The Transparent Phoniness Behind Trump-Fueled White Rage Over NFL Players Kneeling
Let me say it as clearly as I can: The anger being expressed by many (white) people over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem is transparently phony.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
Let me say it as clearly as I can: The anger being expressed by many (white) people over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem is transparently phony.
In a stinging tweet, former Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards she hopes “every NFL player” will take the opportunity to stand up to “the white supremacist who squats in our White House.”Â
LeBron James leaped to defend opponent Stephen Curry after the unhinged president rescinded an invitation to the White House.
The former Secretary of State did not definitively call Trump a white supremacist, but it’s rather stunning that she refused to say he isn’t.Â
Instead of backing down or being intimidated by the irresponsible man in the White House, NFL players and the league’s commissioner have joined together in condemning the president.Â
The human comment section living in the White House is proving not just that his mental train is fully off the rails, but that he doesn’t really care about governing the country or solving problems.
Repeat after me: This is not about improving health care in America or making your life better. It’s an effort to tarnish the legacy of America’s first African American president.
The two men jockeying to be the U.S. Senator from Alabama were wrapping their arms around the most dangerously incompetent and unfit commanders-in-chief the United States has ever seen.
Instead of using taxpayer dollars to enrich himself, perhaps Tom Price – and his boss – should use the funds to improve the lives of the people they are supposed to be serving.
The fact that Mueller is requesting Air Force One phone records shows that he is clearly ramping up his inquiry into whether Trump obstructed justice.
“What could I do for [Russia] with this presidential campaign that might make them forgive my debt?” Maddow asked, channeling former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
As Price squanders U.S. taxpayer funds for his expensive private flights, he and his boss are working tirelessly to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act aren’t just impractical, but they are cruel.
Trump’s reckless determination to tear up the legacy of his far superior predecessor – Barack Obama – may make him feel better, but it’s putting actual lives at risk.
The new health care legislation, which Republicans are now working to ram through the Senate, gives states the option of not covering pre-existing conditions.
To put it simply to my Trump-supporting friends: You shouldn’t be cheering this news. You should be shaking in your boots about what might come next.
This is just more evidence that Trump admires the tactics of authoritarian figures like Kim Jong-un.
“Enough. This has to stop,” the former Vice President tweeted. “Our children are watching.”
“I think we will have anywhere from – literally, by rule – 90 seconds to two minutes of debate on this legislation. Now that is an abomination, that is legislative malpractice.”
Sources indicated that some of the information collected via wiretaps included “communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign.”
“[The process for the Cassidy-Graham bill] is better but it’s not what the Senate is supposed to be doing,” he said. “Is it better to be guilty of murder or train robbery?”
If you’re going to name your event the “Mother of all Rallies,” you should probably make sure a sizable number of people show up.
Like a villain in a horror movie that appears one last time to wreak havoc, Republicans are again making one last attempt to inflict pain on millions.
“The leader of the free world can’t continue to use language that legitimizes the actions of extremists groups that promote hate.”
If the legislation becomes law, it stands to reason that Trump won’t be allowed on the California ballot in the 2020 presidential election.
Clinton laid out a rational plan to solve the North Korea threat and said Trump is being “played” by Kim Jong-un.
With the end of September marching closer and 2018 around the bend, Republicans are still unlikely to pass any bill to repeal and replace a law that has saved lives. In other words, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.
Sessions was so upset by the lashing Trump gave him that he sent a letter of resignation to the White House and called the Oval Office episode “the most humiliating experience in decades of public life.”
This is the kind of unhinged and crackpot rhetoric that is common on Info Wars, but it has no place in American government.
“We have a Medicare system right now. It is a good system. … Let’s expand that program to every man, woman, and child. It’s not a scary proposition.”
It’s hard to gauge the outcome of midterm elections more than a year before they’re held, but Donald Trump’s presidency has motivated progressive and moderate voters in a way they haven’t been in a long time.
