Doing to Dreamers what was done to him

[struggle4progress]

Michael D'Antonio
Updated 10:02 AM ET, Wed September 6, 2017

... Trump spent the 35 years before he moved to the White House avoiding contact with anyone who wasn't invited into his presence. The symbol of Trump's anxiety was the 66th floor of the tower he built on Fifth Avenue. His penthouse apartment was separated from the world below by guards and several security barriers, and he didn't have to risk seeing anyone he didn't employ as he made his way from his home to the office below, which was also guarded by men with guns ...

... Trump Tower is a testament to the man's fear of humanity. "Man is the most vicious of all animals," he told People magazine in 1981 as he embarked on a career of continual conflict over money, property and fame ...

If you are wondering where this grim perspective originates, reflect on Trump's own experience as a youngster. When he was 13 years old, Trump was suddenly banished for bad behavior by his father, sent to a military academy where he was, by his own telling, treated brutally by the military veterans who ran the place. "They'd smack the hell out of you," he told me.

What lesson could be taken away from this experience, other than that human beings are vicious and exclusion is a proper tool of social control? Now .. symbolic father of the American family, he's doing to the Dreamers what was done to him.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/opinions/trump-dreamers-fear-loathing-opinion-dantonio/index.html

[dchill]

1. "..fear of humanity..." is a natural response...

from one who has spent his life screwing over said humanity. Sometimes they are out to get you, Shart.

[KT2000]

2. he also projects his own

viciousness onto others.

[MarcA]

3. The culture and environment in which one is raised has its effects

If this was someone who was poor and raised in a gang environment
you would here all types of talk about personal responsibility but a different
standard is applied when one is wealthier and better connected, and
their environment is not only tolerated but honored.

[SunSeeker]

4. Nah. He's just a racist asshole who wants to get rid of Mexicans.

Remember, he entered the race with his "Mexicans are rapists" speech. Mexico accounts for the vast majority of the 800,000 DACA recipients. It is the country of origin for more than 618,000—over 20 times more than the next biggest contributor, El Salvador. https://qz.com/1069844/who-are-the-dreamers-and-where-do-they-live/

That is why the state attorneys general, led by NY Attorney General Schneiderman, are suing to overturn Trump's executive action ending DACA. Like his Muslim travel ban, it was based on racial animus, which makes it unconstitutional.

[montana_hazeleyes]

5. I think he's just plain mean and evil.

I know many people who had way worse lives and circumstances than he has and are caring, nice people.

I agree with both the posters directly above mine.

[PdxSean]

6. He's lying.

. . . by his own telling, treated brutally by the military veterans who ran the place. "They'd smack the hell out of you," he told me."

Best to NEVER believe words that come out of Trump's mouth.

[dalton99a]

8. Yep, he's full of shit

[Javaman]

7. most normal people grow up and get therapy.

he did not.

fuck him.