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Demovictory9

(32,423 posts)
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:31 PM Jul 2019

WH officials held frantic meeting to figure how to stop Trump's "overt racist rhetoric"

According to a report in the New York Times, White House officials held a frantic meeting on Monday attempting to figure out a way to rein in Donald Trump’s increasing use of overt racist rhetoric — but that no one was sure how to tell him.

After a weekend of attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Times reports “Several White House officials expressed agreement during a senior staff meeting on Monday morning that the president’s attacks were a bad move.”

According to sources, the members of the meeting arrived at their conclusion but “they were uncertain who could intervene with him — or if anyone would even dare try.”

No one in the White House would admit that the president’s attacks on Cummings — and now on MSNBC personality Al Sharpton — were part of a grand plan, saying Trump’s was ramping up his Twitter raging purely on impulse.

The report notes, White House officials have concluded, “that any political benefit he might derive by revving up his conservative, largely white base could be offset by alienating more moderate voters in the suburbs of states like Wisconsin and Michigan that he needs to win a second term.”

https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/white-house-aides-panicked-trumps-descent-into-overt-racism-is-about-to-blow-up-in-his-face-report/

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WH officials held frantic meeting to figure how to stop Trump's "overt racist rhetoric" (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jul 2019 OP
I'm guessing NewJeffCT Jul 2019 #1
That or CYA. OnDoutside Jul 2019 #21
That's was my first thought, too. Stinky The Clown Jul 2019 #32
Their cowardice is because they know this is their last job lunatica Jul 2019 #2
Seems the only reason WH officials ... CatMor Jul 2019 #3
Excellent point Leith Jul 2019 #25
This post wins the thread. It's the difference ... Whiskeytide Jul 2019 #30
A person so volatile that even his closest MuseRider Jul 2019 #4
This +100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 demtenjeep Jul 2019 #6
Solid evidence this sucker needs to go. Wellstone ruled Jul 2019 #8
You nailed it. Arkansas Granny Jul 2019 #15
He belongs in a mental health facility!!! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2019 #26
Hey, all you aides and advisers, I hope you're so stressed your bellies explode and your bones crack Leghorn21 Jul 2019 #5
Here we go again, same old story. Last week it was Ivanka and Melania supposedly enough Jul 2019 #7
Weird, huh? gratuitous Jul 2019 #11
Two words: Duct Tape. nt Buns_of_Fire Jul 2019 #9
I hope his WhteHouse enablers understand... Mike 03 Jul 2019 #10
yep, utterly beyond the pale stopdiggin Jul 2019 #13
Where are Princess and Jared? Anyone elses father would be carted off to the home if they Vinca Jul 2019 #12
yes, family intervention nt Grasswire2 Jul 2019 #14
Same old PR bullshit from Maggie Haberman. Normal people don't work in that nest of vipers dalton99a Jul 2019 #16
Right NT enough Jul 2019 #17
traitortrump may be beyond energizing his base, but getting to mobilize his base, empedocles Jul 2019 #18
All Trump needs to do is tell us that he is not racist rurallib Jul 2019 #19
Yep, he's not known for ever lying! RKP5637 Jul 2019 #29
It's all fucking bullshit maxrandb Jul 2019 #20
+1 dalton99a Jul 2019 #28
+1 leftstreet Jul 2019 #34
LOL, they desperately want to return to dog-whistling their racism Skittles Jul 2019 #22
C. O. W. A. R. D. S. No one even dares try to intervene." That's how vicious bullies maintain power Hekate Jul 2019 #23
Bullshit. This was all planned. yardwork Jul 2019 #24
You can get a white horse and paint black stripes on it but it's still a horse. Autumn Jul 2019 #27
Ooohs According to sources Pffft lunasun Jul 2019 #31
Probably the Plastic Princess and the White House PR spinmeister at the New York Times dalton99a Jul 2019 #35
Ifg they're so concerned they should resign. Stinky The Clown Jul 2019 #33
Who will bell the cat? Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #36
What was that Pailin said about lipstick on a pig? lpbk2713 Jul 2019 #37
Article 25. That's how you can make it stop. tanyev Jul 2019 #38

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
3. Seems the only reason WH officials ...
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:37 PM
Jul 2019

were upset is because it might turn off some voters. They didn't seem to be upset at the hateful racism. That whole WH has to be cleared of the vermin now residing there.

