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truthisfreedom

(23,140 posts)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 12:12 AM Dec 2016

Donald Trump just insulted a union leader on Twitter. Then the phone started to ring.

Source: Washington Post

Half an hour after Trump tweeted about Jones on Wednesday, the union leader's phone began to ring and kept ringing, he said. One voice asked: What kind of car do you drive? Another said: We’re coming for you.

“Nothing that says they’re gonna kill me, but, you know, you better keep your eye on your kids,” Jones said later on MSNBC. “We know what car you drive. Things along those lines.”
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“This guy makes pennies for what he does,” Voorhies said. “What he has to put up with is just crazy. Now he’s just got the president-elect smearing him on Twitter.”


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/07/donald-trump-retaliated-against-a-union-leader-on-twitter-then-his-phone-started-to-ring/



Trump obviously has Alzheimer's. He has NO filter whatsoever. He doesn't give a damn what kind of damage his tweets do to ordinary hard-working people in the US. He's anti-American worker and completely wrapped up in himself.

Further proof of Alzheimer's. His father had it at donald's age.
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Donald Trump just insulted a union leader on Twitter. Then the phone started to ring. (Original Post) truthisfreedom Dec 2016 OP
Truly deplorable actions. MissB Dec 2016 #1
Angry Anus DK504 Dec 2016 #45
One of the easiest things to do is trace a call Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 #2
I call them "red caps". Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2016 #9
I was just listening to this on the radio today hollowdweller Dec 2016 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author turbinetree Dec 2016 #38
I'm starting to become VERY worried about Trump. BigBearJohn Dec 2016 #4
Starting to Lotusflower70 Dec 2016 #5
just starting now? Biggest con man you could ever buy wordpix Dec 2016 #34
He is a serial predator, fascist megalomaniac, fraud, cheat, narcissistic, liar, bigot, racists and turbinetree Dec 2016 #40
He has a serious personality disorder. He doesn't think Hortensis Dec 2016 #50
I agree completely. Chemisse Dec 2016 #52
better late than never. some of us have been worried since he descended his escalator. niyad Dec 2016 #55
Maybe I should have said "end of the world" worried. BigBearJohn Dec 2016 #56
did local rw radio blowhards add on? if so, are they on the certainot Dec 2016 #6
Can you say...... Chipper Chat Dec 2016 #7
Haha. I predict in less than a year. Missn-Hitch Dec 2016 #20
How much wealth can tRump amass in a year's time, via taxpayer fleecing? SammyWinstonJack Dec 2016 #49
A Bigly amount. Missn-Hitch Dec 2016 #53
The person with the biggest audience in the USA is Obama. pangaia Dec 2016 #8
He's probably fairly busy. & loathe to stoop to tRump's level. But it sure is awfully quiet over JudyM Dec 2016 #12
Obama was probably personally devastated that we could be stupid enough PatrickforO Dec 2016 #36
Obama was the one who kept Comey. And he still hasn't declassified the information KittyWampus Dec 2016 #47
Trump is a master of the Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #10
THAT I truly believe could very well, will happen.. and more... pangaia Dec 2016 #15
heard on PBS--a few days before the Boeing crack, ginnyinWI Dec 2016 #16
yes, it's grotesque and unseemly and hard to see it getting better Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #30
Well, look for the NSA to heavily militarize and split into PatrickforO Dec 2016 #37
And camps! PatrickforO Dec 2016 #39
In the private prisons greymattermom Dec 2016 #41
ND SD MT WY ID KS NE..... pangaia Dec 2016 #44
FEMA camps, dude. They_Live Dec 2016 #48
Maybe he can enlist the assistance of the union(s)? 33taw Dec 2016 #11
The Hill - Trump blasts Carrier union leader: He's 'done a terrible job' TomCADem Dec 2016 #13
Trump wants to eliminate every Union in the USA. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #21
yes and he has Congress to back him as he installs generals and billionaires in wordpix Dec 2016 #35
He's going to use the office of the Presidency to mock, ridicule, and insult inwiththenew Dec 2016 #14
and leave nothing but destruction after he leaves. nt ginnyinWI Dec 2016 #17
Brings new meaning to "bully pulpit" doesn't it!?! Nt Docreed2003 Dec 2016 #23
Trump puts the bully in bully pulpit. kwassa Dec 2016 #33
We'll do our best to keep him busy tavalon Dec 2016 #25
We have a right to live in a society we can criticize a president .99center Dec 2016 #18
A monster from a family of monsters. As he reminds us, he can do anything he wants. Period. Judi Lynn Dec 2016 #19
He's a fucking asshole. mountain grammy Dec 2016 #22
No, he just a stupid fuck with narcissistic personality disorder tavalon Dec 2016 #24
I agree. He doesn't have Alzheimer's. He simply doesn't think about or care napi21 Dec 2016 #26
He does not have Alzheimers - he is simply despicable. n/t moonscape Dec 2016 #27
He once told Larry King his breath stinks JonLP24 Dec 2016 #28
he is just an asshole that gets off on hurting others JI7 Dec 2016 #29
Union Leader being marginalized and punished for saying the Emperor has no clothes. no_hypocrisy Dec 2016 #31
Trump goes after a union leader. The GOP strips "made in America" out of legislation. Vinca Dec 2016 #32
Who phoned Chuck Jones with the death threats? Kolesar Dec 2016 #42
Progressive should look into starting their own militias ... ZoomBubba Dec 2016 #43
Union should ask when production of Trump brand items will be moved home. hollowdweller Dec 2016 #46
Twitter is trumps thug signal liberal N proud Dec 2016 #51
how do we demand he show his fitness? i mean, just plain, provable, medical fitness. mopinko Dec 2016 #54

