I saw That Dog perform once. (The L.A.-based rock band, not any woman Trump has insulted.) I enjoy That Dog a lot better than I enjoy Trump (which is not at all).
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So much for editorial review. This article immediately undermines the narrative it is trying to push by pointing out that Trump also uses the same insults against white people, and on at least one occasion, men.
Let's not overgeneralize based on the president's pathetically limited vocabulary and fragile ego. He lashes out at anyone who challenges him, not just black people and/or women. Crying "wolf" in the sense of racism over things like this undermines any effort to get white independents to see reason - to see that Trump is bad for all people, not just people of color.
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I am still looking as to where is considered racist to call someone who is black a dog. We all want to be treated equally, but when it comes time to hit back when you're attacked, it's considered racist. Keep attacking Trump, and I will gladly vote for him again in 2020. I am black, a foreigner who became a naturalized citizen and I am gay.
“There is honor in being a dog.” ~ ARISTOTLE
Where is Trump's?
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Why did she take the jobs if he’s a racist?
Just because he calls people of several ethnicities a "dog", it doesn't mean there is no racial element to it when he uses against a black person.
Besides the President of the most powerful and consequential country in the world should not be calling anyone a dog except perhaps for "funny guy" dictators who run concentration camps.
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Please, help me understand you correctly.
The USA is waging two longest wars in our national history in Afghanistan and Iraq, without any reason or justification, because the terrorist movement was born and raised in the Saudi Arabia, and you are freaking out over the Trump tweets?
Convince me that I miscomprehended everything and that I am so wrong!
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MSNBC played montage of Trump's "dog" insult over the years, directed at men, women, blacks, whites, etc.
"Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, disputed the idea that Mr. Trump’s tweet about Ms. Manigault Newman was driven by racial animus, and defended the president by pointing out his willingness to lash out at people of all races."
This is Trump's defense? That he is an equal-opportunity insulter, equally petty and vicious, vindictive and crude to all, without regard to race? While I don't think that is true, I also find that it just really doesn't matter much to me if it is, if Trump is, in fact, equally abusive and obnoxious to all races. The problem isn't that Trump attacks blacks, or women, unequally. The problem is that Trump attacks incessantly, reflexively lashing out when ever anyone dares to be against Trump, or even less loyal and obsequious that Trump expects. The problem is Trump's fundamental pettiness, his bullying insecurity, his eagerness to dive into these spats when the job is being president, not being himself.
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She's worse than Trump......already tired of her. Go away.
After you're indicted, of course....
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It's trite, but I pity all those career professionals who have to work with this president for a living. If we are outraged by his public behavior and comments like this, it is incomprehensible to think about President’s private behavior, closed-door outbursts and how demeaning it would be for those career individuals. It is an unique workplace for sure.
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And today Eric Trump called her a snake in the grass. The Trump family is seriously big car, no underwear. At least his wife has the class to stay out of the spotlight.
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Judging from Michelle Goldberg's column yesterday, it seems there are a lot of people on the Left who have an opinion of Omarosa that is similar to Trump's opinion. Before she was fired, a lot of people on the Left did not hide their disdain and disgust for Omarosa. This "outrage" seems to be completely manufactured and dishonest. I wonder how many people on the Left have used similar adjectives to describe Omarosa and other members of the Trump administration and employees of Fox News.
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Don Trump is the prototypical school yard bully who has never grown up. He continues to be a disgrace to the Office of the Presidency. I wonder what Don Junior thinks about his mouthy dad!
Donald Trump is completely unhinged. Calling an African-American woman a dog because she has written an unflattering book goes way beyond the pale. Omarosa is a Medusa who will strike when you least expect it. Trump thought that he could use her for his advantage and he failed. What Trump should have done was to ignore her book. His self-inflated ego and "take no prisoners" approach won't allow it. Trump doesn't listen to his advisors so now he embroiled in a controversy that won't go away. Trump is not Perseus and no divine intervention will help him. He is on his own.
Judging by his response, President Trump clearly is validating the title of Omarosa Manigualth Newman's book, "Unhinged." And, by her response Ms. Newman is indicating that the book should be subtitled, "Fired and Furious." The book may contain the usual gossip, but the tapes Omarosa has been selectively releasing, if they substantiate some of her incendiary claims, could reveal who is the real "'crazed, crying lowlife.'" Donald Trump's ill-considered, race-baiting tweet may proven the wisdom of "let sleeping dogs lie."
This report brings to mind the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burns. The president engages in a daytime soap opera-style mean girl spat while
. . . hundreds of children remain separated from their parents and locked in detention centers; reports of drugging these kids and sexual assault emerge.
. . . thousands of acre are burning in Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona; dozens of people are losing their homes and firefighters are losing their lives.
. . . we are approaching the 17th anniversary of war in Afghanistan from which thousands of veterans have lifelong injuries.
. . . the president's campaign adviser is on trial for bank fraud and tax evasion involving tens of millions of dollars and a promise to a loan officer/retired helicopter pilot he could be secretary of the Army.
. . . women and children escaping drug gang violence in central America are denied refuge in the U.S.
. . . North Korea is restarting nuclear weapons development.
Our government is not functioning. The so-called president yells squirrel to distract the populace from his incompetence, and his looting of national resources. How can we make this stop?
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There's pretty much ZERO scenario where DJT is going to comment on an African American and it NOT be characterized by the New York Times commentariat as racist.
Ya'll desperately need some critical self reflection down there folks.
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Dear Republican Friends,
Where are your spines? How do you tolerate this disgusting rhetoric?
Omarosa is out Trumping, Trump, who would have thought….
Reminds me of my boss who is long gone who hired a woman who had a storied history of abusive behavior, lying and self- aggrandizement. In the end, he fired her and she came at him guns blazing. In our company's case, they settled with her on her lawsuit just to end the whole sordid drama. Both my boss and she were very much alike with their narcissistic personality disorder.
I am tempted to write that President Trump is an equal opportunity insulter and bully but on second thought, no, he reserves a special place in his septic tank if venom for black and brown people. His base loves it. Time alone will tell if a critical mass of American voters lives it.
A repulsive, repugnant, seriously ignorant and unbalanced cretin occupies the White House. Trump has turned it into a pig sty that reeks to high heaven.
This clown deserves no respect what so ever. He needs to be thrown out with the garbage that he continues to create. This foul mouthed person is an embarrassment to all things decent and clean and wholesome.
Throw the bum under the bus!
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I'm wondering how the negative comparison to a "dog" came
about. Many dogs I know are smarter than many people I know. And considering honesty and loyalty, most are far ahead of us, and light-years ahead of Mr. Trump. Frankly, "lie like a dog" should be a complement, and my dog 'Mojo' would be a far superior president to that "dirty rat" we are stuck with.
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Squirrels chatter when they're angry, but only a very small number of biologist work to figure out the differentiating features and meanings behind squirrel chatter.
Everybody analyzes every word that Trump uses. But, while he strings together mostly English words, it's just angry squirrel chatter.
I'm still waiting on a definitive and conclusive explanation of "covfefe." Coming from Trump, why should you expect "dog" be imbued with any more meaning than "covfefe." The meaning is coming from your interpretation of the word, not from a choice that the squirrel made in his chatter.
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Some think that the president's comment is insulting to actual dogs, after all they are mostly loving, respectful, and honorable. Unlike her!!
I feel like Trump is actually getting better at offending progressives.
Because if there’s anything holier and more sacred to white woke liberals like me than black people and literal, furry pets - I’m at a loss for what that might be.
And here’s a perfect case where Trump is conflating an attack against both, without obviously crossing that line into racist disregard for black people and cruelty to animals. But still, he comes right up against that line.
It’s like earlier this week, how he trolled the Washington Post into covering how he appeared with a biker who had an unsavory and misogynistic patch on his motorcycle vest. While I was personally shocked and outraged and so shaken that I had to leave work to cry in my car, it seemed like most of the comments and tweets about the story were making fun of the Washington Post, NOT Trump.
Sometimes I wonder if he does this on purpose, to make us look petty and fragile. As if there’s something “wrong” with being either! There is NOTHING wrong with mental instability!!! Lots of progressives like me fit the bill! What of it!?!
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We go from Hillary's "super predators" and basket of deplorables," on one end of the continuum, to Trump's boundless continued string of one- to three-word degradations of fellow humans. Any chance we can elect a president, next time around and regardless of our political views, who above all else treats all humans equally and respectfully?
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@ChristopherWe had one, he was called many of these names by the present by the scum no residing in the White House!!!
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It's worse than "no respect"--it's contempt.
He thinks his superiority--white, male, legend in his own mind--entitles him to not only govern, but to insult his critics and bilk his very supporters--his "base"-- Trumpies.(groupies).
Alas they seen to like being bilked rather than helped.
But that only testifies to ability to market himself--in a free from law and logic market--to people who need help. They can't recognize their own interests; don't recognize the con.
It is no evidence whatsoever for his knowledge and competence regarding economics--micro and macro, domestic and international--nation/community building, justice for all.
He milks the system while accusing others (NATO, US poor) of milking the system. Just as he sells fake news while accusing others (the responsible press, academics, science) of selling fake news.
Did he learn that at Wharton? Indeed did he really go there? really graduate? Everything he says and does is suspect.
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When i was growing up, we called each other "dogs" all the time. If i struck out in a ball game, my friend Johnny would say "you dog". I grew up in an upper class white neighborhood in St. Louis. The expression "dog" had nothing to do with race.
I dislike Trump as much as the next guy but trying to catch him
on the subject of race because he used the expression "dog"
is a step too far and it reduces our effectiveness as his critics.
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I predicted months ago that a woman would bring him down. We still don't know which one. Depends on tapes.
Trump has met his match.
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One only respects those worthy of respect.
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Misleading title: Trump is totally undiscriminating. He insults everybody. And is quite often right, if not always politically correct. Obama was unique in that regard (Thank God).
On the other hand, one can wonder why Trump hires such people. Maybe he doesn't care much about the hiring process and prefers judging people on how they perform. I wish him luck: performance is an unknown concept in Washington.
With the media laser-focused on “name-calling” between reality TV personalities, let’s see what else is going on:
“President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law a $717 billion defense policy bill”
“On Aug. 1, the Senate passed the NDAA in an 87 to 10 floor vote. In July, the House passed the massive bill in a vote of 359 to 54.”
https://www.stripes.com/news/trump-signs-717-billion-defense-policy-bill...
“A New Poll Shows the Public Is Overwhelmingly Opposed to Endless US Military Interventions”
https://www.thenation.com/article/new-poll-shows-public-overwhelmingly-o...
It is wonderful to see Republicans and Democrats so united in their annual handout to the military-industrial complex...in direct defiance to American voters wishes.
It is equally as wonderful to see the media ignore this behavior.
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Like Shakespeare's King Lear, Mr. Trump stews about people who will not flatter him. Lear descended into madness.
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Excerpt from Trumps NDA "...employees are not to use any confidential inormation in any way detrimental to the Company, Mr. Trump, any Family Member, any Trump Company..."
Imagine President Obama's version of a NDA:
" not to use any information in any way detrimental to my beautiful loving family, my kind and respectful girls Sasha and Malia, especially when they show public affection for Michelle, my brilliant wife beloved around the world and me, any improbable scandal you might uncover in my administration (easy one, they don't exist), criticism of my graying hair which I don't color and the beige suit I wore one summer which was purchased at Men's Warehouse because I couldn't afford Manafort's preferred tailor.
"Finally, more requirement of this agreement: every employee must swear to only use the word "dog" to describe our family pets Sunny and Bo."
"Any breach of this contract will be punishable by 40 hours of community service in any undeserved community in the city of your choosing."
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We have known that Donald Trump is a man of little character and substance and proven to be a pathological liar.
What is more concerning is the Republican Congress that condones his behavior and for whatever reasons choose to ignore it. We now have to take what he says with a grain of salt because it more than likely is not true, as has been proven over and over again. I would believe Amarosa over him at this point.
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If I were the media I would be a bit careful about tying the word "dog" being used as a pejorative for a black person. Trump throws that word around quite a bit. While it was most certainly uncivilized on his part, then what isn't, I doubt that he meant it as some derogatory terms for a black person. Basically, I think it was Trump's limited vocabulary and the confines of his handlers.
Hey, I have said before that Trump is no doubt a racist, a misogynist, and many more things. All of these description he deserves. But in this case it is just due to his personal failing--in which there are many.
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I read this definition of what constitutes an evil heart.
1. Evil hearts are experts at creating confusion and contention
2. Evil hearts are experts at fooling others with their smooth speech and flattering words.
3. Evil hearts crave and demand control, and their highest authority is their own self-reference.
4. Evil hearts have no conscience, no remorse.
Kellyanne Conway: Judge Donald Trump based on “what’s in his heart” rather than “what’s come out of his mouth.
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Donald Trump's performance as Commander-in-chief and the strange behaviour of his enablers is a sobering antidote to 70 years of American exceptionalism.
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Newman is a troubled soul, with a troubled history of making trouble both in the Clinton administration and in the current administration as well. That she has attracted an unflattering response to her illegal book-hawking is of less concern than that she is portrayed as a victim. Newman loves the limelight and it’s annoying this stage gives her that.
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Trump needs to get a job.
Would that we all could sit around and Tweet and eat and watch TV all day.
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After seeing her interview with Trevor Noah, I kind of started to like and even admire her.
Here's this very beautiful, very female, very black woman. Just like Oprah, she was born in very hard conditions. Just like Oprah, she thought she wouldn't have any chance in life. And then just like what happened to Oprah, meeting ONE person changed everything and seemed to finally show a way out.
In the case of Oprah, that person was Maya Angelou. Someone who had learned that yes life is hard, but no, this is not a "dog eats dog world", there is something like fierce compassion, and if you accept to build your entire life on it, you can get access BOTH to tons of money and inner peace and a morally responsible and deeply satisfying life, allowing you to lift up thousands of others coming behind you.
In the case of Omarosa, however, that person was Trump ... someone who had learned that life is hard, but who never had had the chance to see beyond a small and utterly biased "dog eats dog" worldview, and who decided to try to adapt and survive to this kind of world instead. So he learned her how to lie and cheat MUCH more than her own childhood had taught her already, and how that would make her wealthy and powerful ... IF, on top of that, she accepts no matter what he does or says (= his "dog eats dog" version of "loyalty").
And she did. Until she was eaten herself. And now, instead of disappearing, she fights back ... and this time probably tells the truth. So she won ...
Ut is truly a shame that the Dotard-in-Chief cannot hear what I, and hundreds of millions of other responsible Americans, have to say about him. There are not enough invectives to adequately describe his faults, crimes and general ugliness as a fake-human.
His gate-keeping sycophants (are you listen Sarah?) cover him with lies all day long and his myopic tiny base applauds him back into semi-consciousness whenever he desires.
We are living in a game show, not a country.
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How can American citizens and government allow their "President" calling anyone "a dog"? This is far below presidential behaviour. This is disgusting "lowlife" street-talk. The world is laughing and acting against the US. Congratiolations with making America Great Again...
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Trump is a pig, and I may be splitting hairs here, but this less of racist statement than it is an anti-woman statement. Don't ya think so? Have a nice day.
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No matter the person, he/she is "great" and "best" while in Trump's administration... and a crazed, lowlife dog the day after they're gone. Makes me wonder what POTUS's going to say about FLOTUS if she files for divorce?
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What a dreadful place the White House has become under Trump. Backstabbing, paranoid, opportunistic -- downright ugly. And vulgar.
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I believe Trump is a racist and misogynist. But to claim his insults toward Omarosa, Lemon, and James are evidence of those flaws doesn't stand to reason. Trump insults anyone who crosses him regardless of race or gender. Remember his campaign? Men and whites got just as badly smeared. Google "trump campaign insults" if you forgot.
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Calm down. He insults everyone.
This is an amazing media circus of the highest order! YAY!
Here is a president who lives by TV ratings. And his entire staff looks only to personally profit from anything. The narcissism and sophistry is unparalleled. And the best part is we are all eating it up.
Shameless.
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I am so tired of the crude, the rude, and the lewd from Trump, the biggest blot on our American presidency and democracy in our history. His name is one of shame. He is the worst 'American' president we have ever had, and will get the dubious distinction of that title unless, God forbid, we do worse in a future date. I cannot imagine how that could happen, and I have an active full-functioning imagination.
H-Sanders is going for the Trump is an indiscriminate hater of all mankind defense but that does not a 'whitewash' make. What it makes is the argument that he is totally unfit for office in a democracy, and a disgusting human being.
Trump hates all people of color and womenkind first, and the poor and needy second. Trump only can feel some kind of warped version of love for himself only.
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Nobody ever accused donnie of having any class
what a lowlife
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I am now a big, big, fan of Ms. Newman after the jarhead Marine General took her to the modern antebellum wood shed to workover the unruly black woman in an environment such that the white women nearby could not hear her wails, screams and pleadings. The modern woodshed is soundproof, bulletproof, RUSSIAN-proof and Osama bin Laden-proof, but Omarosa Manigault Newman never raised her voice or screamed irrespective of the, USMC, Navy-issued military, cat o'nine tails. Any other black woman on the planet would have decided that the old MARINE was planning to pistol-whip her good.
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While obviously inexcusable here, Trump calling a dark complected person a dog is no worse than any other Trump calling a white person a dog. If he had referred to a primate, then obviously it would be a blatantly racist comment. However, it could very well be that they both, or even only she possesses true racist hatred.
He's a class act, our president, isn't he? He knew this women he now derides for 15 years or so. He gave her a prominent position in the White House. The dirt he now heaps on her is splattering right back all over him. A class act, indeed. Two of a feather comes to mind.
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So you can call a man a dog and that's just an insult. But you call a woman a dog, and that's sexist. And if you call a black woman a dog, that's sexist and racist.
So if you call a black man a dog, is that racist? Maybe only if you call him a pup. That sounds kind of racist to me. Not dog, but pup.
And does it matter who is doing the calling? If you are a black woman, can you call anyone a dog and it's okay? Man, black or white. Woman, black or white. When a black woman does the calling, does that make the insult dog fair game on anyone?
If we insist that all be perfectly correct politically, we at least ought to have clear rules to follow. Otherwise we will be niggling over shades of meaning, and nobody benefits from that. (Oh no, did I just offend by my use of an n-word? And I'm not black. Sorry!)
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And that man is still "our" president?!
Omarosa to Donald, as the monster to Dr. Frankenstein:
" I will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care: I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth."
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ROFL.
Omarosa and Trump = venomous snakes wrestling in a cesspool of their own making.
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@Margot
Omarosa did not make the cesspool that Trump and his family swim in.
She's a bestselling author, but not as powerful as you (and Trump) fear.
Let us remember this woman is trying to sell a book.
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@JC
She's selling her book with great success. I hope everyone will read the free sample at Amazon AND read the great comments about UNHINGED.
It's
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > United States > Federal Government
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > United States > Presidents
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics
Congratulations, Omarosa!
Trump over the years has referred to numerous(10) publicized comments of individuals as dogs the majority of whom were white. By this percentage I think you could more accurately call him a white racist. Shear and Sullivan are just more left wing nincompoops on the Times staff who don't care to research their false facts appearing on its front page. Who cares about this anyway?
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I am not sure what I think of Omarosa Newman, but I know that the President should not be calling anyone in the US a dog. He is our president and as such he should value all citizens and respect their rights to have their own opinions.
As much as Trump hates Obama, I believe he would do well to follow Obama's example of always taking the high road. Whether Omarosa Newman has a tape of Trump using the n-word or not, Trump should not have called her a dog. Such language reflects poorly on Trump, not Ms. Newman.
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You might be interested to know Trump has historically used “dog” most often in relation to white males. This is in the public record.
This article is misleading to say the least.
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@Margaret
Of course. But it suits NYT agenda to label it as racist. Then this propagandist newspaper claims that they are joining other newspapers to protest against Trump’s outbursts against press. Sounds like pot calling kettle black.
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@Margaret
Except when it comes to Putin. After all he is Putin's puppy dog.
Donal Trump is a fair and excellent president because he insults all ethnies, says Sarah Huckabee : “ his willingness to lash out at people of all races.. “ A marvellous compliment.
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"Trump Calls Omarosa Manigault Newman ‘That Dog’ in His Latest Insult"
Mr. Trump's reaction may indicate that Ms. Manigault Newman has managed to touch some raw nerves! But, that could be misleading. What is certain is that Mr. Trump never misses an opportunity to convey to his base that he is on their side, by maintaining a racist disposition.
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According to Trump, this "crazed, crying lowlife" represents only the "best people" he hires to work with him in the Oval Office for the benefit of the American people? Along with Rob Porter the wife beater, The Mooch, Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon the 'populist' disrupter, the evil and cruel Stephen Miller, insider trader Wilbur Ross. It's an endless list of unqualified and self-serving criminals in various shapes and forms.
This is OUR current Presidential Administration and it can only get worse. Are we tired of all the winning yet?
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This so-called President continues to 'dog' and demean Black women. Not to mention that he's done much of the same to a host of people who've stood up to him. Petty, yes! Disgraceful, yes! Ignorant, yes! Blah, blah, blah. Nothing new here, move along. But one thing before we do.....Omarosa is married to Pastor Newman (a Black man). I can understand any man 'turning the other cheek', 'going high when they go low', 'clinging to the holy cloth/robe', etc. But I can't understand why my man Newman hasn't reacted to someone (even a so-called President) referring to his wife as a 'DOG'. Put anything racial here aside.....this is a line any MAN would never allow someone to cross....attacking/insulting one's wife. I'm certain John Kelly would advise him to call Trump out on the White House Lawn for a little 'Bow Wow', and commence a good-ole butt-whoopin. After all, it is Kelly who holds that women are sacred. So, get on with it, Pastor Newman !!
But the larger question is why has any of this infiltrated the network news.....remained the sole topic of talk shows, etc. There are far too many 'national security-related issues' more important and compelling (Syria, Iran, Turkey, N. Korea, Venezuela, to name a few).
Ryan, McConnell, Cornyn, (John Bohner, where are you !) your silence is deafening! Your so-called President is on a no-return path of total destruction of our country.
DJT = Ignorance Personified
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Why did the NYT change its headline by removing the reference to black people?
@Candlewick
The NYT frequently modifies its headlines and corrects its articles. It dropped the word "venal" from a headline about Omarosa a day or two ago. She proved to the thuggish Kelly that she's far from venal.
