Trumps cruelty blamed on NY: Hes from the streets of Queens. Americans knew what they were getting

[highplainsdem]

Another gem from former Congressman Jack Kingston (R - Moronistan):

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/republican-blames-trumps-cruelty-on-nyc-hes-from-the-streets-of-queens-americans-knew-what-they-were-getting/

Former Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) excused President Donald Trump’s attacks on a pregnant widow on CNN’s “Out Front” with Erin Burnett.

“That is casual cruelty, would you not acknowledge, congressman?” Burnett asked Kingston.

Well, I think Americans knew Donald Trump and they knew who they elected and he’s a guy from the streets of Queens if you will,” the former congressman suggested.

-snip-

“Congressman, are you saying yes, he’s casually cruel, but we knew what we were getting? Is that your argument?” Burnett asked.

Former Rep. Kingston returned again to Trump being from the street when responding.

“He’s a tough guy and if you him or push him, he’s going to push back,” Kingston claimed.

-snip-

Video at the link.

[Corgigal]

1. This Former New Yorker

says fuck you. Opps, he might be right.

[More_Cowbell]

2. Even if that were true, Myeshia Johnson didn't push him

She picked up the phone. His casual cruelty just rears itself, no matter what.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Trump isnt from the motherfucking streets

Jesus Christ. He’s a millionaire’s son with any number of psychological problems and issues—none of which came from the street. He wouldn’t have survived the street in Seattle much less New York

[CentralMass]

26. He has been a little bastard since he came out of the womb.

[Solly Mack]

4. What a crock of shit.

[defacto7]

5. Streets? That's a laugh.

BS

[Docreed2003]

6. Seasame Street is harder than whatever Queens Street that asshole grew up on

[stevenleser]

7. LMAO, Trump from the streets. That's a good one! I spit out some of the cranberry juice

I was drinking.

Yeah, if Trump was "from the streets" then Hervé Villechaize played for the Lakers.

[WinkyDink]

8. Donnie From the Block.

[shenmue]

9. I'm from Queens myself

[JI7]

10. Queens rejected Trump by HUGE amount

Trump belongs to the white evangelicals

[CakeGrrl]

11. No, Congressman, he's a damaged asshat.

They're always spinning excuses for a simpleminded, assholish thug.

And they always try to denigrate something associated with liberalism in the process.

It shouldn't be forgotten that Scarborough tried to distance Trump from the GOP by pointing out his former Democratic status.

[ProudLib72]

12. He eats pizza with a fork for krissakes!

PIZZA WITH A FORK IS NOT "STREET"!!!!

He's got no street cred.

[Ilsa]

13. CNN needs to get rid of Kingston. He's useless. nt

[bullwinkle428]

14. Here's the "shotgun shack" where he lived when he learned his shit on the mean streets...

[highplainsdem]

17. That's an ugly house. And it looks, oddly enough, a lot like Trump's signature.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/20/donald_trump_s_horrifying_signature_is_a_cry_for_help.html

[dalton99a]

15. Americans did not elect Donald Trump.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Once again, New Yorkers need to realize not everything is unique to them.

Being a raging asshole isn’t something specific just to New York.

[uponit7771]

18. " ... they know what we bring ... "

[oberliner]

19. He grew up in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in America

And went to a private boarding school.

[smirkymonkey]

23. Queens is not a wealthy borough or "neighborhood".

It is pretty much uniformly working class or poor, maybe a few affluent pockets but hardly wealthy.

And he was sent to a private military school because his parents couldn't stand the little piece of shit and needed to pawn him off on an institution that could whip him into shape. It was hardly the elite boarding school that most wealthy New Yorkers send their children to.

[oberliner]

24. You have obviously never been to Jamaica Estates, where Trump grew up

It was a cloistered, secluded enclave (even more so when Trump was growing up) populated by very wealthy, almost exclusively white people. Here is their family home:



And he went to a private boarding school located in Cornwall-on-Hudson.

He did not grow up in the manner described by Jack Kingston.

He grew up in a wealthy and segregated environment.

[smirkymonkey]

25. It is definitely middle and upper middle class, but it's still Queens and

therefore he will never be accepted by the NYC elite. He may have gone to an expensive military academy, but it's not like he went to Exeter, Andover or St. Paul's. Even though he's rich, he's still white trash as far as the establishment wealthy are concerned.

[oberliner]

30. I think we are making two different points - both accurate ones

My point is that he did not "grow up on the streets" as Jack Kingston implied. He grew up in a wealthy, essentially segregated, private enclave in Jamaica Estates and went to a private boarding school.

Your point about him being outside of the NYC elite, not growing up in Manhattan, not going to one those high profile private schools, not being accepted by the establishment wealthy, is also something I agree with.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Yes, you are right. I suppose that is the point. He is not the typical Queens tough guy.

Sorry, I think I just get upset when people try to portray him as "upper class" because he is such a fake and a poser. I was misunderstanding your point. I apologize.

[Cedar_son]

20. Interesting that New York is not real America when it's compassionate

And a bunch of mean bastards who spawned the destroyer of the nation when it fits another narrative.

NYC should go the Singapore route. Screw all these idiots.

[lpbk2713]

21. Trump couldn't play stickball if his life depended on it.

He grew up as a candy ass and he is still a candy ass.

[Grammy23]

22. Yes, sir ree bob! We sure did know what wed be getting in tRump if he was elected.

The vast majority of us were recoiled with horror by him. His crassness, his lack of empathy, crudeness, mean spiritedness. His lack of curiosity that has kept him fat, lazy and dumb was duly noted. On election night many of us were waiting for the nightmare to end once the votes were counted. Instead we got a swift kick in the ass and it is still smarting to this day.

We knew something was wrong that night and have been struggling to figure it out ever since. Telling us that we knew what we were getting in tRump is a joke since most of us would not have voted for that SOB if he was the only person on the ballot. It would be funny if he was not such a maniac endangering the lives of people around the world. The people that are ALLOWING him to remain in office even though they know he is our worst nightmare will have to answer to the American people one day. And it is for damned sure, we won’t go easy on them. That is if we live through this ordeal. And yes, I am still angry over what was perpetrated upon us. Somebody needs to pay. Prison time for the whole bunch of them.

[whathehell]

27. OMG..Could they reach any further?

:It's absolutely embarrassing.

[Madam45for2923]

28. I disagree, Trump is an embarrassment to us in NY.

[spanone]

29. trump was born with a silver spoon in his mouth...

he would never have made it 'from the streets'

what utter bullshit from the bullshitter kingston

[raging moderate]

34. Right. Or maybe a silver foot.

As Molly Ivins once said about Bush.

[spanone]

35. i'll go with molly!!!!

[C_U_L8R]

31. The only part on NYC that voted for Trump

is Staten Fucking Island. That's all you need to know.

[meow2u3]

33. I'm from the streets of Queens, too

I grew up in a Queens neighborhood that became very rough when I was a teenager. I was tough, too, but that's because I had to deal with bullies who targeted Yours Truly. But, unlike Trump, I was never cruel, only fighting when I had to, so that's no excuse for his gratuitous, casual cruelty for cruelty's own sake.