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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 08:22 PM Jan 2020

New Trump: "we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn't work that way"



Jonathan Lemire ✔ @JonLemire

Trump to reporters on AF1 contradicts Pompeo on Iran:

“They’re allowed to kill our people? They’re allowed to torture and maim our people, they’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people? And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn’t work that way”


7:20 PM - Jan 5, 2020


He's back to threatening war crimes again!!
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New Trump: "we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn't work that way" (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 OP
I loathe this man. northoftheborder Jan 2020 #1
He is a tiring fuck! bluestarone Jan 2020 #3
We'll have to hold a second impeachment. n/t Crunchy Frog Jan 2020 #2
there is loop hole for certain heads of state. Republicans grow a spine . now Kurt V. Jan 2020 #4
There we have it C_U_L8R Jan 2020 #5
So if somehow an Iranian sleeper cell manages to blow up the Washington Monument The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #6
Or one of his hotels. Volaris Jan 2020 #8
I wouldn't exactly call a Trump hotel a cultural site, but I see your point... The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #9
He would (hes an idiot, but that's beside the point). Volaris Jan 2020 #12
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2020 #11
An hour later under Trump, Iran would cease to exist. dewsgirl Jan 2020 #10
This might get him a few points with his base. lpbk2713 Jan 2020 #7
+1, They never did, Trump did worse that rMoney in 2012. What won him the 5 states HRC was up in uponit7771 Jan 2020 #13
I think I'm gonna puke. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2020 #14
worse human on earth. hands down. spanone Jan 2020 #15
Dotard Dump who won by a mere 80,000 votes is the one who will go down in flames. nt UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #16
trump doesn't give a shit about anyone's culture IcyPeas Jan 2020 #17
Not even ours. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #22
When the hell did Iran choie Jan 2020 #18
Whoever thought we'd long for the days of George Bush? Poiuyt Jan 2020 #19
another article of impeachment should be drafted Takket Jan 2020 #20
Even hell is hesitant to open up and swallow him. liberalmuse Jan 2020 #21
Trump follows Taliban in destroying World Cultural Treasures delisen Jan 2020 #23
When we were in Italy in October phylny Jan 2020 #24

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)
6. So if somehow an Iranian sleeper cell manages to blow up the Washington Monument
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 08:33 PM
Jan 2020

or Mount Rushmore or Lincoln Center, they'd also claim it was OK because "it works that way"?

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
12. He would (hes an idiot, but that's beside the point).
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 08:47 PM
Jan 2020

I very much hope iran is smart enough to realize that this is about TRUMP, and NOT the govt hes trying to run in order to keep himself out of prison.

If I were the leadership in Iran, I would go to the UN, and ask that he be declared a war criminal.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
10. An hour later under Trump, Iran would cease to exist.
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 08:44 PM
Jan 2020

A DUer this morning brought up this point, I found it bone chilling.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
13. +1, They never did, Trump did worse that rMoney in 2012. What won him the 5 states HRC was up in
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 08:48 PM
Jan 2020

... polls was the over performance of Russian backed 3rd parties in those states.

HRC didn't just as good as Obama in those states too,

dang it ... I think its a politico article but they broke it down that too many of the M$M is paying attention to Trumps base but his base didn't win him the election.

Found it, it was a VOX article here

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/18/16305486/what-really-happened-in-2016

Stein nearly tripled her support to 1.06 percent and Johnson more than tripled it to 3.27 percent. Evan McMullin, who basically only ran in Utah, got a larger share of the vote in 2016 than Stein had gotten in 2012.

And the third-party vote made a big difference in the aggregate. Trump carried Arizona, Utah, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin with less than 50 percent of the vote. Clinton did the same in Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado.


Exit polls indicate that a majority of voters were persuaded by Clinton’s arguments that Trump was unqualified and temperamentally unsuited for the presidency, but a decent swathe of voters who agreed with her about that voted third party rather than for Trump’s opponent — ultimately denying Clinton the victory.

IcyPeas

(21,893 posts)
17. trump doesn't give a shit about anyone's culture
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 09:18 PM
Jan 2020

he doesn't understand culture. or history for that matter.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)
22. Not even ours.
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 11:19 PM
Jan 2020
The construction of Trump Tower may have been Donald Trump’s greatest achievement, but it was a disaster for the city’s artistic legacy.

To build his skyscraper, Trump first had to knock down the Bonwit Teller building, a luxurious limestone building erected in 1929. The face of the building featured two huge Art Deco friezes that the Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted to preserve. The museum asked Trump to save the sculptures and donate them, and the mogul agreed—as long as the cost of doing so wasn’t too high.

But then, according to journalist Harry Hurt III in his book Lost Tycoon, Trump discovered that taking out the sculptures would delay demolition by two weeks. He wasn’t willing to wait. “On his orders, the demolition workers cut up the grillwork with acetylene torches,” Hurt wrote. “Then they jackhammered the friezes, dislodged them with crowbars, and pushed the remains inside the building, where they fell to the floor and shattered in a million pieces.”

The art world was shocked. “Architectural sculpture of this quality is rare and would have made definite sense in our collections,” Ashton Hawkins, the vice president and secretary of the Met’s board of trustees, told the New York Times. Robert Miller, a gallery owner who had agreed to assess the friezes, told the paper that “the reliefs are as important as the sculptures on the Rockefeller building. They’ll never be made again.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/trump-files-when-donald-destroyed-priceless-art-build-trump-tower/

Pig. Philistine. Vandal.

choie

(4,111 posts)
18. When the hell did Iran
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 10:46 PM
Jan 2020

“Torture and main our people?” unless he’s talking about what happened 40 years ago?

Takket

(21,577 posts)
20. another article of impeachment should be drafted
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 10:53 PM
Jan 2020

He is openly threatening to commit war crimes. This is worthy of impeachment. No witnesses or testimony is needed for this one since he has done it openly and publicly. Nadler/Pelosi should start drafting the article tomorrow.

liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
21. Even hell is hesitant to open up and swallow him.
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 10:58 PM
Jan 2020

He is vile. And guess what? He is the face of America the world sees. He needs to be removed from office before he drags us so far down the shitter that there will be no coming back.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
23. Trump follows Taliban in destroying World Cultural Treasures
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:19 AM
Jan 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/10/afghan.buddhas/index.html

Remember the destruction of the incredible Buddhas in Afghanistan

Trump is our lawless bigoted destroyer.


phylny

(8,380 posts)
24. When we were in Italy in October
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:34 AM
Jan 2020

I learned that probably the only good thing Mussolini did was ask the allied forces not to bomb the Vatican or the Colosseum and Forum and those sites remained unharmed. Now another Fascist doesn’t give a shit.

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