Even before this latest brouhaha, Omarosa had a one-word name and respect for her savvy. She has always used the tools of race for personal benefit (as did Trump's pastors!)--she likes high fame and narrow roads. Omarosa will never advocate a cause. She will whisper and reveal, document and expose powerful men as fools, but her pilgrimage is not Selma or the bus lines, her path is a singular journey of competitive aggrandizement, a television allegory with layers of comfort lies (the new correctness!), the coin of the realm.
Tone and purpose are the key and Trump lost yesterday--after the media tried to help. No one linked dog to bitch—you can be misogynist and racist at the same time—media headlines linked dog to clickbait/the n-word.
Community consensus says it was bitch. (Not code for the n-word.) Its use, as an epithet, is racist. Community consensus says such name calling is verbal abuse.
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Trump's extremely derogatory comments regarding Omarosa Manigault Newman are just another shameful example of the calibre of the man who is President of the United States of America, but also indicative of Trump's continued inability to choose the right person for the right job given the large number of Appointees and senior Staff that have been fired and left office in the year and half (or less) of starting.
But with Omarosa Manigault Newman, it goes far beyond questioning Trump's judgement (or is it ego?) that he could or can hire "the best people" when they clearly weren't , but suggests the President is inept and clearly incapable of being able to judge a person's suitability for a specific job or whether they have the moral characteristics expected or even if they can do the job at all, let alone be the best at or for the role or position they are appointed for.
But in this case , it clearly shows The President hasn't a clue and cannot even understand the very basics of business/leadership/result driven /appropriately qualified personnel for any position (including himself).
Because who in their right mind appoints ANYONE for an important public role and position despite having previously FIRED them 3 times previously?
And anything negative Trump or anybody else says about her ability, role or competence in regards to this 4th and latest position held until being fired again...only shows how terrible his people skills and how impaired and inept is his judgement.
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@Loomy
Just FYI: Trump was asked to act, on the Apprentice - as is the case with most "reality tv" shows.
It's the producers of the show who took the decisions about who would be hired or fired, and of course, those choices didn't have anything to do with any job qualification but solely based on what would increase the ratings of the show.
It DO was Trump, however, who after working with her like that for fifteen years, decided to take her to the WH. So yes, the rest of your comment seems to be entirely correct, unfortunately ...
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The attacks on Omarosa Manigault Newman do nothing to reassure us that The President is not "Unhinged." While I shuddered at many of the things she said as a White House Insider, and I am surprised she ever was an Insider at all, the Trump tirade against her is inconsistent with Trump's claim he is a "very stable genius" - a claim which has been disputed by many NYT columnists including Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd.
We should all be embarrassed by a leader who compares opponents to animals, while ignoring and perhaps encouraging the fawning and piggish behavior of those closest to him.
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If anyone had any doubts before, this latest episode of trumpian verbal sewage, should lay to rest any question that we are being led by a racist 7th grader. Unfortunately, the GOP has decided to abdicate its role as principal, and join the Trump gang as either covert or overt enablers. Anyway Trump may have called Ms Newman a dog, but it appears she has fangs and she is winning these rounds. Perhaps irony isn't dead after all, as the Trump Administration may be taken down by an ex reality TV star, a pornstar, and a crooked lawyer. Trump's hubris may yet bring an Olympian sized down fall, worthy of the finest of all Greek tragedies.
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Nothing surprises me about Trump anymore. On another note he has time for personal tweets and insults, golf (considerably more the his predecessor). How about just going to work and trying to do good work for all the American people?
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If one searches the internet one comes across the other side of the story. Apparently all the way back to the Clinton Administration the women was lazy and terrible at her job. Everybody moved her on to somewhere else as they thought they could not fire her as she was black because of the PC flack. Here are some of the quotes "At 24 years of age, she scored an entry-level, $25,000-per-year post replying to invitations for the vice president. According to The Times, she left a mound of 13 months-worth of unanswered correspondence addressed to Gore below her desk."Manigault was then moved to the Clinton White House to the position of deputy associate director of presidential personnel. She only lasted eight months in that job until she was transferred out of the White House all together to the Commerce Department.
There, Cheryl Shavers, who served as the Department’s undersecretary for technology, described Manigault to The Times as “unqualified and disruptive,” so she “had her removed.” Savers also told People Magazine in 2004 that “One woman wanted to slug her" Omarosa reportedly embellished her job titles, tasks, and work performance on her resume in different posts and sources repeatedly disputed to The Times her claims, including a Howard University spokesman who said she was, in fact, a “facilitator and presenter” and never a professor at the school." Reminds me of the republican candidate in Florida who lied about her degree.
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@tom bates
That's not the "other side of the story", that IS the story.
Where those Democrats immediately fired her, Trump started to work with her for FIFTEEN years, and then even gave her a high responsibility job in nothing but the WH.
THIS is the kind of people Trump wants to hire.
He believes that this is a dog eats dog world, and only people willing to lie and cheat know how to fight properly, from such a perspective.
The only difference here is that where Democrats fired her in a decent and respectful way, Trump literally treated her like a dog, and she's fighting back.
Is she fighting back like a dog? Probably even not. She's probably merely saying the truth today.
So to discard her story just because like all Trump people her main qualification is lying and cheating, isn't quite relevant here.
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It has been rather obvious, through Trump's whole administration, that the major thing driving the individuals is Not a Loyalty to Trump, but to the possible money and connections that he represents. The income being received by these folks, at this time, is way above that of the normal American, so that is surely a base reason, and then the assurance from Trump of further enrichment, even if they get caught dirty handed doing things for him, that they will be covered by work in one of his other organizations.
What other reason would they put up with, and even cover for, such obnoxious behavior. Greed seems to be the major rule, where we have a Thief-In Chief who has no idea what Truth means, let alone actual manners, morals and the standard rules of how our society, especially the Government, is supposed to work.
Trump cannot even keep his story straight two tweets in a row. How are we supposed to believe ANY of his statements when he makes and repeats so many provable lies?
Is he not supposed to be Always 'On The Job', and thus anything the President says is much like appearing in front of Congress: Appearing in front of the Public, and then telling bald, absolutely abhorrent lies that are so avoidable is a crime against ALL of us.
A president who cannot recognize truth is no leader, and in fact, very much a criminal in his blatant obstruction of justice on many fronts.
Trump is a stain of shame on our Nation, and Pence and the Repubs share in that crime of treachery!
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It is simply unbelievable that our Congressional leaders, Ryan and McConnell, who are constitutionally charged with keeping the POTUS in "check", completely ignore Trump's repeated, repulsive name calling and race baiting behaviors.
Trump is such an embarrassment to this nation.
Ryan and McConnell are as well.
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I think Trump has met his match in compulsive disruption. Imagine showing up for the morning interview shows dressed for the Tony Awards.
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The excuse, that Trump is an equal opportunity hater, is considered a valid excuse for monstrous behavior and verbiage? The fact that we have gotten to the point where such a rationalization to excuse constant vulgar, demeaning, mendacious statements and tweets could be considered sufficient is telling. This president has succeeded in demeaning his current office, which he is clearly not fit to occupy.
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Interesting that both the headline (on the web) and the article itself have been substantially re-worked to tone down the inflammatory racialist slant.
I don't recall seeing this "NYT Replies" section in the comments before. Interesting that the editors are responding to reader comments in word and deed. I think it's a good thing.
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I’m as outraged as the next person but I think two days on the front page is enough.
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It is amazing that the epithets this master of projection uses for his various opponents apply so precisely to himself. President of the United States? Sad.
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Oh, come on.
Trump is a pig. That much is obvious. But this steady drumbeat of special attention from NYT every time he insults a person of color is getting ridiculous. Newman shouldn't have been hired in the first place, and so it is good that she's off the government payroll. One less useless person for taxpayers to support (and the same can be said for white former FBI officials who did real damage by saying and doing stupid stuff).
Really, it's another Trump trap successfully sprung, and in this case, Sanders is absolutely right: The president acts like an idiot regardless of the color of the person on the receiving end. That the NYT keeps fixating on skin color in response to Trump statements likely designed to provoke such responses says more about the newspaper than it does about the president. We know who and what Trump is. What's becoming more unclear are the journalistic standards and judgment of America's biggest newspaper.
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Rudy G. claimed that the president could not take time away from his busy schedule in doing the country's business. It turns out that the country's business is watching Fox news and tweeting his daily venom.
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trump always likes to dehumanize his enemies. This insult of his only reflects back on himself.
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Why did he hire her for a prestigious, high paying, do-nothing job if he doesn't like black people? Ever notice that Omarosa, a black woman, is the only Apprentice contestant anyone can name because Trump always kept her around?
It's the Left, and news sources like the Times that are dividing us. If there's one thing we know about Trump, it's that he'll viciously and crudely insult ANYONE who crosses him.
So what is the point, what purpose does it serve, to bring up Don Lemon and LeBron which are totally unrelated to this? And then to press the point further, the Times trots out the reliable African Studies professors to force some connection between "dog" and racism. And all this on the front page, no less.
There is real racism out there and real problems in the black community. Stop getting hysterical over nothing.
@max
So if he has a historically low number of African-Americans in his administration, and constantly says and does racist things, your idea is that he nevertheless can't be a racist because ... he accepted CBS producers' decisions to at least keep Omarosa in the Apprentice ... ?
At bit meager a excuse, no?
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Mr. Trump is a weak, petty, horrible little man. Unfortunately, the Red States decided to elect him President. And now, well-meaning citizens across the USA are stuck with this dumpster fire of an Administration, full of liars, thieves, and butt kissers. Wake up congress, or we'll vote you out!
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If Mr. Trump uses the word "dog" to refer to white and black people, then how can anyone say it is racial. I don't like defending him as I am not a supporter of Trump. Yes, he is crude and crass and he may indeed be a racist. But the evidence regarding the word "dog" is shaky at best and this article is misplaced in hard news when in fact, it offers opinions. Trump says enough derogatory statements that hard news stories do not need to draw unsupported conclusions. As the media continues to blur the differences between fact and opinion, they lose credibility.
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@dudley thompson: Do you not know what the official name for a Female dog is?
Think about it- then review the naivety of your comment.
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@dudley thompson You are correct. The expression "dog" has nothing to do with race and the article by Shear and Sullivan is a waste of space in this edition of N.Y.T.
I too. am not a fan of D.J.Trump or Omarosa M. Newman who is out to make some additional bucks because she spent a year around the white house and wants to cash in.
To be politically correct, i should quickly add that white, yellow and brown people also "cash in" sometimes after they have spent some time around the white house.
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People like her should have been throwing out the Whitehouse a long time ago. Got her job because of quota and then proceeds to bring identity politics into her workplace and disparage her coworkers and boss including secretly recording everyone. Got fired and completely disregarded possible legal trouble and try to cash in on her "inside knowledge" hoping Democrats can shield her for violating national security policies.
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A lot of commented seem to agree that she is not attractive. I have always found her very good looking. Dog does not fit.
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So we are discussing whether Trump's use of derogatory language, specifically the word, "dog," is lobbed more towards African Americans than other groups. This is the discussion. It's great for Trump and great for Omarosa. We're talking about a book, tapes, derogatory language used, the N word - what a luxury. I read a heartbreaking article from Kabul by Rod Norland this morning, part of his reporting on the slaughter that is taking place there, reporting on incredibly brave people left to die as they battle the Taliban - and we're breathless over the playing out of the American version of tribalism. We are so fortunate.
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I would like to know what medication Sarah Sanders is taking to maintain her composure and help her sleep at night - some form of memory blocking erasing chill pill.
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@ZigZag
That recalls for me the character in Arrested Development who gets his forget pills in Mexico before he can recall what he just did.
@ZigZag : Thanks for ' throwing a bone ' at The IndivisibleAgainstTrump pack ! They are a hungry, dedicated to attacking pack ! ( wife )
There is no medication.
Just like most GOP voters and Republican leaders in Congress, their reality - and the only one they've unfortunately ever known - is that this is a "dog eats dog world".
Neurological studies have in the meanwhile shown that the extent to which someone can behave in a compassionate way towards others, is directly determined by the extent to which that person has been initiated in and developed self-compassion.
In a dog eats dog world, there's only violence. Nobody teaches you compassion or self-compassion. So you lie and you cheat 24/7 not because you like to do so, but because you're convinced that that's all there is, that life IS like that, period. The person lying most and for the longest period of time, wins.
And "winning" here merely means having been able to create a distance between you and your opponents so that they can't hurt you so badly anymore.
The whole GOP drama created around Obama's religion, place of birth, Obamacare, jobs etc. ... it's all lies invented to try to fight against a feeling of being threatened in your own existence (or more often, as GOP politicians, career ... but then in a world without love, morality or compassion, what's there to "win" if not at least a "powerful" career ... ?).
So this isn't just a "style". The way they talk and act reflects the violence that they're undergoing from a very young age on in their personal lives. As is the case for GOP voters.
They don't need a pill, they need our compassion.
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This personal cat fight does not flatter either of the participants . Some things are Best left unsaid and some things best left undone. This nasty MSM mess is a classic example . ( wife )
As many others have noted, "dog" is a common derogatory term for what some men consider an unattractive woman. Trump uses it regularly for women he doesn't like, just like all of the other boys who exist on his junior-high level of civility. He also has exhibited a strong pattern of insulting black people of any gender. Ms. Newman is in the position of being both a woman and black, and therefore represents two of Trump's least-favorite demographics. If women and black people of both genders don't get out to the polls, along with brown people and non-Christians (his other favorite targets), and vote in record numbers against the Trump party candidates, we will have only ourselves to blame if his party wins in November. Vote, everyone, vote against this racist, sexist movement.
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Trump has surpassed Nixon in diminishing the office of the President.
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@rlk; I think the Democrats have trying to experience a deja vu on also hounding him from office ! Rabidly so . ( wife )
@richard: What are you trying to say?
"Grisham told Newsweek that the first lady 'rarely, if ever, interacted with Omarosa. It's disappointing to her that she is lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the president.'"
https://www.thisisinsider.com/omarosa-book-melania-trump-praise-2018-8
Why would "retaliating" be necessary if Trump had done nothing wrong? And what's wrong with "self-serving?" Is Melania not self-serving? Is Trump not self-serving? Why do these people think people should sacrifice themselves at the Trump altar?
My suggestion: read the free sample of Omarosa's best selling book at Amazon and see what you think of the way the thuggish Kelly fired her.
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@Pecan
The tape of Kelly firing Omarosa has been all over tv news. He was quite focused, respectful and professional - all traits no one has ever seen in the reality tv charlatan Omarosa.
@Margot
No, Margot. He was not respectful. He was a thug. For one thing, he allowed the lie to be spread around immediately that she had fought his decision and had to be dragged out, kicking and screaming.
The Secret Service made it clear that he lied.
(What's a "reality tv charlatan," by the way. Would that be someone like Trump?)
Another lucky unknown making hay in her 15 minutes of fame. I hardly take her comments as facts.
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@Rich
Yet Trump is tripling his attacks as if she DOES have something on him, so of course, I can't look away. He knows this as a professional, and yet he stokes the Russia thing and her book like a barking mad dog.
I'd hate to have ignored all the barking and discovered twenty years from now the country was robbed right under my nose.
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congress is silent because Trump is appointing conservative judges and enhancing the lifestyles of the wealthy which some in congress are.
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@alan
Some?
Google "how many in congress are millionaires" to find out why these people support Trump.
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=0Ep0W77IO427zwLd0JLoDw&am...
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The oft repeated argument that the public knew what Trump was like before the election yet still elected him is becoming tiresome and its shallowness has yet to be exposed.
For a start 3 million less of the electors who voted, gave their vote to him. Since he lost the popular vote the fact that a minority knew what he was like is not that relevant. Because he got in despite Hollywood Access is a terrible reason to keep supporting him.
So if a minority of people gave him a pass at the time- their dislike of Clinton was a factor in her not getting even more than the 3 million popular vote win- does it mean that further egregious speech and actions get an automatic pass too?
Its almost as hollow as proposing that he is not racist because he calls people of all ethnicities a dog. Just because he does do that does not mean that there were not racial elements in him calling Omarosa a dog. Just because one calls a white woman a pig it doesn't mean calling a black woman a dog is not racist- especially given the history of Jim Crow, lynchings and slavery. Nuance. We know Trump does not have it- neither do his followers.
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Melanias focus on cyber bulling is failing miserably. Evangelists are support a man who daily insults and abuses others. White nationalist march in our streets and he says there are good people on both sides. How low are his supporters willing to go? What is this behavior doing to Americas children? Trump spreads a toxic brew of division and hatred , it is well past time for the GOP to speak up against this recklessness.
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Remember when Trump compared Manafort's plight to that of Capone? Me thinks the President protests tax fraud convictions too much. But enough about Omarosa! She doesn't know where the bones are buried, because she is NOT a dog.
I wonder how many people are being paid to tell us the President is flawless through that super packed bias agreement put out by the Trump campaign. I don't think lawbreaking is covered by such a con-tract.
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The writers are playing the race card. Why have they not written “Trump insults another white person / or Trump insults another white male.” Trump is an equal opportunity ‘insulter’.
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@Alan: They already have. You must be late to the Democrat MSM propaganda fest . ( wife )
The only “dog” here is Trump: A true mongrel beloved by his angry, resentment filled supporters and feared by his Republican Congress. All of them are truly pathetic human beings and a prima facia case for the good not winning out in the end.
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned". FYI... 68% of American households own dogs and presumably are then dog lovers.
Yet another typical play from the Democratic playbook; when all else fails throw down the race card. As if people aren't smart enough to see through that. Granted, Trump is extremely inept at character assessment, but let's face it, integrity and character are not traits of the successful in Washington. Turn coating is the card that all within the belt are given to play, but few seldom do. When it is, it burns fast and hot and disappears quickly.
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@Kurt Pickard
That's always the only excuse you guys have: but they all do the same immoral things!
Problem is that you've forgotten how to fact-check ...
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Remember this? "I hire the best people." - Donald J. Trump
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@ChristopherM
He seems blind to the four times thing, as if we don't know how to count bankruptcies or hirings under his authority.
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@ChristopherM: Remember this one : " I will have the most transparent administration in American History ?" ( wife )
@ChristopherM
Sadly, the problem is 62 million Republican voters who think THEY hire the best people.
Donald is the dog: a racist, a loser, an adulterer, a huckster, a cheat, and a liar. Show him the worst that humanity has to offer and he'll go there to pander. Instead of counting how many days he has been in office, we should be counting the number of days before he is gone, and tossed into the bonfires of history.
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Trump has called Mitt Romney and Chuck Todd Dogs. So, I guess that is racist behavior as well.
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@Michael
No, it's merely the only thing the GOP can come up with when you ask them about "equal opportunity" ... QED.
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Omarosa may be one of the few people with the ability to fight Trump-style, like two pit bulls. Should be a good show to watch.
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@Fourteen
I am concerned Trump is over-matched, and even the DOJ can't save him from this beatdown. She knows all his weak spots. Let's take some lessons.
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Trump seems to call his "enemies". I.e. anyone who disagrees with him, names that better describe himself, perfectly.
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@jwgibbs: Trump's entire band of followers displays a remarkably similar practice of projecting what is evil in themselves onto whatever or whomever scapegoat has enraged them. It is so consistent, it has to be some kind of syndrome.
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In race-baiting Omarosa Manigault Newman over her revelations in what is the sequel to "Fire and Fury" that seems now to be turning into "Fired and Furious," Donald Trump my soon regret "wagging that dog." Omarosa has tapes and they may back up her incendiary claim that Trump knew about the hacked Clinton emails before they were leaked. Trump may bark, but Omarosa may actually bite.
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Donald Trump is mentally unfit to hold the office of the President. He is incapable of telling the truth, or being respectful and thoughtful to those working besides him, let alone respectful to world leaders. Even the Queen of England was caught on film wrinkling up her nose at Trump.
Trump has left our country's image bruised and soiled around the world. Americans need to stand up and say "enough".
We need a vote of "no confidence" in Trump and his ability to govern our country. How much more must we tolerate of this self centered, egotistical, thin skinned, poor excuse for a man? Trump is a joke by his own making.
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Do spare us the theatrics, Mikey. There is so much history - centuries' worth - of racist history just in your own supervisors' own Democratic Party that one seventy-year-old Brooklyn native dissing a possible psych case here doesn't even get any news traction.
Nice try though. So, what's the scheduled crisis for tomorrow? Iranian earthworms voting for Trump in Schenectady?
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If you lance a boil, you get blood and pus.
What else would you expect?
It is a never-ending source of amazement to me, this President simply CANNOT act or speak like a President.
A year ago, I amused myself endeavoring to rewrite Mr. Trump's little tweets--in a manner more becoming him and the high office he holds. For instance:
"Mr. Comey's account of our meeting in the Oval Office is, in the highest degree, malicious and false. I would strongly deprecate such flagrant mendacity in a high public official."
Instead of which, he lashes out--branding his own sometime FBI chief as "a slimeball.' Thereby advertising to the entire world the rage--malice--frustration ever seething and bubbling in that inner man. The dark psychic landscape of Mr. Donald J. Trump.
And--long ago--we had "lyin' Ted Cruz." We had "Pocahontas"--signifying you know who. We had "liddle Bob Corker." "Crooked Hillary Clinton" is, of course, a stand-by--even I have ceased laughing uproariously whenever "Crooked Hillary" appears . . . .
. .. and believe me! those presidential tweets have brought me hours of merriment. . . .
. . .and now we have "Wacky Omarosa."
"Out of the abundance of the heart. . . .
". . .the heart speaketh." It says that in the New Testament.
We all know, don't we. .
. .we have known for years now . . .
. . .what is lodged PERMANENTLY in the heard of Mr. Donald J. Trump.
It ain't PRETTY, folks.
Get used to it.
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And only ONE member of the GOP called Trump out on this -- Sen. Jeff Flake who is retiring his senate seat. Really? We have a pathological liar, a thug, in the WH and he keeps testing the GOP to see just how much he can get away with and so far it's been everything! So the enablers just cower and shrug. What will they do if he starts to pardon his criminal pals -- like Manafort?
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Who cares that Trump called her what she is? Did we forget that Omarosa was also FIRED from the Clinton Administration by two FEMALES who said of her that she was "unqualified and disruptive"?? She is a self-serving cancer wherever she goes. Calling her "that" dog is neither here nor there about gender or race. "Gore's former office administrator, Mary Margaret Overbey, has said Omarosa "was the worst hire we ever made". She was later transferred to the Commerce Department via the White House personnel office. Cheryl Shavers, who then served as the Commerce Department's Undersecretary for Technology Administration, said that Omarosa was "unqualified and disruptive," adding, "I had her removed.""
