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bigtree

(94,261 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 01:24 AM Feb 2025

Trump WH calls criticism of his government 'unacceptable' and 'incredibly alarming'

...apparently it's not okay to criticize the Fuhrer's regime anymore.

From the Trump regime news org:

Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics
White House calls Democrat(ic) criticism of DOGE 'unacceptable' and 'incredibly alarming'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats Wednesday for their criticism of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), calling it "unacceptable" and "incredibly alarming."

"Some elected Democrats are so steamed about DOGE – Congresswoman LaMonica McIver says we are at war. Ilhan Omar says we might actually see somebody get killed. And Chris Van Hollen says we have to fight this in the Congress, we have to fight this in the streets. So what now?" Leavitt was asked by Fox News' senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy.

"It's unacceptable, the comments that have been made by these Democrat leaders, and frankly, they don't even know what they're talking about, because President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to make this government more efficient," Leavitt responded.

"He campaigned across this country with Elon Musk vowing that Elon was going to head up the Department of Government Efficiency and the two of them with a great team around them were going to look at the receipts of this federal government and ensure it's accountable to American taxpayers. That's all that is happening here," Leavitt continued. "And for Democrat officials to incite violence and encourage Americans to take to the streets, is incredibly alarming, and they should be held accountable for that rhetoric."



...the Trump White House is now openly warning Americans away from fighting against their illegal attempts to harm and steal from us, saying dissenters against their regime "should be held accountable."

If they're now trying to suppress our legislators, it won't be long until they're trying to stifle the people.

