Trump tells Omar to "go back" to Somalia, a country he is currently bombing

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN · Jul 16, 2019

dogs4thewin said:
Literally though I am turning 28 next month and they have been at war pretty much most if not all of my life, so as old as Trump is I would think he would have at least SOME idea of that.

You sound more educated to me.

mina · Jul 16, 2019

GoldenBoy89 said:
The real irony in all of this is just how un-American this rhetoric from the president and his supposed 'patriotic supporters' really is. If there's anyone who has shown to have not a single clue as to what an American is or how America works, it's the current President of the United States.

I'm continually amazed at just how un-American our American president has proven himself to be time and time again.

Seriously, if someone wants only a certain kind of American and America and ignores the Constitution in order to suggest this , then go buy an island and start your own country with tight rigid rules that rival only a strict Muslim country. But that sort of stuff is not compliant here with the Constitution and the rights of others are protected. Trump is free to shoot off his mouth (or fingers as he tweets) and attack others on a personal level but the beauty of America is that we can freely critique things that he says if we disagree with it. I love it when people disagree with Presidents (no matter who that is). It means the America we love is in tact.

High Fidelity · Jul 16, 2019

I wonder if she's been a citizen longer than Trump's wife?

Melania needs to go home.

dogs4thewin · Jul 16, 2019

High Fidelity said:
I wonder if she's been a citizen longer than Trump's wife?

Melania needs to go home.

To be fair, as long as she was a citizen when first elected and any required time before that whether she has been a citizen longer than any particular person does not matter.

Pommer · Jul 16, 2019

dogs4thewin said:
Literally though I am turning 28 next month and they have been at war pretty much most if not all of my life, so as old as Trump is I would think he would have at least SOME idea of that.

So has the United States, (been “at war”), it’s our major export.

GoldenBoy89 · Jul 16, 2019

mina said:
Seriously, if someone wants only a certain kind of American and America and ignores the Constitution in order to suggest this , then go buy an island and start your own country with tight rigid rules that rival only a strict Muslim country. But that sort of stuff is not compliant here with the Constitution and the rights of others are protected. Trump is free to shoot off his mouth (or fingers as he tweets) and attack others on a personal level but the beauty of America is that we can freely critique things that he says if we disagree with it. I love it when people disagree with Presidents (no matter who that is). It means the America we love is in tact.

To add another layer to this already multi-tiered chocolaty irony cake...

This president specifically ran a campaign on pointing out everything he thought was wrong with America, in his un-expert opinion, even criticizing elected officials and the government itself and that he is the only one who can fix it, and his complaint about these Americans is that they are doing the same by criticizing his government he's in charge of now. He spent the better part of a decade crapping on America and its elected leader any chance he got. It wasn't un-American or anti-American to criticize the US or the president when he was the one doing it but point out one unfavorable facet of his disaster of an administration and you deserve to be torn down and labeled un-American and told to go back to where you came from.

LoAmmi · Jul 16, 2019

GoldenBoy89 said:
To add another layer to this already multi-tiered chocolaty irony cake...

This president specifically ran a campaign on pointing out everything he thought was wrong with America, in his un-expert opinion, even criticizing elected officials and the government itself and that he is the only one who can fix it, and his complaint about these Americans is that they are doing the same by criticizing his government he's in charge of now. He spent the better part of a decade crapping on America and its elected leader any chance he got. It wasn't un-American or anti-American to criticize the US or the president when he was the one doing it but point out one unfavorable facet of his disaster of an administration and you deserve to be torn down and labeled un-American and told to go back to where you came from.

You aren't allowed to do it if you are a foreigner*.

*Even US citizens can be foreigners.

iluvatar5150 · Jul 16, 2019

High Fidelity said:
I wonder if she's been a citizen longer than Trump's wife?

*checks wikipedia*

lolol, she has. She's been in the US longer, too.

Melanija Knavs was born in Novo Mesto, and grew up in Sevnica, in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia.[3] She worked as a fashion model through agencies in Milan and Paris, later moving to New York City in 1996.[4] Her modeling career was associated with Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management.[5]

In 2001, Knavs became a permanent resident of the United States.[6] She married Donald Trump in 2005 and obtained U.S. citizenship in 2006.

After first arriving in New York in 1992,[18] Omar's family finally secured asylum in the U.S. in 1995 and lived for a time in Arlington, Virginia,[12] before moving to and settling in Minneapolis,[12] where her father worked first as a taxi driver and later for the post office.[12] Her father and grandfather emphasized the importance of democracy during her upbringing, and at age 14 she accompanied her grandfather to caucus meetings, serving as his interpreter.[14][19] Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old.

Melania Trump - Wikipedia
Ilhan Omar - Wikipedia

dogs4thewin · Jul 16, 2019

Pommer said:
So has the United States, (been “at war”), it’s our major export.

I meant war on their own soil against their own people.

