Democratic congressman calls Trump 'grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue'
Source: CNN
By Caroline Kelly, CNN
Updated 10:18 PM ET, Mon January 21, 2019
(CNN) - The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus called President Donald Trump "the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event Monday. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, compared Trump to a leader of the Ku Klux Klan during an event hosted by the National Action Network in New York.
"These are challenging times in the United States of America -- we have a hater in the White House, a birther in chief, the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Jeffries said. "One of the things that we've learned is that while Jim Crow may be dead, he still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well."
Several other New York Democrats -- including Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Mayor Bill de Blasio -- also spoke at the event.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Read more: https://us.cnn.com/2019/01/21/politics/hakeem-jeffries-grand-wizard-trump/index.html
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Endorsed by Klansmen and neo-Nazis everywhere
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Im pretty sure that the Klan title is Grand Imperial Wizard.
Trumps truly the Racist in Chief and Grand Imperial Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)The Wizard
(12,482 posts)the Grand Kleagle
RVN VET71
(2,686 posts)The Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"! A Representative of the United States just called the president of the United States not only a racist but the chief racist in the country!
That is what we have come to as a nation.
And it's not some crack-brained claim made by an extremist. Here's the worst part: it's an absolutely accurate characterization of Trump.
Equally disturbing and predictable will be how the Asspimple (Limbaugh) and his wraithlike zombie sister, Ann Coulter express their outrage that Der Feurher has been so maligned, and, to their horror, by one of those blah people? The 2 Laurel and Hardy COS players (without the humor or intelligence, of course) will splutter and gasp and are sure to point out that the Reich Wing media "never ever ever" said anything harsh about the chief blah person, President Obama. And 30,000,000 Americans will applaud them.
(Still, I'm sure Senators Schumer and Gillibrand must have suffered their own version of the vapors at Jeffries' characterization. Bill de Blasio, on the other hand, probably had to restrain himself from standing, applauding, and shouting "right on!"
calimary
(80,700 posts)bdamomma
(63,658 posts)with Congressman Jeffries truthful comment.
progressoid
(49,827 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Take a lesson from the rethugs.
Alpeduez21
(1,739 posts)Reasonable Doubter
(14 posts)Remember, Dorothy & Co thought the Wizard was Strong and Powerful, but when they got a close look, well, not so much.
Rizen
(703 posts)We need to call Trump and Republicans what they are: a hate group.