To call Omarosa "that dog" is an insult to all dogs.
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@CharityBM
So ... what you're saying is that when previous employees fired Omarosa for being unqualified, and then Trump, on the contrary prefers to work with her for FIFTEEN long years and then even takes her into the White House ... somehow that gives him the right to publicly use the most immoral and vulgar insults, thereby proving her point about him ... ?
That sounds a bit confused, to say the least, no?
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Really! Who is that dog? Insult is mutual.
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@ASHRAF CHOWDHURY
I watch dog videos to comfort my tortured soul, but I have seen no dogs that fit these biters' descriptions. I have seen a cat who thinks she's a Husky and a dog who steals to get attention. Together that suggests someone unfit for duty who thinks stealing is a game. Fits both of these chokers to a T-Bone.
Why does this paragraph as an explanation for our president's latest behavior make me truly and finally laugh-out-loud:
"Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, disputed the idea that Mr. Trump’s tweet about Ms. Manigault Newman was driven by racial animus, and defended the president by pointing out his willingness to lash out at people of all races."
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"That dog." So why does a man who clearly hates animals keep hiring them? Inquiring minds want to know.
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The fraud elected to President routinely insults anyone who criticizes him. He has no lucid comebacks, just insults. I can't imagine that working in a courtroom, but the court of public opinion is where he thinks this is gonna end. If Trump thinks I'm forgetting his betrayal of the American people, he's crazier than we already know he is. Not everyone is a nihilist, and the meek shall inherit his dirt.
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What hypocrisy. 8 months ago it was "bye Felecia".
Ms. Manigault Newman is the Sammy "The Bull" Gravano from the Trump Administration. She assisted in the crimes and has turned state's evidence on Trump. The $15,000 each month that Trump's enablers offered her pales in comparison to the riches she'll get from the sales of her book. If they made her story into a movie, would it be factual or fictional?
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Seriously people - how much lower can we sink? How do we tolerate this? Will no one stop this "man"?
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"Yes we can" stop this man!
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@Michael
His henchmen have seen to the disposal of his enemies at the DOJ, so he's quite the Henry II be reckoned with. Forthwith, forward your question to the DOJ. The Church made Henry pay for a day of naked exposure for having his Bishop whacked.
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@Michael - Rather than stand up and renounce Trump for this and so much else, Congressional Republicans have betrayed their oath to serve and protect the US Constitution. Know what you're voting for if you vote for a Republican in 2018.
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We used to use the phrase "a dog" to describe an unattractive girl in junior high school, but even back then we kept it to ourselves, as in "I wouldn't date her. She's a dog." By high school, it was passe. We still had our opinions but we expressed them differently.
Newsflash: Trump has no respect for women, for African-Americans, or for anyone else. This is known and widely accepted. It's business as usual, except for Omarosa, who happens to be today's target.
Anyone who stands up to him or crosses him and challenges his thin veneer of self-respect can expect the same. I'm sure she knew this before she spoke out.
Maybe she's playing a trick that she learned from him, getting millions of dollars of free publicity by stoking his outrage.
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@mlbex
I don't care if Trump's derogatory words are 'widely known.' You seem to imply that by Omarosa Manigault Newman speaking out, that she somehow 'deserved' being disrespected in vile language from a sitting POTUS.
This is a pure, blame-the-victim mentality. There is nothing normal about a 72-year-old President hurling insults at people. I could care less about Omarosa's motivation for speaking out at this point: you say it's for money, as if the POTUS revealed his conflicts of interests by revealing his tax returns, or has avoided violating the Emoluments Clause. Trump hasn't: the Presidency is a cash-grab for himself and his cronies, who continue to funnel wealth to the 1% .
The POTUS's 'widely known' behavior needs to be denounced at every turn. Trump masquerades as a leader, while adhering to D-list trash talk as a substitute for soaring rhetoric. What inspirational words have come from Trump himself? None jump to mind. There is no joy in this 'Administration.'
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So now the GOP's White House press secretary informs us of the fact that the GOP has finally found a version of "equal opportunity" that it can support: the equal "opportunity" to be treated in the most immoral, vulgar and unacceptable way possible by members of the GOP.
Of course, we all know that that too is a lie.
The GOP's "tax reform bill" certainly treats the 13 million Americans who saw their health insurance being destroyed in the most immoral and unacceptable way ... but it simultaneously give the wealthiest American a huge and permanent tax cut ... .
So no, even treating everyone in the same, immoral way isn't something their capable of.
So sad.
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The message for a united Democratic Party needs to be that if Republicans remain in control in Congress, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, voting rights, rights for minorities and the LGBT communities will all disappear. The rich will get richer and the rest of America will suffer. Young people and minorities have to vote, our continuing way of life depends upon them.
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@BJ Jenkins
That is exactly what the Democratic Party's message should be. I don't know why they have such trouble articulating it. They should be hammering away with that message every single day.
This latest episode in the sordid Trump reality show will disappear within a few more news cycles. It's hard to even recall when we learned about Access Hollywood, 19 female accusers, Stormy, Karen McDougal, The Fire and the Fury and Comey's books, among other "revelations" about this deeply flawed man.
The question is when yet another more egregious and solidly proven accusation will bring this man down or whether he will just continue to slither away from the next salacious controversy with the protection and silence of his complicit Republican loyalists.( and our collective memories)?
From what 2 years have shown us, the latter is the most plausible possibility.
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Trump is an equal opportunity offender. Do we really need to categorize and keep score? If you love him he loves you back. Dare you disagree with, he will throw you to the dogs. I’m so very sick of how far into the gutter our country has been dragged.
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Sarah Sanders: "He was expressing his frustration."
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@Candlewick
Wasn't Sarah excusing his attacks on the press because she was insulted by an insult comic? This is getting insainly ludicrous, a satyr play before the big fat Greek tragedy.
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@Abby
I do think she looks much better back in her daylight look; if only she could tell us how she gave up smoking. And how does she dispose of those ashes, now?
Just imagine, for a moment, if Obama had sent any of these tweets.
The hypocrisy from the right is mind-blowing.
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@Andrew Never mind that. If Hilary would have won, the Republicans would have shut down the government a year ago.
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Dogs are loyal, faithful, open hearted, trusting, and would willingly give their lives to protect those they love. Why has "dog" become an insult? Just a question to ask ourselves about how we, the animals with the most power, see ourselves in relation to the rest of the animals on the planet. And the way we "animalize" in order to "dehumanize."
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Trump is so vain, he quickly rises to the bait Omarosa offers him, just as he does with every critic. Each time his comments stoke the opposition and add to his misery. Meanwhile, the country needs his attention to the Russian threat to our democracy, the nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran, how we deal with the growing catastrophes of climate change, and the economic consequences posed by a trade war. Alas, who can save us!? As the Republican Congress fiddles, the nation burns.
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Why is it hard to believe that Trump used a disparaging remark when he was on the Apprentice, he's used a disparaging remark when talking about Senator Warren and now he's using another one describing Omarosa.
He has always shown that he doesn't care what he says and that he will deny it later.
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Could Trump be a worse role model for America's children?
Imagine growing up in a country where the President behaved this way and attacked people publicly in this childish, bullying manner. What sort of example does that send? Trump is utterly disgraceful. Just as bad are Trump's complicit GOP enablers who look at the ground with their hands in their pockets.
Shame, shame, shame.
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@Andrew
As an Australian, as you and your country look on, I am sure you are shocked and horrified by the crude vulgarity of this vile individual in the White House, but let's face it, he has never made any pretense about who he is, nor any effort to camouflage his deplorable ignorance and greed. What is so staggering for us Americans is the absolute silence from his Republican enablers. We were foolishly led to believe that upon taking the Oath, there was the hope that a smidgen of courage, bravery, integrity, compassion, honesty and character existed in these individuals. Other than Senator McCain, and the handful of those resigning, this utterly craven, supine and cowardly pack of GOP's will carry forever the chronic burden of shame, shame, shame on their toothless, spineless frames.
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To have a US president who speaks in this fashion, is beyond belief. It says a lot about American values, American society, American justice system and, what the people are actually endorsing and voting for. The president speaks for America, perhaps the greatest country in the world that is shamefully not my neighbor, not my friend, not my values and not my politics. If you voted for him you agree with him.
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One has to wonder why Trump is pursuing breach of contract with the NDA and not libel and/or slander. Is not proving that he did not act in the ways described by Omarosa the important issue, if not the main issue? Trump seems more concerned with loyalty than the truth.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the President never seems to fail in shooting himself in the foot especially via twitter. Prior to that tweet most were at least saying that Omarosa lacked credibility not she is garnering sympathy which is exactly the opposite of what I am sure the President wanted. All he had to do was not talk about it, but as we know, Trump cannot control himself.
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@Glenn G
He wants his base to not believe her and hate her, and when he tweets, his base by definition blindly follows.
And that's all that he wanted.
By time and again writing in a "style" reflecting what they themselves had to undergo (or are still undergoing) so many times in their own lives, and would love to adopt against their own abusers (fathers, priests, schoolteachers, bosses at work, ...) but don't feel strong enough to do so, they admire him even more, each time he uses the bully pulpit (pun intended) of the highest office in the world to do exactly that.
And each time the media react by condemning this style as lacking the "decorum" expected of a president, they see it as proof of the media's utter hypocrisy - proof that the media continue to try to deny the (in their eyes) reality that this is a dog eats dog world where nobody who wants to win plays nice ... and only Trump has the guts to openly say THAT this is a dog eats dog world ...
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This guy gets nearer the edge every day. Let's hope he doesn't take us with him when he does. And he almost surely will.
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@James F Traynor
Most people would not be one bit bothered if he took Omarosa over with him. It wouldn't surprise me if he was in on ginning up her book sales with this idiotic firing of a unqualified entertainment toady who never ought have been hired for any WH or government job.
She's willing to provide anything Robert Mueller's special investigation wants. I'm impressed. Does she need a volunteer professional secretary to catalog and index?
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The embarrassing circus with DT as the ringmaster continues.
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It sounds like Trump has bias against anybody who's not like him. Can't say Omarosa is a saint but she doesn't deserve this type of treatment from Trump or anybody else. Omarosa has her issues alienating her co-workers but for her to be condemned mainly for her race is wrong and immoral. It's possible that Trump is racist. It's more certain that anybody who disagrees with Trump is his ultimate enemy and therefore evil in Trump's eyes. How did this guy ever get elected into a White House? What does this say about Americans in general? Americans have a chance to redeem themselves in 2020, vote for someone not Trump. I can only hope that Americans learned from their mistakes.
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What's really funny about Trump's tweets in response to Omarosa's book is, someone had to tell him what she wrote therein because he did not read it himself. If he did, then her book is probably the shortest ever published with at most (what is Twitter's character limit now, 280?) 75 or 80 words.
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Dogs are superior to most people, loyal, intelligent and sensitive in most cases. They can not fight back against the Trump onslaught or lies leveled at them. Trump as his mouth piece says is an equal opportunity hater branding anyone and anything the worst epithet he can think which in this case dog, once again showing his ignorance and lack of any vocabulary or ability to distinguish the truth.
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@just RobertI -- I am worried about the people you hang out with if they are less intelligent than a dog ... but I am sorry to say that I am willing to consider that it may be true of Trump supporters, given what he says and does.
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@Lee Harrison Thanks for your concern. Yes, I have many intelligent, thoughtful friends, but sometimes their is nothing like a dog. . .
Donald Trump using "dog" terms in a disparaging context - regardless of racial background. https://www.newsweek.com/does-donald-trump-hate-dogs-why-would-he-do-692092
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@Vishious
Specious argument given the racial power dynamics and history of the US.
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Trump may be a lunatic, but he's not stupid. He sees the reaction his outbursts produce. These outbursts seem to be occurring more frequently.
Why? A diversion from the Mueller inquiry? Whipping up the frenzy of his base? Or perhaps simply because it strokes his monumental ego. The old adage "There's no such thing as bad publicity" comes to mind. It's a fact that he is obsessed with ratings and numbers. As I am writing this, there are 1311 comments posted. I have not read every single one, but am sure they are similar in tone condemning his latest assault on decency.
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There is something wrong with Trump's approach.
Only a lawyer in argument can say that there is no evidence, therefore my client is not guilty, not liable, which doesn't mean that he didn't do it.
The accused or the defendant would have been instructed to say that he never did it.
Obviously if he never did it, there would be no evidence.
I'm a little confused about Omarosa. I just don't see or understand what the role she played in Trump's reality shows has anything to do with her real personality. And I see nothing wrong about someone changing his or her mind on Trump. He is not the first person to worsen with age.
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Before retiring I once headed a division of more than 250 employees. I have no idea how many performance reviews I have performed in my life, but it's probably hundreds. Any employee who behaved the way Mr. Trump does would have been shown the door the moment their 90-day probation period ended. He is abusive to subordinates (Sessions, Tillerson); he is rude and uncooperative with his peers (Congress and the Courts); he lies perpetually to his bosses (the American people); and he caves fawningly to the corporation's competition (Russia). He is oblivious to the quality of his work (could care less what's in the health care replacement legislation he was pushing, just as long as he gets any credit due). There would have been no second thoughts, just the door.
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@Bill
The problem here is that "the boss" who hired him - the GOP base - has never known any other type of employee in their entire life, AND have been told by Fox News over and over again that The Democrats are even worse.
These are people who live in a "dog eats dog world" on a daily basis. Many of them were treated this way by their own fathers, schoolteachers, and then later on colleagues and bosses.
So now they accept that the GOP behaves in a totally immoral way "too", because that's just how the world is, so that's how you HAVE to fight, unfortunately. At least now they have a bully whom - thanks again to Fox News' fake news - they believe is fighting FOR them ...
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What a sad state of affairs when the big question of these articles is whether or not the President has ALSO called white people "dog," ss if spreading insults around--thereby proving that he is not specifically targeting African Americans with demeaning animalistic descriptions--lessens their impact. What a pathetic commentary on the man in the White House and the troubled state of a nation that elected him.
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There is nothing racist about calling someone a "dog". Back in the 50s the Everly Brothers had a hit song where they called a romantic rival a "dog". In fact Johnny was a " bird dog".
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@Aaron Adams Back in the '50s, black people couldn't drink from the same water fountains as whites, attend the same schools, go to the same restaurants, or live in the same neighborhoods. Do you really want to continue going down this path?
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Real racists don't hire those of other races. If he was racist, he would not have hired her to the White House. Since she was part of the staff I suppose he is secretly racist. He hired her for some sort of a cover so his racism does not show. She had no problem vouching for Trump for the last few years. Now that she got fired and the narrative is profitable for her, the black community is embracing her as a champion. They had no love for her last year.
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@Mark : Agree. Having lived through the ugly, divisive 60s and 70s , I knew that Race / slavery was always America's most vulnerable wound. America's enemies and those dedicated to ' fundamentally transforming ' American power and influence were quite aware of that. ( wife )
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I suppose that "crazed and lowlife" could apply to most appointees in the White House and in the Cabinet, based on all of their actions and lies. So Omarosa is no exception.
Trump recognizes only the best.
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"“The fact is the president’s an equal opportunity person that calls things like he sees it,”
His ability to lie outright has now infected the entire wh. What's stranger still is his attack on Newman as a dog but just a couple months ago commuting the sentence of a convicted drug dealer who was also a black woman. Of course she was championed by the wife of his no. 1 black fan Kayne West. I can't believe that these revelations of trump's character just occured to Ms. Newman and if not what was she doing working for this horrid man in the first place?
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The only low-life in the room are both Trump and Huckabee- Sanders who perpetually lies for him and takes his side in abusing women and people of color. What she is doing is in many ways worse than what he is doing. She deserves a lifetime of shame for her behavior, better still, perhaps her children will escape and become Democrats.
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Ms. Manigault was a contestant recently on Big Brother. People on those shows tend to be back stabbers. It's pot meet kettle. She said everyone on Trump's campaign including the White House lie. Trump lies. She lies. Reminds me of those Godzilla movies when I was young. Lot of destruction in their path. They both deserve each other. But she got them on tape and all they can say is secretly taping people is unprofessional. But they don't dispute the tape as not being authentic. Without the tape they would say it never happened and she is a liar. With the tape they say she is unscrupulous. I rather have a secret tape with the truth than a blanket denials full of lies.
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If the Democrats can’t run a candidate to soundly beat this guy, then we really are the biggest bunch of fools on planet earth. What was the point of it all? Might as well have stayed a British colony.
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@Ahf
The only way to have a government for the people, is to have a government BY the people.
This isn't about perfect candidates anymore, for the first time it truly is about restoring America's greatness after the damage that the GOP inflicted, and it's obvious that ANY Democrat candidate will be incomparably better at that than any current Republican.
We have to stop find excuses and see this as a battle between Democrats and Republicans.
The point now is to VOTE.
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@Ahf
Democrats had that candidate and she won by 3 million votes in Nov. 2016.
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He’s an equal opportunity verbal abuser.
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So Sarah Sanders says it’s ok to call Omarosa a dog because it’s like Bill and Hillary attending Trump’s wedding........
Twisted, convoluted, manipulative. This is supposed to make sense? The Trumpster are totally unhinged.
Republicans, I’m thrilled to see you lose your positions soon. But has it really been worth it, protecting Trump, a madman?
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Why does he still have a Twitter account?
Why isn’t Melania’s Be Best program not working on her husband?
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Why would Trump exempt anyone from insult?
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I happen to like dogs more than many people, especially more than Trump.
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Trump has a history of calling people he is feuding with 'dogs', so I'm not inclined to consider this insult racially-motivated. However, to have the press secretary state that Trump is an equal-opportunity bully, and that none of this matters to his base is very concerning. Is there really 40% of the electorate that can still support Trump after years of his grossly inappropriate and outrageous behavior...is the few dollars extra in your pay enough to have America throw it's principles away? We are diminished as a nation in the world because of Trump.
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Donald Trump is an equal opportunist when it comes to insults. No one is spared.
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it's worth bearing in mind that during the 2016 election cycle trump bragged that he has the most loyal supporters and stated (paraphrased): "I could stand in the middle of 5th Ave, shoot somebody and not lose a single voter".
Imagine going to your workplace and bragging "my boss thinks so highly of me that I could come in here tomorrow and shoot my coworker and get a raise for doing so" or something like that. My point is that insinuating such violence would likely get you fired and would alienate all but the most juvenile and stupid among your coworkers in this day and age of over the top, crazy mass shootings and killing rampages.
I have never been more discouraged about the path the United States is on than I have been since trump took office.
We're on the verge of having hacked elections, there are record high temps near the artic circle, the global economy is a huge set of bubbles waiting to pop and we're subjected to the daily outbursts of a spoiled man-child and THAT is what the news is. This is one monumental distraction in action. To top it off, I'd say finding the root of the reason for the distraction is to "follow the money" and trump refuses to release his tax returns. I feel like "Den of Thieves" best describes what our government is turning into...
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For many Trump haters the race card is always at the ready for anything he may say or do. He is an automatic racist if his remark is aimed at a person of color. But when you drill down you’ll find that he is an equal insulter regardless of race, religion, or gender. The record shows that everyone is fair game with him.
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@Hedley Lamarr
". . . he is an equal insulter regardless of race, religion, or gender. The record shows that everyone is fair game with him." And apparently, Trump's supporters don't see anything wrong with this. This is what is truly appalling.
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@Hedley Lamarr: "The record shows that everyone is fair game with him. " With the exception of one Mr. Putin, of course.
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Really ? How about the last president's Russian Reset Button in 2009 ? That little brainstorm ushered in the past decade of Russian empowerment and aggression ! ( wife )
Another day in the bizarre America of Trump, where the so called president rails like a madman, Republicans look the other way and the rest of us walk around in shock.
My latest assessment is that the US in which I thought I lived never really existed at all and was just a carefully crafted deception. In reality this is a nation of small minded, racist, misogynists motivated by nothing more than personal greed and revenge. That would certainly explain why Trump has not been ejected from our lives like the pathogen that he is.
Maybe I will be proven wrong in upcoming elections but at this point the US has lost my allegiance and I hope that no one expects to find me standing and pledging for this benighted nation of grifters.
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Duly noted.
But until the outcry becomes loud and sustained, especially from his own party, it’s only Trump being Trump. Again.
Just like with his offensive comments toward women — if they aren’t enough to disqualify him as presidential material, what exactly will?
Trump doesn’t like anyone who doesn’t look like him, period. (He is also, I think, jealous of other people’s successes — see LeBron James.) Trump is just one more piece of evidence that, for as much as we want to believe the contrary, we really haven’t made all that much progress toward civil rights and tolerance in this country at all.
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The spectacle of the Donald being slowly humiliated and destroyed by all the petty users and grifters he brought in ... what karma!
How'dya like them apples, Donald? They came from your tree; the only one around that grows fruit that are rotten before they drop.
Cohen, Manigault-Newman, Manafort ... who's next?
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Perhaps Russia can find the 30,000 lost or deleted tapes of trump using the 'N" word.
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Why is it so hard for you all to understand Trump hates her not because she is black but because she is a traitor.
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@No
Why is it so hard for you all to understand that this kind of behavior is appalling in someone who is supposed to be the President of the United States and is damaging to the country? Those of us who are grown-ups can see this; why can't you all?
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And, his base loves him for this. A fairly high percentage of our fellow citizens approve of this kind of thing. How does a human being become like this?
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Stop with the identity politics in every single article. This isn't about race. Stop dissecting every single news article according to identity politics categories. Trump insults nearly everyone with crude language, he's not doing this because of their identity category, he does it because he's a crude and vulgar person.
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@Oakbranch
But that doesn't mean there is no racial element in calling a black woman a dog- especially in a country with a painful history of slavery.
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Why are folks waiting for a tape to emerge for more proof that Trump is a racist? Every day his tweets tell us exactly who he is- he doesn't hide his animus toward women , minorities, immigrants, the FBI, Jeff Sessions and all.This is a man consumed with hate and he does not hide it.Why does he still have any support?
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As much as I dislike Omarosa- the woman is shrewd. She clearly saw what was coming long before many others in Trumps service did. She knew no-one would believe her. Knew her credibility would be questioned. Knew the NdA would be unenforceable in civil service. Recognised what was happening and acted. Yes, she is a horrid woman, but she is canny in the same way Trump is. She knows how to play him. It was reported at the time of Kelly’s appointment that Kelly felt Omarosa was patient zero when it came to people riling up Trump to explode. And that she had to have her “walk-in privileges” removed if Trump was to be “disciplined” (I bet Kelly thinks of the days when he thought he could have an effect on Trump with a fond embarrassment now). Omarosa is playing Trump like a fiddle. If only she had used her powers for good.
