Eric Trump makes sh*t up

[Liberal_in_LA]

BuzzFeed highlighted an amazing exchange today in which Eric Trump, the Republican candidate’s son and a leading surrogate for the GOP ticket, explained some of the motivations that led his father to run for president.
“He opens up the paper each morning and sees our nation’s leaders giving a hundred billion dollars to Iran, or he opens the paper and some new school district has just eliminated the ability for its students to say the Pledge of Allegiance, or some fire department in some town is ordered by the mayor to no longer fly the American flag on the back of a fire truck,” Trump told James Robison in an interview posted this week.

“Or he sees the tree on the White House lawn has been renamed ‘Holiday tree’ instead of ‘Christmas tree,’” continued Trump. “I could go on and on for hours. Those are the very things that made my father run, and those are the very things he cares about.”

It’s entirely possible Eric Trump genuinely believes everything he said, but unfortunately, reality can get in the way of sincere talking points. For example, there are no school districts in the United States that prevent kids from saying the Pledge of Allegiance. He just made that up.

Similarly, the National Christmas Tree wasn’t renamed. As BuzzFeed’s report explained, there was some weird, right-wing chain email a few years ago that said the word “Christmas” was replaced with “Holiday” in the official name of the tree, but in reality, that never actually happened. Some conservatives made this up, the Trumps chose to believe it.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/eric-trump-nonexistent-holiday-tree-prompted-fathers-campaign

[tanyev]

1. Does The Donald even allow Christmas trees in that gold-plated penthouse?

Loser trees dropping needles everywhere and turning brown. Sad!

[LynneSin]

10. The tree has to be dipped in 24k gold plating first

So it looks as tacky as everything else in that abomination Trump calls home.

Gold-plating everything around oneself does NOT make one classy, makes them ASSY!!!

[spanone]

2. the dung doesn't fall far from the arse

[vlyons]

3. In short, Trump is hung up on appearances

There is no wrongness or awfulness in a "Holiday Tree." Rather "awfulness" and "wrongness" are what he creates in his mind (such as it is) and then imputes onto the object. Appearances seem super important to Trump. Substance, eh . . . not so much.

[Angry Dragon]

4. it seems making things up is hereditary

[SCantiGOP]

5. Flag on the fire truck

I remember that, it did happen: turns out it was a safety issue because it could wrap around the equipment. We don't suddenly have unpatriotic firefighters.

[packman]

6. Yah, my knee-jerk reaction was the issue was unpatriotic

but going to a fire with a flag fluttering behind a truck poses safety issues. All for the firemen of America, bless them to high heaven - but put a big ass decal on the back of the truck.

[underpants]

9. I had heard that too but didn't know the explanation

Thanks

[Divine Discontent]

7. In Drumf world...

Making sh*t up is how deals are made. Sadly, the majority of trouble are easily led by that behavior, but most indies and Dems are not and see right through their lies.

[JHB]

8. I don't know that HE makes it up, but it's not "the paper" he reads it in...

These things are typical for the array of RW "your daily dose of foam and outrage" sites. And since those are where Daddy Don learns "the best" things, is widddle Eric going to be any better?