Holy smokes! Chicago Mayor Responds to Trump's Tweet

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/29/chicago-mayor-responds-to-trumps-tweet/


Chicago Mayor Responds to Trump’s Tweet
May 29, 2020 at 5:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) accused President Trump of trying to “foment violence” and offered a vulgar response — in code — after he threatened Minneapolis rioters protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, the Chicago Sun Times reports.

Said Lightfoot: “We see the game he’s playing because it’s so transparent and he’s not very good at it. He wants to show failures on the part of Democratic local leaders to throw red meat to his base. His goal is to polarize, to destabilize local government and inflame racist urges. And we can absolutely not let him prevail.”

She added: “I will code what I really want to say to Donald Trump. It’s two words: It begins with F and ends with YOU.”

[mucifer]

1. For some reason trump and a Black Lesbian Chicago mayor don't get along Who'd a guessed?

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I love my mayor!!

[NCjack]

10. Trump will go "Twitter" mad tonight. nt

[Eyeball_Kid]

16. Lightfoot escalated all the way to the top. Trumpy-boy can't go any higher.

She didn't bother with being polite. She knows how to handle an asshole. That's how Trumpy-boy needs to be handled. No pussyfooting. Just nail him and walk on.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. Escalating right to the top...yes! Exactly the strategy for the posotus.

[BComplex]

53. Especially from a woman! He can't take it.

It makes him crazy.

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. Good.

[wnylib]

59. Oh, yeah. Here comes another

"nasty woman" tweet.

[Rebl2]

23. I don't live

there, but think she is a great mayor.

[PatrickforO]

52. Well, she probably has more leadership in the smallest joint of her little finger

than Trump and his whole family. And yeah, Trump IS trying to foment violence - nothing would make his little ku klux heart as happy as a nice race war.

[gratuitous]

2. Oh dear! Call the civility police!

They should be well rested, because they sure as the world don't call out Trump for all his petty name-calling, but you can bet a nickel that they'll be out in force to scold Mayor Lightfoot for almost saying a swear.

But maybe the "F" stands for "forget"?

[dalton99a]

15. Fuck them.

[generalbetrayus]

32. I had forgotten until now, but when I was growing up in SE D.C. in the 60s,

we would in fact say "forget you" instead of "fuck you" when we were in an environment where we couldn't say "fuck you".

[yardwork]

58. Oh wow! We said that in elementary school in the 60s!

Totally forgot that until I read your post. I don't think I even realized why we said it. Too funny.

[mokawanis]

3. Good for her!

It's about time people started fighting back and stating the obvious fact that Trump is a dangerous asshole.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Good for her!

I'm glad she is calling him out on his bullshit and naming his little game. She's absolutely right.

[agingdem]

13. I've been impatiently waiting

for a mayor/governor/senator to rip trump apart every time he opens his mouth..they/media have got to stop with euphemisms: untruthful/misstated/misleading/nonsensical..Trump is LYING...he spews LIES..he's a LIAR...unambiguous statement of fact..marginalize him..tell him to shut the hell up...Lightfoot did just that...bullies don't like it when you face him down...they run..he ran today..

[onetexan]

56. +1 K&R

Ms. Lightfoot speaks for millions of us who see him for who he is - a complete idiot & a failure.

[grumpyduck]

5. Yeah, a politician calling him out like that

without (apparently) worrying about what it might do to her re-election.

Need more of those all around.

[Nay]

24. YEAH. Someone who's not afraid of that fool.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Perfect

[WA-03 Democrat]

7. This is correct!

Love Lori!

[procon]

8. A strong woman of power!

Just the kind of no nonsense, tell it like it is woman that makes Trump shake in his slippers. That retort will drive him crazy. If he replies in kind, the press, the politicians, and the public, will have his head on a pike for demeaning the dignity of the office with his crass and vulgar language.

By all means Trump should retaliate in the foulest way he can manage with his limited vocabulary.

[The Magistrate]

9. She's One Tough Broad, Ma'am

The city loves her.

[Thekaspervote]

11. She's the best. A great mayor for a great city!

[GoCubsGo]

12. I just love her!

She's a bad-ass! I kinda wish Biden would pick her as his VP. But, I don't want to see Chicago lose her.

[dalton99a]

14. Beautiful.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. Good for her.

[lunatica]

18. Kick'd and rec'd

[happybird]

19. Yes!!

[spanone]

20. K&R

[niyad]

21. KNR! Mayor Lightfoot, you nearly owed me a keyboard. Yayyyyy for you!

[calimary]

22. You're saying what all of us feel, Madam Mayor.

[MFGsunny]

25. PREACH, Mayor Lightfoot.

And as a bonus ... she called him out with ALL the right words.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

42. *She's* got the best words!

[MFGsunny]

44. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! n/t

[calimary]

55. Yep!

[JDC]

26. I will await the outrage by the RW morality squads

[kacekwl]

27. I tell trump the very same thing

several times a day.

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. So many of us do.

[SergeStorms]

28. Splendid!

In case any right-wingnuts are reading these pages, I'll "de-code" Ms. Lightfoot's coded message: FUCK YOU!

End message.

[hot2na]

29. I think Biden just found his VP

[murielm99]

34. We don't want to lose her in Illinois.

Would she even want the job?

[notinkansas]

49. We absolutely do not want to lose her.

After the Rahmfather, I think we deserve this mayor.

[panfluteman]

30. Holy Smokes! All Trump's Got Left Is His F-ing Base!

[Johnnie Mae]

31. More, Moe of this

Wow. "How I've waited for this moment"... to kick you aside. Thanks Madam Mayor.

[murielm99]

33. I wonder what names he is going to call her.

It will no doubt be racist, homophobic and sexist.

Our Illinois governor called trump a few things today in his presser. He was more polite in his phrasing, he let everyone know how he feels about our non-leader of a president.

Illinois is beginning to reopen now. We are making progress against the virus.

[Chitowncutie]

35. Oh my!

Do you & be you Lori Lightfoot! You are the absolute right person to be mayor of the City of Chicago at this moment in time and I'm so proud of you're my mayor. And to reaffirm... two of our favorite code words in Chicago are "F" and "You".

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. F and YOU.

[JustGene]

37. Lived there through

Daley sr. to Emmanuel and was never impressed til now.

[TeamPooka]

40. Trump will never break that code.

[peggysue2]

43. LOL!!

You go, girlfriend!

This is exactly the right response from the rational among us, who we should remind ourselves are the MAJORITY in this country. And that majority is what we need to demonstrate in November to throw this deranged excuse for a human being and his odious, lickspittle enablers to the curb.

Never forget, never forgive.

[marble falls]

45. I don't live in Chicago but I endorse that message.

[mopinko]

46. not inflame. burn it down.

thank ja this woman is my leader.

side note- i passed a big apt building today that had a full size cut out of her in the first flr corner window.

[babylonsister]

51. Nice to know she's loved! nt

[LaMouffette]

47. Bless you, Mayor Lightfoot!

You are saying what we are all thinking. So proud of you!

[love_katz]

48. Truth!

I love you, Mayor Lightfoot!

[Upthevibe]

50. Good.....

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[greyl]

54. K & R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

57. Mayor Lightfoot may want to shake that orange thing off her foot, now. I'll donate bleach.