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Towlie

(5,575 posts) Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:19 AM Aug 2018

Trump can't stand Sessions' Southern accent. I wonder what his base thinks about that. [View all]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/trump-sessions-firing-senators-white-house-803922

If Sessions’ recusal was his original sin, Trump has come to resent him for other reasons, griping to aides and lawmakers that the attorney general doesn’t have the Ivy League pedigree the president prefers, that he can’t stand his Southern accent and that Sessions isn’t a capable defender of the president on television — in part because he “talks like he has marbles in his mouth,” the president has told aides.

So far it look like only Politico and sources quoting Politico are reporting this, but if it's confirmed then it seems like it might have the potential to turn away a sizeable chunk of Trump's base.

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Trump can't stand Sessions' Southern accent. I wonder what his base thinks about that. [View all] Towlie Aug 2018 OP

"Fake News" marylandblue Aug 2018 #1

My Facebook humpers Watchfoxheadexplodes Aug 2018 #2

-45 sounds bad, but it doesn't have anything to do with New York Rorey Aug 2018 #3

Actually, it does have to do with NY leftynyc Aug 2018 #11

I meant Rorey Aug 2018 #14

Just this morning leftynyc Aug 2018 #24

I'm from NY & am turned off by *some* southern accents BUT ecstatic Aug 2018 #16

They don't annoy me much anymore leftynyc Aug 2018 #25

And then there's Annie Potts Rorey Aug 2018 #31

It's more a generalization leftynyc Aug 2018 #32

If Trump was a Democrat Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2018 #22

I can't stand tRump's accent, or Cohen's. cwydro Aug 2018 #4

But he's perfectly happy with Rudy's accent MaryMagdaline Aug 2018 #5

Rudy and Rush Limbaugh sound like Sylvester the Cat. Dave Starsky Aug 2018 #13

I think they're too far gone to care. EffieBlack Aug 2018 #6

Agreed tulipsandroses Aug 2018 #7

Making fun of the University of Alabama while touting Ivy League schools was perhaps even worse Freethinker65 Aug 2018 #8

THAT should be more insulting than leftynyc Aug 2018 #12

He should tell Trump he can't stand his Fourth Grade Vocabulary whathehell Aug 2018 #9

I hope this shows up in ads in the South malaise Aug 2018 #10

Me too, but they'll excuse it Rorey Aug 2018 #15

Trump detest poor people..smucks.. HipChick Aug 2018 #17

"That's ok. The president is not used to how we say things" dalton99a Aug 2018 #18

His base thinks... NCTraveler Aug 2018 #19

They don't care. There is nothing that will turn them off him. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2018 #20

Better to have marbles in the mouth than using your skull to store marbles. theaocp Aug 2018 #21

His brilliant Wharton strategy of "winning" via alienating as many groups of voters as possible. UTUSN Aug 2018 #23

+1. World-class business executives do that every day dalton99a Aug 2018 #30

Yeah well he can kiss ALL my people's asses. nolabear Aug 2018 #26

But didn't Sessions have a Southern accent when Spanky appointed him? The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #27

Trump says he should have told him. Sneederbunk Aug 2018 #29

What does his base think? Nothing. They don't think. Cousin Dupree Aug 2018 #28