Trump Answers Question About Rise in Anti-Semitism by Citing Size of Electoral College Victory

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite



by Justin Baragona | 1:03 pm, February 15th, 2017

In today’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump was asked about the sharp rise in anti-Semitism and what he would say to Jewish communities around the world who believe his administration guilty of playing with xenophobia and racism.

Trump immediately took that opportunity to bring up one of his favorite subjects — the size of his Electoral College victory.

“Well, I just want to say that we are, you know, very honored by the victory that we had,” Trump said. “306 Electoral College votes. We were not supposed to crack 220. you know that, right?”

After talking more about his victory and how it was indicative of the enthusiasm out there for him, Trump pointed out that he has Jewish family members.


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[secondwind]

1. What an embarrassment this man is! I could not believe it!

[Hekate]

2. Gods, Benedict Donald is an embarrassment

[gademocrat7]

3. Incompetent, irrational dolt.

[PearliePoo2]

4. Stunningly STUPID doesn't even describe it.

I'm beyond embarrassed and horrified.

[hopeforchange2008]

5. His performance is mortifying.

Just like Putin, Bibi must be thrilled to have such a gullible idiot working diligently on his behalf.

[hopeforchange2008]

8. I can't believe how we've gone from one of the most - if not, the most - eloquent and informed

presidents in history to this abomination.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Democrats have had a lot of smart and eloquent presidents

before Obama, you had Bill Clinton and before that, you had JFK. All excellent speakers and extremely well educated.

[Scarsdale]

15. Yes

On the other hand, the gop seems to really like to have idiots representing them in the WH. tRump is a low class, low intelligence bufoon. Just like the gop like them.

[NewJeffCT]

19. They've always been the anti-intellectual party

dating back to even Eisenhower, who railed against the pointy headed intellectual Adlai Stevenson...

However, I would not consider Goldwater, Nixon nor Ford to be dummies. Reagan really started the downwards trend towards where the president was not the smartest, or one of the smartest, guys in the room. George W Bush took it to another level and Trump is the pinnacle of the anti-intellectualism (or, nadir?)

[dalton99a]

6. So predictable. Tremendous victory. Greatest victory ever.

[NurseJackie]

7. And his supporters think he's brilliant ... NO WONDER we're a nation in decline.

[NewJeffCT]

10. It really is all about Trump

in Trump's eyes.

As Charles Krauthammer said:

This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-and-the-fitness-threshold/2016/08/04/b06bae34-5a69-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?utm_term=.2f24c22d0198

[BREMPRO]

11. right on point Don..expression of legitimate public concern

is responded to with non-sequitur self absorbed boast about size (electoral college victory, hands, penis, whatever, it's bigger)

[Scarsdale]

16. Ego

His ego is the ONLY oversized part of this orange loofa-faced shitgibbon.

[BREMPRO]

28. yep, his ego is the only thing supporting his claims of bigly...n/t

[TeamPooka]

12. OMG this guy is an idiot. beyond idiot actually. nt

[tanyev]

13. I don't understand how Ivanka and Jared can sit through that stuff without cringing.

Even if they are motivated more by self-interest than filial love, it's got to be disturbing to see your gravy train collapsing in front of your eyes.

[yurbud]

25. barbiturates

[Grammy23]

14. Some of his best friends are Jewish....

Oh, and did you hear about his landslide victory in November? Perhaps you haven't heard. Let me explain. It was the biggest in all of history. He won bigly. Bigly, I tell you.

[Demit]

17. Not to mention, the final electoral vote count was 304 to 227.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Yeah, it was 46th out of 58 electoral colleges; hardly a "landslide".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_Electoral_College_margin

[NastyRiffraff]

18. Just when you think he couldn't be more of a ignoramous

He again proves us wrong. I'm no Netanyahu fan, but he must have been appalled.

[Kali]

21. There should be at least a minimal dumbassness standard for this job.

W could be the low bar and then we would have been safe from this buffoon.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. "Size"

Size of what? One is a subliminal substitute for the other.

[mike_c]

23. I heard him make a similar statement on the radio last week...

...saying something like he ran a great campaign "which we won by a very big election." He seems to really believe that he has an overwhelming electoral mandate.

[Behind the Aegis]

24. Unsurprising.

Given this "tribute" during Black History Month, if it isn't all about him, he isn't interested. Most people aren't really interested in anti-Semitism as a form of bigotry anyway, so to see this from is not surprising in the least.

[putitinD]

26. Trump is too stoopid to understand the questions he is asked, so his knee jerk reaction is to

of course, pat himself on the back.

[SummerSnow]

27. Trump's priorities...votes and more votes.

An anti- Semite cannot comment on this.