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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 09:41 AM Jun 2018

Trump: 'We do a much better job' with children at the border than Obama

Source: The Hill

BY ALICIA COHN - 06/23/18 09:10 AM EDT

President Trump on Saturday defended his administration for treating migrant children detained at the border "much better" than former President Obama's administration, amid controversy over immigration policies that have separated thousands of children from their parents.




Trump also referred to the conservative aggregation site The Drudge Report, which has previously linked to reports and photos taken of detainment facilities during the Obama administration.

The headline did not appear on The Drudge Report on Saturday morning.

Trump this week ended a controversial practice that separated migrant children and detained them separately from their parents when families were caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The detainment facilities were harshly criticized by some as "internment camps" and prisons.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/393763-trump-we-do-a-much-better-job-with-children-at-the-border-than-obama
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Trump: 'We do a much better job' with children at the border than Obama (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
Can he say anything that isn't a total lie? sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #1
my question as well. MBS Jun 2018 #7
Technically not a lie? forgotmylogin Jun 2018 #31
NO. Fraud is a Fucking LIAR. the Truth Would Kill him Cha Jun 2018 #32
OK Dumpy, if that's true Ohiogal Jun 2018 #2
Trump is in denial about Trump Baby Jails bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #3
Every day I think I couldn't possibly hate him more Rorey Jun 2018 #4
Yeah. : ( MBS Jun 2018 #6
Every day I EXPECT to hate him more. Yavin4 Jun 2018 #13
My hatred of Trump is near the top of a sigmoid function. Dave Starsky Jun 2018 #18
+1 kimbutgar Jun 2018 #19
This! smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #20
That's crazy. I just learned about the Sigmoid function recently. Yavin4 Jun 2018 #28
They're all the rage these days. Dave Starsky Jun 2018 #29
Yes, I'm studying data science Yavin4 Jun 2018 #30
He's completely obsessed with Obama. As if the fate of his race is at stake. Snellius Jun 2018 #5
In almost every other country there is a defining leader of the opposition LiberalLovinLug Jun 2018 #24
Good point Snellius Jun 2018 #26
Yet another "what-aboutism" cyclonefence Jun 2018 #8
this racist potus POS heaven05 Jun 2018 #9
He calls President Obama out by name wishing to all hell that Barack Obama Submariner Jun 2018 #10
light years heaven05 Jun 2018 #11
So sexual predator how do you explain to your son.................this turbinetree Jun 2018 #12
God, he is just repulsive. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #21
He is such a child. treestar Jun 2018 #14
Put up some hard evidence, Putin-boy Blue Owl Jun 2018 #15
They always get to "what-aboutism" vlyons Jun 2018 #16
🤦 this f-ing guy irisblue Jun 2018 #17
ok dipshit....prove it.... dhill926 Jun 2018 #22
Psssst . . . orange idiot . . . you've got them in cages wrapped in foil. Vinca Jun 2018 #23
Fake news axm Jun 2018 #25
PSA: The Hill owned by a Trumpkin GOP billionaire. sharedvalues Jun 2018 #27

forgotmylogin

(7,531 posts)
31. Technically not a lie?
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 07:49 PM
Jun 2018

“'OBAMA KEPT THEM IN CAGES, WRAPPED THEM IN FOIL' We do a much better job”...{at keeping them in cages wrapped in foil}.

Ohiogal

(32,072 posts)
2. OK Dumpy, if that's true
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 09:44 AM
Jun 2018

Then tell us exactly where every kidnapped child is and reunite them all with their parents.

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
4. Every day I think I couldn't possibly hate him more
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 09:48 AM
Jun 2018

And then he says or does something even more despicable.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
18. My hatred of Trump is near the top of a sigmoid function.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 11:25 AM
Jun 2018

Which continually approaches, but doesn't quite reach, the absolute limit of hatred. So every day when he does something worse and worse, I hate him more than I did yesterday, but to a lesser additional extent than I did the day before.



Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
29. They're all the rage these days.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 04:09 PM
Jun 2018

They're used in predictive modeling, which everyone's got themselves into now.

