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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 09:59 AM Jan 2019

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

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Democratic congressman calls Trump 'grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue' (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
Jeffries is out there speaking truths today. LonePirate Jan 2019 #1
Well proven and well documented dalton99a Jan 2019 #2
The Grand Imperial Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave YessirAtsaFact Jan 2019 #3
K&R lilactime Jan 2019 #4
I really like Rep. Jeffries Gothmog Jan 2019 #5
Trump is The Wizard Jan 2019 #6
Just paused for a second to let Rep. Jeffries appellation for Trump sink in. RVN VET71 Jan 2019 #7
If the sheet fits... calimary Jan 2019 #12
I would agree bdamomma Jan 2019 #8
Fox is apoplectic about Jeffries. progressoid Jan 2019 #9
TFB. Repeat it enough and it will stick flibbitygiblets Jan 2019 #11
preach Alpeduez21 Jan 2019 #13
K&R ck4829 Jan 2019 #10
More like the Wizatd of Oz, actually Reasonable Doubter Jan 2019 #14
He's right Rizen Jan 2019 #15

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)
3. The Grand Imperial Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:08 AM
Jan 2019

I’m pretty sure that the Klan title is Grand Imperial Wizard.

Trump’s truly the Racist in Chief and Grand Imperial Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

RVN VET71

(2,686 posts)
7. Just paused for a second to let Rep. Jeffries appellation for Trump sink in.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:54 AM
Jan 2019

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!&quot

 
14. More like the Wizatd of Oz, actually
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:02 PM
Jan 2019

Remember, Dorothy & Co thought the Wizard was Strong and Powerful, but when they got a close look, well, not so much.

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