Is Bannon among the geniuses? Or is he insane?
The DOJ admits they are not official tweets, directly contradicting their prior statements.
As are all comments from the commentators on this forum.
Some things are undeniably satire, not all.
It is concerning that you admit the President of the United States is making disparaging gestures and making fun of people, yet you do not seem to be concerned about this behavior.
I think it is very likely, given his track record of bullying, that he has made fun of people for disability, race, and his perception of their lack of intelligence throughout his life. But you are right, I am not aware of any other instance of him mocking a disabled person caught on video.
It did not seem to me that you understood the difference between a “roast” and “mocking”. I apologize if I overshot.
You seemed to defend Trump’s mocking behavior by putting it in the context of a “roast”. Mocking is a form of hostility toward others. I am glad that you are not defending this behavior, but your response here would seem to indicate that you agree that such behavior does reflect an evil mentality.
I admit that I have been really lost by not finding anything to replace my beloved “view first unread post” button on the top of the thread. If you or anyone else can direct me how to find that, it would help a lot. I know I am missing chunks of the conversation, but the only way I have found to go back to them is the little arrow in the reply.
The fact is he has a habit of doing that gesture, before the reporter was mocked. Those people he mocked with the exact same gesture didn’t have disability. The fact that the reporter had a disability that resembled Trump’s gesture is pure coincidence.
Walk the walk, don’t just talk the talk, your attacks on me defending mocking and agreeing with evil behavior don’t undermine my arguments about Trump.
Simple solution, read the whole post. No way around it, you may actually learn something while you are at it.
When Trump won the primary, I was disappointed that the GOP base would favor him over a good man and solid Republican like Kasich. Strike #1 for selling their souls to Satan.Luke6_37:
Catholics are never done being charitable, talk about selling your soul, the devil loves it when you stop being charitable.
One of the ways to be a successful con man is to appear generous,and deflect what you are taking by giving with the other hand. How does it cost him anything to give away that he has fraudulantly taken from others?
You seem to be suffering from the same misapprehension Trump has that Puerto Rico is not part of the United States.
Perhaps, but only because living here has benefitted himself. He has been able to attain and maintain the lifestyle he prefers. As far as the principles upon which our country is founded, I am not sure he has ever studied them.
I thought putting Steve Bannon on the National Security was an especially “brilliant” move. NOT!
It would seem much more difficult to make a case for culpable deniability once a person has bragged that they know it all.
I think you may not be well acquainted with the rules of evidence. Using a persons’ social media expressions in no way makes the expressions “official”. These expressions of Trump are different because of his official office as president. It is one thing for him to blast stuff as a private citizen, but he seems to have made no shift in his attitude since taking office. He blasts out his personal opinions and musings, now considered official white house policies, in a disinhibited manner.
How about “my button is bigger than your button”? This was clearly aimed at Kim Jong Un. Trump would not have a button if he were not POTUS, so he is speaking in his official capacity as
Some of us do, but I fear Trump does not. But even if he does, when you occupy an office such as President, it changes what you are able to put into social media. I have been a civil servant most of my career, and have seen dozens of employees lose their jobs over what they posted in social media that had nothing to do with their role at work or their job duties. They can be fired for making racist comments, or any other “opinions” that their employer does not find complimentary to their department or agency. They can be fired for complaining about their job or work environment. If you think a person employed in government has the same freedoms in social media as non-govt. persons you are mistaken!
Oh I agree! i don’t see most of his Tweets, but great many of them seem to reflect the mentality of a pre-adolescent person with impaired relational skills. Clearly these types of Tweets are not intended to represent official policy. What is concerning, in addition to how rapidly he reverses himself, is that he does not seem to know the difference.
So his office makes his every word official? Are you sure you want to argue this? You may not be acquainted with what can be taken as official and what not, especially considering the DOJ statement against such supposed “official” tweets, countering their initial claim.
Metaphorically speaking, as it is, I think it isn’t too inaccurate, though not the best way to come across. We have a much larger stockpile and working nuclear arsenal, so the reality he was pointing to by his rather juvenile and ridiculous statement is there.
The President doesn’t have an employer, he does have voters though, and vote against him if your conscience leads. Otherwise, nothing he said is illegal on the twitter accounts, just in bad taste or inappropriate. If there were something against the twitter policy, it could just be taken down.
Your outrage is noted, but actually King David was worse in certain respects, because he used his political power to kill his general and sleep with his wife. Trump didn’t kill anyone and sleep with anyone of his staff’s wives in office.
David may have committed a more serious act, but expressed deep remorse and begged for forgiveness. Trump has specifically spoken against asking for God’s forgiveness. What is the greatest sin here?
I think it would be better stated i the opposite. His office makes every “social” expression easy to mistake for official.
Well, respectully, I am not the one with whom there should be any concern. It is the people with an axe to grind against the US, and can see that we have a childish and unstable President authoring the Tweets.
And this is the bottom line, really. Now that he has gone from private to public citizen, it would behoove him (and beneifit the rest of the population on the planet) if he were to find a way to come across more productively.
I am sure that many people close to him have tried to get him to tone down the Tweets. If I, as a small town citizen, think his expressions make the US look bad, imagine how the veterans in Congress feel? I can’t imagine life long members of the GOP can be very proud of their current party leader!
Let us pray, and fast, and suffer the punishmetn imposed upon our nation by a God who abhors abortion.
Which sin do you suggest Trump repent of?
The lack of compunction, feeling that need not ask for God’s forgiveness.