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leftstreet

(36,098 posts)
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:11 PM Sep 2017

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: "Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy."




Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.
6:23 AM - 22 Jan 2017
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Raster

(20,998 posts)
1. It appears someone with a modicum of common sense...
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:17 PM
Sep 2017

...and historical reference may have taken Il Dipshit's telephone away.

Docreed2003

(16,850 posts)
2. Except when you don't, right Donnie???
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:17 PM
Sep 2017

But your current point is totally not racist...wink, wink, nod, nod.

enough

(13,255 posts)
3. He's nothing but brain mush at this point. We could all have compassion for him
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:21 PM
Sep 2017

if he weren't in the process of taking our country down with him.

Is there no one in his family or among whatever friends he has who can take him by the hand and bring him to a place of rest and peace away from the locus of power?

Ms. Toad

(33,992 posts)
4. and if you believe Donald Trump had any imput in writing that tweet,
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:21 PM
Sep 2017

there's this bridge in Brooklyn . . .

leftstreet

(36,098 posts)
7. Yeah, really. Back in Jan 2017 everyone was protesting him
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:24 PM
Sep 2017
Two million protest against Trump's inauguration worldwide

January 22, 2017
Half a million in Washington DC alone – mostly women – gathered to proclaim the birth of new political movement

Hope appeared to emerge from fear among Donald Trump’s opponents at the weekend as up to two million people around the world, mostly women, staged protests against the new US president and proclaimed the birth of a new political movement.

In raucous but peaceful scenes, more than half a million joined the Women’s March on Washington DC in what was thought to be the largest ever inauguration protest, dwarfing the 60,000 who protested against the Vietnam war before Richard Nixon re-took office in 1973.
Why we protested in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington
Read more

“Welcome to your first day, we will not go away!” they chanted in the direction of the White House.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/22/two-million-protest-against-trumps-inauguration-worldwide

hatrack

(59,574 posts)
9. "Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy, after I get a public asskicking."
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:33 PM
Sep 2017

"Peaceful protests not so much of a hallmark of our democracy under other circumstances."

Warpy

(111,140 posts)
13. Looks like Kelly confiscated his phone again
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 11:26 PM
Sep 2017

Don't worry, a few hours from now he'll start tweeting on the can, as usual.

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