued support, these people are allowing it to happen, they are allowing Trump to destroy everything.
@Kitten, haven’t blocked all mine either for the same reason. But if someone blocked me because of my anti-Trump stance, too bad, so sad for them.
I don’t have too many super vocal Trump friends on FB but I’ve not only blocked them, I’ve unfriended them. I just can’t anymore with their weird combination of smugness, defensiveness and flat out fawning (as is the case with one friend who reposts Ivanka stuff). And lately, I’ve stayed off FB completely. Along with the political stuff driving me crazy I somehow don’t have the stomach for people who can go on happily posting selfies and recipes and workout goals and vacation pics while Trump dismantles this country as we know it.
I’ve only blocked one person: Bernie Bro extraordinaire who is married to a friend of mine. He was posting sh*t about HILLARY being behind the Russian hacking/phone calls! I refuse to let his stupidity invade my brain.
I’m keeping a few of my Trump supporting FB friends because i want to laugh at them when things go wrong for them thanks to him.
Come sit next to me Neelyo, I’ll get a bottle of wine and we’ll get through this together 😀
LOL!!
Yet in his mind, YOU’RE the snowflake. The cognitive dissonance of these people is unreal.
1. Rick Santorum was blaming Muslims for these anti-Semitic attacks. So yeah, the Trump WH cares about Jewish people. Enough to use their suffering to try to further their anti-Muslim agenda. Deplorable tactics.
2. “unbelievably forceful”? Really, Spicey? That statement by DT was anything but.
3. If DT cares so much about this, why hasn’t he addressed it on Twitter? Oh, that’s right. Twitter is just for yelling “fake news” and insulting people. Not for messages if unity.
He started by blaming Obama, saying anti-semitism started under his watch. Just like Obama was responsible for increased racism! The following news must make him sad.
——-
Muslim Americans unite to raise funds for vandalized Jewish Cemetery
A fundraiser for a vandalized Jewish cemetery is sending a strong message of unity and tolerance. The effort organized by Muslim American activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi was launched this week to fund the repairs of nearly 200 headstones that were damaged and toppled in the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in the St. Louis suburb of University City in Missouri.
The fundraiser exceeded its goal of $20,000 so fast, it has expanded into an effort to support Jewish community centers that have been targets of anti-Semitism.
https://apple.news/AkUNG6iuMReOeA5CSpUWLeA
@Original T.C.
YES, orange one does not like it when other people demonstrate extraordinary kindness or solidarity. Messes with his idea of a world that must be divided between us and them.
And his speech denying that he is anti-semitic was so clumsy and insincere that I don’t believe he’s capable of comprehending any acts of generosity toward another human being that don’t something in it for himself.
Indiana, yes to everything you said. Trump is just empty. He’s truly pathetic.
Sigh.
I just found out that a family member of mine had their headstone toppled in STL. I seriously worry about the young children in my family who are Jewish. My fear for them is making me ill.
@Tiffany, I am so, so sorry to hear that. I remember how much time, effort and money we spent picking out my grandpa’s headstone and deciding the wording, etc. It is incredibly meaningful to me.
I truly believe there is a special place reserved in hell for people who would do such a thing.
So now not only is Anne Frank no longer off limits as political fodder, but apparently we’ve also lost respect for the dead.
This is all so unreal. I can’t believe this is what our country has deteriorated into.
I don’t think Twitler twitlered much, if at all, about the murders in Montreal, once it became clear it was a right wing neo facist type perpetrator.
And of course DT couldn’t go a day without insulting the “so called angry crowds” who’ve been protesting the GOP. Apparently they are “planned by liberal activists” and “sad.”
I can’t believe this is our country now.
Even if they were “liberal” activists as opposed to conservative activists so what!! It’s a free country, isn’t it? So-called president Trump is a Putin style authoritarian.
Unfortunately a clueless, immature monster was made president. This is happening because everything is messed up and getting worse everyday. So scary to see America like this
Someone needs to read the Constitution he swore to uphold. Members of Congress must listen to and represent ALL constituents, not just the ones registered to their own party.
Protesters are now showing their drivers licenses and other state-issued IDs when they appear at town halls
I know right? my husband I had a good laugh over that tweet.
Are those the same “liberal activists” who are at Republicans’ town halls and shouting them down for putting party over country? Wow, they sure can get organized fast! 😉
Paid protesters apparently. How can I get on that gravy train? Do I need to make my own placards or do they supply them? Sounds a good gig.
I hope the world doesn’t attribute Emperor Zero’s “qualities” to the American people.
Btw Sean SS Spicer, the museum is more than just about Ben Carson.