The meeting could have given Trump an opportunity to learn something about race relations in America, but he only made things worse.Â
“It’s like a bad movie. You can’t believe anybody would ever green-light it, and all of a sudden it happens.”
The move by top Democrats sets up a stark contrast between themselves and Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election.
A number of the president’s lawyers wanted Kushner out, worrying that he would become a legal liability as the special counsel investigation intensified.
The White House wants to see the plan approved by Congress, but not even GOP leadership is interested in pushing the measure through.
Trump is doubling down on his DACA decision, and hundreds of thousands more immigrants may be in his crosshairs.
“We’re not trying to scare people, we’re not trying to hype this. We want people to be prepared.”
Two key figures in the Russia investigation who are no longer with the administration are actually struggling to pay their legal fees.
Robert Mueller’s investigation is picking up strength as the category five scandal gets closer and closer to the Oval Office.
The GOP representative had planned to “force a vote on his bill to extend work permits and deferred deportations for young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.”
“If the special counsel is now investigating administration officials for making misleading statements about ties to Russia … they’re all going to need good lawyers.”
Dent’s retirement is just the latest in a slew of moderate Republicans who are calling it quits as Washington spirals out of control with Trump at the helm.
“This decision does a disservice to those who have worked hard to address sexual violence. Congress must now act to undo it.”
It was three minutes of North Korea-style propaganda, served up to portray Trump as a president who’s fighting for working men and women.Â
If any American – i.e. anybody connected to the Trump campaign – knew this crime was being committed, they could face time in the slammer.
Congressman Luis Gutierrez said Democrats shouldn’t be negotiating with Trump the day after he rescinded protections for 800,000 young undocumented immigrants.
It may be smart politics for a Senator from Kentucky to drone on about spending cuts while thousands of Americans are counting on relief funding, but it’s not what compassionate human beings do.
The new revelation is the latest sign that, no, Russian election meddling – all to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton – is not fake news.
It remains to be seen whether Congress can pass legislation that will shield Dreamers from deportation, but it’s clear the Trump is already regretting the move he made on Tuesday.Â
Once again, Trump is perpetuating an offensive lie and stirring up minority resentment to please his base, and GOP members of Congress are too spineless to reject it.Â
Sen. Cory Gardner joined a Democratic colleague to co-sponsor legislation that would give young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship and protect them from deportation.
Trump’s DACA decision puts himself squarely on the wrong side of American history and public opinion. What’s new?
“The pardon was a sign of pure contempt for every American who believes in justice, human dignity and the rule of law.”
“The President has the authority to make this pardon, but doing so at this time undermines his claim for the respect of rule of law as Mr. Arpaio has shown no remorse for his actions.”
For somebody like Trump, who thinks men are measured by the number of magazine covers they’ve graced, this will likely be a great insult.
Trump’s declining mental health and inability to govern a country combined with the strong winds and flash floods of a massive hurricane are the recipe for a complete catastrophe.Â
While the president complains that members of Congress are turning the debt ceiling debate into “a mess,” it is his irresponsible tweets that are turning the simple vote into a political game.
“If the dossier is about to be publicly defended and explained and backed up, that’s conceivably the whole ballgame.”
“It seems he is just always focused on Russia,” one senior GOP aide said, according to Politico.
An email sent from a top Donald Trump aide referenced a previously unknown attempt to set up a meeting between Trump campaign associates and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump cannot hide from his long history of rhetoric in which he repeatedly attacked former President Obama for doing something he, too, has now done as president.
In a speech Trump hoped to use to change the subject from his disastrous Charlottesville response, he only made himself look more foolish by spewing nonsense that even he knows isn’t true.Â
Trump has repeatedly used his favorite social media platform to call for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. On Monday, he will call for a troop surge.
A plurality of Americans also believes he is “putting white supremacists on equal standing with their opponents.”
