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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,985 posts)
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 12:10 AM Jul 2020

He spits on graves: One of the many reasons Donald Trump is incapable of uniting the nation

When civil rights hero John Lewis passed away, it wasn’t just fellow Democrats issuing encomiums for a life well-lived. Lewis earned praise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Mike Pence, who Monday visited the 17-term Georgia congressman as he lay at peace in the Capitol rotunda, the first African-American legislator to do so.

Donald Trump barked, “I won’t be going.” Reason number three in our list of 99 reasons he mustn’t be reelected: The one American who must find a way to be a bigger man, our president, is constitutionally incapable of doing so. Unable to give respect, he cannot foster a climate of mutual respect. With a tone from the top of bitterness and bile, America is doomed to spiral ever apart. Young Americans see in the highest office a nasty, swaggering, payback-obsessed bully.

When Sen. John McCain was healthy, Trump said the once-tortured POW wasn’t a hero; he’d only been captured. When McCain was dying of brain cancer, Trump mocked him. After his funeral, Trump complained that he never got a “thank you” for arranging it (he didn’t arrange it).

At a rally in the home of recently deceased Michigan Rep. John Dingell last year, he said that Dingell might be “looking up,” a not-so-clever way of saying he’d been sent to Hell. Paul Mitchell, a retiring Michigan Republican congressman, said, “We’re here for a purpose, and it’s not this petty, childish bull---t.”

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/99-reasons-to-dump-trump/ny-edit-he-spits-on-graves-20200730-265gc4c5rzhj5lxragryap3pmy-story.html

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He spits on graves: One of the many reasons Donald Trump is incapable of uniting the nation (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
"(he didn't arrange it)" Grokenstein Jul 2020 #1
And then there are all the Gold Star families he has attacked. tanyev Jul 2020 #2
He's jealous cause the attention is not to honor him. dreamland Jul 2020 #3
Thank You for posting this article...K and R Stuart G Jul 2020 #4

Grokenstein

(5,723 posts)
1. "(he didn't arrange it)"
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 12:40 AM
Jul 2020

It's like Homer Simpson is President...except not funny.
At all.
...Okay, sure, he makes a fool of himself on the regular, but the cost is too great.

dreamland

(964 posts)
3. He's jealous cause the attention is not to honor him.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 08:57 AM
Jul 2020

He's got to sit through speeches that praise the life of others which he can't tolerate. He's so petty that it's not about him, he won't go. Someday, it'll be his turn, but there won't be any praise.

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