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Presidential Trolling at Its Worst
National Review ^ | July 15, 2019 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 07/15/2019 2:33:35 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Trump outdid himself with anti-“squad” tweets over the weekend suggesting that the four Democratic congresswomen go back where they came from. The tweets were clearly trolling and meant to be sardonic — supposedly they are to go back home, fix their countries, and then return here to tell us how it’s done, with Nancy Pelosi happy to pay the airfare.

They are several things to say about this: 1) As always, presidents shouldn’t troll; 2) on a tactical level, it’s incredibly dumb for the president to insert himself into the middle of the Democratic circular firing squad between Nancy Pelosi and Co. and AOC and Co.; 3) politically, this kind of thing repels Republican suburban women, and he’ll need to win back some increment of them in 2020; 4) substantively, three of the four targets were born in this country, but his tweets suggest that somehow they can’t be true Americans; 5) as for Ilhan Omar, who came here as a refugee, it’s absolutely fair game to excoriate her for being a poisonous ingrate, but the barroom-stool taunt of “go back to the country you came from” isn’t the way to do it.

A poor show all around.


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KEYWORDS: 2020election; bushlostdealwithit; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; fraudsquad; mediawingofthednc; nationalreview; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; partisanmediashills; pleaseclap; presstitutes; richlowry; smearmachine; stupidthingtosay; trump
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To: reaganaut1

Like they say. You know you are over the target when you are taking heavy flak.


61 posted on 07/15/2019 3:30:01 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Beagle8U

Trump has always said that he only apologizes if he is wrong. He is not wrong here......so no apology.


62 posted on 07/15/2019 3:35:57 PM PDT by dforest (tJust shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: reaganaut1

Was Obama trolling when he repeatedly said that Republicans were suckin’ on a slurpee, wee weed up, and called TEA Party patriots ‘teabaggers’ (with nutsacks on their chins)?


63 posted on 07/15/2019 3:45:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: OKSooner

STFU Lowry.


64 posted on 07/15/2019 3:45:26 PM PDT by Luke21 (The Hill sucks.)
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To: reaganaut1

It’s a crying shame what squishes like Lowry and Goldberg have done to a once great publication like NR.

Lowry’s worth listening to for the sole purpose of determining exactly the opposite of the course you should really take.


65 posted on 07/15/2019 3:47:09 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

W Bush did things Lowry’s way for eight years and got trampled.


66 posted on 07/15/2019 3:48:48 PM PDT by Luke21 (The Hill sucks.)
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To: KevinB

Excellent!

FTA: 1) As always, presidents shouldn’t troll

This is a derp move. Make a pronouncement as if you were in charge of the world or as if everyone should agree with it.

Nope.

Tweets and Trolling are 2 of my favorite things about Pres. Trump.

TRUMP 2020


67 posted on 07/15/2019 3:51:04 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Williams

And Lowry is a commie simp.


68 posted on 07/15/2019 3:52:09 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: reaganaut1

Perhaps, if we had a legitimately professional and unbiased journalistic milieu, it would be imprudent to troll.

We do not, so it is prudent for Trump to troll.


69 posted on 07/15/2019 3:57:37 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: reaganaut1
Rich Lowry still doesn't "get" Trump.

Makes an embarrassing fool of himself by talking out his arse.

National Review is so yesteryear.

70 posted on 07/15/2019 4:07:38 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Grampa Dave
The Trump Curse takes out the trash on a regular basis.

Excellent and true.

71 posted on 07/15/2019 4:17:13 PM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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72 posted on 07/15/2019 4:18:14 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: reaganaut1

These idiots completely miss the point and it’s why Trump is POTUS and they’re not.

All he has done is share a SENTIMENT. He’s not actually going to kick anyone out. When you have a group of people relentlessly criticizing the USA, its history, culture, and deny all that is great about it - if it is soooOOOooo terrible, why wouldn’t you go somewhere else?

Many feel the same way. +1 for his base.

The left, with their rabid appetite to tear the POTUS apart, jump to defend this group - the most radical the party has ever seen, thus pulling the party to the left and ensuring they continue the anti-American bile.

Independents will never support them, yet the left is so consumed with hatred they can’t help themselves. PDJT is campaigning - making the entire Democratic party behave how he desires.


73 posted on 07/15/2019 4:28:50 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: mbrfl

Exactly so.


74 posted on 07/15/2019 4:30:28 PM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: reaganaut1

Greatest trolling of all time. President Trump is going into the Twitter Troll Hall of Fame on the first ballot. As Rush pointed out, President Trump has gotten the dems to frame themselves as the party of communism. anti-Americanism, open border and pro-illegal alien for the entirety of the 2020 campaign. Hopefully the smart R’s, there’s only a few of them, play along and follow Trump’s lead and keep feeding the dems the grist with which to keep painting themselves as communist and anti-American.


75 posted on 07/15/2019 4:51:02 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: reaganaut1
Presidential Trolling at Its Worst ___________________________________________________
76 posted on 07/15/2019 4:53:20 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; reaganaut1

Ooops! Sorry, my sincere apologies.

Well, then, maybe reaganaut1 can answer my question, which was:

If Trump is so bad, who would you prefer instead of Trump in 2020?


77 posted on 07/15/2019 5:14:02 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Probably not going to get an answer.
I ask frequently.


78 posted on 07/15/2019 5:23:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: reaganaut1

He spelled “Best” wrong.


79 posted on 07/15/2019 5:35:08 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: reaganaut1

No, this was trolling at best. The democrats were forced to defend and now own these four.


80 posted on 07/15/2019 6:12:10 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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