Threats against our free speech rights to criticize our government is another abuse of government and democracy that we will need to fight against; in the Congress, in the courts, and in the streets.
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Trump WH calls criticism of his government 'unacceptable' and 'incredibly alarming' (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2025 OP
😹😹😹😹😹😹😹 Meowmee Feb 2025 #1
Freedom of Speech! 1st Amendment! Bluethroughu Feb 2025 #2
Fuck you, Dotard. roamer65 Feb 2025 #3
You're still the insurrectionists. Frasier Balzov Feb 2025 #4
I keep hoping this is just a nightmare, probably not chicoescuela Feb 2025 #5
This is NO Probaby in that statement!! --#wethepeople are IN a nightmare and many do NOT know it yet!! riversedge Feb 2025 #54
First they laugh at you, then they get angry, then you win. Baitball Blogger Feb 2025 #6
Knr UTUSN Feb 2025 #7
"Stop being mean to me!" - tsf rubbersole Feb 2025 #8
Karoline Leavitt is clueless, a closet fascist, and is "rich girl mean" to boot! Mopar151 Feb 2025 #9
Well atreides1 Feb 2025 #34
I find what he's been doing, like trying to overthrow the government and hiring unqualified loyalists incredibly alarming Rhiannon12866 Feb 2025 #10
Turnabout is fair play, after all. 😏 dchill Feb 2025 #12
Well, I'm guessing that I'm not alone here... Rhiannon12866 Feb 2025 #14
You're not alone. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2025 #35
You must know that I phrased that very carefully. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2025 #36
I do know that. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2025 #40
I learned that on DU.2 Rhiannon12866 Feb 2025 #42
Awwww, thanks. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2025 #57
Not alone, but I can't say everything I think GPV Feb 2025 #37
Same here, though I'm still in a state of shock half the time Rhiannon12866 Feb 2025 #41
It's not his government, it's ours. Pris Feb 2025 #11
It would seem that no one is operating under that reality. dchill Feb 2025 #13
Michael Steele is sounding off right now on MSNBC Rhiannon12866 Feb 2025 #16
The Trump interpretation of the First Amendment: DFW Feb 2025 #15
The pushback is just beginning. Cry some more, Leavitt, you lying piece of bleached blonde shit. SunSeeker Feb 2025 #17
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ReRe Feb 2025 #18
Karoline could use her wits, if she only had a wit and a half more struggle4progress Feb 2025 #19
they can't stand the heat BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2025 #20
Then they should get out of the kitchen. LisaL Feb 2025 #24
And into a nice quiet jail cell. It'll do him a bit of good, and a lot of good for the rest of us. marble falls Feb 2025 #29
The criticism is getting to him. Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #21
Eff off K(c)oup Klutz Klan Kakistocracy malaise Feb 2025 #22
Who is this Trump fellow? Hugin Feb 2025 #23
Excuse me, it's the People's government. sinkingfeeling Feb 2025 #25
Sounds like they want to take our first amendment rights away................. Lovie777 Feb 2025 #26
'unacceptable' and 'incredibly alarming' Spending too much time looking at himself in a mirror ... marble falls Feb 2025 #27
Oh, but January 6 was a patriotic act! LaMouffette Feb 2025 #28
He will declare a holiday to celebrate it. Perhaps sooner rather than later in the next 4 years. Maru Kitteh Feb 2025 #49
And name it what? "Patriot Day" is already taken. He'll probably name it "Eat Shit and Die, Democrats!" Day. LaMouffette Feb 2025 #55
From the Doofus who brought you Space Force . . . Maru Kitteh Feb 2025 #56
Snowflake Donny haz a sad C_U_L8R Feb 2025 #30
Snowflake President. He probably cried every day in school because no one liked him. He's never gotten Raftergirl Feb 2025 #31
All dicktators especially this one cringe at it Historic NY Feb 2025 #32
Trump will create Gulags to re-educate his critics, and for the uneducable, there's always a fifth floor window. sop Feb 2025 #33
Like the stages of death, I think we are all alternating between (intense) anger and depression--NO ACCEPTANCE hlthe2b Feb 2025 #38
Yawn. More projection Charmin One Feb 2025 #39
The military needs to remove him LS0999 Feb 2025 #43
So this is the same guy who would never stop criticizing Joe Biden FakeNoose Feb 2025 #44
Post removed Post removed Feb 2025 #45
I'm going to guess you won't be around long. GP6971 Feb 2025 #46
That was fast. Dave Bowman Feb 2025 #48
BYE. Time to go suck your orange monkey god. Maru Kitteh Feb 2025 #47
Fuck the orange asshole. Fuck Leon MuskOx. Fuck all MAGA. NewHendoLib Feb 2025 #50
After all those things Trump said about Hillary, Biden, Harris, Schiff, et. al.??? bucolic_frolic Feb 2025 #51
Fuck fox. It is a nazi propaganda network. JohnSJ Feb 2025 #52
Donald TRUMP, the crybaby: I can dish out the sh** but can't take it!! riversedge Feb 2025 #53
Denial is not just a river in Africa LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2025 #58

riversedge

(80,810 posts)
54. This is NO Probaby in that statement!! --#wethepeople are IN a nightmare and many do NOT know it yet!!
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 01:04 PM
Feb 2025

Mopar151

(10,348 posts)
9. Karoline Leavitt is clueless, a closet fascist, and is "rich girl mean" to boot!
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 03:34 AM
Feb 2025

NH grows them some a' the most repellent "Young Republicans" you evah seen! You can already hear the sneer in her voice, you can tell she's as shallow as an Arizona puddle! And, like any "fake smart" plagurist, she's stealing the best lines and phrases from her opposition and "turning them back" on the opposition.

Rhiannon12866

(255,525 posts)
10. I find what he's been doing, like trying to overthrow the government and hiring unqualified loyalists incredibly alarming
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 03:35 AM
Feb 2025

Not to mention unacceptable.

Rhiannon12866

(255,525 posts)
36. You must know that I phrased that very carefully.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 11:11 AM
Feb 2025

I can't post what I say if he comes on the TV!

Rhiannon12866

(255,525 posts)
42. I learned that on DU.2
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
Feb 2025

When I had my only post removed in July 2004. And then I was a mod which was the best education - and you were my best teacher (along with pinto).