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The people who are his supporters and the enablers in Congress truly are “deplorables”. Unfortunately it was the wrong messenger with baggage of her own who made that pronouncement.
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Mr. Trump's behavior makes it clear that he is emotionally unfit to effectively serve as President of the United States. It doesn't matter which political party any Senator, Congressional Representative or registered American Voter supports. Mr. Trump's behavior and his words are unprofessional, disrespectful and unacceptable. ALL of our elected leaders need to stand up and speak out about the travesty that is taking place in our country.
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Trump's behavior hasn't changed for decades, and was on full frontal display during his entire campaign. He was actually the most honest candidate there was, because he never shielded who he was or what he believed.
That anybody witnessing his pre-election behavior should have thought his or her vote for him would change that behavior is absurd. That a society or a news media should consider this "news" is laughable. There is nothing new about it.
Trump is a despicable character now...but he was before he became President too, and the fact he now holds the office says more about "we the people" than it does about him.
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No. Trump did not call an "African-American" a "dog". He called Omarosa a "Dog".
Leaving aside the vital point that a president should not be directing such language toward anyone, it is the media who are making it a racial issue. As they do with just about every issue they can.
There is no credible argument that this spat has anything to do with race (he did hire this African-American as an adviser in the first place). By this criterion, any member of a minority has to be considered as beyond criticism.
It is depressing to read media coverage that is constantly saturated with race, even when it has no possible relevance.
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What has happened to our country?? His supporters have been hiding in the weeds waiting for someone to legitimize them, and he has arrived. What I don't understand is why anyone is appalled or surprised. He has always been a crass, fame seeking, embarrassment. I watched Apprentice, because it was like watching any reality show. When there's a car wreck at the side of the road there are so many who slow down to watch.
We need to mobilize to restore dignity and fairness to our country which was once a place to be proud of.
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This one sentence pretty much proves how unhinged DJT is"Mr. Trump’s advisers and allies described the tweet about Ms. Manigault Newman, in particular, as a reaction to the accusations that she makes about the president in “Unhinged,"
Trump promised his base he would restore their relatively good paying jobs.
He has not done this.
A rising stock market or a lower unemployment rate [mainly from low paying jobs] but no rise in wages has not helped his base.
So the only choice for Trump is to pander to hatred and that means refusing to condemn bigots and calling people who disagree with him names.
Trump must retain support of his base as Mueller zeros in on Trump's crimes.
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Hopefully people of U.S. will get tired of Mr. Trumps constant nasty and sarcastic comments. This president has provoked Iran to ban all talks with USA and causing government of Turkey to turn to Iran and others as "new allies".
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Well, he gave her a job with him and took her under his wing which shows he likes people who have pizzazz rather than looking at a person's race. Again the media always trying to divide along race, gender ect rather than report the facts. Trump throws names at anyone, black, white, woman ect who cross him period!!
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Silence on behalf of the GOP-led Congress is deafening.
Of course Trump is a rude racist but that does not mean that our Congressional elected representatives should not be outraged and condemn his behavior.
Should any Americans still wonder if Trump has degraded the office of the White House, realize that a sitting (or any) President called another American a "dog" and a "low-life" as part of an intentional slur.
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And still, around 40% of Americans think this sad excuse for a president is what America needs. Shame on everyone who believes this man’s behavior is even remotely appropriate. Didn’t your parents teach you the difference between right and wrong? Aren’t you trying to teach your children that bullying is not to be tolerated? Did you not learn from your parents, teachers, and clergy that love and compassion is better than hatred? So what in your lives has occurred to render Donald Trump’s behavior acceptable to you? I cannot believe that so many people are so morally and ethically deficient that they rally behind this guy. I am disgusted by Trump, but moreso of those who support him. And I am not a liberal.
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It is time for Twitter to close Trump's account. Other social media platforms should do so as well.
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@Mark I don't agree, let him have all the platforms he desires. Let those who claim to be undecided about him be made aware of just who he is. He garnered 3 million fewer votes in 2016, perhaps enough people in the swing states that elected him will grow as weary of him as the majority of voters were in 2016 and won't dare vote for him again.
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I watched an interview she gave with 3 people (not sure which channel) what was striking was she was quizzed on why she felt the need to record her conversations from the outset. She responded in so many words that she didn't trust those around her. No one asked, what for me was a glaring question, why did you support a campaign in which you didn't trust anyone? A second supplementary question that the interviewers missed or ignored was if their own campaign staff can't trust Team Trump then why should America?
The whole thing is a level of disturbing even greater than "I don't see any reason why".
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I had assumed that calling Manigault a "dog" was just Trump's clever way of deflecting the attention of cable news and social media from the Manafort trial. But I hadn't counted on seeing such a detailed deconstruction of its meaning.
I suspect that, in the near future, people will be quoting Trump's un-presidential verbalizations with the same comic sensibility once reserved for Harry Truman's.
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It certainly has deflected attention away from the implications of the egregious signing statement that accompanied the recent defense bill.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/politics/trump-signing-statements....
I have nothing to say anymore, and that frightens me even more; he is beating us down with all of this, and I am emotionally exhausted. I am trusting everyone else to carry on in calling him out while I take the the next week off. Perhaps we can create a shared calendar with watchtower duties.
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Why does this surprise people? This language and behavior is entirely in keeping with Trump.
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I am profoundly disappointed in our president. He lets us down almost daily and sometimes multiple times a day. There was the failure to recognize our ailing, war hero, John McCain. Then there was the tweet which was clearly racist about Ms. Manigault-Newman. The winds are gradually shifting. Some of my conservative friends who would have defended the president to the end are now recognizing how unhinged and bizarre he is. One even surprisingly indicated support for a Democrat for the Senate in the midterms. Perhaps Trump will do us a great service by ridding us of the Greedy Old Party majorities in Congress.
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Why doesn’t this article include the (non) reaction of those in government? Has their ongoing and deafening silence conditioned reporters to even stop asking?
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Trump is incapable of respect. That is why he is so beloved by the GOP. I am not sure which Is worse, hate or total disregard. We must just endure him like shingles or the hives.
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Who isn't demeaned by having to endure the governance of the most abjectly unworthy individual with name recognition in US public life?
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Trump cannibalizes any and everyone who opposes him [figuratively speaking of course]. Now one of his most dedicated pupils is trying to make him her dinner now. And, in return, he is lashing out with all the vulgarity he is capable of. I guess Trump never expected her to aim her teeth at him. And now he is coming for her...
I hope this serves as a reminder to all deplorables. If you eat with canibbals, do not be surprised they eventually will eat you too ...
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And all that hatred, racism, sexism and insults that Trumps spews are still in line with the terms and conditions of Twitter?
Hard to understand why Trump has not been blocked by Twitter after these messages....
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Liberals, conservatives, and other decent Americans will continue to resist the idea that this racist president be given any credit for the positive economic developments going on in this country. The reality is that the blood, sweat, and tears of the American people drive the US economy and achieve what the president loves to take credit for while he refers to successful, African-American women as dogs from the bully pulpit of the presidency.
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@Tony C
His tax reform bill cutting taxes for the wealthiest alone cuts health insurance for 13 million Americans. How many of them are black?
And then there's the housing disaster at HUD, the education disaster triggered by Betsy Devos, the tariffs making stuff more expensive for Americans to buy, the EPA that is led by anti-protection guys ...
What the GOP is doing to this country today not only has a huge cost for African-Americans, it strongly hurts all Americans. Trump's tweeting "style" perfectly illustrates the aggressive way the GOP is destroying America's greatness day after day.
VOTE!!
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When Bill Clinton violated the dignity of the presidency it was common knowledge that Vice President Gore was disgusted by his actions. Add Mike Pence to the list of deplorables who support Trump 100% by keeping their mouths shut. And this is the man who will rise to the presidency if we should be so fortunate to see Trump impeached.
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“Dehumanizing” the opposition is nothing new. It’s sad, though, that in this day and age we would have a president who feels so overwhelmed that he would constantly sink so low.
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@Tell the Truth--He has been this way his entire life. People in New York know that, but people farther away did not--or they never would have voted for him.
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What will history say of this new generation of bigots who attained the highest office in the land? How will we explain such an anomaly? It’s our fault initially and then again, if nothing further is done.
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I don't think dog is a racist comment. It is more frequently said abut women whom men find unattractive. It is used by men who make a fraction of the hateful comments made by Trump. Let's reserve racist for comments that really are.
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Well said.
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Omarosa is laughing all the way to the bank. The longer she feigns outrage at Mr. Trump's tweet where he referred to her as "a dog," the more books she will sell. At this point, she is merely famous for being famous.
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What saddens me most is his base who condones this behavior. I would have hoped our country did’’t have 38% of the votes who show no sign of humanity. These people could stop this while still approving of his Presidency. They could protest his vile behavior but instead they applaud his misogyny racism and deplorable insults of anyone who doesn’t agree with him.
Where are the good men and women who voted for him. Where are they hiding? Do they exist?
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Due to the Electoral College California is totally disenfranchised in Presidential elections. Thats how a guy who calls black women "dumb" and "dog" gets to be president despite getting 3 million less votes. America is a great democracy that has saved other democracies more than once. For example us (Australia) and France in WW2. In a parliamentary democracy like UK, NZ and Australia however an out of control leader can be ejected while her/his party remains in power. If the electorate in Australia for example, elects the Labor party and the leader turns out to be a disaster, the people keep the government they elected but with a new leader. The elected party members get to elect the leader. In our elections the PM's name does not appear on the ballot unless it is in her/his own seat. It is a different system and I am sure there are advantages to the US system and I wouldn't presume to tell you how to run things. But is there anything you can do to learn from this Trump nightmare so it doesn't happen again?
A cultural difference we have here in Australia is what we call the "tall poppy syndrome" where the tallest flowers are cut down first; so people don't get ahead of themselves.
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@Bob Guthrie Unlike the US, in the UK, Australia, Canada, and NZ the Head of State is HM the Queen, as represented by the Governor General. The Prime Minister is the head of his/her party and thus can be removed. The US President is the elected Head of State. We do not have a Prime Minister.
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@Marie Muir
Thanks for your response. However if Australia becomes a Republic the PM would still be removable. The Governor General has almost no power and has almost no bearing in practice on the displacement or otherwise of the leader. There was one exception in 1975 in Canberra and we are still trying to get over it. It caused a constitutional crisis and will never happen again. Since he US president can be removed by impeachment it perhaps devaluates your (rather good) argument. The problem is the ease or lack thereof of replacing a dysfunctional leader in the USA. The US president appears to have power way beyond the leader of most democracies. Yet you make a good point.
The article referred to Trump's racism, but failed to acknowledge he is also a misogynist. One does not exclude the other.
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I think Trump's education was rounded off in the radio school for 'shock-jocks' - you know, people practiced in the arts of being as offensive as possible and still holding down a job. Alex Jones, Howard Stern, Don Imus are the shining alumni if their history of offensive commentary is anything to go by.
Trump's objective is pretty much - attract a base audience and play to their prejudices. Calling anyone a 'dog' is offensive - calling an African-American female a 'dog' is a not only a derogatory racial epithet, it is hate-speech and sets a tone for racists who can now justify use the slur because 'the President said it.' The disgrace and division this man brings to the USA is all that he will be remembered for.
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Trump's administration reminds me so much of the Nixon years in the White House. Then, as now, I used to rise each morning, turn on the radio as an accompaniment to my breakfast, and listen to the latest buffoonery from Washington. Two presidents on an asymptotic slide toward the bottom that neither would nor could reach, but not for lack of trying. However, I can think of extremely positive things that Nixon accomplished; Trump, on the other hand, not so much. Trump seems to have nothing inside him--no reservoir of good ideas, no good will, no decency, or even a compass that will point him occasionally (should he choose to believe it) in the right direction. Inside Trump is only Trump sitting among four mirrors each at a cardinal point and reflecting him to infinity.
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I guess all I can say is keep tweeting Mr. President. Keep up your ugly tweets for America to see, and we’ll see you in the voting booths in 2020.
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I just saw her interview with Trevor Noah on the Daily Show.
Many journalists/comments below make this about her as a person - and rightly so, as publishing this kind of books means searching the spotlights.
The interview did give a bit more insight in how Trump treats the people he works with/hires though.
He picks "underdogs": people who hadn't been very lucky in life until they met him, and who (just like him) live in a "dog eats dog world". Those people are attracted to him by (1) the fact that he perfectly embodies a "dog eats dog world" leadership style, and (2) the opportunity to finally earn tons of money and be in a position of power themselves (the only viable position, in this kind of "Dogville").
That's why people working for him deliberately accept all the lies, bullying, unfair treatment, and all kinds of discrimination. They develop what Omarosa now calls a "blind spot": first of all, their own life experience makes them ignore the existence of other types of worlds/leadership so they tend to accept to undergo this because they believe that things won't be better elsewhere, and secondly, their need for money/fame/power is such (also because of how they've grown up) that first they try to look away, and then start imitating the lying, bullying and cheating too, just to keep their job (Trump's version of "loyalty").
Sarah Sanders clearly corresponds to this kind of profile too.
How long before one of these "dogs" truly eats the Dog-in-Chief ... ?
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This is so old school, so late 20th century, trying to expose a hidden, latent quality of someone by analyzing his coded words.
Hello, Trump is openly a racist, by his deeds, by his pronouncements, by his social and economic policies.
One does not need to consult linguists and psychologists to understand Trump. Nor wait for some elusive tape to turn up.
Even if Trump never used the n word doesn't make him less of a racist.
What more signs are black voters waiting for?
Do black voters really need a tape to turn up before turning out in the polls to vote for Trump's opponent, or to turn mid-Term elections?
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@LdV -- blacks sure did not elect the Donald, what are you talking about?
The plain fact of the matter though is they weren't very motivated to turn out for HRC ... hardly any surprise that she didn't do as well at that as Obama.
A better turnout of blacks and hispanics could have tipped Florida, Wisconsin, or Michigan. Had HRC won Florida and either of the other two, she would have won.
But then the greater inexplicable result is why so many white women voted for Trump, indeed so many college-educated white women? I have no answer for this.
But all indications are that these constituencies are far less likely to support Trump and far more likely to get out and vote against him, than they were.
And if that's true, Trump won't get reelected.
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@Lee Harrison
Blacks did not turn out to vote for HRC because they needed something to inspire them. Surprise, surprise, now they are regretting it. What more inspirations do blacks need? Apparently, it's being goaded on by the NYT that DT called them "not smart", "dog" and, maybe, possibly, in an elusive tape, the n word.
My point is, DT will surely get re-elected if blacks are still waiting on that tape.
I have a yellow lab named Lady who is much more presidential than Trump could ever be. Lady has never insulted anyone. In fact, Lady loves everyone she meets. She greets the UPS man, the postman and the neighbors with a smile and a wagging tail.
She makes better decisions than Trump. On a hot summer day she can be found swimming in the pond or wandering a hillside in the pasture. She doesn’t use twitter or Facebook but she will definitely bark if a coyote gets too close to the house. She would never stoop so low as to call someone a “trump”. She is just not made that way.
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@Alden
Lady was not elected so the fact you think your dog would is more Presidential is irrelevant.
Was Clinton being Presidential.
No but I didn't care.
I liked the way he ran the country.
Your dog I am sure is incapable of running the country.
The problem with extreme liberals and conservatives is that if you disagree with them they will demonize you.
It's either their way or the highway.
Conservatives have the right to be conservative and to support policiesthat they like.
They should not be insulted because they like Trump.
Liberals are not inherently better than conservatives.
I did not like the agreement Obama made but I understood how someone can have a different opinion as they believe the agreement has worked and believe he should be praised.
I do support some of what Trump has said about Muslims and believe Liberals ignore that many of them have made France a dangerous place to be if you are Jewish.
I believe some of those liberals are Anti Semites but I prefer to think of them as being ignorant or believe that what happened in France will not happen here.
I therefore do not say they do not have the right to call Trump a racist as that is what I might say if I agreed with them.
I have no opinion about the tax cut but I understand how some can say it was good for the country and some would say the opposite.
I do not understand how someone can say it is proof he is incompetent and should be removed from office.
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@lucky
you are a sad human being. I would vote for Lady any day over the despicable human we have now. He is not now or ever was my president.
@Nostradamus Said So
That is your opinion and I am sure you are not then only one.
You are not only the same you are ignorant.
Instead of telling me why you why he is despicable you chose just to say it as if just saying it makes it true.
Tell me using logic why you think I am wrong.
Not why you think Trump is wrong.
Clearly if you read my comment I agree that you can disagree with the way he governs.
Tell me what he has done that is despicable with the way he has governed and don't tell me about his tweets.
LBJ also was known for using language that was
not appropriate.
FDR was President when the KKK was much stronger than it is now.
He needed their votes so he did nothing that would make them weaker.
In fact he appointed someone to the supreme court who had been a member of the
He did not fight segregation even in the army which as President he had the power to do by executive order.
Trump is your President even if you try to deny it..
You can't deny a fact.
That alone tells me you have problems and why you would vote for a dog.
I'm not sure that anything new can be said about this cesspool. But one thought comes to my mind: There is nothing virtuous about Huckabee Sanders' written apology, since she can count on the administration's supporters never reading it. Instead, they will have her statistical lies on record to sustain their hate.
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Where is the outrage? How many days in a week does this poseur-president(?) spend in name-calling and feuds as opposed to doing any real work?The scandals, the allegations, the rhetoric are legion.
Where are our Congressional leaders? In hiding?
This administration has made a mockery of government and has no credibility.The entire cast of this third rate reality show needs to be taken off the air post haste.
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I think at the rate he’s going the US will not survive Trump’s Presidency.
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"heat" is getting too close--tapes shown up all over the places: Michael Cohen, Omarosa...who knows who else have recordings of Trump. Trump might have tapes of conversation with Comey, but he was not releasing them because it could prove Comey was telling the truth. ooooh, Trump is unraveling from the seams !
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He was racist enough to let her win at the apprentice and then consent to appointing her to his staff. He had such foresight that he knew that she would then publish her book with salacious details, so that he could then denigrate her, and by implication denigrate all black people. Speaking as “a person of colour” my reaction is : Yeah, right! Long live the resistance.
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@Abacus
Racism doesn't mean hating ALL people of a certain race. It doesn't even mean to never want to work with them.
It means to use words or take certain decisions that reflect a negative image of an entire race. You cannot possibly deny that that's what Trump does on a regular basis.
Racism isn't about being a good or bad person. Many racists have good intentions. They simply have convictions that are based on partial knowledge of the truth, and then extrapolate that to all people belong to a certain race. And then ALL of them have met "exceptions", of course. Those exceptions, precisely because they are considered to be exceptions, are people they accept to work with, or sometimes just people they got to know a little better. They never make them change their racist ideas about the rest of them.
Example? My own mother (unfortunately).
She was recently hospitalized, and woke up next to a woman of 36 in the other bed. She happened to be of Muslim descent, so of course, that was the first thing my mother told me about her. And then she added: but you wouldn't have noticed you know, she was such a kind person, and looked perfectly normal!
I hope you understand that such thoughts are racist ... ?
And then there's US history, which literally treated blacks as dogs for more than a century, which is yet one more reason to NOT call them that today - apart from the fact that presidents should be leading through example, rather than throwing insults as a 5-year old ...
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When I was a teen in the 1970's, "dog" was the favored term, especially of preppy men, for women who did not meet their standards for beauty or who perhaps had their own opinions or who were not interested in jumping into bed with them.
Trump's use of "dog" is sexist.
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At this point the fights about whether or not Omerosa was legally recording are beside the point. No one in the WH seems capable of telling the truth and we all know that recordings are the only possibility for truth nowadays - as much as can be heard above the twitter rants and lies by virtually everyone on parade who is connected to the WH.
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Elsewhere I read pitiful attempts to rationalise this outrageous insult from a democratically elected president. No matter the provocation, an elected leader is expected to maintain is expected to maintain composure and equanimity. Of course, one has come not to expect these from the current president. However, even for him, this is a new low and any effort to rationalise this in any quarter is an affront to intelligence.
It does not matter any longer, whether he used the N-word or not, this insult, publicly hurled, should be sufficient to disown him.
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This could be easily solved if Twitter just banned this deranged individual. It allows him to be a coward, hiding behind his phone, having one-way conversations filled with bile and hate.
Trump should be banned from Twitter and if he wants to insult people and cause division, he can have a press conference and face the public like a man.
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Who can credibly say Trump represents this nation at its best, with honor, integrity or competence? A spurned reality TV star hawking a book further drags the nation into the Trump gutter, porn star pay-offs, immigrant children locked in cages, policies gutting environmental standards, needless trade wars, reckless abandonment of historic global allies. Yet, by at least one national poll, the country is nearly 50-50 among those think Trump is doing a good job, and those who don't. It's wake-up time for America.
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What every voter should focus on over the coming weeks is that the Republican leadership and trump's base like him just the way he is.
And then, to a man and a woman, get out and vote to end this nightmare.
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Seven who are mostly likely to effectively, and completely, hoist Donald by his own petard, before anyone else has a chance to take their best shot:
1. Melania
2. Omarosa
3. Ivana
4. Stormy
5. Marla
6. Karen
7. Sarah
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Omarosa beat Trump at his own game, that’s what is really bothering him and the reason he is lashing out with insults . Typical school yard bully behavior, so in kind - stick and stone may break my bones but words would never hurt me.
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The key to her performance is victimhood, unfortunately the quality escapes her in the role
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The presidency of the United States of America has now been so defiled by this vulgar, indecent man that I cannot imagine it ever being restored. And I blame every voter who put him in that once-hallowed office, every person who accepts a paycheck in his administration, and every Republican elected official. If I were ever in his presence, I would turn my back to him in protest.
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@abigail49
Better to leave the room. You compromise yourself to a man of his character. He doesn't have anyone's back but his own. And he's grabby, If heard.
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Donald and Melania, curiously were born in the year of the dog according to the Chinese zodiac. Melania in 1970 and Don in 1846. 2018 is also the year of the dog. If you believe that sort of the thing, then you might know when the current year is your year that you usually have a bad year in your own year.
Calling any human an animal is a disgrace and confirms Trump's authoritarian propensities. It is the first step to doing things like say... putting toddlers in cages and/or separating them from their parents.
-what has happened to those children?
- where are Trump's taxes?
- what has happened to Puerto Rico?
Please Donald instead of acting like a barker (pun intended) at a 2 bit carnival, how about some tweets on the three questions above?
