President Trump Urges Loyalty as Boy Scouts Boo Barack Obama at Jamboree

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Beast


President Trump asked more than 35,000 Scouts celebrating the organization’s Jamboree to uphold just a single Scout Law value: loyalty. Specifically, to him.

Scott Bixby
07.24.17 9:40 PM ET


For more than a century, members of the Boy Scouts of America have sworn to uphold the values of Scout Law—the code of scouting chivalry that requires its adherents to be “trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent” to all they encounter.

On Monday evening, however, President Donald Trump used the backdrop of more than 35,000 Scouts celebrating the organization’s quadrennial Jamboree to fixate on just one value: loyalty. Specifically, how little he feels it in the nation’s capital.

“As the Scout Law says, a Scout is trustworthy, loyal,” Trump said, pausing dramatically. “We could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that.”

Over the course of a freewheeling 40-minute speech, the president complained numerous times about “fake news,” bragged about his Electoral College victory nine months ago, threatened to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and encouraged the assembled teens and pre-teens to boo President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/president-trump-urges-loyalty-as-boy-scouts-boo-barack-obama-at-jamboree

[Quanta]

1. OH MY GOD!!!

IS he totally incapable of behaving like a normal human being at all?!?!

This motherfucker right here is gonna make me totally lose my shit. Seriously.

[RKP5637]

2. What a disgusting POS to address BSA! n/t

[Turbineguy]

3. Hitler Jugend II!

Sieg Heil! Heil Trump

[George II]

7. I came here to say exactly that - Hitler Youth (Jugend) This is despicable of trump.

[Turbineguy]

9. A new low

what's next?

[Dave Starsky]

55. There is no end to his depravity.

Each day is worse than the day before.

But no, we can never make the obvious Nazi comparison, because "Godwin's Law" or some such bullshit.

[onit2day]

23. Tolerance is how Scouts achieve all the other principles

Trump is not a human being to be made an example to follow. He's a selfish vindictive meglamaniac who has never done a thing for any one. Only cares for himself. He would have been thrown out of the scouts. Here he is indoctrinating teens with his lies, teaching them to scorn others. He's becoming the most hated man in America

[onecaliberal]

40. If they support that by inviting him to speak to children know all he's done and what he is about

They are the same as him.

[Thor_MN]

4. I urge Trump to read between the lines of the Boy Scout salute.

[weissmam]

5. sorry

two words

ass whole

[Zoonart]

6. We're in trouble.

[iluvtennis]

8. Pete Souza trolling Trump on his lie about Obama not supporting the Boy Scouts

Link to tweet

[iluvtennis]

10. Another pic of Obamas with the scouts - Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts...Trump is REPREHENSIBLE

Link to tweet

[Rollo]

32. Trump is angling for his merit badge for Treason

[hlthe2b]

11. So, he thinks the BSA are to be his version of HITLER YOUTH?

Gawd/Goddess, help us. Uggh.

[bdamomma]

12. tRump

loves Putin and Russia so much, he wants the US to be the same. What democracy? Dictatorship all the way.

I hate this fcuking man/child, he needs to be removed, he has done so much damage to OUR country.

[Stuart G]

13. Very very sad....Trump has hit a new low..

beyond what anyone could possibly expect....

[Dave Starsky]

56. He'll do something even worse tomorrow.

Not a day has gone by without some fresh outrage--something that, when were kids, we NEVER would have imagined the fucking President of the United States would do.

[Still In Wisconsin]

14. Seig HEIL!

Heil TRUMPLER!!

[Shrike47]

15. This is so offensive I can hardly stand it. Shame on him, shame.

And shame on the Boy Scouts for allowing him to speak. Never again!

[Stuart G]

22. I wonder if the BSA knew what Trump was going to say?

Maybe BSA thought it would be non political.. I can't imagine officials knew that he would say what he did.

[bettyellen]

29. Oh come on. It's always the same horrible shit from him. They were cowed.

[lunasun]

41. How did the Boy Scouts know to boo? Seemed spontaneous from the crowd

Seemed the scouts were political with the response to Trump

[still_one]

16. preparing his brown shirts to follow him to hell

[geretogo]

17. I remember the picture of Adolf Hitler inspecting and shaking the hands of the Hitler youth .

This country is in real danger .

[left-of-center2012]

18. The man is insane

Sounds like Hitler talking to German youth

[BainsBane]

34. Exactly

[Worktodo]

19. King of the Cesspool

So how is anyone supposed to respect the institution he is disparaging?

[sinkingfeeling]

20. So the Boy Scots are now Trump Youth.

[47of74]

21. I think that's the best way to describe the BSA now.

[Zoonart]

26. Weaponizing the BSA!

[left-of-center2012]

63. "Hail Trump!"

Remember that from the campaign?