Luckily, the next time a full solar eclipse can be seen from North America – 2024 – we won’t have to worry that this man has control of the nuclear launch codes.
If there was a moment for Trump to reverse the narrative that he is a white supremacist sympathizer, today would have been it. Instead, he attacked the protesters in Boston and praised Steve Bannon.
The resistance is proving not just that they are larger in numbers than either Trump supporters or white supremacists, but also that they understand freedom of speech does not have to be violent.
The right-wing demonstrators organizing Saturday’s rally in Boston forgot one important thing: People.Â
Thousands of Americans are in Boston to stand up to Trump and his white supremacist supporters to say in one voice: This is not what America stands for.
“What will happen next? I doubt that Donald Trump will be able to calm and comfort the nation in that moment.”
Even if Trump did decide to attend the ceremony, it’s unclear how many of the honorees would have shown up.
Since the attack, Susan Bro has spoken out loudly against the hatred put on display in Charlottesville and criticized Trump’s despicable response.
The end may very well be near for Donald Trump’s presidency.Â
Nobody wants to be seen within the same zip code as this president, particularly after he spent the past week defending white supremacists and Nazis.
“In terms of people actually working in the administration, apparently everybody is fine, nobody is leaving, they’re all okay with it.”
Within the span of about a week, the President of the United States will have endorsed white supremacists and announced that he’s pardoning a man who racially profiled Latinos.Â
“If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world.”
“The president needs to be crystal clear that hatred has no place in our society, but he is currently failing at it.”
Though the majority of Americans do not condone the racially driven terrorism we saw in Charlottesville this weekend, this is increasingly what America is becoming with Donald Trump in the White House.
Obama’s message of love and unity – and his clear suggestion that today’s violence was racially motivated – stood in stark contrast to Trump’s remarks.
“If this is not who we are as Americans, let’s prove it,” Hillary Clinton said.
Denouncing terrorism at the hands of white supremacists wouldn’t fit Trump’s narrative that America should fear only minority groups.
The willingness of this president to ignore what is specifically fueling the outbreak of deadly violence and hatred in Virginia will only give oxygen to those causing it.
Meanwhile, the President of the United States remains silent as, at this hour, he is likely teeing off from one of the fairways at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
The GOP senator said the ideas spewed by the alt-right marchers “have no place in a civil society.”
The counter-protesters gathered Saturday to deliver a message of unity and tell the hate group, “Love has always won.”
Trump can continue to threaten to invade whichever country he’s mad at on a given day, but he’ll be doing so without the support his own party, the American people or the international community.
Trump’s increasingly dangerous and hostile North Korea rhetoric appears to be rooted in a single Washington Post report.
“If we have to, we’ll go to war,” Graham told a South Carolina CBS affiliate.
After eight years of an administration who took these issues seriously, we now have a president who loses his cool at the slightest provocation.Â
Instead of standing up for the men and women who selflessly serve their country, the president – once again – took the side of the man who helped put him in the White House.
Facts are facts: Barack Obama was a reassuring adult in an increasingly dangerous world, and Donald Trump is a man-sized toddler pushing the world closer to nuclear war.
It probably didn’t take long for Tom Price to regret his decision to participate in the baseball tradition.
As the investigation gets closer to the president, Trump’s bullying tactics are only likely to become worse.
It’s difficult to find an issue that Trump approaches in a thoughtful or knowledgeable way, but the idea of winging it when it comes to nuclear war is stunning and dangerous – even for this president.
For a guy who has fought to ban Muslims from the country and has repeatedly denigrated and isolated those who practice Islam, both at home and abroad, Trump’s silence is certainly not surprising.Â
Instead of taking Trump’s bait, Sen. Blumenthal is digging in his feet and doubling down on the increasingly serious investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
Not only is Trump clearly unwilling and unable to do his own job, but he lashes out journalists for doing theirs.Â
The poll released Monday showed Trump’s approval rating at the lowest level in any survey released since he took office.