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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRacist language from Trump this morning surpasses anything I've read from any president
...he's dragged our nation into a filthy gutter. I'm honestly taken aback by the blatantness and ease in which he slurs this private citizen, this black man.
Poor mans version of Don King: Trump continues his war of words with LaVar Ball
President Trump began the day before Thanksgiving on Twitter, calling out those who he claims have not, in fact, given him their proper thanks.
His target, again: LaVar Ball, who Trump had previously called very ungrateful for the presidents help in resolving a shoplifting charge in China for his son, LiAngelo, and two other University of California at Los Angeles basketball players.
It had been nearly two full days since Trump last mentioned the elder Ball by name and in the intervening hours, Ball had been on CNN, saying that he had nothing to be thankful for when it came to his son and his president.
Howd he help? If he helped, I would say thank you, Ball told CNN.
Trump wasnt having it, calling Ball an ungrateful fool and a poor mans version of Don King, the boxing promoter known for his spotlight-grabbing style...
read: https://t.co/gK5FUSZrzM
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True Dough
(17,305 posts)Sexual assault and sexual harassment. But not such a big deal when Dolt 45 and Roy Moore are accused of it by multiple women, apparently.
Oh, and how about collaborating with the Russians, not a "little thing" either.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)brush
(53,787 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)He beat a guy who owed him money to death with a pool cue
RandySF
(58,908 posts)ironman25
(26 posts)Trump and Trump followers are as Hillary Clinton pointed out deplorables. Since the blowhard idiot has taken charge the racist scum have boldly came out of the shadows. Where are the people who like me grew up in the late 60's and early 70's? It is time to take to the streets in masses and voice our displeasure in the fact a psycho stole the presidency with the help of lowlife haters who hang on his every lie. The religious right sit in their pews and say nothing about the most ungodly man to ever walk the earth. Like it or not most of the religious white people weren't comfortable with a black president. (I am a 64 year old white man by the way) For eight years many white americans looked for any reason to criticize President Obama who worked his way with intelligence and determination to make himself better and eventually the country. He tried to unite all people and all races while the likes of McConnell and company obstructed and lied about him to please their wealthy campaign contributors. This is the tip of the iceberg of the things that have been wrong in this country for the last 100 years and why I salute those who kneel for the anthem. They see wrong and have the courage to shine a bright light on it.
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)stop him, expose him.
I would love to hear suggestions, what are they NOT doing they can do?
I ask this sincerely because if I am missing something or they are, we need to know, and also maybe as an exercise to show just how little power you have when you let a party of criminals take over all branches of government.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)So why would being a Poor man's Don King be a bad thing to him????
Also, it's stall hard to figure out what the hell he means with the increase in characters.
bigtree
(85,998 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)Marcuse
(7,488 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)if not, look at that tiny fist being held up....it's ridiculously little.
BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)You, most orange of all orange people, might spend the rest of your life in prison.
Boomerproud
(7,955 posts)He is such a _______.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!
God, he is such a repulsive, narcissistic pig!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)Phil Ossified
(28 posts)You can count on that!
Yonnie3
(17,444 posts)the election, after the inauguration, after ...
Welcome to DU, Phil Ossified.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)with Duerte recently so who knows what bad traits he admired there and he already has so many of his own.
Racist rants are for his deplorables who love it
Oh yes and welcome I see this is your first post
pandr32
(11,588 posts)Phil Ossified
(28 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)lame54
(35,294 posts)Shoplifting bad
Pedophilia good
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)one ounce of magnanimity in him
cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)I wish I didnt live in a reality where saying that is necessary.
MFM008
(19,816 posts)If he was " appointed".
How many others felt this way election night?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)trump, you could have spent the next 25 to 50 years during Thanksgiving with your son Don Jr. and Eric, Jared, Ivanka, Sessions, Tillerson, Flynn, (the beat goes on, and on) in Gitmo, but no NRA, GOP to support you. But remember trump, grifting is NOT a little thing. Its a really big deal, especially in America. Ungrateful fool!
Plus: you'll be in good company since you'll also be going to Gitmo. You traitorous bunch of numbnutz!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I find this to be very scary.
dhill926
(16,346 posts)it's getting worse, perhaps as the pressure from the investigation mounts. Scary times ahead....
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)rely on Kelly to say some stupid shit.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)he's gone full-blown-racist. What a disgusting piece o' crap!!!
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)what a very nasty human being.
spanone
(135,844 posts)his racist ass is showing
elmac
(4,642 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)The Repigs deserve him.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)...in order to get what they want out of him.
Words fail me. We know what he is. But ask yourselves this: What is going on behind our backs while this is being shaken in front of our faces?
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)bigtree
(85,998 posts)...in this instance, he's deliberately conflated Ball with another black man, with no actual similarity other than their race.
I've been the target of this kind of association insult, presented as a joke, ostensibly meant as a slur. I can assure you, Trump is openly speaking the racist language of a pervasive class of bigots in our country today, for whatever reason. They recognize it, even if you do not.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Seriously this goes way too far. He and his administration need to be impeached ASAP starting with the appalling Jeff Sessions.
syringis
(5,101 posts)He has nothing better to do than starting the day with an obnoxious word salad fighting a football player ?
It is november, 22nd... JFK, Dallas 1963 ? President of the USA killed ? Does that ring a bell ?
It is Thanksgiving time, the time of being thankful and forgiving.
I have never imagined it was humanly possible to go down so low, to be such immoral, such profoundly amoral !
Vinca
(50,278 posts)after stomping one of his employees to death. That's the kind of person Trump admires.
bigtree
(85,998 posts)...is eager to embrace any self-loathing black individual, like King, as a wedge and an apologist figure for his own bigotry.
That's quite different from respecting King, or truly associating himself with him outside of his own self-aggrandizement. In this instance, he's using him against Ball in the true (negative) image he knows well King embodies.