Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
...can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
Yeah those statues must seem really beautiful, unless of course you happen to be a black person whose ancestors were slaves in this country, or even a white person whose ancestor gave their life to defend this country against an army that rose up to battle for the right to keep human beings as property....the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
But to others who are not among those clearly prejudice folks, I am sure the statues and monuments must seem awesome.
I have been hearing for months now that Steve Bannon was the representative of the Alt-Right racists in the White House, but based on the interview that I posted earlier, and these tweets, I am beginning to firmly believe that the head Nazi in the White House is Trump himself.
Remember this:
Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.
I guess this was Hitler's long game.
Sure he lost the 2nd World War, but now after more than 70 years one of his followers is finally in charge of America.
And the Republicans helped him do it.
sad:-(
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Good for Palm Beach. Everybody needs to call him out on all the scams.
DeletePeople magazine covers featuring the Trump family in October 2015 and July 2017 are very different.
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DeleteALL LIER$ 'T'each your children well.
“In some ways, Trump would rather have people calling him racist than say he backed down the minute he was wrong,” one adviser to the White House said on Wednesday about Charlottesville. “This may turn into the biggest mess of his presidency because he is stubborn and doesn't realize how bad this is getting.”
ReplyDeleteFor Trump, anger serves as a way to manage staff, express his displeasure or simply as an outlet that soothes him. Often, aides and advisers say, he’ll get mad at a specific staffer or broader situation, unload from the Oval Office and then three hours later act as if nothing ever occurred even if others still feel rattled by it. Negative television coverage and lawyers earn particular ire from him.
White House officials and informal advisers say the triggers for his temper are if he thinks someone is lying to him, if he’s caught by surprise, if someone criticizes him, or if someone stops him from trying to do something or seeks to control him.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/trump-charlottesville-temper-chaos-241721
Remember when that thug Trump supporter said something about what would happen if he didn't build the wall? Wasn't he referring to a group that would kill him? Literally kill him like dead.
DeleteAre those fools still waiting for him to build the wall they expect?
Trump must build the wall!
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The Breitbart Presidency
ReplyDeleteIf Van Jones was right, that a moving tribute to the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL in a speech to Congress earlier this year was the moment Donald Trump became president, Trump’s news conference on Tuesday was the moment he became a Breitbart contributing editor.
Charlottesville has been a diminishing event for President Trump. He has been unable to summon the moral authority of his office, even though this wasn't a difficult test.
It doesn't take political skill or crisis-management ability to show largeness of heart. It doesn't require knowledge to demonstrate basic moral discernment. It doesn't take a Demosthenes or a Churchill to say the appropriate things about a couple of hundred racist goons. Future historians will marvel that one of the most damaging events in the early Trump administration came in a botched response to a neo-Nazi rally. Even Jake and Elwood Blues could have gotten this right.
Over the past few days, Trump hasn't spoken as the leader of the country, or even leader of one party, but as a leader of an inflamed faction. This is why it was almost unthinkable that he would give a unifying talk, as any other president would, at the funeral of Heather Heyer, the young woman slain in the vehicular attack by an "alt-right" protester.
Trump’s sensibility is highly unusual for a politician—let alone for the leader of the free world—but very familiar from the internet or social media. As his news conference showed, his level of argument is at the level of a good Breitbart blogger, or of a Twitter egg of yore. He would absolutely kill it in the comments section of a right-wing website or trolling a journalist.
Trump knows some things; covers the weaknesses of his case with sheer aggression; doesn't care about consistency or common sense; wants to play to the base rather than reach the persuadable middle; and feels liberated from any standards of respectability.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/16/trump-bannon-breitbart-charlottesville-215499
What stands out from you comment to me was that Obama would have been there to eulogized Heather Heyer. Trump just sits in his office defending the people that are calling her a whore. It would have eaten Trump alive if Obama HAD shown up to eulogized her. Classic.
