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.
Like they say. You know you are over the target when you are taking heavy flak.
Trump has always said that he only apologizes if he is wrong. He is not wrong here......so no apology.
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)?
STFU Lowry.
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.
W Bush did things Lowry’s way for eight years and got trampled.
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
And Lowry is a commie simp.
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.
Makes an embarrassing fool of himself by talking out his arse.
National Review is so yesteryear.
Excellent and true.
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.
Exactly so.
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.
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?
Probably not going to get an answer.
I ask frequently.
He spelled “Best” wrong.
No, this was trolling at best. The democrats were forced to defend and now own these four.
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