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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
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Yeah right. With the fear and hate that he fed. Ok whatever cheeto man.
BeyondGeography
(39,339 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)Mz Pip
(27,430 posts)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.
Baitball Blogger
(46,673 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)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.
TwilightZone
(25,423 posts)Do exactly what I want and we'll be unified.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Kee your head down, mouth shut, and meld into the background.
WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)all over AmericKKKa to make sure we are unified.
Hamlette
(15,407 posts)Didn't he promise? Now he expects us to do the heavy lifting.
Fuck that shit.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Or was he lying when he said that at the Republican National Convention?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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.
mwooldri
(10,299 posts)On Chapters 7, 11 and 13. Totally bankrupt.
Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)ALL THE CAMPAIGN PROMISES DONALD TRUMP HAS BROKEN IN THE LAST 24 HOURS
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/donald-trump-new-york-times-interview-broken-promises
0rganism
(23,916 posts)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)for another photo-op to tell them he will protect them from the terrorists,bullshit!
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)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.