DeleteI like to think Heather's family has been called by Obama and others.
DeleteWhen Aides Worry Their President Is Unhinged
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The secret vacation, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump fail to moderate Trump's Charlottesville reaction.
DeleteMr. Trump’s news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan
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Regime Change in Charlottesville
ReplyDeleteIf you understand why that Civil War statue really went up, the debate over removing it looks a lot different.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/16/regime-change-in-charlottesville-215500
Exactly. The statues went up in the 20's, at the height of Jim Crow, lynching, and KKK.
DeleteA history apparently not taught in real estate classes at Wharton.
And in the 1940s when black veteranswere returning from WWII, wondering why, if they were good enough to fight and chance dying for the US, they were being denied full rights. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/confederate-monuments-history-trump-baltimore_us_5995a3a6e4b0d0d2cc84c952?section=us_contributor
Deleteot?JEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL
ReplyDelete"“Again, Anti-Semitism” on February 16, 1981. In light of the recent neo-Nazi, white power and alt-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Newsweek is republishing the story."
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/why-do-nazis-hate-jews/
Drumpf didn't seem like such an art lover when he had the art deco frieze on the Bonwit Teller building destroyed instead of having it removed and sent to a museum. Pissed off a lot of upper crust New Yorkers, too.
ReplyDeleteThe world will celebrate when the Trump named monuments are demolished.
ReplyDeleteStarting with Trump Tower NYC.
DeleteI am looking forward to when all those gaudy towers come down. They are a symbol of a corrupt America that allows the darkest of beings to run over good people time and again.
DeleteAll that needs done is to remove all the "TRUMP" insignias on all buildings in America and other countries. Remember, the ones reflecting his name are on buildings that are not owned by him! He paid to have his name reflected on many of them!
DeleteTrump's name should be demolished on as many buildings as possible - especially after his impeachment or resignation!
Let him play golf on his courses until he can no longer move or, better yet, dies.
His tenants are already suing to have his name removed from the buildings and the buildings and even streets renamed.
DeleteThey claim and rightly that his name depreciates property values.
Actually, they pay him. Licensing of his name. ANd we're likely to see just how much (or how little) he gets. I hear Mueller has those tax returns - ALL of them.
DeleteSorry, but his name is already gone from a hotel in Canada and an apartment complex in New York. they petitioned the condo board claiming Trump's name on the building lowered their property values. They won. The name was removed.
DeleteIt's going to happen more often now.
I'll bet his foreign investors dry up too. When he resigns from the presidency or is kicked out in disgrace, they aren't going to want his name on a building.
And his name is ALL he has. Once his "brand" is worthless, so is he. He isn't a billionaire. He might be a millionaire, depending on if he diverted enough tax payer dollars to pay all of his debts. But I doubt it. I'll bet he's still in hock to the Russians. And they are so not happy with him.
Traitors, his kind of people.
ReplyDeleteRight? It's pretty bizarre that he apparently doesn't grasp the difference between monuments to presidents that had flaws and monuments glorifying outright traitors.
Delete"For someone so ostensibly concerned with history, Trump seems to have forgotten his own track record with historic artifacts. In fact, shortly after the president tweeted his remarks, The New York Times’ Michael Barbaro kindly reminded Trump that he had destroyed a “beautiful statue” in 1980 in order to construct Trump Tower.
ReplyDeleteTo build his skyscraper, Trump demolished the Bonwit Teller building, which was erected in 1929 and included a historically significant Art Deco relief. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was reportedly interested in preserving the artwork around the time of the building’s demolition, and, according to a 1980 report from the NYT, Trump originally agreed to donate them to the museum as long as the price wasn’t too high.
It turned out, however, the price was too high ($32,000). Instead of preserving and gifting the reliefs, Trump ordered demolition workers to jackhammer them and shatter the remains. Allegedly posing as his fake spokesperson John Baron, Trump described the relief to the NYT as being “without artistic merit,” adding “the merit of these stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them.”
