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highplainsdem

(49,001 posts)
Wed Aug 29, 2018, 11:04 PM Aug 2018

D'you suppose Trump's Southern supporters will figure out that Trump despises Southerners?

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/trump-sessions-firing-senators-white-house-803922


Seized by paroxysms of anger, Trump has intermittently pushed to fire his attorney general since March 2017, when Sessions announced his recusal from the Russia investigation. If Sessions’ recusal was his original sin, Trump has come to resent him for other reasons, griping to aides and lawmakers that the attorney general doesn’t have the Ivy League pedigree the president prefers, that he can’t stand his Southern accent and that Sessions isn’t a capable defender of the president on television — in part because he “talks like he has marbles in his mouth,” the president has told aides.
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D'you suppose Trump's Southern supporters will figure out that Trump despises Southerners? (Original Post) highplainsdem Aug 2018 OP
They don't care... First Speaker Aug 2018 #1
Keep putting it out there for them to hear. LiberalFighter Aug 2018 #2
Agree!! Thekaspervote Aug 2018 #5
He could call them every slur for southerners madaboutharry Aug 2018 #3
He's ranting right now! ProudLib72 Aug 2018 #4
Trump despises ALL of his followers. And no, they'll never figure it out. Squinch Aug 2018 #6
someone put up the LBJ Quote Again. as long as he hates black people and other minorities more JI7 Aug 2018 #7
exactly NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #10
Cracker is probably the next pejorative DeminPennswoods Aug 2018 #8
Some will leave him duforsure Aug 2018 #9
And how will they hear this? Fox? Duppers Aug 2018 #11

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
1. They don't care...
Wed Aug 29, 2018, 11:05 PM
Aug 2018

...as long as he does "God's" work, especially at the Supreme Court, they wouldn't care if Trump had a life-size poster of William Tecumseh Sherman in his bedroom.

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
3. He could call them every slur for southerners
Wed Aug 29, 2018, 11:16 PM
Aug 2018

ever spoken and they would make excuses for him.

Trump stereotypes groups of people and trades in old tropes. I have no doubt that Trump has said and thought plenty of derisive things about southerners. That’s who he is.

JI7

(89,252 posts)
7. someone put up the LBJ Quote Again. as long as he hates black people and other minorities more
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 03:18 AM
Aug 2018

they will be happy .

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
10. exactly
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 06:30 AM
Aug 2018

the quote I believe is this one?

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
9. Some will leave him
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 06:18 AM
Aug 2018

When they figure it all out they're being conned on a daily basis from a treasonous corrupt criminal , who'll never have their backs , and will feed them more excuses, distractions, and propaganda , instead of the truth, he's a crook robbing them blind. Putin has got him compromised too, and trump's protecting putin , and now the Russian Godfather of the mafia.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
11. And how will they hear this? Fox?
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 01:20 PM
Aug 2018

Faux won't tell 'em this.
They hear only a tenth of what's happening.



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