Trump's 'white power' retweet set off 'five-alarm fire' in White House

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump set off a "five-alarm fire" in the White House on Sunday morning after he retweeted a video of one of his supporters saying "white power," according to two White House officials.

The video remained on the president's Twitter page, where he has 82 million followers, for more than three hours because White House officials couldn't reach him to ask him to delete it, the two officials said. The president was at his golf club in Virginia and had put his phone down, the officials said.

Aides also tried unsuccessfully to reach deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino to ask him to delete the retweet, officials said.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., added to the urgency when he called the tweet "indefensible" and demanded that the president take it down during an interview on CNN, the officials said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-white-power-retweet-set-off-five-alarm-fire-in-white-house/ar-BB1684C5?li=BBnb7Kz

[grumpyduck]

1. Imagine what the GOP would have done if they couldn't reach Obama

because he was golfing.

Fucking hypocrites.

[AleksS]

2. I know! For ANY other president, for any other party

This would be brick-crappingly huge. But Trump, and republicans always get a pass.

Reward Russia for putting bounties on our troops? Pass.
Be unreachable for 5 hours while playing golf? Pass.
Tweet a dude shouting White Power? Pass.
Dither around about a pandemic and allow 125,000 Americans to die? Pass.
And on and on and on.

What. The. Heck.

These idiots went ballistic when President Obama wore a tan suit (and looked better in it than Reagan did).

If I had any hair left, I’d be pulling it out!

[chriscan64]

5. Dijon mustard on burger.

The definition of unfit for office is all over the place.

[coti]

3. Couldn't reach him for three hours.

Gee, good thing we weren't attacked, no other emergencies occurred, in that time.

[cyberswede]

4. Awful Tweet 5 alarm fire; Russian bounty on US Soldiers crickets.

Seems about right for these assholes.

[Midnightwalk]

6. A lot can happen in 3 hours

Absolutely disqualifying. But so should be being a racist. So should the scandal on the bounty.

Is it only Tuesday? They say time slows down as you sink into a black hole. More evidence those god particle guys at CERN screwed us (sarcasm).

[crickets]

7. The lie doesn't pass the smell test. Not even close.

1/ trump left his phone where? Since when is he allowed to leave a source of potentially sensitive information anywhere unattended? Regardless of his own carelessness, he has handlers around him to take care of these details.

2/ trump is surrounded by handlers, including scads of Secret Service. All of them have phones and will certainly answer WH calls promptly.

3/ No one had any trouble reaching trump, they just didn't have access to his twitter account for three hours.


How much do you want to bet Dan Scavino is no longer the only alternate person with access for when this happens again? (Notice I don't say 'if.')

The WH had no trouble getting in touch with trump. They just tried desperately to get him to delete the tweet for three hours and were faced with "I don't wanna." Highly likely the impasse broke when Scavino was finally reached. He deleted the tweet pronto, though the damage was already done, and here we are.

Pathetic.

[TheFarseer]

8. That's what I thought

Just call someone around him and they can tell him.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. Our missing in action PINO president...what in the world would happen if we were suddenly ...

attacked by an adversary? Is this the guy you want at the top?

Think about it (DU doesn't need to think about this but those of non-DU persuasions will need to think long and hard about this scenario, and then vote for Joe Biden).

Trump is far more interested in golf and P*&&y instead of governing the Country.

A disgusting POS.