Members of the art world, however, strongly disagreed, with gallery owner Robert Miller describing the loss as “tragic.” As Ashton Hawkins, vice president and secretary of the Board of Trustees at the Met put it, “Can you imagine the museum accepting them if they were not of artistic merit?” "
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-monument-beautiful-statue_us_5995a71ae4b06ef724d6ef65?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
"Trump was once again accused of scrapping historical remains during the transformation of a landmark post office in Washington, D.C., into a “super luxury” Trump Hotel. Six blocks from the White House, the building is “considered an architectural masterpiece,” the NYT explained in 2016. “Built in the Romanesque Revival style, it dates to 1899; it is the tallest high-rise federal building in the city.”
During the development of his hotel, Trump did away with much of the edifice’s original interior, even after pledging to preserve certain elements. He put carpet over the floors, covered up windows, removed plaster walls and installed gold leaf. Eventually, John Cullinane, who was serving as a preservationist architect for the development project, resigned from his position.
“I left because I couldn’t support what they were doing to the building,” he said. “They were covering up or tearing out everything that was historic.”"
"Furthermore, despite the fact that Trump bemoaned “our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” he is actually the only president to ever suggest rescinding a national monument’s status, according to The Atlantic.
In 2016, President Barack Obama proclaimed 1.3 million acres in southeast Utah as Bears Ears National Monument and vowed federal protections for the land deemed sacred to many local Native American tribes. In 2017, Trump described Obama’s creation of national monuments as an “egregious abuse of executive power” and expressed his unclear desire to “free it up.”
According to the Antiquities Act, only Congress can “undo” a national monument after it’s established.
In direct contradiction to his claims on Twitter, Trump has an established record of altering, destroying and fabricating “beautiful statues and monuments.” Particularly when it proves advantageous. To himself."
This comes as no surprise to anyone.
Look, it's no longer news when The Rump lies. (Dog bites man - meh.) It's actually a surprise when he says something truthful, even if it just happens to coincide with brute facticity. (Man bites dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
DeleteOT - From the ghost writer of 'Art of the Deal' The man says he feels terrible about elevating Trump. He says he worked for Hillary's campaign for free as penance. I hope he is right.
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ReplyDelete"HIS is obviously a fight the president wants to have"
" “old heroes like Columbus, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are replaced by Dr. King and Cesar Chavez.”
" Know-Nothings" 10-07-09
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-next-wingnut-attack
He thinks if he tears them all down he can elevate his own stature and importance. Won't be long now before he hints he wants groups to raise statues of himself in parks and public spaces.
DeleteOne breath away from Stalinism.
Make them with tiny fingers and... and brain
DeleteDonald Trump is so mentally unstable that he is screaming about conspiracies at his television.
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He'll have plenty of time to write letters about his blessed statues and monuments.
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Best athlete ever
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Here's a great article about why many of those confederate statues/memorials were popping up in the late 1940's - 80 years after the Civil War - it was solely to intimidate blacks as they sought civil rights and equality.
ReplyDeleteSo BULLSHIT that these are part of Civil War history. It was white supremacists (in the 1940s) then, just as it's filthy white supremacists now.
Trump is pathetic and the worst example of a United States President we've had in years. I didn't vote for him and have zero respect for the man!
ReplyDeleteActually he's without doubt the worst president in our history.
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Trump Hit In The Wallet As Palm Beach Chamber Of Commerce Head Urges Charities Not To Use His Club
ReplyDelete“If you have a conscience, you’re really condoning bad behavior by continuing to be there. Many say it’s the dollars (raised at the events) that count. Yes. But the integrity of any or organization rests on their sound decisions and stewardship. Personally, I do not feel that supporting him, directly or indirectly, speaks well of any organization.”
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/17/trump-hit-wallet-palm-beach-chamber-commerce-head-urges-charities-club.html
He'll sue the Chamber of Commerce. He has thin skin just like Sarah Palin.