GoldenBoy89 · Jul 16, 2019

iluvatar5150 said:
*checks wikipedia*

lolol, she has. She's been in the US longer, too.

Melania Trump - Wikipedia
Ilhan Omar - Wikipedia

Wikipedia?! That liberal rag says Fred Trump was born in New York but Trump says his dad was born in Germany and no sane person would ever lie about their father's national origin for absolutely no reason at all and nothing to gain....

cow451 · Jul 16, 2019

DavidPT said:
I was thinking basically the same thing for an entire 8 years prior to Trump getting elected.

A poster might reconsider mistaken beliefs after several years of the Trump administration.

cow451 · Jul 16, 2019

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
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Sometimes discretion is the better part of posting.

Shiloh Raven · Jul 16, 2019

wing2000 said:
Write a letter to the POTUS if you are tired of hearing the garbage.

It would be better to tweet him because I'm not sure a long letter like that would be able to hold his attention, if he actually bothered to open the letter and read it. I doubt he would read a letter that was intended to scold him though. A tweet, on the other hand, is short and simple. It would be easy enough for him to understand since he only has a an intellectual speech level of a fourth-grader.

Shiloh Raven · Jul 16, 2019

dogs4thewin said:
There is no such thing as "normal" Americans. America is a very diverse place.

I think this statement deserves to be repeated because conservative Christian Trump supporters don't have the right, moral or otherwise, to decide what a "normal American" should be or angrily insist that a liberal politician (and fellow American) that they don't like should go to some other country.

Aldebaran · Jul 16, 2019

High Fidelity said:
I wonder if she's been a citizen longer than Trump's wife?

Melania needs to go home.

Melania isn't the one who keeps expressing hate for this country. If Omar thinks that her way is so great, then she really should go back to Somalia, fix it with her "great" solutions, and then she can come back here and show us how it's done.

TLK Valentine · Jul 16, 2019

Aldebaran said:
Melania isn't the one who keeps expressing hate for this country.

She is the one who came here illegally, however.

Speedwell · Jul 16, 2019

Aldebaran said:
Melania isn't the one who keeps expressing hate for this country. If Omar thinks that her way is so great, then she really should go back to Somalia, fix it with her "great" solutions, and then she can come back here and show us how it's done.

Is it expressing hate for a country to point out certain hateful things it does? Some might think it was love for the country, even call it patriotism.

Aldebaran · Jul 16, 2019

Speedwell said:
Is it expressing hate for a country to point out certain hateful things it does? Some might think it was love for the country, even call it patriotism.

That's just another way of saying, "I'm not hateful, you are!"

But as a way of getting back to the truth about what Trump actually wrote, which has been twisted by the Press for those who don't take the time to actually read the tweet, here were his exact words:

"So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!"

Notice that he didn't simply tell them to "go back to your country". He told them to go back and fix the problems there and then come back and show us how it's done. Simply speaking hatred about this country (while desiring to represent it) and hatred for its leaders doesn't fix anything.

comana · Jul 16, 2019

Aldebaran said:
That's just another way of saying, "I'm not hateful, you are!"

But as a way of getting back to the truth about what Trump actually wrote, which has been twisted by the Press for those who don't take the time to actually read the tweet, here were his exact words:

"So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!"

Notice that he didn't simply tell them to "go back to your country". He told them to go back and fix the problems there and then come back and show us how it's done. Simply speaking hatred about this country (while desiring to represent it) and hatred for its leaders doesn't fix anything.

What hatred towards their country have they spoken and why should they fix any country but their own?

Aldebaran · Jul 16, 2019

comana said:
What hatred towards their country have they spoken and why should they fix any country but their own?

For Omar, go read her Twitter feed sometime. Nearly every single tweet she posts is an attack against the president, and now she's whining about how she was attacked by him. Here's some examples of how she spends her time. It explains why she has a 9% approval rating. ‘NOT A TYPO’: Democrat Poll Shows What Voters Think Of Omar, Ocasio-Cortez

And now for her Twitter tirades:

"This country was founded on the ideas of justice, of liberty, of the pursuit of happiness. But these core beliefs are under threat. Each and every day. We are under threat by an administration that would rather cage children than pass comprehensive immigration reform.

And unlike Trump, Obama respected the office!

Donald Trump is lashing out at me, @AOC, @RashidaTlaib, & @AyannaPressley because he wants to divide our country. We will not allow his latest attacks distract us from working to ensure a brighter future for all.

It is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery out of our constitution, it is time for us to impeach this president.

We can either continue to enable this president and simply report on the vile of garbage that comes out of his mouth or we can hold him accountable for his crimes.

Donald Trump would love nothing more than to divide our country based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or immigration status because this is the only way he knows he can prevent the solidarity of us working together across all of our differences.

To distract from that he’s launching a blatantly racist attack on four members of the United States House of Representatives, all of whom are women of color. This is the agenda of white nationalists.

You are stoking white nationalism bc you are angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda."

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