Leith

(7,808 posts)
25. Excellent point
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 05:07 PM
Jul 2019

There are real people hurt and outraged by the vicious racism. I care about them - which is not something I can say about chumpy.

Whiskeytide

(4,459 posts)
30. This post wins the thread. It's the difference ...
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 05:14 PM
Jul 2019

... between saying “I’m worried my boss is an asshole” and “I’m worried people are going to realize my boss is an asshole”.

MuseRider

(34,095 posts)
4. A person so volatile that even his closest
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:37 PM
Jul 2019

staff and family are afraid to approach him on a matter this important does not belong anywhere near the control of anything let alone a country.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. Solid evidence this sucker needs to go.
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:41 PM
Jul 2019

But,in the meantime,more Rethugs are finding all kinds of excuses not to seek reelection.

Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
5. Hey, all you aides and advisers, I hope you're so stressed your bellies explode and your bones crack
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:39 PM
Jul 2019

I really do

enough

(13,255 posts)
7. Here we go again, same old story. Last week it was Ivanka and Melania supposedly
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:40 PM
Jul 2019

trying to appeal to him to back off on the Congresswomen.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
11. Weird, huh?
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:43 PM
Jul 2019

And nobody will go on record and put their name to their cowardly acquiescence in Trump's bigotry while they try to exonerate themselves with their media pals.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
10. I hope his WhteHouse enablers understand...
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:43 PM
Jul 2019

that stories like this won't get them forgiven once Trump is out of here. None of that Anonymous-letter "we secretly tried to save he country from Trump" stuff is going to sit well with the 70% of Americans who spent four years waking up in the middle of the night wondering what this powder keg had done to the country while we were sleeping. I really don't want society to accept them back in any way, shape or form. Fox News might hire them, but their socially acceptable careers should be over IMO.

stopdiggin

(11,248 posts)
13. yep, utterly beyond the pale
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 04:00 PM
Jul 2019

totally agree. The stench from this association is one that should not wash off. Just remember .. you were willing to serve beside this pile of filth, knowing full well what he was, to further your own agenda. You have no morals. Period.
(on the other hand, what remains of the Republican party after this administration .. will be a swirling cesspool of rot and corruption .. so having no character or morals may not be that big an impediment)

Vinca

(50,237 posts)
12. Where are Princess and Jared? Anyone elses father would be carted off to the home if they
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:44 PM
Jul 2019

carried on like this for days on end. The man is walking dementia.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
18. traitortrump may be beyond energizing his base, but getting to mobilize his base,
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 04:07 PM
Jul 2019

no matter what the vote counts/election results are.

rurallib

(62,387 posts)
19. All Trump needs to do is tell us that he is not racist
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 04:12 PM
Jul 2019

His integrity should convince anyone that he means it.

maxrandb

(15,298 posts)
20. It's all fucking bullshit
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 04:24 PM
Jul 2019

There was no fucking meeting!

There was no attempted intervention!

This is all just a ploy to try to convince you that there are "decent" human beings in this White House.

That way they can get the story out to our stenographers so they can go; "aww... look, they're not all raging fuckstick racists".

It's something that a 4th Grade drama student would write into the spring play to "humanize" the inhuman.

Fortunately for the White House, our media stenographers operate on a 3rd grade level, so it goes over their heads and into the "story".

The racists want this "story" out there to deflect and confuse.

Skittles

(153,116 posts)
22. LOL, they desperately want to return to dog-whistling their racism
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 04:32 PM
Jul 2019

fuck Trump and EVERYONE who enables his sick, racist ass

Hekate

(90,564 posts)
23. C. O. W. A. R. D. S. No one even dares try to intervene." That's how vicious bullies maintain power
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 04:51 PM
Jul 2019

...over everyone around them, especially family, even when the whole world can see the deterioration, the madness, the deep dementia. They have all been so thoroughly trained in the dangers of disobedience that they can't imagine another way of behaving for themselves.

Meanwhile the destruction spreads and spreads.

lpbk2713

(42,741 posts)
37. What was that Pailin said about lipstick on a pig?
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 05:54 PM
Jul 2019



No matter what they come up with after they put
their heads together, Trump will still be a pig.

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