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Yes, it's interesting that the only monuments he's interested in are the ones to himself. I look forward to that bitch Karma having her way with him. Bet he squeals like the bully he is when she grabs him by the testicles.
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___ Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ___
ReplyDeleteHis father was KKK. After the arrest he probably made sure to hide his KKK self. His son would be one of the few people effected by that. I think it is deep and well embedded in Trump. It is amazing he could conceal it all this time.
Well they employ alot of foriegn people of color.
DeleteDid she check to see if he was holding the book right side up? Trump doesn't read and he has a short attention span. I doubt he could read through one speech.
DeleteNow if he had a tape of Hitler in the VCR with English dubbed over the German, then I'd believe it.
He's never cared about any of that. He's ignorant of US history from any time period. It's all a sop to the far right and the white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the White House and beyond. I think Bannon, Miller and Gorka know a lot of stuff that Trump wants hidden away, far away. Bannon's bizarre interview with the "American Prospect" was a way of distancing himself from what he's really all about. Remember he said at one point that he wanted to destroy Washington.
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Confederate Monument in Arizona Tarred and Feathered
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According to Phoenix news station Fox 10, this is the second Confederate monument in the state that has been defaced since Charlottesville. Outside of the Arizona Capitol, the Confederate Troops Memorial was spray painted white. It has since been power washed."
DeleteNazis charging & attacking crowd: the exact opposite of what drumpf said at his news conference.
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ReplyDeleteLier$" “getting away with it.”"we had, just in the last century, gone from regarding “getting away with it” as immoral — perhaps a forbidden pleasure we might secretly admire, sometimes indulge, but could never approve — to its elevation to a highest-value goal. . Where once there were the principled, now there would be the opportunists; the clever would displace the pious.” He all but foretold the election of President Trump.he readily congratulates himself: by his own Value$"He can ask his advisers whether he can pardon himself — the ultimate getting away with it — and pretend it’s a legitimate question. Anything’s po$$ible."
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ReplyDelete" Krein said it’s been long enough now that many realize that Trump will never be the president they hoped for."
"“Mr. Trump once boasted that he could shoot someone in the street and not lose voters,” he continued. “Well, someone was just killed in the street by a white supremacist in Charlottesville.”"“I can’t stand by this disgraceful administration any longer, and I would urge anyone who once supported him as I did to stop defending the 45th president.”
Rupert Murdoch’s son blasts Trump, pledges $1 million to Anti-Defamation League
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Trump Is Just Six Senate Votes Away From Impeachment
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Now it's a horse race between Congress and Mueller's investigation.
DeleteWhat do you expect from a man who sees nothing wrong with Hitler?
ReplyDeleteWhen all is said and one, history will be harsh towards us for tolerating Donald Trump.
President Obama sings Amazing Grace
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S58k3ZXRJJc
Clearing throat. Hey. Who was here when the white boys showed up with the homeboys from Africa?
ReplyDeleteYeah. I don't see THAT being talked about. Where are their statues? Trail of Tears monument?
It can't be. These white arses all t-rumps are getting all kinds of breaks in business from foreign people of color!
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that trump and buddies bulldozed historic homes in Los Angelas without permits and approval or without the approval or permission of the Ancestors and historians of those homes. All for his profit he destroyed history.
ReplyDeleteHe gutted the historic Post Office in D.C. he turned into a hotel. The architect that was supposed to oversee the protection of the building finally quit in disgust.
DeleteAnd we all know what he did to the Bonwit Teller frescoes.
Real men are so sick of Donald john trump.
ReplyDeleteLet us hope that trump resigns at camp david along with his most deplorable staff of lousy actors and frauds. He must go home and face his massive amount of charges and lawsuits privately. This is a troubled human with no soul. He must resign and return civility to America. We do not honor traitors, liars and crooks. Or those that promote hate and division.
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