Local police where I live state they will not be assisting in rounding up immigrants. But I can’t help but be alarmed that detention centers will be used to house immigrants who are awaiting legal challenges. Sounds a lot like early concentration camps (KZ).
Eric, as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I take exception with that comparison. IF anyone is put into a detention center, it will not be ANYTHING like a concentration camp. There, people were starved, beaten, tortured, forced into hard labor, and gassed to death. Frankly, it’s is beyond abhorrent to make that comparison. Next time, think before you speak/type.
Peace ☮
If you read Eric’s comment, they wrote “like early concentration camps”.
“Early” is a the key word here. It is my understanding that they didn’t start out as they ended. They originally were “detention centers”.
4 weeks in and they’re already looking f*cking decrepit. Kellyanne’s face is melting, Orangina’s girth and skin suggest some seriously problematic dietary choices and god knows what’s up with Bannon’s mug. It’s like his hate is eating its way out of his body.
Also, that Spicer statement is ridiculous. “I think”? Nobody’s asking for your opinion.
Spicey’s looking a decade older in just a month, too.
I am just had with United States of America….. Don’t get me wrong I love America but you have broke my heart. This is a month and all Donald Trump has done is nothing but making it all about himself. And it make no sense at all for anyone to have a some clarity to realize that Donald Trump does not care about anyone but himself and his billionaire friends he puts in his administration and they too don’t care about anyone.
I am so sorry to say this but America is going straight down into the pits because Trump supporters voted for an idiot named Donald Trump as POTUS.
Trump voters are myopic, selfish and short-sighted. I’m through wasting energy on them. I think the focus really has to be on those who didn’t vote and ensuring they get off their asses and vote in upcoming local, state and federal elections. I truly believe there are more of us than them, it’s just they choose to vote and we sit on our asses and complain.
America broke my heart too. I still can’t get over how a selfish, arrogant, sexist bully catering to the worst in us won, disregarding all the groups Trump insulted and continues to insult along the way. I feel as if America was stealthfully raped by Russia and the Trump supporters went along for the ride as part of the gang because they are a lot like Trump. Really I feel Trump is an assault to decency. The more I see the more outraged I feel. It’s like watching a crook get away with robbery or a date rapist get away with his sleazy assault. It’s as if we are being forced to believe right is wrong and wrong is right. It’s as if there is a coup going on from within the WH now and people are blind to it.
When I think of Trump voters still supporting him it’s upsetting. I read Trumpgrets (@trumpbigregrets). When I read the tweets made by these people, it makes me feel pretty smart for seeng through Trumps BS. These people are pissed at him and say how awful he is. Too bad they can’t take back their votes like they wish they could
As an American, my heart is broken too.
I just am flabbergasted at the audacity of this orange monster… Not only has he ripped our country apart, our constitutioin, other countries, but he attacks on the daily. He complained about the town hall meetings my town had one, and no one was paid, yet he had an ad out for his Melbourne ego rub meeting and he dares to laugh and mock the protestors or people who show up and take time off their job to talk to the Republicans I see it for what it is now him and 99% of the Republicans are entitled, narcissistic, prejudicial butt munches who think we should applause and praise them for a job not well done at all. Keep showing up at town hall meetings keep standing up to this orange joke of a person. He spits on all of us like we are his lesser beings for doing what people have fought for this country to have a vote for Republicans who allow him in the office is a vote for none of us having health coverage, disabilithy coverage, rights as a free country, and to have a moving target on your back from other countries he pisses off while he kisses the behind of Puttycakes his darling boyfriend. Rome fell don’t be surprised if he is continued to be coddled and stay in power if we don’t fall. I am just disgusted in these idiots.
Maxine Waters preach!! 🙌🏼
Hope link works:
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/834214993717399552
Unbelievable. Anti-Semitism is still a thing in 2017. I am so disappointed in humanity right now.
…and it isn’t much better in some parts of Europe and South America, but nobody dares to talk about that.
I’m not a tiny-fists supporter, I’m just an angry Jew. angry and worrying about the future.
“Trump was forced into a corner and said words Jared Kushner made him say…”
Absolutely this!! Only when backed into a corner does he finally relent and come out in support or opposition of something. It’s so disengenuous and obvious. Worst! President! EVER!! And we’re only one month in (and yet it feels like it’s been so much longer)! Gah! Make it stop!
Did anyone else notice that when he was reading that statement he used his finger to follow the words on the paper, like a 6-year old?
I visited Anne Frank’s House last week and it was a sobering experience given the context we find ourselves in. This family was targeted and brutually brought to an end because of their religion and ethnicity. President Trump is doing the same with Muslims but has the nerve to speak about the Jewish community without condemning the attacks being perpetuated against them. If he has little empathy for everyone “other” then perhaps he should remember his grandchildren are Jewish. His daughter is now Jewish. An attack on their community is an attack on them. However I doubt he even sees them as “other”. He will never stand up for diversity, respect and tolerance.
