Save time for Teen Vogue contributor Sarah Harvard’s piece on how Donald Trump’s defense of white supremacists puts national security at risk, then read Slate’s Jamelle Bouie on the choice that all white Americans must make regarding the Confederate monument debate. Check out this interview with her from The Cut and follow her on Twitter. Political commentator Symone Sanders is a brilliant voice that should 100 percent be on your radar. It is as a public that we must have the courage that the voices meant to protect us from this great tragedy have yet to find.įor more on Trump’s Phoenix rally, head over to The New Yorker for Amy Davidson Sorkin’s take: “ In Phoenix, Trump Lets the Real World Go Away.” We’re hurtling well past rock bottom, and it’s more than clear that no one is coming to save us. Make it so that, among your friends and family, there is no question about the reasons why Trump is a disgrace to our nation. Don’t underestimate the power of one-on-one conversations based in reason and compassion. What we, the public, can do is remain impossibly vocal. He discussed the government’s options and hoped for a grander shift in the GOP’s disapproval of the president. Toward the end of their interview, Lemon asked Clapper what we can do. Don’t stew on these disasters in silence. What’s happening with Trump is like him throwing the test in the garbage, and then being named valedictorian.įor there to be a complete and total change in the way we discuss this threat to American democracy, we must make it clear that resisting Trump’s demagoguery is in keeping with overall public opinion. For example, I got a 68 on a mind-numbing physics exam in college, and that turned out to be a B+ after the adjustment. “Grading on a curve” means adjusting evaluations to fit an objective standard, but the problem with the way the media discusses Trump is that there’s no such thing. Since long before Trump was elected, undue praise for him has been likened to being “ graded on a curve,” but that’s not exactly what’s happening with the widespread hesitance to disqualify him from being taken seriously. Outwardly, nonpartisan journalists and government figures held their tongues under the guise of being fair and balanced and the misguided insistence that their professionalism relies on honoring “both sides.” The attempt to even the playing field is excruciatingly obvious in hindsight, with the “but her emails” comparison most certainly going down in history as the most destructive false equivalency of our time. The urge to normalize Trump’s behavior comes from a desperation for respectability. But I see how Rucker may have been thrown off by the president’s ability to read. In reality, Trump outlined an ambiguous nonplan that said there would be no “blank check” for the 16-year, massively expensive war - which is, by the way, opposed by the majority of Americans - before refusing to provide the number of troops he planned to send, in what is the the very definition of a blank check. But now he uses it like other presidents – some of the time.This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. They go into the desert areas, or whatever areas you can look at, and as soon as there is no protection they make a left or a right into the United States of America."īefore he became president, Trump was known to mock predecessor Barack Obama for his use of the teleprompter. They make a right turn going very quickly. He added: "They don't go through your port of entry. They're put in the backs of cars, or vans or trucks." "Women are tied up, they're bound, duct tape put around their faces, around their mouths," Trump riffed. Trump's unscripted comments Friday referenced lurid descriptions of people kidnapped by human traffickers – and an odd comment on how they can get into the United States by simply making a "left or a right" turn into the United States. It's not that unusual: Trump frequently ad libs portions of his speeches, especially about favored topics like illegal border crossings. That's when the president proceeded to talk about women being tied up and put in cars by traffickers.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump spent hours Friday working on his shutdown speech – but not all of it.ĭuring his remarks about reopening the government, without any border wall funding, Trump's teleprompter suddenly stopped rolling and displayed a single directive:
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