[OldRedneck]

24. Hitler Youth

I fell asleep watching tevee tonite, waked up with CNN showing Trump at the Boy Scout jamboree -- I though Sweet Thing had changed to the History Channel and I was watching a Hitler Youth movie from the 1930's

[geek tragedy]

25. Trump Youth. BSA is a shitty wingnut org that deserves

to die.

[mobeau69]

27. America, what in God's name have you done?

A pig is POTUS.

[Solly Mack]

28. That man has got to go.

[CentralMass]

30. I wonder if the have nemrit badgers for colluding with the enemy.

[BigDemVoter]

31. I am very anxious to hear what the BSA have to say about this.

At the very least, they should apologize. In any case, they never were on my preferred list of charities. Fuck them.

[geek tragedy]

38. They'll either say nothing or some vague, dishonest claim

that they aren't a partisan org.

They've been permanently corrupted by one hour of contact with Tr*mp.

[Dave Starsky]

57. You nailed it.

They came out with a vague, dishonest claim that they aren't a partisan org.

[geek tragedy]

65. Like all wingnuts in prominent places, they bow before Tr*mp nt

[BainsBane]

33. This is fascism

[LudwigPastorius]

35. My Dad used to tell me, "money can't buy class".

The Trump presidency is a skid mark upon the pages of American history.

[Girard442]

36. I wonder if this is going to be a green light for the full-on politicization of the BSA?

Will we see Scouts volunteering en masse for RW campaigns next?

[geek tragedy]

39. In Trumpistan, yes they probably will.

Not a coincidence that this Trump Youth rally happened in that noted center of enlightenment and education, West Virginia.

[cilla4progress]

37. Line has been crossed

We will see how much most Americans care and love their country. Or do we care more about the latest sale of plastic crap at Walmart and the Kardashians.

[llmart]

66. I think you already know the answer to that...

Yes, they care more about plastic crap from Walmart and reality TV. Without reality TV this asshole in the White House wouldn't have gotten this far.

[spiderpig]

42. For six months my RBF has been like this

Just when I think this cretin has hit a new low he surprises even jaded old moi.

Fine message to communicate to America's youth: hatred, narcissism and bigotry.

[dalton99a]

43. There is no low that he will not sink to

[SunSeeker]

44. Trump is going to do to the BSA what Handel did to Komen.

It is now forever tarnished.

[UCmeNdc]

45. Do not Donate Money to the Boy Scouts of America

Pull your kids out of the organization and be sure to tell the leadership why.

[Achilleaze]

46. the republican family-values role model is disgusting

I am ashamed the BSA allowed this to happen. Disgusting.

[AllaN01Bear]

47. fuck you dick head.

[BumRushDaShow]

48. "It can't happen here" except it has

[Cosmocat]

50. Poignant, but accurate

honestly, 2018 is the last stand

Not that they haven't been for decades now with republicans, but all the chips are on the table and the stakes are very clear.

The reason they are so far gone now is because they know this country is rolling over.

IF we don't completely rebuke republicans in 2018, if they get past that without losing congress and a lot of state governorships and legislatures, it will be the confirmation that they are bullet proof, and the results will be truly chilling.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

49. He praises William Levitt -- racist home builder -- for being rich. Refuses to condemn racism.

Segregation

Levitt refused to integrate his developments. The Jewish Levitt barred Jews from Strathmore, his first pre-Levittown development on Long Island in New York, and he refused to sell his homes to blacks. His sales contracts also forbade the resale of properties to blacks through restrictive covenants, although in 1957 a white couple resold their house to the first black family to live in a Levitt home. Levitt's all-white policies also led to civil rights protests in Bowie, Maryland in 1963.[8][9] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union opposed Levitt’s racist policies, and the Federal Housing Administration prepared to refuse mortgages on his next Levittown. Nevertheless, Levitt would not back down and continued planning another whites-only Levittown in Willingboro Township, New Jersey. He fought legal challenges in New Jersey courts until the United States Supreme Court refused to hear his case.[13]

The 2003 PBS series Race: The Power of an Illusion, by California Newsreel, features Levittown and nearby Roosevelt in documenting systemic racism in the development of the early suburbs.

-- Wikipedia

[BumRushDaShow]

54. Big NYT article on that

We have a Levittown here in PA. This year marks 70 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/28/nyregion/at-50-levittown-contends-with-its-legacy-of-bias.html

(I remember reading the print version of the above article and my mother had saved it back then)

Memories of Segregation in Levittown

By JULIA C. MEAD MAY 11, 2003

<...>

The last episode, ''The House We Live In,'' (ed. from ''Race: the Power of an Illusion,'' a PBS documentary) examines how those erroneous views have left some racial groups at an economic disadvantage, particularly in housing, while accruing visible benefits to whites, which the filmmakers call the ''unmarked race.'' This episode traces the legal, financial, and social values that have defined the racial divide, from European immigration in the early 20th century to the post-World War II housing boom, typified by Roosevelt and Levittown, in Nassau County.

