Posted on 08/28/2020 12:08:35 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Bette Midler has walked back controversial comments she tweeted about First Lady Melania Trump during the 2020 Republican National Convention.
The stage and screen icon drew sharp criticism for calling Trump — who immigrated to the United States from Slovenia — an "illegal alien" and mocking her accent during her RNC speech.
"Well, all hell has broken loose because I said Melania 'still can't speak English' last night," Midler tweeted. "I was wrong to make fun of her accent. America is made up of people who speak with all kinds of accents, and they are all welcomed always."
In addition to inaccurately tweeting that Trump "still can't speak English," Midler knocked the first lady's "Be Best" initiative and challenged her mastery of other languages as well.
"beBest is back! A UGE bore!" Midler tweeted Tuesday. "She can speak several words in a few languages. Get that illegal alien off the stage!"
Among the many who shamed Midler for her outburst were former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and the forthcoming star of Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story," Rachel Zegler.
Amid mounting criticism, Midler followed up on her tweets Wednesday morning, claiming that her intent was to hold the Trump administration accountable for its attitude toward immigration. President Trump's stances and action on immigration have been widely condemned by many Americans as racist, xenophobic and cruel.
During Trump's presidency, authorities have separated and indefinitely detained scores of migrant families at the border. And amid the pandemic, authorities have expelled migrants — including unaccompanied minors — with no chance to seek asylum or access to COVID-19 testing in the name of "public safety."
"Just giving them a taste of their own immigrant bashing medicine," Midler wrote. "I guess they're not keen."
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The liberals conflate illegal aliens with legal immigrants. They do this constantly.
So in the liberal and Hollywood idiot mind, Trump opposition to illegal aliens is the same as opposing legal immigration.
Always after the fact.
Another phony backhanded “apology” from a Leftist twit, couched in another lying Leftist diatribe about Trump’s immigration stance.
So damn tired of these people.
Listening to Hellyweirdos is like using the bathroom. They cr@p all over somebody and then wipe it away (with an apology) and expect it to all flush away.
No.
Thank you for that. LOL.
Oy’m stealing that Oy am!
She’s only sorry she got caught.
What a morbidly obese has been who can’t keep her pie hole shut. I laugh at her obvious envy...and her idiocy. What an anti-immigrant bigot.
I want an apology and her removed from any show she is on.
“Better Middler is the wind beneath my sphincter.”
Oh, that’s priceless. Thanks!
I think the Tweet she put out after Biden’s “speech” and the DNC truly shows her level of class:
“F**K YOU, #TRUMP! You’ll never get close to that speech, you miserable toad!” wrote the Freak Show actress said on Thursday, following the conclusion of Biden’s speech at the DNC.
(edited of course)
And being she’s on a program called Freak Show couldn’t be more endearing.
Icon? Since when, and to whom?
The wind beneath Bette’s wings became a foul stench many years ago.
Well she did play a witch in a halloween movie "Hocus Pocus", other than that I don't know of any others. But 'icon'? Doubtful.
Ok I will be using that ROFL
She only “walked” this back because of the pressure from the left. BTW-I don’t see an apology.
Moreso, the Trump administration begs the congress to pass immigration legislation. My guess is that Trump would be VERY flexible about what a passed biill might contain.
But, Congress is not having it.
Again, I laugh at the left’s complete ignorance of the process to change laws. They really believe that Trump and/or any President can just do what they want.
Trump could stop following all immigration laws...and the left would impeach him for ignoring the laws.
The guy cannot win with those people. So he will have to win with everyone else.
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