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highplainsdem

(49,022 posts)
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 09:06 PM Feb 2018

Parkland Survivor Calls Out Melania Trump After Donald Trump Jr. Likes Conspiracy Tweets About Her B

Source: Teen Vogue

Parkland Survivor Calls Out Melania Trump After Donald Trump Jr. Likes Conspiracy Tweets About Her Brother

First Lady of the United States and self-described anti-cyberbullying advocate Melania Trump is being called out by a 14-year-old survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, after Donald Trump Jr. liked conspiracy tweets about her brother.

Lauren Hogg's brother, 17-year-old Stoneman Douglas senior David Hogg, has been the target of conspiracy theorists ever since he spoke out about gun control in the media. As Teen Vogue previously reported, the conspiracy theories in question accuse David of being a "crisis actor," receiving payment from anti-gun groups, and being coached to push an agenda by his dad, who's a former FBI agent. Earlier this week, Donald Trump Jr. liked two tweets perpetuating these unsubstantiated and false attacks against David, according to The Daily Beast.

Now, Lauren is saying Donald Trump Jr.'s Twitter likes directly led to the harassment of her family, and she wants Melania to do something about it. "Hey @FLOTUS you say that your mission as First Lady is to stop cyber bullying," she tweeted Friday morning, "Well then, don’t you think it would have been smart to have a convo with your step-son @DonaldJTrumpJr before he liked a post about a false conspiracy theory which in turn put a target on my back & created a safe space for people all over the world to call me and my family horrific things that constantly re-victimizes us and our community. I’m 14 I should never have had to deal with any of this and even though I thought it couldn’t get worse it has because of your family."

Previously, Lauren, who lost four friends in the attack on February 14, tweeted at President Donald Trump asking for him to do something about gun violence. "NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO BE TALKING TO FRIENDS ONE DAY AND SEE THEIR FACES ON THE TV THE NEXT," she wrote. "THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. THINGS MUST CHANGE IM FOURTEEN NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS. PLEASE JUST DO SOMETHING! WE DO NOT NEED COMFORT, WE NEED CHANGE.@realDonaldTrump"

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Read more: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/parkland-survivor-calls-out-melania-trump-after-donald-trump-jr



Brava, Lauren!
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Parkland Survivor Calls Out Melania Trump After Donald Trump Jr. Likes Conspiracy Tweets About Her B (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2018 OP
irony lost on the Trumps 😥 OhNo-Really Feb 2018 #1
K & R!!! 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2018 #2
You forget the Trump Doctrine... regnaD kciN Feb 2018 #3
K&R!! Hang tough Lauren!! Leghorn21 Feb 2018 #4
this 100% bluestarone Feb 2018 #5
+1,000,000 highplainsdem Feb 2018 #8
Every 14 year old girl in America needs to have NoMoreRepugs Feb 2018 #9
The face of a Deep State operative if I ever saw one! LiberalLovinLug Feb 2018 #23
these kids are amazing! renate Feb 2018 #6
Preet Bharara retweeted her: highplainsdem Feb 2018 #7
what did he say? orleans Feb 2018 #13
WE DO NOT NEED COMFORT, WE NEED CHANGE Leghorn21 Feb 2018 #10
Good one, Lauren.. melania is a brither Cha Feb 2018 #11
Can anyone tell me.... SergeStorms Feb 2018 #12
She wants to protect Barron from what happened to Chelsea, Malia and Sasha Fritz Walter Feb 2018 #14
And you can take it back as far as Amy too BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #16
Point taken. Thank you! Fritz Walter Feb 2018 #20
Yup. BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #21
these idiots heaven05 Feb 2018 #15
Sorry,too busy working on a DIVORCE from that POS "husband" of hers.............. Bengus81 Feb 2018 #17
Melania doesn't care a bit about cyberbullying. lark Feb 2018 #18
Calling out Melodrama on her absurdly claimed treestar Feb 2018 #19
KICK for Truth Angry Dragon Feb 2018 #22
Melania hasn't done one thing about cyberbullying NastyRiffraff Feb 2018 #24
Lauren rtracey Feb 2018 #25

regnaD kciN

(26,045 posts)
3. You forget the Trump Doctrine...
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 09:29 PM
Feb 2018

