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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/11/donald-trump-jr-walks-out-of-triggered-book-launch-after-heckling-from-supportersEvent at University of California is cut short amid anger at his refusal to take questions from the audience
Donald Trump Jr ventured on to the University of Californias overwhelmingly liberal Los Angeles campus on Sunday, hoping to prove what he had just argued in his book that a hate-filled American left was hell-bent on silencing him and anyone else who supported the Trump presidency.
But the appearance backfired when his own supporters, diehard Make America Great Again conservatives, raised their voices most loudly in protest and ended up drowning him out barely 20 minutes into an event scheduled to last two hours.
The audience was angry that Trump Jr and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, would not take questions. The loud shouts of USA! USA! that greeted Trump when he first appeared on the stage of a university lecture hall to promote his book Triggered: How The Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us quickly morphed into even louder, openly hostile chants of Q and A! Q and A!
When the shouting would not subside, Trump Jr tried and failed to argue that taking questions from the floor risked creating soundbites that leftwing social media posters would abuse and distort. Nobody was buying that.
In minutes, the entire argument put forward by the presidents son that he was willing to engage in dialogue but that it was the left that refused to tolerate free speech crumbled.
Im willing to listen Trump began.
Q and A! Q and A! the audience yelled back.
Well go into the lions den and talk Trump tried again.
Then open the Q and A! came the immediate response.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)I love irony and Karma.
underpants
(182,789 posts)Hilarious 🤣
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)ENTERTAIN THEM little monkey!
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)Suck it up.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)oasis
(49,381 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)A safe space.
padah513
(2,502 posts)Maybe he should go to Alabama like daddy.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)That beard cracks me up!
"I'm a writer. See? The beard."
underpants
(182,789 posts)The mistress he left his wife and kids for? Who thinks that's a good idea? She was on The View with him too.
JHB
(37,160 posts)He is the most easily triggered person I've ever seen. He's also almost as mentally ill as his father.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Whiny Little Bitch!
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Once again
Cha
(297,196 posts)asshole.
underpants
(182,789 posts)At first, Trump and Guilfoyle tried to ignore the discontent, which originated with a fringe group of America Firsters who believe the Trump administration has been taken captive by a cabal of internationalists, free-traders, and apologists for mass immigration.
The fiasco pointed to a factional rift on the Trump-supporting conservative right that has been growing rapidly in recent weeks, particularly among zoomers student-age activists. On one side are one of the sponsors of Trump Jrs book tour, Turning Point USA, a campus conservative group with a track record of bringing provocative rightwing speakers to liberal universities.
On the other side are far-right activists often referred to as white supremacists and neo-Nazis, although many of them reject such labels who believe in slamming the door on all immigrants, not just those who cross the border without documents, and who want an end to Americas military and diplomatic engagement with the wider world.
A number of the loudest voices at Sundays event were supporters of Nick Fuentes, a 21-year-old activist with a podcast called America First that has taken particular aim at Turning Point USA and its 25-year-old founder, Charlie Kirk. In a number of his own recent campus appearances, Kirk has faced questions accusing him of being more interested in supporting Israel than in putting America first. He has responded by calling his detractors conspiracists and racists.
On Sunday, Kirk appeared alongside Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle but said nothing.
Two Fuentes supporters, delighted with the outcome of Trump Jrs appearance, later told the Guardian the pro-Trump movement was being infected with fake conservatism and that the president himself was at the mercy of a cabal of deep state operatives who wouldnt let him do many of the things he campaigned on.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/11/donald-trump-jr-walks-out-of-triggered-book-launch-after-heckling-from-supporters
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)But you can't take them out.