DK504

(3,847 posts)
45. Angry Anus
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:29 PM
Dec 2016

is inciting violence and death threats against other Americans. WHERE are the grown ups? Besides us.

Response to hollowdweller (Reply #3)

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
34. just starting now? Biggest con man you could ever buy
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:31 AM
Dec 2016
We've seen and heard him for 1 1-2 yrs. Where have you been?

But glad you're seeing the light now, better late than never

turbinetree

(24,685 posts)
40. He is a serial predator, fascist megalomaniac, fraud, cheat, narcissistic, liar, bigot, racists and
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:12 AM
Dec 2016

He is a serial predator, fascist megalomaniac, fraud, cheat, narcissistic, liar, bigot, racists

and of course a "republican"-----------enough said


And the "media" is trying to "normalize" him by NOT SAYING the words that he a a serial predator, fascists, megalomaniac, fraud, cheat, narcissistic, liar, bigot, racists and crooked republican, that paid no taxes, because he was a "developer"

F*** him and the horse he road in on, he is not my president




Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
50. He has a serious personality disorder. He doesn't think
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:22 PM
Dec 2016

or react like normal people would. His thoughts are jumbled and erratic, especially if he tries to think about things not about him. He constantly contradicts himself, but truth can always whatever he wants it to be at the moment. If he has a conscience at all, it's vestigial--just enough to warn him that he could get in trouble, but not to feel guilty.

His "affection" for family members probably does not extend beyond his feelings for them as possessions and pleasure in their looks as proof of his own superiority. He is incapable of being interested in anything that he does not see as about him--the reason for his incredible, astonishing degree of ignorance.

He has a very dysfunctionally short attention span, another big reason he probably hasn't read a book since he left school a half century ago, if he did then. His emotional development was arrested some time during childhood. He reacts to embarrassment by erupting in what are called "rages" but not the same as just being angry. And on and on.

I just mention some of this because the OP is accusing him of Alzheimer's, which may well be in play also, but it, like your list of truths, does not begin to get at what an incredible thing we have done to put this dysfunctional fraction of a human being in the oval office. A finger-raper could formulate responsible government policy, this clueless buffoon never.

