Posted on 01/14/2019 8:34:45 AM PST by C19fan
Imagine all the House Democrats watching the clip below this morning, feeling their first-ever twinge of identification with Trump.
It was Ocasio-Cortez (and probably Rashida Tlaib) whom he had in mind when he said the following on Thursday, no?
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Every time she speaks, we get it straight from the horse’s mouth!
He basically did say that.
Reporter, amidst crowd and helicopter noise: "XX called you a racist." Trump: "Who did?" When told it was AOC, Trump then said, with a dismissive wave: "Who cares?"
Occasional-Cortex
“She is getting way too much coverage in the news.”
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Unless/until she actually does something, conservatives would be well-served to pay her no mind. It just ups her “street cred” when they do.
The link doesn’t own the twitter posts, you know. You can post it here, and not as clickbait.
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“I really believe that they don’t care about crime,” Trump said. “I really believe this. The Democrats don’t care about crime.”
“They’ve been taken over by a group of young people who, frankly, in some cases, I’ve been watching, I actually think are crazy,” Trump said Thursday. “But they’ve been taken over by a group that is so far left, I really don’t think they care about crime. Sadly, they are viewing this as the beginning of the 2020 race and that’s okay with me. But they have been taken over by a group of people who don’t care about gangs, human trafficking or drugs. They don’t care about anything. I tell you why, they have gone crazy.”
That was 36 hours after she appeared on MSNBC to wonder why we’re funding ICE. Part of her social-media strategy is to seize on slights from the right and promote them to her audience, responding either as whiny victim to rally her fans to her defense or as a happy warrior eager to brawl with ideological enemies on their behalf. Trump’s “who cares?” dig was too mild for door number one so today we get door number two:
I bartended for *years* in New York City. I understand guys like this like the back of my hand.
We got under his skin
Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto
Asked just now about @AOC, Trump says “Who cares?” and gestures dismissively.
Trump doesn’t drink but she’s going for a “loudmouth at the end of the bar” thing there. POTUS’s own Twitter strategy is similar to hers although not identical. He also alternates between victim and brawler — maybe that’s the secret ingredient to building a modern political personality cult — but he rarely comes off as a particularly “happy” warrior. (At his rallies, perhaps.) And he uses social-media for score-settling. There’s no Ocasio-Cortez version of the “embarrassing random potshots at people whom I have a grudge against” genre. Yet.
They’re perfect foils for each other, politically and demographically. I think he’s holding off on engaging with her on Twitter until something really big happens that requires a major distraction. Maybe the Mueller report will do it.
I am thoroughly sick of hearing about and seeing pictures of this ignorant, stupid, ugly, self absorbed, lying, loudmouthed, pop eyed, horse toothed, smug jackass. She represents people who are just like her, and the highest concentration of ignoranuses in the US is in NYC (with Boston a close second)
Ping.
They wanted Trump to get in a Twitter war with AOC and he refused.
Bread goes in, toast comes out. But where does the bread go?
It really is amazing that such and unremarkable, unaccomplished person was elected to the House of Representatives.
Judging by her quick reply saying she got under his skin, I think it is quite the opposite!! Presient Trump’s casual dismissal of her has bruised her growing ego.
Thanks a lot - you got me to click on hot-air to see the rest of the quote. Now I feel like I need to take a shower - I thought FReepers were my friends.
Next time can you please just provide the entire quote or give a barf alert?
Not when you consider what group of people elected her
The female Barack.
Time for him to use muscle.
Call a national emergency and destroy the deep state forever.
Touché.
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