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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps 100th-day speech may have been the most hate-filled in modern history
Trumps 100th-day speech may have been the most hate-filled in modern historyBy Michael Gerson Opinion writer May 1 at 7:39 PM
For those who claim that Donald Trump has been pasteurized and homogenized by the presidency, his sour, 100th-day speech in Harrisburg, Pa., was inconvenient.
Trump used his high office to pursue divisive grudges (Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is a bad leader), to attack the media (composed of incompetent, dishonest people) and to savage congressional Democrats (they dont mind drugs pouring in). Most of all, Trump used his bully pulpit quite literally, devoting about half his speech to the dehumanization of migrants and refugees as criminals, infiltrators and terrorists.
Trump gained a kind of perverse energy from the rolling waves of hatred, culminating in the reading of racist song lyrics comparing his targets to vermin. It was a speech with all the logic, elevation and public purpose of a stink bomb.
It is not sophisticated or worldly-wise to become inured to bigotry. The only thing more frightening than Trumps speech arguably the most hate-filled presidential communication in modern history is the apathetic response of those who should know better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-100th-day-speech-may-have-been-the-most-hate-filled-in-modern-history/2017/05/01/da4ad496-2e99-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.24c3d0d8b521
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Trumps 100th-day speech may have been the most hate-filled in modern history (Original Post)
workinclasszero
May 2017
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yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)1. Carl Bernstein called it...
"the most venomous speech" he has ever heard in 50 years of reporting on presidents.
He also said don't just follow the money - "follow the lies."
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. The ignorant POS that perches in the oval office
in between rounds of 3 million dollar tax payer funded golf games, is a menace to freedom, democracy and plain human decency.
Initech
(100,043 posts)3. These assholes just thrive on hatred, don't they?
Oh and fuck you, Trump.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,429 posts)4. Well?.... They're FASCISTS! What do you expect?