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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 12:44 PM Jan 2017

Former Bush staffer: Trump is worse than all the slaveholder presidents

ERIN CORBETT
20 JAN 2017 AT 10:19 ET

George W. Bush’s former speechwriter and Senior Editor of the Atlantic took to Twitter on Friday morning to express his concern over Donald Trump’s impending administration. Just hours ahead of Friday’s inauguration ceremonies, Frum called Trump the “the worst human being ever to enter the presidency.”

He added, “and I include all the slaveholders.” In a follow up tweet, the former Bush staffer wrote, “Andrew Jackson was at least physically brave.” Frum served the Bush administration from 2000 to 2002 as a speechwriter for the president.

David Frum ✔
@davidfrum

The worst human being ever to enter the presidency, and I include all the slaveholders.

8:06 AM - 20 Jan 2017
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Frum, who is from Canada, also took a moment to poke fun at Americans, writing, “Canadians waking up this AM thinking, ‘So … any 2nd thoughts about all those jokes about how boring our politics supposedly is?'”

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Former Bush staffer: Trump is worse than all the slaveholder presidents (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
Does he have orangecrush Jan 2017 #1
Worse then George Washington and Thomas Jefferson then? Ron Obvious Jan 2017 #2
It sounds like an exaggeration but it is not. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #3
Obviously There Are Two Kinds Of Republicans colsohlibgal Jan 2017 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
3. It sounds like an exaggeration but it is not.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 12:51 PM
Jan 2017

Slaveholder presidents were doing what was done by many, not good but not unusual for the time.

The KKK now has an official position in our White House in the form of Steve Bannon, as we all know, and since Trump is a known racist, all the more real.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
4. Obviously There Are Two Kinds Of Republicans
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 01:06 PM
Jan 2017

Frum and others have some limits, others are proving they would support Charles Manson if he were the nominee.

My guess overall is the right will find a way to dump Orange Hitler and get Pence in there. Pence will not start WWlll but would be a disaster with social issues, and seems stuck in 1953.

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