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@Bob GuthrieSorry I meant 1946 not 1846, but the latter would have made a good joke. But I did not mean it that way. The 1846 was a typo.
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As the WH says, Trump's tweets are official USA policies...
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Trump takes advantage of the asymmetry between normal news reporting and his psychopathic (he fits the definition perfectly) behavior.
Imagine the demeaning nicknames which could readily be applied to him. In fact people do imagine them, as can be seen by the reader references to him on unmoderated reader comments pages.
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The depths of this man know no bounds. Problem is it could get a lot lot worse.
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Just the language in the tweet (and so many others) is demeaning to the Office of the President of the United States. This is front-page news here in Australia and not the impression of your wonderful country - I'm sure - most Americans would have us be 'assaulted' with.
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We used to call the Oval Office... the highest office? Or something like that? Trump has lowered the President’s office to the lowest of low. What a piece of art is this man.
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I almost wish we Democrats had a candidate in the wings who could insult and demean his critics as casually and unapologetically as Trump does. There are quite a few Republicans who need dressing down in public. The late night comedians do a good job at it but the have a like-minded audience.
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@abigail49
Michael Avenatti is claiming to be your guy.
But WHY would we elevate this kind of childish, immoral behavior to the standard we'd now come to expect from future presidential candidates too ... ?!?
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As a US citizen and more importantly, as a human being, I cannot take it anymore. Who would have ev er guessed we would go from Obama who embodied discipline, intelligence, integrity, thoughtfulness, generosity, kindness, respect and transparency to the Trump train wreck. I feel like I'm a bit player in a Twilight Zone episode.
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As a UK citizen I, in common with many people I know, think that the idea that Trump is the ‘leader of the free world’ is beyond a joke. Trump is leading the US up the garden path and, it seems, the US population as a whole is happy with this despite the valid protestations expressed by many. How has the US sunk so low so quickly?
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@Garry Taylor--No, Garry, your claim that the "U.S. population as a whole is happy" is just wrong. He enjoys the support of between 29-36% of the voting age people.
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@Garry Taylor
once the US has a handle on the opoid addictions & the results of "happy" trump base voters the country will return I hope to more respectful & responsible thinking. This is the reason trump is not fighting the opoid crisis right now because he wants to stay in office & the drugs are helping his base.
The media needs to show more respect for Omarosa. To constantly condescend and repeat how she has "no credibility" is to do the work of Donald Trump. We the public can make up our own minds whether she is worthy of believing. We know that our president is not, with his over 4,000 lies since taking office. Could she actually be less believable than him? It's not really possible. If she were a man, I doubt she'd be getting the disbelief and disrespect from the cable news and radio media she is getting every day. Why not stop trying to discredit her and focus on what she has told us that we know is true or probably true. Maybe we'll all learn something.
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Wake up, USA! The nation is under attack by wild, unhinged (not to imply that Trump ever was "hinged") President Pathological. This rates as serious on a scale with Trump's late, unlamented fellow Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy. President Pathological may well be crazier.
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Trump the president of this country is so comfortable of his overt bigotry because he's backed by millions of racist whites in this country.
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Wait, wait... Who, exactly, on planet Earth doesn't understand that Donald J. Trump is a racist white supremacist??? Certainly his base voted for him because he is.
Until we can accept this basic fact, we cannot move forward in dealing with issues of race and racism in America. This continuous, blind, bestowing of the "benefit" of doubt on whether the most outspoken white supremacists are racist serves no good whatsoever.
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People of color already know these things, old tired exposure of racism by calling people names. I mean blacks talk negatively about white people too. The difference is that the black community is experiencing a renaissance that is strengthening us now and our children in the future, in the midst of all of this adversity. Watch out white supremacist, your time is comming to an end . Enjoy your bigoted commander in chief while you have a chance, his reign and all of those following him, will be short and his demise will be devastating. Its called Karma !!
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Trump has the gravitas of a junior high bully with all the little perjoratives like "little Marco," "lying Ted," and "crooked Hillary."
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Another proof that money can’t buy class.
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If our Prime Minister called a Canadian citizen a dog...i can tell you what would happen...there would be a motion of non-confidence in the Government, there would be a vote and the Government would fall...plain and simple.
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The fact the Mr. Trump never had or has a dog, a cat, or a pet of any type tells you a lot about the man and his character.
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A Canadian minister of Foreign Affairs tweets in defense of women’s rights and Canada is slammed with sanctions. The US President insults women in a tweet and suffers no consequences
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@David Mathies. David, you and your fellow citizens have my support, from London.
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It’s like we are living in a WWF show all the time, it’s just a matter of time before he starts putting WH staff and former staff in head locks at one of his ring side rallies.
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I won't call President Trump a dog because it would be an insult to the dog-kind. All the dogs that I know are kind, loving, social, and absolutely trust worthy.
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apparently the strict confidentiality/no personal electronics policy in the situation room was "enforced" by providing cubbies outside for phones, etc. - kind of like cubbies for putting your shoes in before going into a yoga room?
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Omarosa certainly sold her soul for money and position - but she AND Trump knew what they were getting. Trump is beyond redemption and Bravo Omarosa if this helps get rid of him - or at least get democrats to the polls. But also disturbing is how Trump obviously has no affection for dogs! There's something inherently wrong and mean-spirited about people who use the word dog as a negative - they are the most loving, trustworthy friends on the planet! Man's best friend, right?
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@Anne - spot on no comparison at all to this woman.
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There are a lot of "Mad King" fans out there, and an even larger segment of our population, who are far more interested in Consumer Goods, than the actual mechanics of our government.
I wonder what would happen, if the mass-media stopped focusing on Trump's antics, and carefully examined exactly what is really happening in our country? Probably, their viewer-ship would drop to near zero, and nothing else would change.
Our future? Trump Again, Pence Pence. We are doing it to ourselves. History will hate us.
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So this is what a man who knows all the best words sounds like.
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'Curiosity killed the cat; information made him fat; satisfaction brought him back', while half the country is wondering why Americans are putting up with more of these stupidities and diversions. The dog in this story is us, and we are not about to allow ourselves to get trumped because it is the Chinese Year of the Dog.
Trump is already in the doghouse with our allies and civilized nations across the borders. Let us save our country and use our voices instead of wasting more time depleting our forests, and use our newspapers to inform us of how to go about setting our nation back on its feet.
We have had enough of this tabloid presidency. Enough with these dog day summer days. It is time to stand strong and prepare for the November elections; a time to vote Trump and his swamp out of office.
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Faithful, friendship, camaraderie, empathy, are attributes this man doesn’t know. I used to be greatly amused by Trump, although since first day in office Trump has been disgusting more than 50% of us.
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If we had just walked into the middle of this movie, if we hadn't seen the previews, the advertisements and watched the feature film unwind for the last year and a half, we would say that the occupant of the White House is stark, raving mad. We would say that his ranting represents not only blatant racial animosity, but also shows a person either losing his mind or having watched it previously depart.
Because it is Trump, because he has wounded our hearts and souls with vile invective almost daily, he has created a bruised part of our minds which, because of the repeated hits, has developed a toughness based in part on disregard. We are worn down. Our ability to absorb repeated blows derives in part from our ability to disregard any norms of decent behavior and the normalization of what at other times in our national life would bring utter outrage and disgust. Do we have the energy for that any more?
As Trump continues to blast through the thick walls that protect him with his defenders, he is surely finding a way to pull himself down, moment by moment, day by day. Hey, he's a fighter! Admirable? If only he were fighting for something other than dominating the news cycle and protecting his fragile, baby like ego.
This guy is about nothing. His anti-immigrant stance, one of his most popular thrusts, is energized by others who control him. He is at constant war just for the sake of being constantly at war. He gives an excellent imitation of an idiot every time he tweets.
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Thank you, well said, well written. My sentiments spot on.
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To conclude that Trump is racist based on his calling one former staffer who happens to be black "a dog" and a "crazed, crying lowlife" is inaccurate and unfair, and perhaps belying a 'snowflake' disposition. Trump denigrates everyone, black or white, in one form or another. In fact, it might be argued that he is not a racist since he is an equal-opportunity offender. If someone really wanted to determine whether Trump is racist, they'd tally up his tweets to see whether he favors insulting members of one group over another. Don't be surprised if the results show that his insults are fairly well-distributed demographically.
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@L.gordon--Because he consistently attacks black people, his insults are not "fairly well-distributed". The evidence is in: he's a racist.
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Good to know all you need to do to get a job at the white house is have someone feel bad for you. That explains the high quality of people there and in the fam. Kelly will have to clear house to deal with dt’s own characterization of his employees and then fire himself.
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Amorosa Manigualt Newman should have never been involved with the likes of Donald Trump. Shame on her. Ironically
It was after Trump use the N word when she declared him a racist. He was racist against Mexican, Muslims and disgraced women while she staunchly supported and rallied behind him. I guess it is ok if he was racist against others.
Amorosa and Trump are deserving of each
other.
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Oh, relax. He's called plenty of people plenty of names, whether they're black, white, female, male, or whatever. You're not special.
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We're supposed to relax, because a sitting president of the U.S. has called plenty of people plenty of names in public forums while in office as part of his formal communication?
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@Kevin K.
No, a great number of people will not relax until Donald Trump is impeached and no longer allowed in public office.
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Trump is helping Omarosa's book promotion tour immensly. "Unhinged" is #1 and #2 on Amazon in several important categories. Are Trump tweets about "Crazy Omarosa" in his interests. Yes. It's an act of charity that he makes her relevant again and helps her enrich herself. Trump is a charitable person. A real humanitarian.
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I simply cannot believe this is the country our great grandparents, grandparents, and parents built for us. To have a President of the United States who calls others by petty names like an 8 year old school bully; to have him working to divide us as a nation; to lie straight faced about almost everything; to enact policies that are to the detriment of our environment; to strip people of insurance minimum standards, to start trade wars that will only hurt our own industries; to reduce taxes for the rich at the peril of government operating income; to ignore the fate of American citizens in Puerto Rico where 1,500 died (that's 1/2 of those that perished on 9/11). And to have a senate that refuses to stand up for our country while this administration plunders all we hold sacred. What have we come to?
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Trump: Insult to Omarosa, women and dogs
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Three interesting historical tidbits worth noting in this context;
1. The first time Hillary Clinton received national notice was 1969, when her classmates chose her to deliver a commencement address at her graduation.
2. The first time Barack Obama received national notice was 1990, during his third year at Harvard Law when his classmates chose him as editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review.
3. The first time donald j trump received national notice was 1973, when the Nixon administration sued him for race discrimination.
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With all of the serious problems in this country and the world, this is what we all are subjected to just about every day from this farce of a president and the complicit GOP. They MUST be removed from office one way or another.
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Maybe he treats women differently (disrespectfully ) because he has tiny hands ; can't quite wrap them around his low self esteem . He should remember dogs are man's best friend , providing you don't abuse them ; otherwise they'll bite . Omarosa is no gem but in this instance she bit ! Maybe his lying tweeting fingers have caused some blowback , the thing is , she has tapes and released them .
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Woof, woof!! My name is Spot and I'm a dog! I'm pretty sick and tired of Trump using the "d" word to label people he doesn't like. There's nothing wrong with being a dog. Most people LIKE dogs, and most dogs like people. So maybe being called a dog by Trump should be more of an honor badge. Sort of the opposite of being in the Trump administration. Woof, woof.
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“vicious, but not smart”... the man must have been looking in a mirror.
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While it is true that he did direct an insult at a black person, he has also called over 10 white men dogs, check his Twitter. Therefore the headline is purposely misleading readers to think that race is the central factor, which in this case, aside from probably being a reason for hiring her in the first place, it is not. The headline should be changed I think.
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If you can provide links, please do.
(I'm being neither facetious nor challenging. Please help us to understand your point by providing tweets.)
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Those who question how people can continue to support trump need to be reminded that he is doing exactly what his supporters want him to do, which is also what they wish they could do. They envy his racism, misogyny, homophobia and narcissism and would exhibit the very same behaviors if they thought they could do so with the same lack of consequences that trump enjoys.
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Here's a thing that happened today at an arts camp in America: a 6-year-old boy drew a picture of Trump with a bomb strapped to his head. This is happening. Where are the adults?
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When can we make space on Mt. Rushmore for this wonderful man?
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Trump has quite clearly substantially mentally diminished as Amarosa has said from her long experience with Trump.
She speaks the truth
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Silence is consent. Where is Congress' outrage, why are they not taking a stand against racism and the president's racist actions? If your senator or representative is silent, vote them out in November 2018 or in 2020.
America is better than this nonsense.
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And the evangelicals, among others, insist that THIS was “sent by God for America”? God help us!
46-1 (I refuse to say the excuse for a man’s name) has lowered the office of the Presidency to level unimaginable before he took office.
From Obama to this. How low we have sunk.
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In Trump's world - and that of the lowlife creeps he appeals to - a "dog" is normally an unattractive woman. He's only protecting his fragile ego.
Trump is a cowardly bully. Giving him power was the stupidest thing the US has ever done.
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At 70 years of age, I’ve never before been ashamed of or embarrassed by the President of the United States.
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I have to agree, and add outraged.
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@Mark
I'm 75 and I also must agree. Never ever before have I seen such a farce as President. As a Democrat, I've called for the resignation of Nixon (Watergate) and Bill Clinton (Monica). I'm not calling for Trump's resignation, I guess I'm calling for all voters to oust all Republicans from elective office. The Republicans are staying silent because of the "base" being poised to vote in Republican primaries.
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@Ceefer66 -- there's never been a President of the United States remotely as unqualified and obviously mentally disturbed as Donald Trump.
Historians generally consider a cluster of presidents who led up to the Civil War (and then Johnson & Grant who came after) as the worst ... usually choosing Buchanan as the very worst. They are largely seen as the worst because they fomented slavery and the war, or because (Johnson) they built Jim Crow. Grant had a corrupt administration, but was not corrupt himself. As bad as all this was, none of them were like Trump.
After them it's Harding, Nixon, GWB. As bad as these men were, none of them were as incompetent and narcissistic as Trump. And pitifully many Americans, including most Democrats, would take GWB back in an instant over Trump.
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“If at any point we felt that the president was who some of his critics claim him to be, we certainly wouldn’t be here,” Ms. Sanders said.
Is it possible to asphyxiate from laughing too hard?
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Trump constantly getting into personal feuds, how about trying to just run the country? On second thought this might be to difficult, too challenging.
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Trump has no respect for anyone. The whole concept of respect is completely foreign to him.
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I was watching a program that stated that President McKinley, far from a great president himself, tried to get his way, not from insults, lies and bullying, but from compliments and courtesy — and he was very happy to let others take credit for his accomplishments. He didn't care.
How far we have fallen!
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I would bet the tape, or tapes, are in the possession of his producer Mr. Burnett. He obviously does not want to release them because he and Trump are friends and who knows what dirt Trump has on him. OK. So I will stop watching any MGM productions or buying anything from their advertisers until Burnett comes clean. I do not think it possible for this president to ever come clean, but at least a tape of this kind would sink his ship.
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I worry not one bit about Ms. Manigault Newman's feelings. She's learned her lessons well and knows exactly what she's doing. What Mr. Trump probably doesn't realize is she has nothing to lose by his insults and the more he takes her on the longer she's in the news which improves her book sales.
He has far more to lose; she can potentially inflict harm on him since she really was by his side for over a decade. She is his first evenly matched adversary and willing to go sleaze for sleaze while shilling her book.
Not what I'd hoped for our country but it may speed the end of this reality horror show.
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I ask this all the time, why I have to, is beyond me: " When are you going to get rid of this clown, America?"
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Seriously? This is the best trump can do. He is coming unhinged. He must be feeling Mueller's breath on the back of his neck. Innocent men do not act like this, nor do adults. Get a grip Donald.
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One has to wonder why Mr. Trump gave a "crazed, crying lowlife" a job at the White House. He certainly knew her for a long enough period of time to have a pretty good idea what sort of a person she is. And if he didn't, one must assume that Mr. Trump is a very poor judge of character and competence.
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@Joseph I suspect Trump wanted to give her a chance. She and he had a good and mutually beneficial relationship for more than 10 years. Even those who are very good judges of character and competence make mistakes.
Trump haters certainly have plenty of reasons to hate Trump. But I think this kind of thing is a petty reason. There is no more here than there was the book Fire and Fury. It should have fizzled by now. Shame on those who fan the flames.
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@Joseph Remember Snowden? You never know with people. The Chinese has a saying about things like this, “When the coffin is nailed down you may conclude on his character”. See the divorces around you too.
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@Joseph It was, in his own words, because she said 'great things about me'.
We can say, "there are bad Dogs on both sides"
That is Trump & Omarosa.
The sad thing, one of them happened to be the President of the United States of America..
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Maybe I have a blind spot, but in my old-fashioned world "dog" would be as insulting to a white woman as to a black one.
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@Martin Daly. When someone calls a white woman a dog, they are likely referring to her looks. When someone calls a black woman a dog, they are likely referring to her looks and/or race, making the term doubly hurtful.
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Mr Trump's greatest harm to the US and the world is not the erosion of environmental consciousness, nor is it the threat of nuclear war or any war; it is not the threat of major economic upheaval, nor is it even the diminution of trust and respect for a free press; these things all being secondary. It is the abandonment of diplomacy, in the general sense of that term, the relinquishment of reason for a basic stimulus/response approach to everything. It is the abandonment of the very underpinning of civilisation.
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Donald Trump needs to repent for this latest "doggerel" of insults by doing something constructive:
Donate to Seeing Eye Dogs or else to Canine Companions.
Many dogs are downright heroes!
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If Kelly was trying to extort something from Manigault Newman during her firing, as the tape implies, she may have a very strong case to defend her recording(s).
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I certainly believe Trump is a racist. A public record like Trump's leaves little room for doubt. If you don't believe me, please begin with this short primer:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-r...
That said, the phrase "that dog" seems less like an explicit form of racism than just a dated lexicon in this instance. From my reading, Trump might as well have said "that scalawag." He would have sounded more modern. I wouldn't bother picking too closely at the vocabulary. The racism and misogyny are bred in the bone. He's an aging bigot. You just need to take that as given.
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@Andy. I think Trump said exactly what he thought. He wanted to insult Manigault Newman and he knew how to do it in the most hurtful way. He wasn't thinking "scalawag."
Yes, Trump is a bigot. Decent people need to call him out every time he displays it
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This is nonsense. Our ambassador to the UN is a woman, indeed a daughter of immigrants, appointed by Trump. And Trump just endorsed a black candidate, John James who won the primary in Michigan.
OK, Trump insults a lot of people, some of whom are black and some are female. But he hardly confines himself to blacks or women.
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@Ludwig Isn't this a straw man? "He did xyz for a black person, therefore he isn't racist and his insults towards black people should not be construed as racially based?"
Optics. That's all it is. Anyone can deduce that he is profiting from his open secret of disliking blacks. It is politically advantageous for him. When he pretends it isn't, he is assuming total oblivion on the part of the country. Don't give him the ignorance he seeks - see him for what it is and call him out on it.
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@Ludwig: Trump was sued as early as 1973 for refusing to rent to black people. Trump is a racist, that’s his appeal to most of his voters, ‘nuff said.
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@Ludwig--How easy was it for you to accept his behavior? Did you rationalize that, because he insults everyone that we should just accept it, too?
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Day by day he is making America worse and worse in the world! Waiting for an end to this real reality show.
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Most people like dogs. They are typically friendly, loyal, helpful, and engaging beings.
I can imagine a day in the not-too-distant future when the worst thing one might call another is "a Trump". It will suggest that one is nasty, cruel, vicious, selfish, deceptive, and petty.
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This type of language should never be used by a president. But I don’t see racism in that specific comment.
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@Fernando, knowing that Trump is not an animal lover of any kind, when he calls Omarosa a dog, he means it as a hateful invective. To equate a human being with animals he hates is absolutely disgusting, but who is surprised by that?
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@Fernando. "Linda-Susan Beard, the director of Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, said there is a long history in the United States of black women being compared to dogs."
Trump is a racist and he long ago learned all the code words.
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Trump supporters, many if not most of whom are racist (a logical conclusion given their indifference to morality - and also just obvious in how they respond to Trump's racism), admire Trump because he is not subtle in his disdain for and denigration of black people. He may have a slight veneer of caution in this regard, but everyone knows how he truly feels. His supporters know he is racist, and racism underlies so much of what goes on in this country. While Trump may hate people of all different races, his perceived superiority to black people is particularly repugnant given his position of power and this country's history. Additionally, does anyone else find it eerily dystopian how Sarah Sanders cannot even deny that he uses a racial epithet? And how he Tweets that there are NO TAPES, as though that were the issue and not his actual words and actions? Truly awful...and absolutely unacceptable.
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So according to the NYT, if she was a white woman, these comments would be less distasteful and perfectly acceptable? I'm not defending his conduct - it's not presidential - but it is possible to simply detest someone just because you don't like them, regardless of what their race is.
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How many reports from employees, former employees, and others do we have to have before people begin to realize all is not well in Fantasyland? Fool me once. . .
His whole administration is built on lies and corruption and people refuse to believe it.
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Isn't it sad that the only defense Sara Huckabee Sanders could come up with was to say that the president uses derogatory words against all sorts of people all the time? Sounds like second grade and he is considered by tradition to be "the leader of the free world?" Disgusting and creepy.
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I don't read "dog" as a racist slur. As you report, he has hurled that insult toward others without regard to race at all.
What I find more newsworthy is his description of OMN as "crazed crying lowlife" because that is how he describes her WHEN HE HIRED HER (offering her a break, as he put it).
As with most insults, we learn so much more about the purveyor than the target.
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Totally agree that making this about race or women undermines what's going on here. This man is our president and that he would unleash those kind of vile insults on ANYONE is the point—and he would. A new low even for him and truly scary. Next he'll have his "enemies" wear the equivalent of gold stars. WHY is he allowed to remain in office?????
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if Trump was in junior high school and high school no Dean or principal would allow his behaviors in their school so why should we tolerate this behavior in our President
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I have long thought that Donald Trump was a racist and a dangerous, ego-driven buffoon who delights in tearing down and belittling people. It has mystified me how people, particularly conservative Christians, could support and defend his actions in soiling the highest office in the land.
But I am not convinced that Trump's use of the word "dog" was actually directed at Omarosa Manigault Newman as a racial insult. She's just the latest person to get that label, others being white men and journalists. She's as venal and corrupt as he is; who would violate the national security rules by taping the president in the Situation Room, anyway?