I, myself, wondered how it seemed like I hate the guy more and more each day, with seemingly no end, no matter how outrageous his behavior. I then realized that the sigmoid function explains that perfectly.

Yavin4

(35,446 posts)
30. Yes, I'm studying data science
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 07:10 PM
Jun 2018

I am working on my capstone project for my machine learning class, and I wanted to do predicting non-voters for presidential elections, but I couldn't find a dataset robust enough. Sure, I can find age, sex, and race, but I need more variables to make the model more meaningful like income, geography, education level, etc.

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
5. He's completely obsessed with Obama. As if the fate of his race is at stake.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 09:52 AM
Jun 2018

All the way back to his birther mania. It's amazing how crazy he really is. And the worst kind of crazy. So schizo he thinks he's saner than sane.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,176 posts)
24. In almost every other country there is a defining leader of the opposition
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 03:32 PM
Jun 2018

Who is the defacto nominee for the next election.

One thing about the US system that is a weakness is that there is no one leader to go to inbetween elections, to take over the discussion, and define the direction of the party. You have no sustained opportunity for the public to get to know them, and because of that the incumbent President always has the upper hand in being re-elected. (Better the enemy you know....)

But the silver lining in this case is that the GOP and Trump have no one individual to smear and bad-mouth for years running up to 2020. Whomever that is, won't be subject to their conspiracy theories and Russian bots til after that is decided. So he attacks previous leaders instead like Hillary and Obama, which may keep the base in a perpetual state of anger but at least its not directed at our future candidate.

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
26. Good point
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 03:46 PM
Jun 2018

One suspects that O and some Dems are aware of this. The absence of an individual counter adversary is one of the reasons that T is flailing around trying to blame everyone else in sight. Even his own soldiers. But there's no one really there. He's in a war with no one to shot at but himself.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
8. Yet another "what-aboutism"
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 10:10 AM
Jun 2018

to which my response always is "So?" It's pointless to argue the facts with these people. If you must engage, grant them whatever point they think they're making and ask them to explain what that has to do with anything that's happening right now.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
9. this racist potus POS
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 10:10 AM
Jun 2018

has been blinded by his hate of an AA POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama, being a better man and human being than he could ever be. I really laugh in derision at his stupidity and ignorant, obvious racism. What a truly sick human actually installed as a potus.

Submariner

(12,509 posts)
10. He calls President Obama out by name wishing to all hell that Barack Obama
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 10:24 AM
Jun 2018

will break and respond with a tweet so he could engage him in an epoch tweet storm.

Trump would love just one tiny little baby tweet DIRECTLY from Barack's account so he could make a mountain out of a mole hill.

His only problem is that President Obama is smarter than him and won't take the bait.

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
12. So sexual predator how do you explain to your son.................this
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 10:27 AM
Jun 2018



it's that fucking simple....................in fact if I saw your kid. I would ask him if he saw the video of your father bragging about sexual assaulting woman , what do you think?

maybe sexual predator you should look in the mirror.................which you do everyday..............in your malignant psychopathic way........................


 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
21. God, he is just repulsive.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 11:50 AM
Jun 2018

What I wouldn't give to see him...forget it. I would get banned for life if I said it.

Vinca

(50,304 posts)
23. Psssst . . . orange idiot . . . you've got them in cages wrapped in foil.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 01:00 PM
Jun 2018

Jeez . . . there goes the blood pressure again.

 

axm

(91 posts)
25. Fake news
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 03:37 PM
Jun 2018

From a fake president*

Can't wait for this insufferable shitwhistle to be flushed down the toilet of history.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
27. PSA: The Hill owned by a Trumpkin GOP billionaire.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 03:47 PM
Jun 2018

We’d be better off if no one quoted the Hill. At least until Finkelstein sells it.

The Hill hired John Solomon, known right wing shill. Solomon immediately ginned up the Uranium One fake scandal - no one was more responsible for pushing that fake story into the mainstream than The Hill.


Also, the Hill regularly quotes Trump directly, helping him, without stating the truth. As is done in this headline.


We should all swear off The Hill.

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