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Arts and humanities committee leaves hidden message for Trump in resignation letter
Washington Examiner ^ | Aug 18, 2017 | Melissa Quinn

Posted on 08/19/2017 7:37:13 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

When the remaining members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned en masse Friday morning, they left a hidden message.

The first letter of each paragraph of their resignation letter to President Trump spelled out the word "RESIST," the rallying cry of the president's opponents.

The first words of each paragraph are "Reproach," "Elevating," "Speaking," "Ignoring," Supremacy," and "Thank."

Twitter users were quick to make the connection.

Sixteen members of the committee, first established under President Ronald Reagan, resigned together Friday in protest of Trump's comments on the violence in Charlottesville, Va. The commission is made up of representatives from Broadway, Hollywood, and the broader arts and entertainment community. The other members had already resigned after Trump was elected in November.

Actor Kal Penn, a member of the panel, tweeted the letter Friday morning.

"The administration's refusal to quickly and unequivocally condemn the cancer of hatred only further emboldens those who wish America ill," the letter said. "We cannot stand idly by, the way that your West Wing advisers have, without speaking out against your words and actions."

Since Trump was elected, "resist" has been used as part of a campaign by Democrats to oppose Trump's agenda.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t know why we would have that talent-free leftist POS on any presidential committee in the Trump era anyway. He is a total Obama tool. I am sure he was just watching and waiting for the moment he could pull a stunt like this.


41 posted on 08/19/2017 9:21:37 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

The cockroaches are coming out of their hiding places and we now know them by name. This is a good thing.


42 posted on 08/19/2017 9:58:24 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

“Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned en masse.” Cool. I bet the committee members are confident that they are responsible for the decision to resign even though the decision was indirectly given to them by their superiors.

Trump admins: You should probably leave.
Committee. You know what? We are going to leave.
Trump admins: Wow. Really?


43 posted on 08/19/2017 10:11:42 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: MrEdd

A & H is G A R B A G E


44 posted on 08/19/2017 10:28:25 PM PDT by Patrick Henry Dichotomy
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Ooooooh. Aren’t they clever. The first sentence did seem artificially hyperbolic and hysterical.


45 posted on 08/20/2017 1:41:14 AM PDT by jimfree (My17 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Since Barry and hill the hag are pouring funding into their idiot and dangerous ‘resist’ initiative, it makes sense that the actor was directed by the ring leaders.


46 posted on 08/20/2017 2:07:53 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
“Actor Kal Penn,...”

Obama fellatio fanatic. Good riddance.

47 posted on 08/20/2017 2:11:29 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Trump got the trash to take itself out!!! WINNING!!!


48 posted on 08/20/2017 3:02:26 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

How can I love this country anymore when half its population are either self righteous blindly misguided,traitors, lunatics or simply idiots. *sad*


49 posted on 08/20/2017 4:25:46 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

There is zero need for a committee like that. Wonder if they were paid? If so, another win, though small, in reducing government spending.


50 posted on 08/20/2017 6:41:21 AM PDT by falcon99
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

There should be no such government committee, in the first place.

“Culture” (the “arts & humanities”) should be what the people, through their individual choices produce, as individuals and in combination with others, neither needing or wanting the stamp of the government on it.


51 posted on 08/20/2017 8:43:19 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: A_perfect_lady

LOL!


52 posted on 08/20/2017 11:27:09 AM PDT by LYDIAONTARIO
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