Dem lawmaker: Trump sharing Clinton golf ball GIF 'below the standards of even this president'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY BRANDON CARTER - 09/17/17 01:37 PM EDT

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) on Sunday slammed President Trump for sharing a GIF that showed him knocking down Hillary Clinton with a golf ball, calling it “misogynistic.”

“Retweeting this kind of misogynistic video might be below the standards of even this President,” Sherman said.

Link to tweet

Early Sunday morning, Trump shared a modified GIF that showed him hitting a golf ball, which carried over into another clip that made it look like the ball makes Clinton fall. Trump retweeted the GIF originally shared from the Twitter account @Fuctupmind.

Previous tweets from the @Fuctupmind account include anti-Semitic messages, as well as tweets referring to Muslims and transgender people. At least one anti-Semitic tweet posted by that account was deleted shortly after Trump’s retweet, according to BuzzFeed News.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Save your breath Brad, 50 million of us or them want harm to come to Hillary

and want Trump to be a murderous dictator.

They WANT that, so you and I best shut up and do what we are told, right?

[leftofcool]

2. And some on the left

[zentrum]

3. Not cool.

Not a cool thing to say at all. No one on the left wishes harm to Hillary Clinton. Their critique of her is not an assault.

Wow.

[leftofcool]

7. There was more than just critiques coming from the left

You think Trump rallies was the only place "lock her up" was chanted? It wasn't.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. If they dont want it they sure as hell seem wiling to accept it if that is what it takes to get

healthcare or better jobs, etc.

Not me, for me all civil rights issues take precedent over economic.

I see the term "social justice" includes

Poverty (lacking access to food, clean water, and shelter)
Death Penalty.
Environmental Rights (racism)
Access to Health Care.
Heterosexism.
Labor Laws.
Civil Rights (racism and sexism)
Access to Education.

So I cant call it social justice anymore. Civil rights alone is more important than all that because until we are all equal how in the hell can you justify the rest?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Here we are mentioning it and

that is what Donnie Dipstick wants. Ah Ha,got you,my name is front and center. Suckers!!!!

[LuvLoogie]

17. Really? Because we have Hillary's back we're suckers?

Resist. Speak up. The GOP is complicit. There is only us.

[Wellstone ruled]

19. Wow,what can one say.

You will never see or hear me denigrate Hillary.

[George II]

6. Tough for anything to be below his standards, he has no standards, or ethics, or morals.

[Initech]

10. Or decency. Or common sense. Or rationalism. Or self control.

Basically he lacks anything that makes people human.

[northoftheborder]

27. he's sick in the head

[Scarsdale]

33. He is the hero of the gop!

As Lyin' Ryan said when someone stated that tRump and Rohrabacker are paid by Russia "Keep it in the family" Yeah, the MAFIA FAMILY that the gop has finally admitted that they are. tRump is more to be pitied than laughed at. Sorry excuse for a man. Grades women on a scale of 1 - 10. Does he ever wonder what women grade him on? Minus at least 4 in many women's estimation. He certainly does not keep his wife happy. Brag about his $$$, but she is a shining example that ""Money can not BUY happiness" Miserable as hell. Along with many others I am disgusted with the poor excuse for a president that resides in the WH. Childish, bragert, dumb as hell, jealous because Hillary has bigger cojones than he EVER had.

[ProgressiveValue]

35. I guess that is the one and only thing he has going for him.

The right constantly hypocrites themselves when they do things or get caught doing things that goes against their family values platform they run on. Kinda hard to admonish someone on that when they don't run on family values or any values; they can do what they want and you can't call them a hypocrite.

[Initech]

8. Whoever made that GIF needs to be reported to the Secret Service.

This is a death threat if there ever was one, and our fucking idiot president is only reinforcing this behavior. He's going to get someone killed.

[SomethingNew]

28. The gif is bad but let's be real here.

It is obviously not a death threat and that is such an absurd exaggeration that I can hardly believe I'm reading it. I'm for free speech even more than I'm for Secretary Clinton.

[Initech]

29. It's a threat with hostile intentions.

Maybe it's not a direct death threat. But it's still a threat and needs to be investigated. Intentionally causing bodily harm to someone whether you agree with their politics or not is not a laughing matter.

[SomethingNew]

30. It isn't a threat at all.

A threat requires an expression of intention. No such expression can be even remotely implied from the gif. (I know nothing about the rest of the person's tweets so I'm not commenting on those.)

[leftofcool]

9. This is not below his standards at all.

It is par for the course

[NastyRiffraff]

21. +++++++

[FakeNoose]

11. Pretty soon he'll be tweeting dick pix

...or something worse. That's how bad it is.



Just sayin'

[Solly Mack]

12. No, it isn't. It's exactly who he is.

The man is loathsome. That's who he is. That's all he is.

[Metro135]

13. Actually, it's about par (excuse the pun) with the standards of Moe, Larry, or Curly

This guy is MENTALLY ILL.

[tavernier]

14. He looks like a fat old woman

wearing men's clothes. Why would anyone be proud of that picture?

[dalton99a]

15. There are no lows for Donald Trump

[Orrex]

16. This is what I think of when I hear "Trump " and "golf ball gif"

Seems accurate.

[nikatnyte]

18. "Standards" and "Donald Trump" -- completely unrelated terms

[PoliticAverse]

20. "below the standards of even this president" - well it appears it isn't. n/t

[Stuart G]

22. I would ask just one thing...and this is important...VERY IMPORTANT

That this be proven to be Trump's tweet...that he really came up with this one......

That he really sent this out, that he wasn't hacked, that someone didn't set this up as a means to hurt this country....That it really was from the President of the United States...and not someone else....

If Trump really sent this out, and he helped created it, and approved it; then he needs to be impeached or removed as soon as possible...I ain't no shrink, but this goes over the line....a line that everyone knows about.

[Old Vet]

25. Seems theres alot of sick fucks who would enjoy HRC being harmed in any way....

Its a hatred I just cant understand, And I thought the right went wayyyyy over the line in the way they treated Obama.

[Stuart G]

26. Yes, there are a lot of ..."sick fucks..who would like HRC to be harmed"

of course I agree. but if Trump approved sending this out, on his name, on his account, then this needs to be verified...once it is...and Trump did it...........then he needs to be impeached.. NOW...

To violently assault an opponent, in a video like this, sent out by the President, and approved by the President... goes below any standard imaginable...it is no joke....He needs to verify that he sent it out, and he needs to leave office as soon as possible....This wrong in the worst possible way...........

AND WE ALL KNOW IT ..........IT AIN'T NO JOKE...........

[Achilleaze]

24. republican a-hole creep & role model for republican children

de-freaking-plorable. republicans should hang their heads in shame for submissively following & supporting a major, lying a-hole dick like Comrade Casino, the freaking republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

[Ilsa]

31. I'd like to see a gif of Hillary

and Bill bashing 45's and Putin's brains in with golf clubs, then having a cocktail party hosted by Melania telling them "Thank you."

Har har

[ananda]

32. Wrong.

Nothing is below the standards of this .... not really president
because the Russians and Reep voter suppression helped him
steal it.

[Scarsdale]

34. Face it. tRump's

ideal woman is a gold digger with lots of plastic surgery. Ooops, IVANKA!! Women with BRAINS are not even recognized by tRump, they threaten his little wimpy ego. He likes women he can BUY, and he has shown that many times over with his marriages.