With a skin as thin as Donald Trump's it is not surprising that the Great Orange Bloat took to twitter to fire back at Theresa May for her stiff rebuke this morning. The British prime minister took Trump to task for retweeting three videos put out by the racist, anti-Muslim group, "Britain First."
A statement from No 10 said: “Britain First seeks to divide communities by their use of hateful narratives that peddle lies and stoke tensions. They cause anxiety to law-abiding people.
“British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values this country represents, decency, tolerance and respect. It is wrong for the president to have done this.”
Decency, tolerance and respect, why the nerve of that Limey.
“Theresa @theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom,” the US president tweeted on Wednesday evening. “We are doing just fine!”
The angry tirade, crowning one of the most wayward days yet of Trump’s presidency, earned a swift putdown from the US senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who met May at Downing Street last week to discuss terrorism threats to both countries. He tweeted: “PM @theresa_may is one of the great world leaders, I have incredible love and respect for her and for the way she leads the United Kingdom, especially in the face of turbulence.”
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The Labour MP David Lammy posted: “Trump sharing Britain First. Let that sink in. The President of the United States is promoting a fascist, racist, extremist hate group whose leaders have been arrested and convicted. He is no ally or friend of ours. @realDonaldTrump you are not welcome in my country and my city.”
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, urged Trump to remove the retweets. And Brendan Cox, widow of Jo Cox, an MP murdered last year by a man reportedly shouting “Britain first” as she shot and stabbed her, told CNN: “I think we probably got used to a degree of absurdity, of outrageous retweets and tweets from the president, but I think this felt like it was a different order.
“Here he was retweeting a felon, somebody who was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment of an organization that is a hate-driven organization on the extreme fringes of the far, far right of British politics. This is like the president retweeting the Ku Klux Klan.”
Trump does indeed seem to be in some free fall mental meltdown. The guy is unhinged. When you couple his mental instability with his astonishing ignorance and impulsiveness, we, the world, have got a very dangerous loose cannon on the deck.
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What's even more crazy Mound is that it's being reported that Trump's first attempted response tweet to May's statement about him was sent to the wrong twitter account, to a different Theresa. The tweet has since been deleted and the recipient has since locked her twitter account, no doubt to her probably receiving death threats from the Trumpanzees. Who would have thought there were more than one Theresa May twitter accounts? Twitter is hard. Well for some.
mr perfect
Yeah, "twitter is hard." Harder still if you're the twit. I suppose he found the switch from a 140-character limit to 280 a bit to cope with at his age.
Of late there have been several thoughtful analyses of the damage, some of it irreparable, that Trump is inflicting on the US.
While Theresa May hasn't called off the state visit invitation that's probably because she knows Trump will never set foot again in London. He'd do better taking an open carriage ride through the badlands of Syria.
It's important to remember that there are a lot of sane Americans who are deeply alarmed at what Trump is doing to the US both at home and abroad. Wiping his shitty feet on the doormat of Britain profoundly stupid. If nothing else he's clearing the path for both Russia and China to expand their spheres of influence and they're not missing a beat.
In other words, he's acting pretty much like a Russian asset?
Cap
"Angry tirade" – that's funny! I'm pretty sure The Donald had a big smile on his face when he tweeted that one.
Is Donald J Trump "deranged" or the King of All Media?
Trump tweets about the troubles a flood of Muslim refugees is causing across Europe. The neo-Left (neo-libs, neo-cons and neo-progs) say he's an evil racist for pointing it out.
Trump runs on fixing the Mexican border to stop a flood of illegal immigrants. The neo-Left says he's an evil racist and offer open-borders and sanctuary cities.
Trump runs on stopping a flood of Muslim refugees from entering the US and wreaking havoc like Europe. The neo-Left says he's an evil racist – and anarchy is the price you have to pay for adopting their PC ideology!
Is Trump deranged for walking on PC eggshells – egging on his opponents to double down on identity-politicking car alarms – which is how he won the 2016 election and plans on furthering his electoral gains in 2018 and 2020? Or is Donald J Trump the King of All Media!
BTW, very interesting how progressives believe it's Ok to attack Whites, Christians and Israelis with all sorts of hateful rhetoric. But say one word about Islam – the least progressive of all – and you're an evil evil racist!
Anon 4:11 - You're an idiot. A complete, know nothing idiot. I doubt you have ever been in a mosque, know anything about Islam or have ever been to Europe or know anything about the continent where I just returned from. I doubt you know anything about Christianity or Judaism either. In other words the type of fool Trump depends on. You need to return to your echo chamber, comrade. Neo Left, hah!
mr perfect
You progressives tend to have such hateful, bigoted, prejudicial, stereotypical impressions of people who don't adopt to your birdbrained ideology. (One might call this position hypocritical.)
Have you ever been in a Mosque? If so, you'd realize they are segregated by sexes. Not very progressive. Me, I tend to not want to hang out with religious fanatics. But thanks for proving my point!
In any case, people who are opposed to immigration anarchy are not racists. But people who attempt to force immigration anarchy on people by bullying them with racist accusations are certainly fanatics. They are the actual threat to constitutional democracy. It's called 'cultural Marxism,' comrade.
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