People will tell themselves all kinds of things. "Oh, those poor kids. Let's give them something that will keep them occupied." I can't even blame Trump, though it's funny. But who put that on a truck? Oh well; I think intentions were good.

And yeah, it's strange.

I thought it was photo-shopped and he was handing out Capri-Sun?

"From the island of misfit weirdos."

In their fear-driven hatred of basic American values ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...&quot , this is what the Republicans have degenerated to become.

apparently Donald Trump went to Louisiana and gave flood victims Play Doh.


I had to google and look it up, because the TV hasn't been tuned to news today--too many family members wanted to watch films instead.


For those who need a link, here ya go:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/donald-trump-louisiana/496664/

http://usuncut.com/news/trump-disobeys-louisiana-governor-bravely-deliver-play-doh-flood-victims-video/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=O6qYuUGK77o

Every time they come up with a joke headline about The Con-ald, they discover he' already done just that!

As bad of a candidate as he is.... I am still having a hard time believing that there was no one around him.... even him... that didn't think/say "handing out play-doh in a 49 second photo op is ridiculous". Really? Really? Play-doh? To flood victims? Really?

And fallen into a deeply puzzling alternate reality.

trashed -- overseas, often dumped in piles to rot right where they arrived. Workers in disaster areas simply can't fuss over stuff that isn't wanted or needed. And donors often greatly misunderstand what people are going to want. A well-meaning church group's wardrobe cullings, for instance, may be about as welcome as those from an Indonesian village would be to Oklahoma flood victims.

The Donald interrupting hard-working relief workers to photo-op was such a disgusting display of hypocrisy and opportunism that I'm glad to see it's backfiring somewhat. Play-Doh!

to make little Trump statues out of Play-Doh. You know, replicas of these ones...

First pic I've seen of one of these.

I didn't realize they were so realistic and... veiny.



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So why....why playdoh?? Surely they had bottled water there somewhere. It's baffling.

What a dufus...

Can I have some of the play dough to plug my ears?

do for the flood victims? NOT A THING!

jeebus. He gets stranger by the damn day.

he also handed out toy cars and a value pack of Gerber squeezable fruit and veggies.

Just Sayin'

maybe both. Who knows.

He handled six boxes and walked away.

He saw the words "Play-Doh" on the box and thought it was fake money so that the kids would learn about the world of banking and finance.

but that's after they have the things they need to keep them ALIVE.
Play-dough is not one of them.
Used toys is not one of them
NEW toys is not one of them.

Im not going to give him a break because his ONLY MOTIVES were
to attempt to embarrass POTUS and HRC.
Also make himself and his idiot running mate try to look like
"compassionate conservatives" as if such things exist.

Pure self promotion.
He is an empty shell .
REAL action would be to donate $$$
or useful items like FOOD or WATER or dry cloths or blankets.

a thousand words:



This link includes a video: http://usuncut.com/news/trump-disobeys-louisiana-governor-bravely-deliver-play-doh-flood-victims-video/

but my pic in post #36 provides more context, it seems to be just some of a bunch of stuff that was on the truck, and then doesn't seem so bad. There is value in comforting the kids, too.

What bugs me is that there is so much genuinely awful to worry about with Trump, I don't think it serves us well to focus on this kind of distraction. Don't give the other side reason to say that our side is doing something misleading. We don't need to take things out of context to make them seem awful, giving the other side reason to say we're taking things out of context. He says/does plenty of stuff that is awful in full context.

But it was probably more of a "thoughtful donation" by someone at the last minute to give to kids or something and no one was paying a damn bit of attention to what they were doing.

Granted, you don't normally accept something like that as a donation, but often care packages have stuff for kids in them just to break the monotony of basic supplies. Fruit roll ups or pop tarts more often than toys though.