The Donald Trump thread

[Wales-Bales]

Donny shows his Presidential gravitas at a ceremony to honour Navaho war veterans by referencing his pejorative nickname for a Democrat senator.

You may not like his methods but they are effective. The whole world now knows that said senior senator misrepresented (some say lied) her Cherokee ansestory in order to obtain a place with funding at Harvard that was reserved for minorities. She also used this bogus "fact" to further her political career. So are you going to shoot the messenger or listen to the message? Personally speaking, I don't think Trump cares about what people like you think, as long as he is cleaning up Washinton DC. He wants to be judged on the end result and not how he got there.

[lardy]

You may not like his methods but they are effective. The whole world now knows that said senior senator misrepresented (some say lied) her Cherokee ansestory in order to obtain a place with funding at Harvard that was reserved for minorities. She also used this bogus "fact" to further her political career. So are you going to shoot the messenger or listen to the message? Personally speaking, I don't think Trump cares about what people like you think, as long as he is cleaning up Washinton DC. He wants to be judged on the end result and not how he got there.

He could have just tweeted it.

[Wales-Bales]

He could have just tweeted it.

He has since last year, but he couldn't resist the opportunity to hit a home run.

[lardy]

He has since last year, but he couldn't resist the opportunity to hit a home run.

Yes Gluey, maybe it was a calculated attempt to discredit a senator.

Or maybe it was just the latest in a litany of insults he's made against Native Americans stretching all the way back to his attempts to run their casinos out of town in the early 90s. It would be the equivalent of Theresa May making a sheepshagger joke at an event for Welsh WWII heroes.

Either way, it looks to have backfired on Trump as the world seems to be more interested in his insensitivity rather than a senator very few people would recognise if she was on their doorstep.

[cyril evans awaydays]

You may not like his methods but they are effective. The whole world now knows that said senior senator misrepresented (some say lied) her Cherokee ansestory in order to obtain a place with funding at Harvard that was reserved for minorities. She also used this bogus "fact" to further her political career. So are you going to shoot the messenger or listen to the message? Personally speaking, I don't think Trump cares about what people like you think, as long as he is cleaning up Washinton DC. He wants to be judged on the end result and not how he got there.

You are absolutely spot on for once when you say I don't like his methods. If the President of the US thinks that a ceremony in the White House to honour Navajo war veterans should be remembered for a cheap semi-racist attack on a Democratic Senator (presumably because she is challenging the legality of one of Trump appointees) then you reinforce those (me included) who believe his behaviour demeans his office and his country. From where I sit there are cleaner and more attractive creatures swimming in the swamp than the one at the other end of the sewage pipe.

[lardy]

You are absolutely spot on for once when you say I don't like his methods. If the President of the US thinks that a ceremony in the White House to honour Navajo war veterans should be remembered for a cheap semi-racist attack on a Democratic Senator (presumably because she is challenging the legality of one of Trump appointees) then you reinforce those (me included) who believe his behaviour demeans his office and his country. From where I sit there are cleaner and more attractive creatures swimming in the swamp than the one at the other end of the sewage pipe.

When Trump said, in his inaugration speech, that he took an oath of allegiance to all Americans, it seems he meant only the white ones. I'm struggling to think of a non-white group that he hasn't gone out of his way to insult this year.