Posted on 07/19/2019 3:26:33 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump rarely admits a mistake, much less an overstatement, so well take the regret he expressed Thursday at the chant of send her back during his Wednesday rally as the moral equivalent of an apology. Lets hope his supporters get the message, and that Mr. Trump stops egging them on.
The crowd in North Carolina broke into chants of send her back after Mr. Trump lambasted Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for hating America. Mr. Trump had used the words go back in a tweet earlier in the week, and the crowds chant shows how easily an ill-thought presidential comment can inspire ugly expressions of mass psychology.
The best that can be said is that the chant echoed the 2016 calls of lock her up regarding Hillary Clinton, and it may have begun in that raucous partisan spirit. But Wednesdays chant was meaner in targeting Ms. Omar not merely for what she has said but as a naturalized citizen who should be banished from the U.S. The impulse is raw nativism.
Mr. Trump isnt the first President to indulge in such group-targeted demagoguery. FDR railed in his 1932 campaign against the Ishmaels and the Insulls, whose hand is against every mans. That was an anti-Semitic jibe against disgraced Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull, and the press corps at the time cheered Roosevelt on.
This time the chant was widely denounced, and not merely by the anti-Trump chorus. Mark Walker, a North Carolina Republican who was at the rally, tweeted afterward: Though it was brief, I struggled with the send her back chant tonight referencing Rep. Omar. Her history, words & actions reveal her great disdain for both America & Israel. That should be our focus and not phrasing thats painful to our friends in the minority communities.
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As usual, the lies begin in the headline: Trump took heat from Melania and Ivanka over racist chants at rally Washington Controversial to some, just dumb like any chant is to others, but definitely not racist.
One would think when she smelled something burning she might come to that realization.
Ever notice that the smell of burnt toast takes all the oxygen out of the air?
Were you expecting perfection?
He’s prez, not God. :-)
Its always the side that never does the ugly attacks the left does. We have never done a Maxine and we don’t riot.. but we have to “tune it down “
...from what..
Better chant: “SHE CAN LEAVE!”
How do you know he backed down? Have you seen a quote from Trump? If so where? What is the credibility of the source?
FWIW, I think this is more about his rallies than it is about Trump.
If our enemies can take away Trump’s rallies, discourage people from attending, being enthusiastic, having fun, that would be the next best thing to getting Trump. Those rallies are a heck of advantage for Trump.
Which means that folks have to blow this off, have to keep lining up in mile long lines to attend the rallies, and having one heckuva great time when they get there.
Damn the torpedoes, folks! To hell with what our enemies think!
It is an ugly sediment but Islam is ugly . This toxic religion should never be imported. It’s been at war with the rest of the for 17 centuries therefore any cooperation is aiding and abbetting an enemy of mankind.
Omar is a vile, repugnant woman. Are we allowed to agree on this?
If she committed immigration fraud, it bloody well is SEND HER BACK.
Meanwhile, we’ve got years of antisemitic and pro ISIS rhetoric from the left.
MAGA isn’t about Trump it is about us!!! If we deplorables want to chant at a rally “send her back” we can and should! Screw Trump on this. He rides the tiger. We are the tiger. He better hold on tight.
Victims? LOL. Wrong again ace.
New chant: She Can Leave, (wait a beat) Her Brother! See what I did there.
The problem with liberals is that they love to misuse words.
Confusing race with national origin, for example. Or confusing revulsion to socialists and terrorist appeasers with racism.
They do it on purpose because if they stuck with real definitions they’d never get to deploy the race card.
The chant at worst could be interpreted as xenophobia, but even then only if it were applied by people who felt that way about all foreigners, rather than just this one person.
But if she were Norwegian or German the libs would not have been able to pull the race card even though the chant would be the same.
You bet. But put her in jail for immigration fraud for a year or five and THEN send her back. A miserable America hating and American hating condensed bundle of hypocrisy, arrogance and Islamic radicalism shouldn't be in the USA let alone in Kongress.
I noticed that the local radio station had a "news" item this morning "reporting" the cheers she received when she returned to little Mogadishu - her district of imported Somali parasites in Michigan
Yep
Figure it out, ace.
There is nothing ‘wrong’ for PDJT to possibly say his crowd may have gotten a little ‘out of hand’ and he didn’t approve of the statement but understood the situation.
THEN AGAIN, that makes him a typical Pol, pandering to the audience and managing double speak.
Much like when the sitting Congresswoman called the President a MF’er, the very least that Pelosi & Shumer could have done was ‘apologize’ (since they are ‘in charge) and we all would have known how empty the apology is/was but at least it was ‘recognized’.
I am not sure but I don’t REALLY recall the leadership asking for ‘calm’ after Scalise was shot AND if they did, I probably would have ‘ignored’ it because it was Pols running at the mouth.
OR he could have turned REAL LIE/POLITICIAN(I repeat myself) and said the chant meant send her back to her home district......
(Works for the LIBs - at least they think it does)
I don’t care it Trump doesn’t like the chant “send her home”.( It think he likes it a lot actually) Chant loudly my fellow patriots! Let him pretend to not like it. Who cares. MAGA is about us and not him!
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