...that any high-minded statements of "principle" only apply when it benefits people they see as their "friends." If you're opposed to them...anything goes. Since their dominant worldview is "us against them," this is not hypocrisy. One rule for friends and another for enemies is perfectly consistent for the Trumps, just as it is for any authoritarian ruling family.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,451 posts)
9. Every 14 year old girl in America needs to have
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 10:34 PM
Feb 2018

her back... right now. These kids have a chance to shape their future. They own the frickin internet.... most young kids I know send thousands and thousands of msgs a month... just build a damn unstoppable wave across the country.

renate

(13,776 posts)
6. these kids are amazing!
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 09:40 PM
Feb 2018

I've really been surprised by how good they are at making smart and incisive points--it's like they were all on the debate team.

orleans

(34,071 posts)
13. what did he say?
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 03:52 AM
Feb 2018

i'm getting all the tweets that have nothing to do with this 14 yr old

never mind. found it on another post

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
10. WE DO NOT NEED COMFORT, WE NEED CHANGE
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 10:44 PM
Feb 2018

Right on, my darling girl

I hope this is a chant at the next student gathering

So inspiring - plus, these kids are STILL IN SHOCK, ffs!! It has only been NINE days since the massacre - OH.

Cha

(297,503 posts)
11. Good one, Lauren.. melania is a brither
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 02:51 AM
Feb 2018

and she's going to call out cyberbullying?

She's a damn bully.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
12. Can anyone tell me....
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 03:43 AM
Feb 2018

exactly what Malaria has done since shouldering her "cyber bullying" cause? I haven't heard one thing about it since then. There certainly hasn't been any change in that area. The bullies (at least the right-wing bullies) are as active as ever, perhaps even more so. Of course they do have their Russian-bot bullies chipping in all the time as well.

Malaria has been the most inactive First Lady in history. Of course that melds well with her husband's laziness at his job as well. Neither of them really wanted their jobs, but the Russians wanted them to have it!

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
14. She wants to protect Barron from what happened to Chelsea, Malia and Sasha
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 08:44 AM
Feb 2018

Anyone/everyone else? Not so much!

BumRushDaShow

(129,311 posts)
16. And you can take it back as far as Amy too
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:50 AM
Feb 2018

Amy, Chelsea, Malia, and Sasha.

They worked over Amy Carter horribly yet the Shrub twins were essentially "off limits".

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
15. these idiots
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:32 AM
Feb 2018

in the WH, giddy with their hold on real power to control the media output and their base of "deplorables" have really made the tragic and needless slaughter of ALL children and adults in massacres such as this into a political circus. Malaria, Don Jr. and the RW'S potus are truly despicable human beings, if they can be called such. These cretins without conscience inhabiting the WH and their deplorables, this week have shown me the true vicious underbelly of ameriKKKa .

Don't get me wrong all massacres say since Sandy Hook, with shooters young and old, have definitely drawn the diseased from their stupor of gross stupidity and total evil to blame the victims in one manner or other. For a survivor of this tragedy to receive death threats and like a Sandy Hook be subject to lies, bluster and deceit about whether this massacre happened or whether is was sponsored by THE LW Party is incomprehensible. That a 'leader' like Malaria to remain silent to this evil AS FLOTUS is an abomination.

I guess I just have to wish and truly hope the PTSD that these children and adults are experiencing and will experience FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES will be somewhat alleviated by real action against automatic weapons and large capacity ammo magazines being carried by those who want a civil war in this country.

America, the pox of extreme shame is upon us and the whole world is watching our evil viciousness toward our children.

lark

(23,138 posts)
18. Melania doesn't care a bit about cyberbullying.
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:21 AM
Feb 2018

If she did she wouldn't be part of the first family of lying bullies. She cares about nothing besides herself and $ based on what we've seen so far. She plagiarizes and lies all the time. She shouldn't even have the same title as others who have worn it well, Michelle Obama, Rosalyn carter, HRC, Eleanor Roosevelt - they set the standards and she's dragging the office through the mud.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
24. Melania hasn't done one thing about cyberbullying
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 05:17 PM
Feb 2018

Someone on her staff suggested she should have a signature cause like every other FLOTUS and probably told her cyberbullying was "a thing."

Looks like Lauren is as smart as her brother (who is plenty smart); I doubt if she's expecting an answer from Melania.

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
25. Lauren
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 07:21 PM
Feb 2018

At 14 you show more adulthood then most of congress, keep your active self going, and remember there are many of us out here supporting your causes. Just remember, when you are 18, keep these things in mind and do your civic duty and vote. Vote out the "servants" that are supposed to be there to help you. Vote in the ones that actually WILL help you.

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