Trump campaign adviser on Dems in white: 'The only thing . . . missing tonight is the matching hood'

[DonViejo]

Trump campaign adviser on Democrats in white: ‘The only thing . . . missing tonight is the matching hood’

By Tim Elfrink February 6 at 7:03 AM

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Trump made an appeal for bipartisanship, asking Congress to “reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution.”

That plea evidently didn’t resonate with one senior adviser to his reelection campaign. Katrina Pierson, who also served as Trump’s national campaign spokeswoman in 2016, took to Twitter after the speech to compare Democratic congresswomen who wore white in tribute to the suffragists to the Ku Klux Klan.

Link to tweet

Pierson’s jab was among the discordant notes on a night the president had pitched as a paean to cooperation before mostly sticking to hard-line demands for a wall along the southern border and repeating attack lines against undocumented immigrants.

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Pierson, who made false claims on live television during the 2016 election about Hillary Clinton’s health and wrongly asserted that President Barack Obama started the war in Afghanistan, was not the only figure affiliated with Trump’s campaign to draw KKK comparisons with the Democrats wearing white.

The Rev. Darrell Scott, who acted as a liaison between Trump and black pastors and served on his presidential transition team, tweeted before the State of the Union, “I see the Dems have their Klan colors on tonight!!”

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[madaboutharry]

1. Ignorant assholes.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. And CNN & MSNBC will continue to have her on their shows.

[hedda_foil]

15. MSNBC hasn't had her on since the campaign. If I have missed an actual appearance, it's unique.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Pure projection.

Not one person in the Republican Party has a leg to stand on as far as racism is concerned.

[Maeve]

3. Projection---that's why THEY would wear white

Bet they make the same joke at weddings....

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Was this guy in the movie Get Out?

[targetpractice]

5. I noticed that Tiffany Trump wore white...

... I think that was a statement.

[manor321]

6. Northam needs to GO!

[BlueTsunami2018]

7. Yep, that meme is all over social media.

These are not clever people.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Tell that fucker the Eastern Star wears white. Does he say that at one of their member's funerals?

[Mariana]

14. Most fundies believe the Eastern Star is a Satanic organization.

I don't know if Pastor Scott is among them.

[njhoneybadger]

10. Didn't take long to use the NORTHAM debacle against us

Northam still needs to go

[leftynyc]

11. Someone needs to send that twit

a picture of Tiffany Trump last night. She was also wearing white. I DARE her to say it about the president's daughter.

[jcgoldie]

12. oh for fucks sake

Irony for 600 Alex.

[Leith]

13. Some people are just born stupid

Katrina Pierson took that only skill and worked it to perfection.

[oasis]

16. Two of Trump's tiny AA following tweet out the same basic message.

These folks are just too clever.

[gratuitous]

17. Is that all you got?

The original suffragettes a century ago got a LOT worse treatment from the haters. Your ideological ancestors see your weak-ass punk shit, Katrina Pierson and Dr. Darrell Scott, and wonder why you're such wimps. Lame tweets? Really?

[bdamomma]

18. We weren't the jerks

chanting USA! USA! in the House. What jerks they are.