I remember going to a Holocaust centre in my hometown for a school excursion when I was 15. I didn’t pay much attention to anything in school but I sure as hell paid attention to that. Some of the things I learned there knocked me straight on my ass. I still haven’t forgotten it.
I don’t think baby fists is going to learn anything at his age.
Can’t believe it’s only been a month of the Orange Abomination and his white supremacist administration.
Please keep a sharp eye and tongue on the collusionists with Russia. I filled out a questionnaire from Kamala which had standard issues to rate on importance to me.
In the section allowed for “any other thoughts,” I railed against the WH administration’s cozying up to Russia.
Their names are Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Michael Cohen, Felix Sater, Michael Flynn and probably an ever-widening ring in the Admin.
Please contact your rep and declare that they investigate this particular issue immediately. And also inform them that, no, you don’t want AG Sessions to be leading (or otherwise involved in) the investigation.
He only said something at the last minute, because he was getting pressure from everyone, even Hillary tweeted about it. Any decent person would of condemned any kind of violence on anybody, would of said this straightaway, but not him, because he really doesn’t care about the important t hings, he only care about himself and what the media is saying about him, he has no empathy for anyone but himself.
Right. The fact that it didn’t even occur to him to condemn this — even when asked directly about it, more than once! — speaks volumes about his complete and utter lack of character.
Truly, the four year olds I teach have more empathy and awareness of injustice.
I really think that Ivanka is getting a lot of blow back from either her family’s synagogue or her kids’ school, so maybe her and/or Jared had a quiet soothing word with the Mango Mussolini while massaging his shoulders and feeding him KFC.
The best comment came from JK. Rowling on twitter. Just in case the link won’t work, she tweeted: I wish the International Olympic Committee would praise me for winning gold in the four-man bobsleigh.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/834146799250194437
I found an orange at the bottom of my (optimistically high-piled) fruit bowl recently which looked a bit jaded but still solidly orange on the upper surface, but revealed, upon closer inspection, a terrible pulpy, malodorous, blue-grey mould in its ‘undercarriage’.
I imagine a naked trump would reveal something very similar.
Bahahahahahahaha. Eeeewwwwwwwwww.
Very vivid mental image there …..
LMFAO!! So gross but brilliant.
Is anyone else completely exhausted?
Each day brings a brand new shitshow and I honestly don’t know how much longer I can take it. I want to remain informed, but it is literally painful to do so.
My expectations for this administration were so low, yet somehow they have all made things far worse than I ever could have imagined.
It takes a special kind of awful asshole to provoke the ANNE FRANK Center, for the love of god.
When will this madness end?!!
@Lorelai – I recommend, for your sanity and good mental health, that you do, like I do, and focus, not on him but, if on him, only to poke fun at and satirise his ignorant orange stupidity.
Put your time and energy into the positive and limit your focus only on the media and the people that are exposing him, every day, for the grim, clueless, needy, delusional shit-show that he is.
It will make you feel so much better and so much more in control.
Who could of imagined a few years ago that the sleaziest reality tv show in 2017 would be “Easy D in the White House”….so sad, so true
That Hatemonger wasn’t going to say anything until he got pressured and his competitive streak kicked in. He could not remain silent while everyone else balked at this antisemitism. That being said, it is not Trump that is the surprise to me here really. The surprise is the sheer number of people I’m seeing who are now outraged that racist and demeaning things are said against other people. It’s almost like some people think this whole notion of racism is somehow only now becoming a social problem. It’s not new, and it shouldn’t be ignored or downplayed in the least. There are groups of racial and ethnic groups who’ve have been dealing with this foolishness for ages — regardless of the person in the president’s office — and the craziness continues to mount during BLACK HISTORY MONTH, which is STILL GOING ON, may I point out. That this man could not only manage to offend black people but now our Jewish cosmic brothers and sisters says more about much work we still need to to do than it does the well-documented cluelessness of the Orange Menace.
We are the people and he works for us. Those of us who hate what he stands for need to continue to organize and work to address the mess he keeps creating. I love the response from the Anne Frank Center. It was appropriate and eloquent and made the point perfectly.
Fear not. Trump is just another stage of our nonlinear revolution.
I see more dead people. Putin cleanup continues?
“The head of the consular department at Russia’s embassy in Greece has been found dead in his flat in Athens, police say. Initial signs suggested Andrey Malanin, 55, died of natural causes, but police said they were investigating the death.”