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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,707 posts)
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:00 PM Dec 2016

Trump promises to heal divisions

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — President-elect Donald Trump promised to "heal our divisions and unify our country" as he prepares to meet with some of the victims of last week's car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University.

"When Americans are unified there is nothing we cannot do — nothing!" Trump told the crowd at a rally Tuesday night in Fayetteville, North Carolina. "I'm asking you to dream big again as Americans. I'm asking you to believe in yourselves."

The Republican businessman largely stuck to the script — and, in a change, even stopped the crowd when it started to boo the media — and avoided some of the score-settling and scorched-earth rhetoric that defined his campaign and was present again last week in Cincinnati.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-promises-to-heal-divisions-plans-visit-to-ohio-state/ar-AAlf3nL?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp



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Trump promises to heal divisions (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
Lol Lotusflower70 Dec 2016 #1
Birther-in-Chief said what? BeyondGeography Dec 2016 #2
President Putin's Band Of Bigots isn't going to heal shit uponit7771 Dec 2016 #3
Look at the Cabinet appointees. Mz Pip Dec 2016 #4
Oh, we believe in ourselves. It's Donald Trump we don't believe in. Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #5
so true Angry Dragon Dec 2016 #10
Leaves me wondering how he defines the words heal and unify. Solly Mack Dec 2016 #6
The same way the GOP usually defines unify. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #12
Yep Solly Mack Dec 2016 #13
Look for the Brown Shirts to be organizing WhiteTara Dec 2016 #7
why do we have to believe in ourselves? Isn't he going to fix it all? Hamlette Dec 2016 #8
Indeed, he told us that he and he alone could fix it gratuitous Dec 2016 #17
Donald Duck Trump Angry Dragon Dec 2016 #9
More of Trumps false promises. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #11
Trump's promises can all be found in his book. mwooldri Dec 2016 #14
I don't put much faith in DT's promises. He has already broken a whole slew of campaign promises. Arkansas Granny Dec 2016 #15
what does it mean? what does it justify? who profits? 0rganism Dec 2016 #16
He is going to meet with the victims.. coco22 Dec 2016 #18
Sure COLGATE4 Dec 2016 #19
He can start by sewing his fucking lips together. 11 Bravo Dec 2016 #20

Mz Pip

(27,430 posts)
4. Look at the Cabinet appointees.
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:03 PM
Dec 2016

Last edited Fri Dec 9, 2016, 04:25 PM - Edit history (1)

Please tell me how choosing a guy who the GOP deemed to racist for the Federal Bench unites us.

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)
6. Leaves me wondering how he defines the words heal and unify.
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:06 PM
Dec 2016

Because Trump is all about appearances, regardless of what is floating around underneath. He is not alone in this type of thinking.

Authoritarians can accomplish the appearance of unity.

Hamlette

(15,407 posts)
8. why do we have to believe in ourselves? Isn't he going to fix it all?
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:08 PM
Dec 2016

Didn't he promise? Now he expects us to do the heavy lifting.

Fuck that shit.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
17. Indeed, he told us that he and he alone could fix it
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:34 PM
Dec 2016

Or was he lying when he said that at the Republican National Convention?

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
11. More of Trumps false promises.
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:13 PM
Dec 2016

The Guy only went there to try to quite some critics. The Guys Mental Make-up pretty much determines what will and won't happen. Is his friends at Fox News changing their messages,survey says,NO,are the right wing talkers changing their messages,No. Until that happens,our path to unity will never happen.

0rganism

(23,916 posts)
16. what does it mean? what does it justify? who profits?
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:28 PM
Dec 2016

his assertion that he will "heal our divisions and unify our country" strains the boundaries of credibility to us posting here. again, we lose out on his actual meaning because we are not the target audience. the temptation is to laugh, but i think he's getting at something quite different and his followers have no difficulty understanding it.

i think Trump's actual, active meaning is along these lines: "those who are not unified around me are not Americans."

think "with us or with the terrorists" but on a much larger scale, and with surveillance drones.

coco22

(1,258 posts)
18. He is going to meet with the victims..
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:38 PM
Dec 2016

for another photo-op to tell them he will protect them from the terrorists,bullshit!

11 Bravo

(23,925 posts)
20. He can start by sewing his fucking lips together.
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 06:52 PM
Dec 2016

The shit that emerges from that particular division has a lot to do with the current fear and loathing felt by well over half of the electorate.

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