Trump blasts critics over outdated Obama-era photo of detained immigrant kids

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 05/29/2018 07:09 AM EDT

President Donald Trump on Tuesday taunted online activists who shared photos of children at immigration detention facilities as a means of criticizing his administration, noting that the photos had been taken during the tenure of his predecessor, Barack Obama.

“Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages. They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires,” Trump wrote online. “Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country...Bipartisan Bill!”

The photograph in question began to circulate online over the weekend, shared by Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau and activists Shaun King and Linda Sarsour, among others. It shows two children lying on green mats on a concrete floor behind a chain-link fence. The photo was taken by The Associated Press and was published by The Arizona Republic in 2014 as part of a photo gallery. Favreau later deleted his tweet.

Opponents of Trump have been especially critical in recent weeks of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy announced earlier this month that separates parents and children who enter the U.S. illegally. Trump has accused Democrats of installing the policy, but it was, in fact, rolled out by Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a consequence of a broader policy to refer “100 percent of illegal southwest border crossings” to the Justice Department for prosecution.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/29/trump-border-immigrant-children-cages-photo-610039

[relogic]

1. Hit a nerve?

So, so, so, sorry Mr. Orange President player we didn’t intend on hurting your feelings. However, it’s just too obvious you’ll never understand irony and the importance of thinking people to expose your utter cruelty and hypocricy. Are you listening Ivanka and Jared?

[cyclonefence]

2. So here's another Obama policy you can reverse with an executive order

What are you waiting for, asshole? He doesn't understand that people who support Obama don't approve of everything with his name on it. These policies re: immigrant children are horrifying, and had they come to light while Obama was president, there would have been hell to pay from democrats.

It is fully within Trump's power to stop these abuses, but he'd rather try to score political points.

[Iliyah]

3. Majority of the people who don't like t-rump don't care

and solely care about the children. I will be at the protest on June 14.

This reminds me of the childhood story of the "Boy who cried wolf".

[Thomas Hurt]

4. the media handed that distraction and diversion to trump on a silver platter...