Kurt Eichenwald has stated he "believes" Trump was institutionalized in the 1990s, but he obviously cannot prove it or it'd have been in Newsweek. Trump would have been diagnosed at that time, though.

Done ranting.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
6. did local rw radio blowhards add on? if so, are they on the
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 12:41 AM
Dec 2016

11 limbaugh stations that depend on being able to rent the sports logos of these universities, or institutions of higher learning - Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1 - to attract advertisers?

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
8. The person with the biggest audience in the USA is Obama.
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 12:41 AM
Dec 2016

I wish he would get in front of cameras and outright, directly in their face SAY what is happening, each episode...,just state it.. and then ... then.....

Not his job,, well, maybe not.. but......
Who will listen to Schumer, for example, if he does it....

JudyM

(29,204 posts)
12. He's probably fairly busy. & loathe to stoop to tRump's level. But it sure is awfully quiet over
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 12:58 AM
Dec 2016

there...

PatrickforO

(14,559 posts)
36. Obama was probably personally devastated that we could be stupid enough
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:00 AM
Dec 2016

as a people to elect a moron like Trump on the heels of his two very successful, even great, terms in the Oval Office.

In order to 'go high when they go low' the Obama family has had to tolerate numerous sickening, hate-filled racial slurs, dog whistles and a Republican party that agreed ON THE NIGHT OF HIS FIRST INAUGURATION TO OPPOSE EVERYTHING HE BROUGHT UP.

Obama is a very, very patient, moral and intelligent man. No doubt about that. And a great president.

But he's probably at the end of his rope. OUR PARTY DIDN'T EVEN COME OUT FOR CLINTON and allowed a guy to be elected that would overturn much of what he and Michelle accomplished. A wanna-be-brownshirt moron who sold us all a bill of goods.

I'd be surprised if he and Michelle aren't thinking, "OK, you elected this asshole. Fuck you, then. You have the government you deserve. Hope you enjoy the social and economic upheaval that will come with that hate-filled new government."

Bless his heart that he actually hasn't SAID that. But we, we Democrats, ran a weak candidate whose campaign didn't even have her visit Michigan and Wisconsin. Not even visit! I'm pretty disgusted about this whole shitty thing.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
47. Obama was the one who kept Comey. And he still hasn't declassified the information
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:40 PM
Dec 2016

the Senate Intelligence Committee requested concerning Russian hacking our Election.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. Trump is a master of the
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 12:48 AM
Dec 2016

Humiliation of his detractors. If you are threat to his Ego,you will pay the price. And this Guy is President Elect? Only going to get worse. Wait till he starts calling out the National Guard to round up his enemies the protesters in the streets.

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
16. heard on PBS--a few days before the Boeing crack,
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:31 AM
Dec 2016

Boeing execs had speculated publicly about what a Trump administration would do to their business. That was enough for old DT, and he let them have it.

 

Fast Walker 52

(7,723 posts)
30. yes, it's grotesque and unseemly and hard to see it getting better
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:57 AM
Dec 2016

the retribution aspect of his personality scares the crap out of me, as well as his mouthbreathing fans.

PatrickforO

(14,559 posts)
37. Well, look for the NSA to heavily militarize and split into
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:05 AM
Dec 2016

a secret police, an elite fighting unit and einsatzgruppen.

And, look for the good ol' boy Trump deplorables to form a Sturmabteilung (SA) so they can march against protesters and 'crack heads.'

Look also for a war we unilaterally begin that pits us against the rest of the world.

I mean, let's hope not.

Fervently.

But doesn't it seem like its going this way.

And our people were stupid enough to elect this charlatan.

PatrickforO

(14,559 posts)
39. And camps!
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:11 AM
Dec 2016

Where do you think they will put the camps?

