I agree 100%.
Imagine the outcry from liberals if it was named "Stinky Mexican Margarita".
Posted on 05/05/2017 6:31:11 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler
President Trump is doing away with the White House Cinco de Mayo celebration, a 16-year-old tradition, Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion reported Wednesday.
Instead of a White House celebration this year, one headlined by Vice President Pence will be held at a to-be-determined location and with a reduced guest list, the report said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment and has not issued an official announcement of any planned events for the holiday.
Both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama used Cinco de Mayo to connect with the Hispanic community — inviting Cabinet members, Latino celebrities and Mexican Embassy officials to the White House — and to promote immigration reform.
Last year, Obama had 500 guests, food catered by San Antonio celebrity chef Johnny Hernandez and music by Mexican pop band Mana.
Trump, then the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, famously celebrated Cinco de Mayo last year by tweeting a picture of himself with a taco bowl from Trump Grill in New York City, with a caption reading: “Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”
Democrats and Latinos bashed Trump's taco bowl tweet, but then-Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus defended Trump's efforts at Hispanic outreach.
"Honestly, he's trying, and I'll tell you what — I honestly think he understands that building, unifying and growing the party is the only way we are going to win," Priebus, now Trump's White House chief of staff, said the day after the tweet.
Cinco de Mayo celebrates the May 5, 1862, Battle of Puebla, in which Mexican forces routed an invading French army. The holiday is observed but not celebrated in Mexico, but it's taken on a symbolic status for Mexican-Americans and Latinos in the United States.
The date of Hispanic Mother’s Day is individual — it’s the date the mother raced across the border and dropped her anchor baby on American soil.
Gee, and it went so well last year.
They start earlier... about 14 and no later than 16.
Provides another excuse for college kids to get drunk.
Cinco de Mayo? Really?
Why not a Cinco de Mustard, or Cinco de Ketchup? &^)
If he would have celebrated it, they would have cried “cultural appropriation.” To the left, there is nothing a conservative, or even a Republican, can do that is not wrong.
Damn no Trump Taco Bowls
Let me say it again: The Kentucky Derby is far more worthy of being our country’s early-May pseudo-holiday.
As I’ve told my boys, if some idiot at school mentions Cinco de Mayo, they should tell them, “Sure, let’s build the wall first and let Mexicans go to the other side and celebrate Cino de Mayo all they want. We’ll wait and celebrate our independence on July 4th.
¡Olé, borrachines!
This phony excuse for celebrating a minor skirmish in Mexican history was invented by American PC school teachers to build self-esteem in Mexican kids after a month-long Black history fest in February. Now we have a generation of ethnics who think they are God’s gift to the world, but who can’t read on grade level.
“Both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama
The two WORST presidents of the past one hundred years.”
So you thought Carter was better than GWB?
Put the hash pipe DOWN!
I agree 100%.
Imagine the outcry from liberals if it was named "Stinky Mexican Margarita".
It’s a faux holiday for eating tacos and drinking margaritas and culturally appropriating guacamole and stereotype mexican music
A” 16 year tradition”
Oh please
GOOD!
Meanwhile, my pathetic Mexican-Moslem-loving campus is having “Cinco de Mayo” today, to “learn about Mexican culture”.
As if it hasn’t been shoved in our faces for years.
And as if this is a real holiday anyway - it’s a local-yokel celebration at best, which has been promulgated by liberal America-hating Americans to the point it’s MORE PREVALENT IN AMERICA THAN IN MEXICO!!!
Bunch of !%!%@^$#
VP Pence should make sure ICE participates in the “celebrations”.
Wetbacks the movie. Yeah, on the Song of the South (Uncle Remus) / Birth of a Nation shelf at Amazon.
(Don’t tell anyone, but I do have a copy of “Spooks Run Wild” with Bela Lugosi and the Bowery Boys.)
Winning!!
Wore my red, white, & blue striped shirt for cinco de mayo.
MAGA
Your statement just proved the opposite. Irish get PLENTY of attention and have for ages.
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