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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLara Trump Says the Average American Had to Google 'Who Are the Kurds' Before Getting Outraged
Trump, who is married to the president's younger son, Eric Trump, defended her father-in-law's decision to withdraw U.S. troops near the Turkish border in a move many have described as an abandonment of Kurdish allies. More than 440 Kurdish fighters have been killed since the pullout last week, but Lara Trump said such losses should be put in context because regular Americans would have no idea who the Kurds or why the U.S. has been involved in the northern Syrian region since 2015. (Relevant video portion begins at 3:00 mark).
Speaking with Trump Monday, Fox News at Night host Shannon Bream asked the president's daughter-in-law to react to a New York Times story, "Trump Followed His Gut on Syria, Calamity Came Fast," which went on to describe how the decision to abandon the Kurds lended an "unanticipated victory to four American adversaries: Russia, Rian, the Syrian government and the Islamic State."
"Well, Shannon, I think we should start with the fact that if you ask the average American out there, I think they would have to Google 'Who are the Kurds, and why is America even over there fighting this war?'" Trump responded.
https://www.newsweek.com/lara-trump-who-are-kurds-average-americans-google-kurdish-forces-endless-wars-fox-news-1465462?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&__twitter_impression=true
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)Sal Russo, a veteran Republican consultant in Sacramento, California, spoon feed the Kurds to America back in 2005.
The Other Iraq was an advertising campaign created to promote commerce in the Kurdish region of Iraq. It was run by the Kurdistan Development Corporation to promote investment and trade. Sal Russo made some serious jingle pitching Kurdistan to republicans.
https://original.antiwar.com/aaron-glantz/2006/08/01/kurdish-thank-you-a-republican-stunt/
That being said, it's a scientific fact that conservatives have a collective memory of about three months. So there's that.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's just like some people to get all high and mighty on their virtue-signaling high horse against wholesale massacres.
unblock
(52,374 posts)dchill
(38,558 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)No idea why she went on TV with no knowledge of the matter. Also, I'm not sure what her argument really is. At first, I thought it's a variant of "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there...".
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Didn
Vinca
(50,318 posts)Genital grabbing okay, porn stars okay, kids in cages okay, denying healthcare okay, grifting okay, buying elections okay, but swearing and endangering Christians bad.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,137 posts)Oh, I know: because Trump wouldn't have won if more people had bothered to do so.
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)all mentally unwell, even if she is an in law.
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)in the Trump Criminal Family excels at is projection.
BumRushDaShow
(129,651 posts)Hekate
(90,858 posts)Journeyman
(15,042 posts)and yet, knowing this, he stabbed our ally in the back and consigned them to genocide.
What the average citizen knows or doesn't know, and what they must be educated upon, is irrelevant in the day-to-day operations of a representative democracy.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,505 posts)The average American doesnt know shit from shinola when it comes to world events. Those of us who are politically engaged know about them of course but average Joe? Not so much.
CousinIT
(9,263 posts)NO.
Takket
(21,640 posts)what does that matter?
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Thats the problem with electing a moron narcissist
Mike Nelson
(9,973 posts)...reveals much more about Laura Trump than the average American.
spanone
(135,898 posts)trump kids can kiss my ass.
eissa
(4,238 posts)you shouldn't be outraged by their slaughter?
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)Let them google and find out. It will do no harm (and a lot of good) to do so.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)sheesh
catrose
(5,075 posts)elias7
(4,029 posts)Our foreign policy seeks, not always successfully, to spread goodwill and a humanitarian philosophy around the world. If the world cannot trust us to be consistent and humane, but rather cheat, lie and steal like many we would hope would emulate our ideal, then weve squandered a noble position.
Its fine if you have to google the Kurds. Its not fine not to care what weve done, however.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)You know you didn't have to Google who the Kurds were?: Our troops who were working with them as our ally.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)so she could change her name to TRUMP
lame54
(35,328 posts)If Trump did it to the Constitution
That doesn't make it right
robbob
(3,538 posts)Yeesh!
RobinA
(9,898 posts)are totally about appearances. Lara, apparently believing that if the average American doesnt know about it, it doesnt matter if it happened. Really, a disgusting comment.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)trump sperm receptacle.