What we can all be assured, however, is that this response by Trump, while sadly predictable, is still appalling. It is unbefitting of the President of The United States, who should be leading by example. In the last year I have never been so ashamed or disgusted to be an American.
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Well said. Same here
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"Fresh from his vacation in New Jersey, Mr. Trump had a light week of scheduled events."
Again, a vacation from what? Reality?
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If people prefer not to be called denigrating terms then perhaps they should choose what they themselves call the President. Plenty of folks (entertainers, sportsmen) have applied to Trump the vilest possible words (and NYT has printed them) but that seems to be acceptable. Until Trump insults you. Then, it's the end of the world.
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@Kai Ahhh, the "but she/he started it!" argument that never even worked in the 6th grade, let alone the national stage.....
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Where is the outrage that Trump specifically hired her because she was black simply for the optics? Then whose fault is it that she was there in the first place. We say we’re supposed to be color blind so that’s all we end up seeing.
@John Doe
here is his thinking...he hired her as his token black female, then had to fire her because she, a black female, could not do her job as a liaison with the black community. He just has to have white people doing these jobs because blacks just aren't up to it. Thinking about what his former COO of the trump casino reported trump saying he wasn't comfortable about a black accountant & preferring jewish guys wearing yarmulkes to a "lazy" black. He is so racist in his thinking. Jewish guys in yarmulkes? lazy blacks??
Go back through footage starting with the campaign debates and “dog” is one of this president’s favorite insults. There’s a list of white men who have had it hurled their way. It’s abhorrent, and undignified for a president, but for once, I don’t buy it had anything to do with race.
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The saying, "Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas" is particularly apt even if the president hadn't called the former apprentice a canine. Let's spend less than zero time defending Ms. Newman; she doesn't deserve it. She knew what he was when she joined the club (or should I say cult?). Here's another timely saying for Omarosa the Opportunist: You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them to bite only your neighbors.
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Trump had complete control over the hiring of Omarosa. That is his friend for over a decade, his former employee before he became POTUS, his judgement on display. He had her unethical behavior on hours of videotape. He should call himself a "dog", for hiring her.
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Mr. Trump never passes up an opportunity to demonstrate his smallness or his absolute lack of any sense of dignity.
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Gee, that's nothing compared to some of the insults I've heard aime at Trump.
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Gee, maybe you should listen to the tape on the bus with Bush again.
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@Amy
Amy, your comment is well taken."Traitor", "sexual pervert", "Cheeto" and "orangutan" are just a few of the epithets that the so-called Resistance bandies about gleefully. (So much for the outrageousness of using an animal as a metaphor for a human being). "Dog" is actually pretty mild stuff, in context.
The real issue is whether the President should stoop, even approximately, to their level, and on that I am genuinely conflicted.
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Probably the next clang of the bell we'll here from is the canine lobby. A great dane up on his hind legs at the podium.
"President Trump's implication that the person in question is a member of our species is an offense to our self regard. Perhaps when he hired the individual in question for the position he imagined an environment where a person might learn new tricks. But evidently the job's bite was worse than it's bark."
I imagined more time to work in a few more really-not-so-clever idioms but the cat is calling once again for her pajamas and my on-the-fly prioritizing compels me to respond. Afterwards I'll kick myself when I think of three or four more really good ones and lament that unlike other comment forums this outlet doesn't let us edit or correct embarrassing proofread-missed blunders.
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We have reached the point where the bottom of the barrel is now screaming and hollering for someone, anyone, to get Trump out of here.
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I pray each night that awake to breaking news.
Trump fell flat oh his face while trying to pick up a golf ball.
The doctors have reported his injuries will prevent him from tweeting or speaking in the future.
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@Jocelyn H
many people die while playing golf each year...we should get so lucky.
Thoughts:
Trump is an insult, not an insulter.
One can be insulted only it one allows it.
Always consider the source. And the desired audience.
There is a difference between an "insulting" word and a "fighting" word. Know it and recognize it.
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@HapinOregon--Fighting words are meant to provoke a response. How is that different from an insult?
How much longer will the American people tolerate this man debasing the office of the American Presidency? Is there no floor to his obnoxious behavior and vulgar language?
Trump's rise should have ended with the Access Hollywood tape. Citizens who care about our standing in the world should have turned away from him over the Muslim ban or how he's treated our allies at the G-7 Summit or the NATO meeting or the ultimate debacle in Helsinki. As if he tragedy of Charlottesville and his response and the cruelty of his zero-tolerance immigration polices weren't enough, we have to endure literally DAILY insults from the highest political leader in the land against U.S. citizens. Enough already!
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@BK
How long? IDK, maybe about 6 more years.
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I propose a simple response to this repeated, insulting, denigrating behavior by our “President”. People of color must register and vote in record numbers this November to elect as many Democrats as we can so that a new Congress can take appropriate action, based on Mueller’s report, against this scoundrel.
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US citizens paying for a president who has accomplished nothing (don’t call the Tax-bill a success), singed destructive executive orders, spend unreasonable time playing golf and fighting scandals.
America needs a real president.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaughis clearly wrong in saying that presidents are too pressed for time to be subject to criminal charges. Trump has time to compose many tweets when he is not playing golf.
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It is plain to see that Trump is in a competition with President Duterte of the Philippines to see who can be the rudest and crudest leader of a democracy. Duterte is still ahead but Trump is desperately working to catch up.
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So much for hiring only the best people.
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She was one of the best he could get.
There is nothing presidential about this person in the White House. He has used this highest, most honorable of offices to bully and disparage people and nations, and to get rich along with his fellow wealthy republicans. Where are the spineless Republicans, or for that matter, where is the person that is going to stand up and say enough.
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Dogs have tails that NEVER lie. The history of mankind would be different if we had the tails of dogs.
Wags, upright, tucked, etc.
OF COURSE Trump would hate such honest creatures!
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A dog? I LOVE dogs!! Nothing better in this world!!
tRump, you did it this time! Omarosa is angry. She has wonderful canines, to be used to rip you to pieces.
There is no stopping her.........and I wouldn't dream of it.... Beware of the Dog!!!
Given that the article cites that Trump has referred to Ted Cruz and Arianna Huffington, neither of whom is black, as "dogs", the representation by the New York Times that Trump's reference to Ms. Newman as "that dog" is (the )
"Latest Assault Aimed at Black People" is unsupported ,and outright misleading.
In fact, the authors have disproven their own allegation that that Trump's having referred to Ms . Newman as a dog, by stating :" Mr. Trump has deployed the'dog' insult previously, in one case saying his onetime political rival Ted Cruz' lies like a dog' and ,in another, calling Arianna Huffington ,co-founder of Huffpost, a 'dog.' "
Did the authors allege that Trump's having called Cruz and Huffington "dogs" was anti-white?
Similarly, the author's allegations that Trump's having referred to certain individuals who happen to be black as "Dumb" or "Low I.Q." does not prove that those were racial slurs.
Trump may be a racist, but this is sloppy journalism on the part of the New York Times, at best ,and I expect more from the New York Times than I do from Trump.
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I'm not convinced Trump is racist. I'm convinced is he is a psychopath, spreading racism.
Watching people be thrown and attack each other is his addiction.
A psychopath's brain is wired differently. I hear Omarosa's description of the decay of the man, and I am not saying it isn't possible that he also has cognitive decline issues. At the same time, the most unsettling thing about a psychopath is how changeable their behavior is. So it is also possible that during the Apprentice, he acted one way to get here, and now that he has this position he is using it to divide us.
He is dividing us, more than our ideas of how to create a great nation. The real argument is whether the guy is for real. Some can tell Trump is a con man, some can't.
And racism freaks most of us out.
In cities, guys like this prosper. Rural folks eventually tar and feather these kinda folks because you all know each other. But this guy managed to turn our biggest city against him!
He's a democrat in New York, because that got him points, then he suddenly turns into a Republican candidate for President, because the party is frayed and vulnerable.
His character assassinations are one of the calling cards of a con man. If he can divide us, he can take more from us.
Psychopaths are clever manipluators, but do not have access to their prefrontal cortex. Their neural networks are too simple.
It's also why he can't drink. John Wayne was right, never trust a man who can't hold his liquor.
An fMRI will tell.
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Pretty rich, coming from a man who is both a pig and a snake, not to mention a slimy worm.
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If Obama had called someone a “dog”, I wonder what would have happened.
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When Trump called Omarosa a “dog,” he likely meant to suggest the female of the species. I can’t imagine that it was decency that prevented him from using the term.
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Let's be fair - even though DJT would never be. He has called people of all races and genders dogs, dumb, crazy, lazy, etc. He is an equal opportunity insulter. He demeans everyone who finds fault with him or competes with him for the spotlight.
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It's amazing that there are so many Trump apologists:
"he's not a racist...he insults everyone."
No, he IS a racist, who happens to be a number of other deplorable things. But America is very racist and so doesn't actually see anything any white man in power does as racist.
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I totally forgot sexist men thirty years ago called woman they found unattractive "Dog" for example "She is a real dog". There is a time warp with this president..he is stuck in the politics of thirty years ago. How is he our President...it had to be Russian trickery .
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"Trump’s ‘That Dog’ Attack on Omarosa Manigault Newman Is Latest Insult Aimed at a Black Person"
I think the title, while literally true, deceptively implies Trump targets people BECAUSE they are black. The scope of the targets of Trump's insults is broad, with some taking the form of nick James including like Lyen Ted, Crooked Hiilary, Little Marco, and Little Rocket Man.
Let's not give the false impression that Trump preferably targets blacks. Let's stay out of fake news tertitory.
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@John--He has a history of targeting blacks. He lost a court case for doing just that.
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@Pat
He also has a history of attacking attacking everyone else.
I find the indignance and phony outrage amusing. Trump is a boor, but his calling Omarosa a "dog" is only racist in the fevered shrillings of the NYT 'opinionatti'.
This sort of purposeful conflation to race bait is, ironically, essential to keeping up support for Trump. Every story that wildly distorts for narrative only diminishes crediblility with those outside ShareBlue or ANTIFA gatherings.
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So here's the White House finding good reasons for any person calling another a dog.
It doesn't matter what Omarosa did, as tawdry as it may have been, Trump has no excuse for his behavior and his verbal assaults.
Any other human being behaving this way, especially toward a female employee, would be canned on the spot. Instead we get a mean and incompetent media person making excuses and blaming the victim.
And we get a gutless, immoral Congress drooling over another opportunity for distraction.
We are a sickening country, and soon to pay the price.
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A “ dog” to a woman in President’s own cabinet ?
Sounds like Omarosa is correct about trump !
This is why America has become a laughingstock of the world.
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And this too shall pass. Another day, another pathetic display from our President. And nothing will happen. It's shocking how much our country has become numb to.
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He also called De Niro “low IQ” so it’s not race based.
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As a black woman, I’m not a fan of Omarosa. But Trump’s met his match. It wouldn’t surprise me if they actually had a secret love child together.
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Two things. First, I read an article in which the Washington Post unfairly criticized Amarosa when she handled herself quite well in a hostile interview by a smiling NBC Samantha Guthrie. That was just unfair and biased. Second, Trump is an equal opportunity jerk -- the record will show that he insults everyone and anyone. So, from this, I take it that the NY Times is doing what so many other are -- it is called race-baiting.
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Was he accusing her of lying about his racism?
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The "Maxine Waters Low IQ" comment is very LOUD dogwhistle to those losers over at Bannon's clubhouse, Breitbart.com.
If you want to understand Trump get Breitbart delivered to your inbox daily. Nonsense Kelly claiming he keeps Trump from Breitbart. Pitiful thing to say as if anyone can control anyone from reading any website. The fact that Kelly lied about this just highlights how important it is to Trump and how totally toxic it is to America and the whole world.
Steve Bannon is still running America, just from between Trump's ears.
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The only “dog” in the American government Is President Trump. His manner of denigrating people is disgusting. He is not a decent American and is a shame to our country each time he disrespects other human beings.
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Typical and disgusting. His despicable base will love it.
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This is yet another example of the editorial perspective of the New York Times becoming headline news. The president, unfortunately, denigrates all sorts of people. Miss unbiased reporting.
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Humpty Trumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Trumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men. Couldn't put Humpty Trumpty back together again.
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"When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out."
I think Trump has some personal familiarity with how this particular situation plays out.
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why would anyone expect anything different from a consummate grifter and low life.
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Never met a dog who liked a snake, and Trump is merely a Snake in a Suit.
No wonder he hates dogs.
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In a cowardly way, Mr. Trump hides behind his Twitter posts to say things that would neither be civil nor appropriate for anyone to say to directly to another person's face. This behavior is immature and typical of a bully, and in no way does it do anything but disgrace the office of the President of the United States. Is it racist? Is it misogynist? Using the excuse that he uses the same language to berate everyone is nonsense. Name-calling is an act of cruelty and is inappropriate for anyone, including the president.
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Here go all the liberals again ... "Trump is a racist! He called a black person a 'dog'".
Nevermind the fact that Trump has used the same term to describe white opponents. No, the liberals have conveniently forgotten that. Let's keep some perspective here ... yes, it's beneath the president to personally lash out at someone over perceived insults or comments, but there is nothing racist that I see here.
Second, this is Omarosa we are talking about. This woman lied continuously on the Apprentice, denigrated other contestants, and went so far as to attack their families. And she is getting offended at some words Trump said to her? She needs to grow up.
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After reading last Sunday's Times Magazine article on Paul Ryan, the gutless wonder, I am again reminded of how many times he said things that amount to: The president only tweets to "see your heads explode" ("your heads" being the heads of all Americans who do not support him).
As Ryan reiterated, Trump gets a kick out of "trolling" the Americans who do not support him. We have to stop paying attention to what the orange clown in the White House says or does. Just stop talking about him. He is a like a middle-school prankster who respects no one and nothing, including his position as the President of the United States -- something he makes abundantly clear every single day he continues playing out his little charade in the Oval Office.
Tell these idiots what you really think of them and vote a straight Democratic ticket in November.
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Donald Trump was born into money, but the man's behavior is that of an ill-bread low-life. Yet, there is nothing new about his latest rants:
Blacks are ignorant, Low-IQ, ugly- and females are dogs; read- "itches" without the requisite second letter of the alphabet:
Don't be fooled into believing he meant something else.
If there is a recording of Trump uttering the "N" word- will it make any difference?
The man has used numerous words to convey the sentiment of the N-word describing black people; the actual usage would hardly rise to the level of shock.
What is shocking is the prevalence of "ordinary" every-day citizens- caught on cell phone uploads raging against blacks by uttering the word in mundane situations. What that tells me is America has grown quite comfortable picking up on horrid habits because we have a leader who glorifies and basks in the glow of racist vitriol.
I just wish so-called leaders of the GOP and Evangelical Christians had the courage to take a stand against this contagious hatred.
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@Candlewick
How could the GOP and Evangelical Christians make an end of this madness? They are the one who put him on the throne, with the illusion they can control him.
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Trump is definitely a racist. There's no doubt about that. But I don't believe it's quite that simple. I think the truth is he hates everyone who isn't white, male, straight, rich, and more or less christian. And I think he even hates some of those. In short, he feels anybody who isn't pretty much exactly like him is subhuman and therefore a target for his disdain and derision. That's what makes his base's devotion so laughable - they just don't get that he really hates them, too.
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Remember?:
"An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump’s Mental State"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/an-eminent-psychiatrist-demur...
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Not sure why Nytimes is qualifying the verbal abuse as related to race. Trump is an equal opportunity abuser of anyone that attacks or challenges him, irregardless of color.
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he insults men and women of all races. don't pull the race card today suddenly.
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This nation's Bigot-in-Chief can and does continue with this nation's enabling Bigot GOP; there is NOT any other reason this continues. ONLY Bigots supporting Bigots can justify voting "republican;" just ask David Duke.
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I’ve come to this website from across the pond - where it is international front page news your president is calling his only (now ex) black aid in the White House a dog after she claimed there’s a tape of him using the n word.
This is the language of the white supremacy supporters, done to desensitise everyone else before any tape or similar comes out of him saying other really vile things. This is what he does - he does something shocking, but in public and thus gets some inoculation from it. For someone who doesn’t understand vaccination risks-he sure understands the process. Just like calling on Sessions to end the Mueller investigation on Twitter. If that had been a secret tape of him saying the same thing even the GOP would have to open and shut the case for obstruction. Though if has to be said that just because you fail to wear a ski mask when holding up a bank doesn’t mean you are innocent of the charge, you are just even more reckless than the average criminal.
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@Emma-Jayne, this is a very good point. If he were whispering these remarks in a dark room and secretly being taped, and then it was revealed--the world and his party would be in horror. He does it in public and brazenly and we have come to normalize it. As the protest says: RESIST! This is NOT normal.
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@Emma-Jayne It's news in Australia as well so one can assume it is on front pages around the world.
#makeamericaboringagain
@Emma-Jayne go back across the pond and crawl into a whole. The USA has rescued your types at a cost of trillions and hundreds of thousands of lives in two world wars and numerous other actions where most of you across the pond types hide in your holes pretending you did not have a stake in the outcome.
The US President is the ultimate role model for our country, including our nation's children and youth, the future of our country. The buck stops with him. How dare he make statements like this.
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I don’t remember the case, but I remember the words Chief Justice John Roberts used in an opinion when he said, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” How do we stop making everything about race when we make everything about race? Can’t an insult just be an insult or does “dog” mean something more when it is directed at a woman or, even worse, an African American woman? Equality is equality – insults and all. I don’t know why this is so shocking coming from President Trump. He has leveled insults against many, many people of all genders and races. Why the outrage now? Because it was leveled against an African American woman? It is an insult. An insult from a man with an extremely fragile ego who prizes loyalty and praise above all. Mrs. Manigault Newman, according to President Trump, has betrayed him… so now she gets equal treatment… just like everyone else. Perhaps we will start making progress as a country when we view an insult as an insult – especially from a man that has insulted everyone – and stop making it more than it is.
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Such a focused, dignified, classy guy.
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I think it was Michelle Obama who said something like this: The presidency does not change a person's character, it magnifies it.
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Why does a 70 year old have the compulsive need to throw insults at people with whom he disagrees.
I expect this type of juvenile behavior from a middle schooler but not from a presumably mature adult especially not from the President.
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Maybe it’s time for America to admit that half your population is okay with this behaviour. And that you live amongst morally bankrupt people.
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Omarosa is the best dt can hope for.
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We understand why Donald chose the term, “dog,”— he knew he’d be charged with denigrating Women if he used what his editors cautioned against, using the “B-“ word! Read my lips, Donald, either word choice is unpresidential. Real President Nen don’t talk like that, bro!
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How would the President feel if someone called Ivanka a dog? He wouldn't like it.
So why does he feel it is okay to call Omarosa a dog?
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@Thomas
I think that a member of this paper called white men "dogs." Where is the outrage?
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Trump is an equal opportunity name caller. It's just that Liberals like to make the claim that Trump is being "racist" whenever he calls a Black or minority a name.
Liberals who call conservative Blacks all sorts of names worse than "dog" get a pass since the MSM believes anything goes, including violence, when it's a Liberal doing it.
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There's only one person less likable than Donald Trump: Omarosa.
Please... just fade away.
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not even
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Trump voters knowingly voted for a man they knew was an habitual liar, a racist and misogynist. Trumps apologist and supporters posses the same talent of the Great Leader....
the parsing words.
The subjection of Black's (people of color) was justified and carried out using words that characterized them as being not human. Of course Trump's not attacking Black people! Maybe Trump was just joking. Trump, Omarosa, and Trump supporters... 'birds of a feather'.
House Democrats need to set an example and elect a Black Member of Congress as the next Speaker of the House
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One doesn’t even have to be an elected representative to be chosen for the post. I nominate Colin Kaepernick.
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Compared to what Melania and Ivanka have been called (where was the outrage?), Omarosa got off easy.
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Trump kept Omarosa around because she flattered him and gave him an authentic African-American he thought he could trust. When Kelly fired her, she suddenly was of no further value, ergo, "dog" and "lowlife."
Omarosa claims to have tapes of Trump using "the N word," but would the appearance of such a tape change anything? We already know what a racist he is. The tape would come as confirmation, but no surprise.
Omarosa is not the most savory individual, but if she succeeds in trolling the Troll in Chief, she will at least provide a little comic relief in this sordid travesty of an American presidency.
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In what fantasy world would one have to reside in to think Trump hasn't let the N word roll off his tongue ? Trump has not denigrated the white stripper or playboy model who have accussed him of having extra-marital affairs with them. Trump has expressly vile and demeaning names for Black People who draw his ire. Trump dislikes Sessions but never has went in the gutter to descibe him.People who question if Trump is a racist should look in the mirror and check their racist meter. To show how racist America is all one has to measure is the lack of outrage from white women about Trump's words about Ms. Newman? Trump is Trump but what is shocking is how racist America still is after all of these years. If Trump had of called a white female a dog the pitchforks would be handed out for a march on the White House. Even if there was a tape of Trump using the N-word Trump would not lose a great number of his base. America is still racist and it is time we stop pretending we have arrived at a post racial America.Trump could be called many things but one that stands out most is Classless.Daily Trump shows the world he completey lacks dignity and class.Telling us that Trump is a racist is telling us nothing new.I don't like Ms. Newman and I am not a women but what 45 said about Omarosa makes me want to get the pitchforks to march to the castle where the monster lives. Where is Trumps fixer when he really needs him?
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Trump insults everyone; he's a equal-opportunity mud-slinger. The guy is a whacko. The USA, including those who voted for him, deserve much better.
Tying this to racism or sexism shows the bias of The NY Times.
Trump is an equal opportunity jerk, he insults anyone he considers his opposition.
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Sorry, but Trump is not an equal opportunity jerk. He belittles or insults his white opponents, but is very deeply insulting when his opponents are black. Therefore, the NYT has no bias in this specific case.
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This is the type of red meat the average Trump supporter drools over. These occasional racial personal attacks amps up his base and shows Trump for what he is. Our Apartheid President.
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Trump's insult of Omarosa has nothing to do with race or gender. He insulted her because she betrayed him and stabbed him in the back after she cozied up to him to advance her "career" as a.... what should we call what she does?
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And now he wants us to believe that he never used the "n word" by calling her "a dog"?