At the height of the Third Reich, SS-Heinrich had millions working as slave labor in camps and dying in assembly line fashion in others. I don't think Gitmo is big enough to house all the people that will be arrested during the Trump administration.

So where will the camps be, do you think? Red states?

Hey, detention camps are as American as apple pie! Ask the people of Japanese descent.

TomCADem

(17,382 posts)
13. The Hill - Trump blasts Carrier union leader: He's 'done a terrible job'
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:13 AM
Dec 2016

You know this is a set-up to attack unions and minimum wage laws. Who needs them when you have the great leader?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-blasts-carrier-union-leader-hes-done-a-terrible-job/ar-AAlhK3y

Donald Trump blasted the Carrier union's president Wednesday after he said the president-elect "lied his ass off" about terms of the deal to keep Carrier manufacturing jobs in the United States.

"Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers," the president-elect tweeted Wednesday. "No wonder companies flee country!"

In a subsequent tweet, the president-elect slammed the union for not being able to keep the jobs in Indiana initially.

"If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues," Trump tweeted.
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
21. Trump wants to eliminate every Union in the USA.
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:46 AM
Dec 2016

That seems to be his real threat to his Kingdom. Well if we Union People are his enemy,sign me up. This is not going to end well. His Hotel here in Vegas has been ordered by Federal Court to begin bargaining with his Employees Union. Pickets continue to circle the Hotel. SEIU has his number and he is pissed to say the least.

inwiththenew

(972 posts)
14. He's going to use the office of the Presidency to mock, ridicule, and insult
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:21 AM
Dec 2016

Anyone who ends up in his cross hairs for the next 4 years.

.99center

(1,237 posts)
18. We have a right to live in a society we can criticize a president
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:38 AM
Dec 2016

"We have a right to live in a society where we can criticize a president without threat of retribution"

You sure about that President Obama?

mountain grammy

(26,598 posts)
22. He's a fucking asshole.
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:48 AM
Dec 2016

I want to say psycho, but don't want to offend anyone.

The only winners here? Melania and Barron when the asshole's living in DC.

tavalon

(27,985 posts)
24. No, he just a stupid fuck with narcissistic personality disorder
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 02:57 AM
Dec 2016

and a penchant for authoritarianism. There is plenty wrong with him but Alzheimer's isn't on the list.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
26. I agree. He doesn't have Alzheimer's. He simply doesn't think about or care
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 03:13 AM
Dec 2016

about anyone but DJT! Check out the symptoms for Narcissism. There is NO feeling of sorrow or remorse. The ego is supreme. I think he's just plying with all this new found power without any concern for consequences.

Vinca

(50,237 posts)
32. Trump goes after a union leader. The GOP strips "made in America" out of legislation.
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:06 AM
Dec 2016

But the sheeple are convinced they will one day live in gold plated housing with a doorman. It's mind boggling people can be so gullible.

ZoomBubba

(289 posts)
43. Progressive should look into starting their own militias ...
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 12:50 PM
Dec 2016

... not to make death threats, but to show up wherever these clowns like the Oath Keepers and III'ers try to intimidate people. Everywhere those jokers go, we can go and do the same thing ... stand around with a gun and look like fake badasses. Of course the consequence is that righties would all of a sudden want gun control.

liberal N proud

(60,332 posts)
51. Twitter is trumps thug signal
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:55 PM
Dec 2016

Like batman had the bat signal, trump just sends a tweet and the thugs jump into action.

Are they true trump operatives, or simply thugs who support trump?

mopinko

(70,022 posts)
54. how do we demand he show his fitness? i mean, just plain, provable, medical fitness.
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:28 PM
Dec 2016

if we had demanded it of jr cokejaw, maybe we wouldnt be in this fix.

he had a hack write up a bunch of bullshit for a reason. not for fun. but because no actual dr would attest to his fitness.

maybe the electors can demand an mri. how's that for hamiltonian?

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