Trump's Solution for Caged Kids: Blame Obama

[DonViejo]

Far from moving to ameliorate the treatment of small children that has become a national story, the president is telling senior aides to stick to blaming Democrats and Obama.

Asawin Suebsaeng, Scott Bixby, Erin Banco
Updated 06.26.19 8:17AM ET / Published 06.26.19 5:06AM ET

As news broke on the reportedly horrific conditions at a Texas detention center holding migrant children, President Trump did what he normally does in times of crisis and public-relations hellscapes: He monitored the media and political reactions via his White House TV and the DVR device he dubs his “super TiVo.”

And in the days since the treatment of small children at this detention facility became major national news, the president wanted to make one thing clear to his subordinates, though his focus was not at all about ameliorating appalling conditions. Trump has repeatedly told advisers and senior aides that, no matter how great the public outrage toward his administration, his lieutenants were to stick to a simple strategy of blaming Democrats and Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, according to two people with knowledge of the exchanges.

In the end for Trump, the dire situation was a mere messaging problem.

The strategy was a practical Xerox of the president’s approach to other immigration scandals of the Trump era, such as the brutal, widely condemned family-separation policy. When the president and his team don’t want to own the negative coverage and political backlash to the treatment of migrants, asylum-seekers, or undocumented immigrants—but also want to continue draconian policies nonetheless—they frequently revert to trashing the Democrats as the real culprits.

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1. Voters, get rid of this asshole Trump in 2020. Vote Vote Vote him out!!! n/t

[Achilleaze]

2. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief always dodges reponsibility

for the shit he dumps on the world. He is a weasel, and a piss poor role model for republican children.

Imagine the generations who will follow his republican example, and live lives of lies. Greed. Excess. Assault. Cheating. Weasling. Shirking loyalty to America. Lying. Lying. Lying. Sad.

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4. tRump, is made of all of the shit in the world, surrounds himself with it and

empowers it. He is a demonic and disgusting creature.

[EleanorR]

3. John Kelly

And now he profits from caging kids. Sick.

[RKP5637]

5. Given the chance he would probably turn them into Soylent Green for profit! n/t