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spanone

(135,844 posts)
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:03 PM Jan 2018

Trump spends MLK Jr. Day golfing

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump appears poised to ignore his own calls for Americans to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with "acts of civic work and community service."

Trump is not scheduled to partake in any service projects on the federal holiday he and every other US president have designated as a "day of service" since 1994. Instead, he arrived Monday morning at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The only event on the public schedule released daily by the White House is the flight that will take him back to Washington in the afternoon.

Trump's noticeably blank public schedule Monday comes as he continued to beat back accusations of racism for referring to countries in Africa as "shithole countries" and rejecting immigration from the African continent and Haiti in favor of immigrants from Norway during a meeting with lawmakers. His reported comments were confirmed by both a Republican senator and Democratic senator present, but Trump has denied making the disparaging remarks.

Trump rejected the criticism on Sunday night, telling reporters that he is the "least racist person you have ever interviewed."


http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/politics/mlk-jr-day-donald-trump-schedule/index.html
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Ohiogal

(32,005 posts)
3. Past presidents
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:13 PM
Jan 2018

spent the day honoring MLK with community service or visits to memorials.

Donnie Dumpster spend it golfing.

What an incredible embarrassment this ugly a-hole is to the American people.

spanone

(135,844 posts)
5. trump is silently saluting his base by ignoring MLK day
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:24 PM
Jan 2018

bet david duke is again impressed by don trump

John Fante

(3,479 posts)
4. I'd much rather Gump spend the day golfing than running around
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:17 PM
Jan 2018

pretending to care about MLK or human beings in general. I don't even want to think about that grotesque POS today, much less listen to him giving half-assed speeches (writen by neo-nazi Miller) honoring MLK.

malaise

(269,038 posts)
6. Didn't he tell America to get back to work after the holidays
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:25 PM
Jan 2018

and then head back to the golf course?

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
7. As usual the narcissisist is saying "F**k you people" .
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:27 PM
Jan 2018



"I'm looking out for Number One. What I want to do comes first."

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