GPV

(73,393 posts)
37. Not alone, but I can't say everything I think
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 11:17 AM
Feb 2025

here at DU, beyond that we've been triangulated to death.

Rhiannon12866

(255,525 posts)
41. Same here, though I'm still in a state of shock half the time
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 11:25 AM
Feb 2025

Who in their right mind voted for that?! The "preview" in 2016 was bad enough and he learned just enough (after January 6th) to take full advantage...

DFW

(60,186 posts)
15. The Trump interpretation of the First Amendment:
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 03:52 AM
Feb 2025

“I disagree with what you say, and I will defend to the death my right to prevent you from saying it.”

SunSeeker

(58,283 posts)
17. The pushback is just beginning. Cry some more, Leavitt, you lying piece of bleached blonde shit.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 04:30 AM
Feb 2025

Trump did not get a mandate. He got 49.5% of the vote. Most people voted for someone else.

And people sure as fuck did NOT vote for a South African Nazi and his teenage interns to have full access to our most sensitive private data.

So Leavitt, when are prices going to come down like Trump promised?

ReRe

(12,189 posts)
18. Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 04:30 AM
Feb 2025

Are we hurting the pwesident's wittle feelwings???

Here Donold, take your bottle of goats milk and go to sleep.

POX News? What does the WaPo and the NYTs say?

What're they going to do? Put us all under Martial law?

marble falls

(71,926 posts)
29. And into a nice quiet jail cell. It'll do him a bit of good, and a lot of good for the rest of us.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 10:04 AM
Feb 2025

marble falls

(71,926 posts)
27. 'unacceptable' and 'incredibly alarming' Spending too much time looking at himself in a mirror ...
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 10:02 AM
Feb 2025

... classic projection.

He should be alarmed. More than half the country is coming for him.

Maru Kitteh

(31,759 posts)
49. He will declare a holiday to celebrate it. Perhaps sooner rather than later in the next 4 years.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 12:19 PM
Feb 2025

LaMouffette

(2,640 posts)
55. And name it what? "Patriot Day" is already taken. He'll probably name it "Eat Shit and Die, Democrats!" Day.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 01:46 PM
Feb 2025

Maru Kitteh

(31,759 posts)
56. From the Doofus who brought you Space Force . . .
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 02:00 PM
Feb 2025

Probably something like “Unity Day.”

Raftergirl

(1,856 posts)
31. Snowflake President. He probably cried every day in school because no one liked him. He's never gotten
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 10:09 AM
Feb 2025

past the toddler stage of development.

sop

(18,621 posts)
33. Trump will create Gulags to re-educate his critics, and for the uneducable, there's always a fifth floor window.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 10:13 AM
Feb 2025

hlthe2b

(113,971 posts)
38. Like the stages of death, I think we are all alternating between (intense) anger and depression--NO ACCEPTANCE
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 11:18 AM
Feb 2025

And ANY still in denial are beyond waking up at this point. As in the Cher movie, Moonstruck, those who still are in denial need a wake-up smack.

Let your anger feed your resistance--every day from here on.

LS0999

(280 posts)
43. The military needs to remove him
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 11:31 AM
Feb 2025

Arrest him, Elon and anyone involved with DOGE and project 2025. They should be tried and prosecuted for high treason.

FakeNoose

(41,634 posts)
44. So this is the same guy who would never stop criticizing Joe Biden
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 11:35 AM
Feb 2025

... for four f**king years?



Response to bigtree (Original post)

Maru Kitteh

(31,759 posts)
47. BYE. Time to go suck your orange monkey god.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 12:04 PM
Feb 2025

Don’t forget your fake Time magazine cover. He wants to spank you.

bucolic_frolic

(55,140 posts)
51. After all those things Trump said about Hillary, Biden, Harris, Schiff, et. al.???
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 12:27 PM
Feb 2025

Serious hypocrisy in there somewhere.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,869 posts)
58. Denial is not just a river in Africa
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 03:29 PM
Feb 2025

TFG does not anyone who disagrees with him and hates all criticism

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