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Am tired of the Democrats using the Race Card to brand everyone they do not agree with politically as a ' white nationalist supremacist. " While not being overly diplomatic in his choice of wording, President Trump has been overly maligned daily in the MSM and expected, like most Republicans , to be ' polite ' while the Democrat ' s hired community agitators and their MSM allies denigrate and insult him and any American who desires to have secured borders and to support honoring the flag and the country during the National Anthem. ( This used to be considered ' patriotism ' before the anti-capitalist Far Left wing gained control of the Democrat Party. ) Each of these people were criticized for their BEHAVIOR and their WORDS not because of their race. Perhaps they WERE the racists since the Democrats have been inflaming ' African-Americans ' and dividing this country over race ever since they conned Barack Obama into the White House with that ' biracial uniter scam ' in 2008. Their Black Lives Matter Campaign is a classic example of a divisive, racist ' movement. ' MLK and JFK must be twirling in their graves. ( wife )
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@richard
No, Trump has not been overly maligned, he has been justifiably criticized. Starting with his birther views all the way up to today, he deserves everything he is getting...and there should be no letting up.
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Apparently Republicans like this stuff.
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I don’t know about you guys, but I’m starting to think Trump is a racist!
First White House in memory, that doesn’t have a First Dog, or Cat.
Thank god, no need for animal abuse by this so called First Family.
If I were a dog, I don’t want to be near that White House or 45.
Vote on November 6, 2018. Vote “D
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People Trump's referred to as dogs: Omarosa, Mitt Romney, David Gregory, Chuck Todd, Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Bill Maher, Erick Erickson, Rjck Tyler, David Axelrod, Kristen Stewart.
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"... at a Black Person." Are black people immune from criticism?
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We already know he is a racist just by listening to him speak or in this case write on his phone. He is probably the most immature and vile president in history and he tells us this daily with his constant whining and insults.
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What a surprise, folks. A shady real-estate developer and casino owner and beauty-pageant lowlife calls someone who insulted him a "dog," which in his lingo means really unattractive female. And 62,000,000 of the dumbest people in America elected him President.
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Let’s change the motto to Make America Mean Again, because thatks what this ignorant loudmouth is all about. He doesn’t really like anyone,and if you cross him,be prepared for whatever childish dirt bombs he will tweet.
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He's called all his enemies Dogs. I expect a little more research from the NYT
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Does the NY Times not realize that if you scream that everything is racism, then nothing is racism. It's time to stop taking the bait.
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Well if the shoe fits...
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The only one bringing up skin color is the NYT. Trump is being color blind and this article is not. Trump will bash anyone he doesn’t like no matter what color. This article is so wrong.
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When it comes to 'crazed, crying lowlife' and 'dog' it sure takes one to know one.
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If Omarosa produces this tape, it's good night Donald Trump and Kanye West.
2019 might be a great year after all.
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@Marco Philoso
unfortunately maybe not, there are too many of our fellow citizens who would feel joy by such language.
Who hired Omarosa? Did Chuck Schumer hire her? Did Nancy Pelosi hire her? This is 110% self-inflicted.
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A white person calling a white person "A crazy. lying, lowlife" is in no way racist.
It doesn't make it racist because she is Black.
This p,c, spin s a waste of reporting. He most likely is a Racist. Very likely did say racist things on set.
Saying someone has "a low i.q." however is not racist.
Calling someone a "Dog" however is not racist.
Connecting some suspect dots does not make good reporting.
reporting like this makes me see the Times as bias and slanted. And I'm extremely liberal.
Pick your battles more wisely and stop feeding the Troll in Chief. He loves when it when the NYT takes the bait turns it racial. That's why he puts it out there. It gets him votes
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SAD.
Does the New York Times editor or publisher hire people like Omarosa? Would the Times hire Omarosa? This story with its misleading “click bait” title is yellow journalism.
Trump’s reference to Omarosa as a “dog” Is not “the Latest Insult Aimed at a Black Person.”
As we learn down in this report, Trump has called whites by the same insult “dog.” So how is his usage here intended to indicate racism?
And how many white racists hire black women of dubious credentials as advisers of nothing in particular for nonspecific tasks having a high-profile title justifying a high-paying salary? Come now, mon! As Jamaicans express skepticism.
To refer to a person as “a dog” is slang for insulting the person as “ugly, greedy, indiscriminate,submissive, unattractive, mean, unclean, and immoral.”
How does your headline explain Trump’s use of the dog epithet for white men and women?
The editors who wrote the headline have not fairly served the Times readers. The “head”authors and editors need separate bylines to be held accountable for distorting the story, either for incompetence or for trying to twist its content so as to advance their political ideology against Trump.
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@Bayou Houma "Trump's reference to Omarosa as a 'dog' is not 'the Latest Insult Aimed at a Black Person.'"
Actually it is unless he insulted another black person today.
Trump blows his ‘dog whistle’ & racist America perks up its’ ears. He has single-handedly managed to bring to the forefront the very worst that the U.S. has to show the world.
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Personally I’m getting a little tired of hearing about “the dignity of the presidency”. Our country has done many very undignified things in its short history. Who are we trying to kid with all this trying to maintain a fancy bow on a ragged box? Self-delusion is not the most objective perspective, and not a very credible one. The one unrealized advantage to a bull in a china shop is that there is admittedly a lot of very ugly chinaware that could use some breaking.
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The GOP must pay dearly for supporting this racist ignoramus. They should be put out of power for decades to let the Democrats clean up their messes as usual.
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The REPUBLICAN PARTY in its entirety, from its corrupt spineless majority of Koch Brothers toadies in Congress to the bogus faux Christian frauds running their state houses down to the local dogcatcher must be held completely responsible - at the ballot box, and subsequently in a court of law - for the vile, crooked, racist sociopathic lying traitor they knowingly nominated, financed, supported and now enable as president of our country.
The Reckoning begins November 6, 2018.
Due process, justice, then jail for Republicam traitors and criminals.
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@Ignatz Farquad, if 2020 is preceded by an overstuffed scrum of a primary, this horror could well repeat.
Trump is a racist man and Omarosa is a shameless woman. That is we are reduced to following this sordid drama being played out between two despicable human beings is a shame on all of us.
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So in the last few days the President has called a former advisor--one whom he hired multiple times when you include The Apprentice--a "low-life" and "a dog," while a day earlier he cackled on Twitter about a bona fide American FBI hero who caught multiple spies and enemies of the US who was fired for simply expressing an anti-Trump opinion. Trump has no real sense of what it means to be a patriot, he has no concept of dignity, has no apparent loyalty to people or to our country, no sense of decency and zero class. God, please let me wake up tomorrow and find it is November.
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@Eva lockhart, I'd rather wake up in November 2012.
@karen lee--me too. I so hear you.
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I would rather be called a dog, instead of a Republican.
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Kudos to Omarosa! This week's star recovering Trumpkin.
May the parade continue (and the tapes).
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I have found comfort through my training as a therapist in the knowledge that when folks are deeply entangled with others, expressed via patterns of unresolved resentments and nasty criticisms, there is a level of projection occurimg. Healthy, self-respecting people may experience these states of mind, but they pass. When the NYT notes that since 2016, Trump has publicly denigrated and insulted nearly 500 people (nevermind the many insulted privately or earlier), we can be assured that this is a reflection of his own insecurities. His own vulnerabilities are on display for us all. Rest assured, he will self destruct. In fact, he's self-destructing now.
Crazy, crying low life..., dog... Hmm.
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@kfm . . . a man about to self-destruct while at the helm in America's wheelhouse is not "assuring", nor should the prospect promote "rest".
@Steve
I appreciate your "reply".
My point was that Trump's strategies are not sustainable. That not only will American citizen's opposition to him help remove him (and his enablers) from power, but that his own inherent- and very public- flaws will contribute to that effort. It would be worse if he could mask these qualities. By self destruct, I meant contribute to his ultimate removal from the Oval Office, by making his manipulations more transparent and his behaviors more obviously unexceptable for a growing majority of voters.
In my generation, the same generation as Trump’s, the term “dog” was used for an unattractive woman. It had nothing to do with race. That may have changed over the years, but I’ll bet Trump is using it in its older sense. He has probably used the term a lot over the years. Not many of us are 9 or 10s...and he would have been happy to point that out.
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I strenuously object to the use of the word "dog" as a means of insulting or disparaging
anyone. Most of us would do well to match the reliability and emotional intelligence of a well raised & socialized canine
My Long-Haired Dachshund, known throughout Murray Hill as "The Pupster" is a reasonable basis for measuring and comparing the relative abilities of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I would be confident that the Pupster could match Trump's functional vocabulary, though I will concede he needs to work on pronunciation. But, no kidding, the moms & dad's of his pals at the park can tell he really is trying to talk! Barking or whining is beneath him
Pupster is unfailingly loyal to both canine & human family & friends. He is morally incapable of telling a lie. He is more likely to offer affection than to demand it.
I will concede that he can be tempted by the offer of a bribe, most effectively in the form of freeze-dried beef liver. Money, fame, or flattery are not going to distract him from doing what he knows is the right thing!
More importantly, his social skills are impeccable! He can absolutely be relied on not to make a mess on the floor, of any kind! Even when my longest day at work stretches the time between walks far beyond the norm, he reveals only the most polite impatience. Clearly, in that regard alone, he puts our President to shame!
I would take a dog with Pupster's qualities & abilities anytime, over most of the current administration.
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Among Trump's seemingly endless list of character defects, is his disinterest in pets, meaning he doesn't understand the loyalty, intelligence, companionship, and honesty of dogs. All attributes that he lacks himself. So he thinks a dog is an insult to call someone.
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Bat-crazy absurd that Ms Omarosa ever served inside the White House as a presidential adviser or that President Pathological ever held the authority and position to appoint her.
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who hired her? Why did he hire her? Americans of all political persuasions hope that when you say White House staff they are some version of America's best and brightest. That now overused slight "Trump's clown car" couldn't be more accurate.
Amazing in all this, no one has mentioned Kelly's biggest mistake in firing Omarosa -- and it's a basic human resource/management rule ANYWHERE: There are always two people from management in a room when laying off or firing someone for corroberation. Where was his other person when he locked her in the situation room? Already suspect just on that, and I am no omarosa fan.
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@cz
No Kidding! Watching Kelly's tenure at the White House, I don't think too highly of our 3 star generals anymore.
@cz
If he really locked her in, she should press criminal charges. That's like an abduction, or imprisonment. It was a very, very threatening and aggressive thing to do.
Think about it, if HR called you in, to fire you, would you expect them to LOCK YOU IN A ROOM?
Would a white person be locked in? Would anyone think they could treat a white person that way?
If HR at my place of employment did that, I would definitely press charges.
Kelly's a thug, just like Trump.
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She's detestable, and he's hateful. But both are probably correct.
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Donald Trump brought up Mark Burnett in a tweet, saying the reality show producer called Mr. Trump and assured him there was no tape of him using the n-word. Does anyone else find this implausible? If Trump using a racial slur is so far outside the realm of possibility, why would a phone call like this happen in the first place? It almost implies Donald Trump has definitely used that slur, and Mr. Burnett’s call is just to reassure him that it wasn’t recorded.
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@Joan Crush President Trump has a consistent record of lying to the American public; somewhere about seven times a day as I understand it. Why should it be different on this occasion?
In any other country an erratic dysfunctional leader would be gone by now. There are legal and constitutional grounds for getting him out of the job. It mystifies this onlooker as to why this has not been done.
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I remember years ago in a famous trial when a detective denied EVER using the n-word...
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I take issue with NYT headline, Trump’s ‘That Dog’ Attack on Omarosa Manigault Newman Is Latest Insult Aimed at a Black Person
DT attacks everyone who calls him out, gets in his way or makes him uncomfortable. This applies to all races, cultures and genders. This should not be reported as race, but as a completely dysfunctional individual that is the president of our country. Omarosa is no little sweetheart, she has so much in common with DT. I do believe that he is a racist, but as we all know that can be hidden. Not DT.
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So says the man that has never known the love of a dog/pet. Because no pet/dog could ever love this man.
Small, bitter, alone.
Sad, bigly.
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As Steve Martin would say "Excuuuuuse Me!" Omaroso violated all standards of professionalism in order to make a book deal -- probably her intention from the outset. Race has nothing to do with this -- it is a matter of class and she has none.
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@cmc
Oh, I don't think so. I think she's credible. Maybe she's a shallow person, but I don't think she intended this from the start.
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Just like our current President
Birds of a feather.
What's your point?
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Really, are there readers of the NY Times still not convinced that Trump is a racist and dislikes people with brown complexions? The explanation "that he hurls the same insults at everyone" or that he has had favorable things to say about some people of color are absolutely no defense against racist charges. When you do and say racist things, regardless of your other virtues or virtuous acts, you are a racist. To believe otherwise is to give credence to Trump's assessment of the white supremacists who marched in Virginia a year ago. You are disqualified from being a "fine person" is you believe that one group of humans is inferior to another, regardless of how much you give to charity, how much your neighbors admire you, how much you love your children and give to the community. It only takes one bad mark on your scorecard to be a racist. There are not mitigating factors, only redemption and renouncement of your shameful ways, and that's not happening.
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Of course he's a racist. The only quibble is if he's using the term "dog" as a derogation of her race or just her gender. I think that it's a term he's using because of her gender. Not her race
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This president will go down in history as the worse president the country has ever seen. No character, no ethics, no honesty, no empathy, no role-modeling, nothing. He is an empty shell of a person haplessly thrashing around in a space where honorable leaders pondered the future of our country. Sad.
But sadder still is the clown-car of White House and Congressional enablers who see the harm being down to our country but turn away to seek whatever personal gain that can steal before this administration crumbles from it's hatred, racism, and incompetence.
Whether through elections or jail trump and company has got to go.
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President Trump appears to be losing his grip on sanity. His attacks on those who displease him has reached a new level of venom. This is not the behaviour of presidents. This is the behaviour of paranoid schizophrenics. This is the behaviour of a man that has lost his grip on reality. This is the bahaviour of a man that is truly afraid of a lot of stuff, mostly afraid of the consequences of his actions.
Think very carefully about who and what you vote for in November and in 2020.
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@Lew I we
Don't insult people with schizophrenia. Most would never behave this way.
@DW Yes you are correct, so my sincere apologies to schizophrenics. Trump is a whole bunch of things that I will leave to the medical mental health professionals to diagnose.
Notwithstanding my faux pas, he still is acting bizarre and very unlike what America and the rest of the world expects of a US president.
I repeat my entreaty to America to vote wisely in the November elections. If chaos is what you want, well you got it. If you want more chaos then keep voting Republican. If you want to stop the nonsense then figure it out and vote for another candidate that does not embrace chaos.
Trump has denigrated and disrespected the office of the POTUS in front of the entire planet with no regrets or shame.
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On that all reasonable minds can agree. Lincoln he is not.
Trump has brought unmitigated shame to the office of the presidency, and to all of America. It’s beyond the pale now; he is patently unfit to serve. He should resign at once, or impeachment proceedings need to begin immediately. Our reputation and our status in the world are at stake. What a debacle!
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Sarah Sanders today assured us that the president says horrible things about people of every color.
Well, then that's much better. He's just a horrible person overall, not just towards some people.
That's our new bar. As long as the president offends everyone, he's Ok by the powers that be for now.
Happy, compassionate conservatives? Happy, 3rd party voters?
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A few questions for trump people:
Is this really what you want in a president?
A man who every day tweets (safe in a private place, not in public) crude insults about everyone?
Do you really think it's OK that he singles out women, particularly black ones, for his remarks? (Well, maybe you do.)
Is this what you have been waiting for all these years?
Do you think this is normal adult behavior?
Are you like this?
Do you want to be like this?
Do you think this make America great?
Do you agree with it all even if you have never heard of the people he slanders?
When did someone who acts like this become a role model for you?
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The NDA she signed would be equivalent to a principal at a public school requiring all the staff to sign a loyalty oath in which they could never whistle blow on anything nefarious going on with the administration. OK. Think about your kids who go there. Now multiply by millions of citizens.
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I hope this article is not suggesting that black Americans are immune from the consequences of defaming people. Yes this would include DT
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His insanity is getting worse and worse by the minute. 'When' will this President get committed? He is crying for help. Why are the Republicans not helping him?
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I imagine their are others that feel as I do , insulted at every tweet, so tired of adolescent name calling and taunts. I could never have imagined in my worst nightmare that this kind of person could be elected to the highest office.
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I am annoyed that Trump is actually planning to sue Miss Newman under the non disclosure he forced his employees to sign. The catholics and evangelical leaders by not coming out and siding with Miss Newman is another black stain on organized fake religions. Close those churches down for not showing any strength and demanding their leader Trump needs to act morally every day.
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The thing that really bums me out most about this is that as of the time this article was published, the tweet had over 63K likes... I feel we've officially lost our way when anyone can support such boorish behavior by the most powerful man in the world...this isn't "Telling it like it is.". It's the words of a man truly without boundaries.
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Dogs bite when provoked. Trump needs to remember that.
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I respectfully disagree. Just for once, can we please leave the color and race out of it and concentrate on the gender issue, because that's what it is.
She is a woman and that's why he is giving her a bad name. Just like E. Warren, H. Clinton, R. O'Donnell and all the other women who he likes to belittle on a daily base.
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@Bri So when he insulted Ted Cruz it was because he was a woman? Jeb Bush was a woman too? (not that I like either of them).
You got it half right - leave the race (and woman) thing out of it. This is a shining example of how identity politics make people see through a small lens that they only can identify with. It's the exact opposite of all encompassing empathy for everyone. Something tells me you wouldn't care as much to write if it wasn't a woman? Well it's wrong either way.
He insults those who don't agree with him. Simple enough?
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@Bri
Trump pounces on any perceived weakness, be it color or gender. Does that mean he is racist? Yes it does.
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Dwight Eisenhower was President when I was a kid. Those were tense times - Joseph McCarthy and his snarling sidekick, Trump mentor Roy Cohn, were hunting and bullying 'Reds.' The atomic bomb was a clear and present danger. Dixiecrats were up in arms and ready to fight to preserve Jim Crow. We were mired in a war in Korea.
But the White House was a rock, an oasis of sanity. Eisenhower had powered America and its allies through World War II. He had commanded the complex logistics of the return and repatriation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were stationed all over the globe to fight that war. He had helped to build NATO from the ground up. He was down to earth, articulate and intelligent. He was religious without sanctimony. He was patriotic without making a show of it. He was a standup guy.
As a kid, I could look up to the President as a model. I could repeat what he said in public without having my mother stuff a bar of soap in my mouth. Of course he was far from perfect; of course there was much about America that cried out for change and improvement. But we could look to the White House for guidance. The President was a decent man. He was a 'compassionate conservative' before the spinmeisters concocted the catchphrase.
And now we have Donald Trump. My god, what in heaven's name has happened to the United States? Would any decent American want her children to emulate his vulgar, indecent behavior? Not on your life. How on earth can that rotten man be President?
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@chambolle, it's democracy run amuk, thanks to that wonderful internet. Ditch primaries and bring back the smoke-filled rooms of yore . . . before it's too late.
I was on a train ride to Bristol from London and ended up seated with a airline hostess from Boston area. We had a conversation about Trump. The white woman cried almost every minute. She said her friends literally call her from all over Europe everyday, asking how, why, about Trump - too many scandals, too many mistakes, too many insults, just when you think this is low, then something lower, just when you think this is absurd, then something more absurd. I had to apologize to her. I didn't know what else to say or do. Trump humiliates us all...
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Both parties are pure as the driven snow and deserve each other. His last day in office will come in either 2 (2020) or 4 (2024) years and then in will come a democrat with the republicans obstructing him/her. The dogs will bark as the circus rolls on
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Let's not forget - he hires THE BEST people.
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At this point, these twitter comments by Trump say more about him than those people he criticizes. As each week goes by, his reputation races downward into Dante's Inferno. Obviously, he is unfit for the office of President. Delusional, deranged, narcissistic, however one describes him, he is unfit to lead our country.
Apparently, the same is true for the Republican Party and leadership as well, who watch in the shadows and keep their silence. Sad to witness such poor leadership at all levels.
Remember this in November and vote Democrat. We deserve better in this once great country of America.
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And what do we call a married man who has unprotected sex with a porn star?
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@Sheeba
A client of Michael Cohen?
@Sheeba Without any trepidation whatsoever I would call him a pig, but that's being disparaging to a poor animal.
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Anyone who calls a black congresswomen "a low IQ individual" is showing us very clearly who HE is! If anyone called one of his sons "a low IQ individual", (and he's got three to choose...all with problem intellects), he would have the FBI make the accuser's life miserable. Yet he speaks freely, juvenilely calling out more folks, and he gets away with it. I so miss the dignity of the Obamas!!
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Dear US Americans.
Just wait for the tape proving that your president was using the N-word.
Then wait for the approval rating for Mr Trump going through the roof.
That is, what you are to be worried about.
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We're not worried about it Daniel. We can hardly wait for it! But you're wrong about the impact of hearing DT utter that word.
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If such a tape surfaces ... forget his approval rating. The country will descend into a new kind of crisis. It will be frightening to be here, listening to the fabric of our society rip.
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Sarah Sanders saying that Trump is upset becuase Omarasa lacks integrity is the pot calling the kettle black.
Integrity: the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
I don't care about his policies or tax cuts (neither of which I wanted) but I do care about having a leader with integrity and one who treats all Americans with civility.
Make America Civil Again. Vote for 46 in 2020.
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Does anybody remember when the occupant of the White House had some dignity? presence? stature? intelligence?
President Trump and his childish tweets have become the new normal, and thinking as far back as you can (and I can think a long way back), can anyone remember anybody occupying the office of president who ever spent so much time having public tantrums, calling people names, and going on vacations?
Previous presidents had a country to govern, a role on the world stage, things to do that required a lot more than Trump is capable of.
So who's running the show?
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@dutchiris Who's running the show?
It seems as if we are leaderless.
The latest twitter saga has dropped the bar to the lowest point--wait it's already minus sea level.
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Trump can call a black person "dog" or much worse, and in so doing he is expressing what many whites feel but cannot openly say. As a white older male, I can't even count the times I hear whites refer to blacks in demeaning terms. In fact, black people have no idea how prevalent it is among whites of any social standing to think of blacks as lesser humans. What Trump is doing is allowing whites to own their racism and ignorance with pride.
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@Richard Monckton they know.
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@Richard Monckton this is what I've been thinking. Thank you for confirming.
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@Richard Monckton -- Right on, brother! I moved from the civilized world to Chicago a few years ago. Absolutely mind blowing how people openly flap their gums here. I came from LA, the home of Political Correctness and only by moving to Chicago did I fully grasp the significance of shutting people's foul mouths.