<...>

Bernice and Eugene Burnett tried over the winter of 1949-50 to buy a house in Levittown, they tell the camera. Mr. Burnett was one of nearly a million black soldiers eligible for a federally guaranteed mortgage under the G.I. Bill of Rights, but precluded by housing discrimination from enjoying that benefit.

He recalls being impressed by the tract houses sprouting on a former potato field and a salesman's response to his inquiry about buying one: ''It's not me, but the owners of this development have not as yet decided to sell these homes to Negroes.''

The Levitt family never did decide to sell to blacks, and as a result, Levittown remains ''95 to 98 percent white,'' said John A. Juliano, a real estate broker. Interviewed by telephone, Mr. Juliano added: ''It wasn't just Levitt. The federal government condoned it, and it set a precedent there that's lasted a long time.''

<...>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/nyregion/memories-of-segregation-in-levittown.html

[HAB911]

51. Fuck the Christian Supremacist BSA

[samnsara]

52. i hope they all got ass whuppings when they got home

[Sunlei]

53. Jamboree always invites pres. Its a shame trump lied to them, cursed & acted as a dirty old man.

No wonder he doesn't have any friends.

[KRISITNA]

58. My stomach turned listening to this

It was a poisoning of the minds of our youth and they and their deplorable parents loved every moment of it.
This is the first time that I've realized how much trouble we are truly in.

[Doug the Dem]

59. The Drumpf Youth

Scary. Very scary.

[Blue_Tires]

60. This is what it has come to:

Link to tweet

[COLGATE4]

61. I think the best part was when he had them swear their oath:

"Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ich dem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volkes Adolf Hitler, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht, unbedingten Gehorsam leisten und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will, jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusetzen."


"I swear to God this sacred oath that to the Leader of the German Empire and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces, I shall render unconditional obedience and that as a brave soldier I shall at all times be prepared to give my life for this oath."

[Blue_Tires]

62. So who's the first hot-take merchant in the pundisphere

who will try to float the talking point that these kids had "economic anxieties"...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

64. Adding some links

Morning Mix
Trump’s Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition

By Katie Mettler and Derek Hawkins July 25 at 7:17 AM

For 80 years, American presidents have been speaking to the National Scout Jamboree, a gathering of tens of thousands of youngsters from around the world eager to absorb the ideas of service, citizenship and global diplomacy.
....

For a brief moment at this year’s jamboree in West Virgina, President Donald Trump indicated that he would follow that tradition — sort of. ... “Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?” he said.

Then, standing before all 40,000 of them, he bragged about the “record” crowd size, bashed President Barack Obama, criticized the “fake media” and trashed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In the lengthy 35-minute speech, the president threatened to fire his health and human services secretary if he couldn’t persuade members of Congress to vote for the Republican health-care bill.
....

Katie Mettler is a reporter for The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. She previously worked for the Tampa Bay Times. Follow @kemettler

Derek Hawkins is a reporter with The Washington Post's Morning Mix. Follow @d_hawk

Politics
From ‘fake media’ to Clinton, Trump brings political attacks to the Scout Jamboree

By John Wagner and Jenna Johnson July 25 at 9:05 AM

Ahead of President Trump’s appearance Monday at the National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, the troops were offered some advice on the gathering’s official blog: Fully hydrate. Be “courteous” and “kind.” And avoid the kind of divisive chants heard during the 2016 campaign such as “build the wall” and “lock her up.”

But from the moment he took the stage, Trump — who was never a Scout himself but touted his role as the “honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America” — started leading them down a very different path.

Over the next 35 minutes, the president threatened to fire one of his Cabinet members, attacked former president Barack Obama, dissed his former rival Hillary Clinton, marveled at the size of the crowd, warned the boys about the “fake media,” mocked pollsters and pundits, and said more people would say “Merry Christmas” under his presidency. He also told a rambling tale about a famous, now-deceased home builder that meandered from a Manhattan cocktail party to a yacht and then to places that the president would only allow the boys’ imaginations to go.

In response to a backlash following the speech, the Boy Scouts distanced itself Tuesday from Trump’s remarks. In a statement, the organization said it is “wholly non-partisan and does not promote any on position, product, service, political candidate or philosophy.” It added, without mentioning Trump’s name, that inviting “the sitting U.S. President” to visit the Jamboree is a long-standing tradition and “is in no way an endorsement of any political party or specific policies.”
....

John Wagner is a national political reporter covering the White House. Follow @WPJohnWagner

Jenna Johnson is a political reporter who covers the White House. She spent more than a year writing about Donald Trump's presidential campaign, traveling to 35 states to attend more than 170 political rallies and interview hundreds of Trump supporters. Follow @wpjenna