Trump and the Democrats respond to Tlaib’s obscenities
An interesting retort from Trump:
“I thought her comments were disgraceful,” Trump said during a White House news conference about the ongoing government shutdown. “This is a person that I don’t know, I assume she’s new. I think she dishonored herself and I think she dishonored her family. Using language like that in front of her son and whoever else was there, I thought that was a great dishonor to her and to her family.”
Trump continued, saying he thought her comments were “highly disrespectful to the United States of America.”
I covered Tlaib’s remarks yesterday here.
Trump’s response is especially fascinating for at least three reasons. The first is that he took the high road, refraining from any response in kind. The second is that he emphasized the concept of dishonor, which would play especially meaningfully in an honor/shame culture such as the one Tlaib’s parents came from (Palestine). The third is that instead of saying that the remarks were disrespectful to Trump himself, he said they were disrespectful to the country, thus taking it out of the realm of possible narcissism and into the more basic arena of respect for the country.
The Democrats’ responses to Tlaib were almost comical in their attempts to thread the needle and blame the whole thing on Trump. That is, it all would be comical if the situation the country’s in weren’t so serious. Here are some of their reactions:
Ms Pelosi on Thursday said while she would not use such language, it was no worse than things Mr Trump has said…
Civil rights icon John Lewis said Ms Tlaib’s comments were “inappropriate” and “distracting”. The Georgia congressman also said talk of impeachment was “a little premature”.
Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri said: “What she said yesterday was wrong. Wrong is wrong.”
Jerry Nadler of New York told CNN: “I don’t really like that kind of language, but more to the point it is too early to talk about [impeachment] intelligently.”
Tepid gruel. At any rate, it’s all about impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. I’m not sure they’ll do that, however, rather than just talk incessantly about it.
Of two things I’m virtually sure, though. The first is that Pelosi is constantly monitoring how an impeachment would play politically, and she will act accordingly. And the second is that if she tells Democrats to vote for it, they will vote for it.
At least Cleaver called it “wrong.” Trump’s response was pitch-perfect. And no, Ms. Pelosi, it was, in fact, worse than some of Trump’s childish campaign insults. Which opponent did Trump accuse of having sexual intercourse with his mother? These vulgarities are becoming so common that people forget what the words actually mean.
Hats off to brother Cleaver: “What she said yesterday was wrong. Wrong is wrong.”
It is beyond time to recognize, and act upon, the fact that the Democrats are the true obscene vulgarians. Let us stop, on this site and elsewhere, complaining about Trump as if he were the only one at fault. His worst words pale into insignificance compared to all this Dem Motherfu*ker verbiage.
Me too, me too — Feinstein is lying. There are no public speeches where Trump is obscene about his opponents that I know of — and I’m certain if there were, we’d hear it.
Yes, like most alpha-jerk males he curses and says vulgar things in private, in personal conversations.
Maybe even these obscenities, tho I don’t know. But it’s the Dems who are on gov’t sanctioned TV saying it, without getting fired. Often without getting fired.
Any Rep would be crucified by the Dem press.
AOC just announced she’s has “her sister’s back” with regard to Tlaib’s statement. Birds of a feather….
And . . . the airhead just has to join in. We need to start planning their defeat ASAP.
This is a very weird post.
The original complaint was that Dems are hypocritical. But all the quoted responses are in fact critical of of the congresswoman, with Rep Cleaver’s being strong and unequivocal.
That leaves us with only one hypocritical response. Donald Trump’s.
Manju is unglued.
“…talk incessantly about it…”
I suspect that this is also the whole point of the Mueller “investigation”.
Just keep that fabrication of collusion on the front burner. Keep playing that endless loop of Trump’s illegitimacy again and again and again.
Simple. You don’t have to DO anything but let those hallucinatory and toxic fumes—that poisonous innuendo—do their filthy, destructive work. (Destructive, it should be said, of the entire country.)
Keeping in mind that none of it HAS to be true.
And the Democrats and the MSM will do the rest. With gusto! Brio! Panache! And all the hysteria and righteous indignation that they can muster.
It’s called a War of Attrition.
(And if enough of the electorate is swayed by this pollution, and if illegals manage to vote—at least one time—well then, the rest is in the bag.)
Chuck & Nancy’s new theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGYE77y4qY4
I AM TOTALLY GLUED DOWN!!!
The closest I’ve seen is Trump referring to “Adam Schitt” in a tweet, which had me rolling my eyes, but that’s still not in the same timezone as what Tlaib said.
People can criticize Trump for his coarse public discourse, but they cannot criticize him for starting it. His election was in large part a result of the Republicans failing to respond to coarse public discourse.