Does the social restraining of speech change everything? No. However it does give one pause. it does alter the chatter. It does make one aware of one's own thoughts which can be very reflexive and certainly egged on in social interactions. In Chicago making a racist crack of some sort is like asking what you do for a living -- it's a first round of casual conversation. And, Chicagoans will all say "not me" but ask the what they do to stop the sewer flowing and they will get very quiet. Mr. Monckton you speak truth.
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Don't forget that the Trump organization was found liable for excluding minorities from their rental housing units.
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Are blacks off limits to criticism, insults or derogatory comments without a racist tag associated with it? Come on it's 2018 and everyone is unfortunately subjected to mean spirited insults in this country. Decorum and manners have gone out the window! "You know what I'm sayn'" "No problem" We don't need the media instigating any more polarity among the tribes.
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Dog whistles are off limits--for everyone! Please wake up to the 21st Century.
Yes, Trump called Arianna Huffington a "dog."
However, Arianna is not an African American woman hired by Trump to be a liaison to the black community.
And, she has not been personally and professionally connected to him, for over a decade.
Also, she never considered him a "friend."
And all those things apply to Omarosa, but they mattered little when she turned against him.
It may not seem significant (that he would attack her so ferociously) considering how he treats anyone who crosses him, but I found the lack of even simple human courtesy, for a former friend, to be a notch below even his former disgusting behavior. As Evelyn Waugh said, "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying a friend, I hope I would have the guts to betray my country."
This is just to say that he would betray his country, his "friends", and even his family- if he felt it necessary- in order to defend himself.
And this is the man who all those people at all those rallies think should be the leader, shepherd, and comforter-in-chief for us all. (Or perhaps they think those things are not the president's responsibility!)
If they weren't so vastly (and deliberately) uninformed, I would despise them.
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Of all the smart, civil, patriotic citizens we have in these United States, Trump is the person whom a near majority of our citizens citizens thought was best suited for the job of POTUS.
Let that sink in for a second.
I'm ashamed and disheartened.
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nowhere near a near majority of our citizens
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@confounded,
"Near majority"??? Hardly. Hillary won the Popular Vote by 3 million. Trump won by the Electoral College, that is all.
@confounded Nobody ever said democracy was a good idea.
What? They did? Oh, right.
Saw a great article yesterday that hypothesized that elitist liberals are doing little more that separating themselves from the blue blood wealthy by claiming a superior intellect and work ethic as the reason for their station in life. To help them reinforce their uniqueness, they denigrate low income and lesser educated whites like me to prove their superiority. While our President isn’t in that demographic, that is his audience.
I mention all this because this piece seems to align with that sense of superiority.
I would further posit that this piece is suggestive of an implied racism in which Blacks can neither defend themselves nor whither criticism.
But what do I know? I’m just another poor, uneducated, blue collar, racist Trump supporter.
Allegedly.
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"Elitist" and "liberal" do not necessarily go together. The liberals in my circle want all of us to succeed, by whatever definition of success we each have. We want to eradicate poverty, ensure we all have health care, ensure a quality education for all, and a host of other "elite liberal" values.
We do not denigrate those of another color, religion (although we may vehemently disagree--there's a difference), country of origin, language, or sexual orientation.
But what do I know? I'm just a middle class, middle aged white woman who cannot stand the orange one. Him I will insult and denigrate with all the strength I have.
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Not all of Trump’s voters are racist, but all racist voters support Trump. Consider that.
Also, while not all Trump voters are racist, Trump voters are fine with supporting an obvious racist. Consider that.
Attacking “liberal elites” (a nonexistent, false category of human beings) does not change my first two points.
@Kevin Birmingham
Forget the
'Elitist" buzzword for a moment (Trump is an elite). Many liberals are bewildered and appalled at the mind-set of Trump followers. They are angry at those who support what they see as the destruction of America. They wonder if poor education could explain a group so gullible, fact-challenged and just plain mean.
Unfortunately, this turns into insults from some posters.
The worst, most vile and hateful comments I have heard about Ms. Newman were uttered by commentators , white, black and Hispanic, on a very liberal television network, on the night she was terminated. I was taken aback by their viciousness and contempt. I knew little about this woman before that night but I I found myself sympathizing with her because of these awful attacks. I suspect many readers heard the same thing.
Now, those same commentators reach heights of arrogance and hypocrisy by defending her, because the narrative of the day suits them.
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The most accurate statement she makes about herself is the title of her book(!). It's like when Ann Coulter wrote that book called "Treason" and there she is on the cover with the title.
The criminal tormented by their subconscious to confess.
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Fortunately, a reasonable, imaginative individual knows who the true "dog" in Trump's words is, our President.
I do not think we need any help discovering why Trump should not be our President. It is not collusion with the Russians, or abandoning all rules and protocols of Presidential behavior, or Trump's incompetence. It is his manner that is the issue. He acts in the most despicable ways without regard for the propriety of decency.
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Another day, another reminder that there is a recurring nightmare in the United States of America.
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We have sunk this low: Surly, sullen Sarah cannot vouch for President Trump that he never used that filthy epithet for Black Americans.
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America needs a seriously reality check...for those that voted for Trump, this is the price you’re paying for. *sigh*
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Regarding Sarah Huckabee Sanders:
How does she wear the mantle of Preacher's Kid and still serve this sleazy man?
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Is trump really so smart or has he simply figured out how to make lots of money by insulting and denigrating those around him?
Republicans don't seem to care. Their concern is power, hanging onto it and making sure the country fails.
Is power so important that people have to lie, cheat and steal to get it?
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I have an issue with how this is covered. Trump has said many racist things. He has insulted countless people in speech and on twitter. But highlighting that he insulted another African American on Twitter does not show anything. The story, if there is one, if he has denigrated blacks more often than whites. The other two examples of his comparing people to dogs were white. I'd love to see an analysis of how is insults towards whites and blacks compare. That's a story. Giving the frequency of his use of gutter insults I'm sure you could compile a lengthy list of people fitting just about any demographic profile. Without context it doesn't illuminate anything.
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According to Trump, he gave a "crazed" person access to state secrets.
If this isn't against the oath of the office of president, I don't know what is.
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@Steve
Not unless you consider sneak previews of the lunch menu at the White House mess a state secret.
PS: put your heart at ease. I don't think she received any "for your eyes only" documents. Her security clearance probably did not extend to the nuclear codes. We continue safe.
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I can't think of two people who deserve each other more.
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For those who are surprised hat this President is thin-skinned, the question is why you are still able to be surprised by this.
We have a guy who NEVER played to the elites, who got stuff done as fast as possible, and satisfies the toughest customers in the world - while he employs thousands.
He's seventy years old. How many of them are going to change their stripes to become a sweet-talking shallow cariacture of a leader like Mr. Obama?
This lady has defined herself as an untrustworthy user and social climber. So you're surprised to see her turn on people who fired her?
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Yes sir. Very fast at declaring bankruptcy and robbing his contractors.
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@L'osservatore,
Nobody is surprised. Everyone knows he is thin-skinned. It would be surprising if he didn't have a childish hissy-fit on Twitter responding to those who insult him.
@L'osservatore Trumpsters are dusting off the
"elite" buzzword again. In Orwellian fashion, it points away from the fact that trump is a true elite, who works only for elites.
A little history: Bush 1 and 2 are also elites. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were born into humble circumstances and rose through merit.
"Elite" was used to brand Obama in a negative way, and presumably many of the base were conned then, just as they are now.
Trump's remarks are repugnant, offensive and disgraceful. He remains an embarrassment to the American people. I say this because it is true, and because I want to make it clear where I stand on his behavior before making the remainder of my comments.
When recently taking with a very progressive friend, a staunch Democrat, we both agreed that the media, most particularly cable news networks gleefully spread hatred and divisiveness in the country. Whenever Trump ( or anybody) utters something offensive, the act is elevated to exalted status by days upon days of constant repetition in the media, which exploits racial sensitivity in this country. Indeed, they take every opportunity to find racism, sometimes just because the subject of an insult may be a minority.
People must realize that their favorite "newscasters" are really entertainers getting paid millions to rile up their respective audiences so they will return for more. All three major cable news outlets, and, sadly at times this paper, are guilty regardless of political preference. Never forget for a minute that they are businesses to profit from return audiences whose emotions they inflame.
Endless charges of racism dilute the horrific concept of racism and do no more than to spread distrust, hatred and bigotry.
Of course the media must report news, but when they use it as a tool to inflame emotions, they are exploiting those who are the most sensitive.
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As a professional psychologist my opinion is that the most interesting aspect of the Omarosa v Donald story is the
statement by Omarosa, that" the entire White House is a cult run by DJT." The entry level and survive level in a cult is to never to question authority (DJT.)
The behavior of the White House staff from the election can only be explained by the fact they are or were all members of a cult. Cults continue until they literally explode from the inability to distinguish fact from fantasy.
Stay tuned.
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I am not a fan of Omarosa. She sold her soul and sold out her community for money and power. However, as an African American and a woman, I am dismayed by her reception by the media. Sean Spicer did not receive a fraction of the antagonism that Omarosa has faced over the last few days. Her interview style is condescending and abrasive. She put her shields up and she came to battle. At first, I was taken aback, but now I understand her stance.
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@MJM792 I was cautious about Omarosa BUT I watched 2 interviews and came away impressed with her. I think the media expected the reality TV star. Instead Omarosa was straightforward and presented herself and her story very well. The WH has to be scared, especially Trump.
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@MJM792 she is scum, does not matter how you try to spin it. The garbage can smells like garbage in all the directions you smell it.
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@MJM792 I would just like to understand how she deserved a $180,000 salary. Who in the real world earns that figure for being an aide? Is that the inflated number everyone in Washington DC is taking home?
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Now I think I will know now how the Germans, Italians, and the Japanese present-day people feel about their countries' grandparents and great-grandparents regrets not to stand up against bullies that denied fellow humans the simple dignity and respect. I guess it's our turn now.
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@carlo1,
What makes you think the people of those countries didn't try to stop their governments? Please give your sources on WWII History and how the people did nothing as you claim.
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How about we have President Trump sign a non-disclosure agreement where he promises not to disparage anyone in the workplace or say or print lies about government business.
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Bravo to Michael Cohen and Omarosa Manigault Newman who both decided it was in their best interest to break protocol, do the unthinkable, the unprofessional, the never heard of, and tape the mob boss, (who every day does the unthinkable, the unprofessional, the never heard of and suffers no consequences.)
After all, what do you do with a mob boss to guarantee your survival? You wear a wire, especially if you won't get killed for it, yet.
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Everyone needs to take a deep breath, then go read, It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. The characters in that book couldn't believe it either. Of course, they were just characters in a book.
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In an interview today, Kellyanne Conway talks about the "great things Trump has done for this country, including African Americans. She doesn't name any. But perhaps she considers the following great: he (and the GOP) are certainly making the wealthy 1% wealthier; enabling white supremacists; destroying the environment and the flora and fauna; ensuring women lose reproductive rights, etc., etc.
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Trump once said that the lovely, intelligent, and very funny Gail Collins had the face of a dog. She wrote something about him he didn't like. Ms. Collins has a sweet face and a brilliant mind. Trump has some serious issues when it comes to smart, talented women.
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@Linda
Yes, Ms. Collins is indeed an excellent propagandist working for a partisan message outlet where a newspaper once stood.
A thousand others could step in and replace her this afternoon and few would even notice the grade of political agitation changing. It's not like she ever dreamt of becoming an ethical journalist following that craft's code of ethics. No, she politely shoots people and laughs about it, with Mitt Romney as a prime example.
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That's just Trump not thinking she's attractive enough.
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None of Trump's tweets or public statements are intended for an audience of the sane and decent, so our reactions yet again another week in the Comments section are purely for our own self-assuaging mutual benefit. Rather, he is surrounded by an echo chamber of political sycophants, and his sole understanding of "deserving" voters are those who adore him at his rallies. Thus encouraged by their perverse reinforcement, our overgrown juvenile delinquent carries on in one of his few marketable skill sets. B.F. Skinner would have found Trump to be an oddly fascinating experimental subject, but these days the initials of the true current Trainer in Chief are likely V.V.P.
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Glad I'm not raising a child in today's world of daily insults and name calling by the nation's highest office.
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@Iain,
As a new parent myself, I can assure you there is MUCH more in "today's world" than Trump. Shame that you put so much importance on someone so horrible that you are glad you don't have a child. He wins, you lose.
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Every single - no exceptions - republican office holder who does not forcefully disavow this man and call for his resignation (and expulsion from the party) is equally racist and complicit in this evil. Moral men and women do not stand with this evil man.
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And yet despite all the " recommends" for this reader comment, most NYT commenters among readers still seem to just say negative things about Kasich. ( I am not a Republican, by the way,)
At least they recognize McCain and a few others.
The last tome I heard a guy call a woman a dog was on a sixth grade playground in Queens, circa 1970
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And this is the President of the United States! Wake up America, NOW!
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I am not sure it was a racial attack. I think it was a woman attack. Calling a woman a “dog” is a common crude insult hurled at women that means they are unattractive.
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Does it make it any better if he’s just a misogynist? He sure saves his most vile attacks for women and people of colour though doesn’t he?
God, the shame his family must feel. Doesn’t it worry you all that the president of your country cannot control his emotions because he feels betrayed? Can you imagine what would be said about a female president who gets this hysterical? That has been known to change government policy due to his anger? Because he is emotionally unstable. If that were the only problem with her leadership- it would seem as a security threat to the nation. Alas, Trump also has other issues taking up time. That it is not the sole topic of conversation does not mean his emotional instability isn’t s security threat though.
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@Patriot1776
He uses the word dog for females because he knows he dare not use the word that even some of his followers, especially women, might actually object to.
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@Emma-Jayne “He sure saves his most vile attacks for women and people of colour though doesn’t he?”
It’s hard to keep track.
Trump is slipping at an accelerated pace. The word "DOG" is a three-letter word. Obviously four letter words are on the horizon.
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The silence of our Congress is deafening! This President needs to go. Action!
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@Joy Spot on - where are the voices of the GOP leadership? Have they no convictions, integrity or fortitude, it would appear not.
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Trump is an equal opportunity offender. His insults have nothing to do with race.
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@Krista. Trump has a history of racism.
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@Krista
Trump pounces on any perceived weakness. It definitely is racism.
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When will the madness end! Trump's insults are demeaning and not worthy of the US President. Not a day goes by without some Trump tweet or other pronouncement that tarnishes the dignity of the presidency. I am embarrassed and appalled. We need a national leader to speak about common decency and respect for fellow human beings. I don't like to engage in arm chair psychoanalysis, but these continual debasing outpourings are not the product of a healthy mind. I'm frightened by the power Trump has with his mental state.
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I’m also frightened by his mental stability and his child like understanding of, as he calls it: “nuclear”. We are all scared. It’s like he is a child playing with an ant house. It reminds me of the way he plays with the power of controlling his followers.
By the by, given all warnings about the electoral register being hacked by the Russians . Have you CHECKED you are still registered? A simple digit wrong and your right to vote will be in jeopardy. Just ‘cause your name was there last year, does not necessarily mean it is there now. Early voting might mitigate any nefarious plans.
After the Pentagon Papers were published and Richard Nixon found out that Daniel Ellsberg was the source of the information, he referred to him in a taped conversation as "Jewboy." When the press published his remarks, many Americans were outraged, and rightfully so, by that slanderous, outrageous term. Trump calls Amarosa a dog - a dog! - and we don't hear a peep from anyone in Congress. Where is your sense of decency, elected Republicans?
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@Donatien The members of the former GOP are now members of the Cowering in Fear of Trump and his trumpers party and will do nothing to offend the great leader.
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Doesn't this man have a country to run? Why can't he focus on the bigger picture and ignore the distractions? Has he put in 8 hours of concentrated effort in over 2 years of being the most powerful man in the world?
We elected probably the worst man possible for the job. Now, can we focus on removing him, please?
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Of course he has, on golfing.
Please remember this and the multitude of other past actions by this person in the highest post of our great land.
Remember that the current Republican party holds control and are continuing to allow these actions to go unchecked and unchallenged.
Remember they enable all of his actions without any criticism.
Remember and vote them all out!
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That's rich saying trump has publicly denigrated a growing list of African-Americans.
Merriam-Webster: If you "denigrate" someone, you attempt to blacken their reputation. It makes sense, therefore, that "denigrate" can be traced back to the Latin verb "denigrare," meaning "to blacken." When "denigrate" was first used in English in the 16th century, it meant to cast aspersions on someone's character or reputation.
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@Charlie Fieselman
Not sure what your point is. I'm handy with Latin roots too, but the word has a modern English meaning that accurately describes Trump's behavior.
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What a divisive president, and a ridicule to the diversity and infinite capabilities that transcends race, ethnicity and nationalities.
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... actually, “aimed at black people”? Wow please don’t stoop to his level and also please don’t give out counterparts fodder to say we are lying. His comments are horrible enough but “aimed at black people” can be easily discarded and challenged as a lie. Trump is Trump and no embellishment should be done, this just plays to his advantage
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@Vzorco: This article specifically addresses insults spewed at Omarosa Newman, Don Lemon, LeBron James, LaVar Ball, and Maxine Waters, all of whom are African-Americans. So, these specific insults were "aimed at black people."
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I'm a lib. I can't stand Trump for many many reasons. I've long been convinced he's a racist and there are many statements of his that show this.
However, I've never equated the word "dog" with racism against blacks. Trump's prediction to be childish and insulting is well established and we don't need to shoe horn every statement he makes into a racist one.
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@Tim L.
I seriously wonder if you are an actual liberal. "Lib" is a very common right-wing pejorative term for liberals. I've literally never heard any liberals call ourselves that name in the many years I've been a liberal.
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@Tim L.
A dog is an animal and when you equate human beings with animals, it's demeaning. During slavery, black people were sold on the auction block like horses, cows and pigs. Those are animals too.
The article's title misrepresents its content.
The first paragraph refers to a growing list of black people Trump has disparaged. This is true, although the list of white people is much larger.
The sentence "...the morning tweet about Ms. Manigault Newman was a remarkably crude use of the presidential bully pulpit to disparage a minority woman who once served at the highest levels in his White House." is just a statement of fact.
The article is not about Trump's racism, which is nonetheless apparent. It simply goes to Trump's inappropriate public disparagement of individuals. This crude, insulting behavior is miles beneath anything America should accept from its President. It is literally unhinged and should disqualify him from holding this office. I expect that most Americans would never publicly behave like this.
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I keep hearing the same refrain: “trump isn’t politically correct, he’s just saying out loud what many (white) people say behind closed doors or at the dinner table”
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@Chris: I am glad that I am not at those dinner tables or behind those closed doors.
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I'm grateful for one thing -- that Trump is not actually a dog owner. I shudder to think how cruel he might be.
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While not racist the term is extremely dehumanizing nonetheless. And since it is coming from the president of this country we should be me even more outraged.
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Michael Gerson writing in the Atlantic:
"It is remarkable to hear religious leaders defend profanity, ridicule and cruelty as hallmarks of authenticity and dismiss decency as a dead language... these evangelical leaders have ceased to be moral leaders in any meaningful sense."
Whom would Jesus gratuitously insult?
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@Comp
Amen and that is because many of those religious leaders are guilty of the same seven deadly sins. They just haven't been caught yet. As long as DJT rallies against reproductive rights, he can do or say whatever he wants. They will not hold him accountable.
Jesus said that we should love thy neighbor as thyself.
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Trump expects all of his appointees, public servants, lawyers, accountants, paid-for friends, etc. to be loyal dogs. He introduces every loyal puppy as a “great guy” or “a beautiful gal” no matter their qualifications. It’s only when they decide the price of silence is not worth being bought off that these loyalists speak their own mind and Trump snarls that their liars, dogs, or crooks. I suspect that if Trump goes down hard, many many more die-hard fans will be putting out their own tell-all books, starting their own kind of “me too” movement. Those recovering Trumpets who want to do this with class and a sense of dignity have a better model than Omarosa. I suggest Albert Speer.
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Petulance (defined as childishly sulky or bad-tempered) is an unbecoming character trait for any person, let alone the POTUS.
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I never liked Omarosa. However it is obvious after reading Trump's tweets and quotes that she nailed Trump with one word. The title of her book: Unhinged.
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The media seems to have forgotten Trump's misogynistic sexist comments he made against Hillary Clinton during the campaign. Denying that he played this card to his advantage was fatal to Hillary ultimately. Between calling her crooked, linking her to Bill Clinton's affairs, inadequate stamina, questionable health, lacking experience, even stalking her at the 2nd debate - he fed the sexist/misogynist voters of America. Sadly, this was never acknowledged on TV news either.
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@Mimi
I think millions of us remember his abuse of Hillary Clinton on an almost daily basis. It was prologue to this nightmare.
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It would appear the insult isn't directed at "black people" but Ms Manigault. Does anyone really dispute that this woman is a pretty vile person based on her public persona that has been on display for the past 15+ years? Attack Trump for ever bringing this sociopath into his office - she wasn't a mystery and the results completely unsurprising - but stop with this racial nonsense.
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@Tulane: What is trump? A pretty vile person and a sociopath! Birds of a feather flock together...
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@Elin Minkoff
She might be a sociopath, but she's not a dumb sociopath. She taped an entire conversation with a retired 4 star general and former Secretary for Homeland Security.
Americans should shame this man and his family at every single opportunity, until they run screaming from the White House and never come back.
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At what point will all media stop reporting on anything Trump does and just report that the (fill in the blank) is so below us, we refuse to report this as news???
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Donald Trump is unhinged. And that's very dangerous.
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Look - I can’t believe the president of the US is writing these things. It is beyond sad regardless of context. Having said that, why is the NYT headline making a big deal of the president lashing out on black people in general? Omarosa happens to be a person he is lashing out against, attacks on Comey, Clinton, Sessions etc aren’t against white people? Omarosa has also been a complex persona throughout her presence in the WH. He may be a racist but I don’t see those facts in the text of the article and it saddens me that the NYT feels they need to push this story to “racist Trump”. His words and ways are off putting as is.. let’s not get dragged along?
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@Vzorco Thank you for raising these points. We heard you (and some other commenters) on this, and we tweaked the headline.
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@Vzorco this was my exact thought when I first read the article. Thank you.
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@Hanna Ingber
We all know that trump is an equal opportunity insulter. On a scale of least severe (for him) to most degrading insults, white men are clustered at one end, and white women are close to the other end, just short of black men and black women. This doesn't need to be studied in depth because it's readily observable by anyone who has paid attention. It's no service to the truth to deny it.
Therefore, I suggest with respect that once the headline had been chosen, it should have stayed the way it was.