Trump suggests protesting should be illegal

[highplainsdem]

Source: WaPo

President Trump has long derided the mainstream media as the “enemy of the people” and lashed out at NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem. On Tuesday, he took his attacks on free speech one step further, suggesting in an interview with a conservative news site that the act of protesting should be illegal.

Trump made the remarks in an Oval Office interview with the Daily Caller hours after his Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh, was greeted by protests on the first day of his confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill.

“I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that,” Trump said. “I think it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protesters. You don’t even know what side the protesters are on.”

He added: “In the old days, we used to throw them out. Today, I guess they just keep screaming.”

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-suggests-protesting-should-be-illegal/2018/09/04/11cfd9be-b0a0-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html

[LudwigPastorius]

1. That's the First Amendment, that YOU took an oath to defend, you Pumpkin-colored Punk.

[workinclasszero]

58. Grounds for impeachment right there!!!!!!

[machoneman]

2. The old fool just can't shut up!

Good for us, bad for him!

[weissmam]

3. there are there reasons to be a GOP

racist

stupid

stupid racist

[Scurrilous]

4. ...

[Moostache]

5. If he dares...I will be jailed immediately...who's with me? (n/t)

[BigmanPigman]

13. ME!

If I lived near DC I would have been arrsted several times by now.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

16. Right here. I got your back.

This interview and this quote, SPECIFICALLY, should scare the living shit out of everyone.

THIS IS WHERE WE ARE HEADED, AMERICA. WAKE UP.


VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

[niyad]

54. ME--I am not in the DC area, but FU, you deranged demagogue. BRING IT!!

[msongs]

6. once kavanaugh is seated trump can introduce the enabling act. game over nt

[CCExile]

14. I keep hearing this...

"game over". NONSENSE! That's game ON for SURE!

[7962]

37. I know. Congress makes the laws, not the SCOTUS.

And little of trumps blathering would ever be made law by even the Congress we have NOW

[Freethinker65]

7. Those old pre-constitution days??? WTF is he talking about?

For a blathering idiot that binge watches television he must have seen protests before. Hell, he even is on record of witnessing protests that never happened.

[brush]

11. One protest in pre-Constitution days helped birth the nation.

The Boston Tea Party. Guess trump wasn't paying attention in 4th grade history.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. "You don't even know what side....."

Speaks volumes about the divided state of our Nation today...... .......

[shadowmayor]

9. Huge, tremendous, the best

What his base just heard him say was - black people protesting should be illegal.

[7962]

38. Almost all of those removed yesterday were white.

Yes, he starts out talking about the NFL, but the he gets to the "why is it legal" part he's on about the protestors at the hearing yesterday

[bdamomma]

59. Or did he

Mean all protestors

[shanny]

10. Everybody laugh. Loudly.

I bet it shuts him and his pathetic base right up. After all they like to make libtards cry. So don't.

[sakabatou]

12. OFFS...

[dalton99a]

15. GOP protesters are welcome

[Haggis for Breakfast]

17. Will the protests by these Nazi bastards be prohibited too ?

Oh, what am I thinking ? They are very fine people.

[dalton99a]

19. +1. His very fine people.

[C_U_L8R]

18. Just try it, Trump

you'll see the most enthusiastic protests ever

[mountain grammy]

20. Embarrassing? Ha, that's a joke

The only thing embarrassing around here is you, donnie, you fucking moron.

[C Moon]

29. +1000

[Power 2 the People]

21. Just another reason to hate his guts.

[KWR65]

22. But Mommy the Press and the Protesters are saying mean things about me!

[7962]

39. imagine if his folks were alive. nt

[niyad]

56. remember his mother asking, "what kind of son did I raise?"

[7962]

57. I forgot about that!!!

[C Moon]

23. It sounds to me like the Nike ad pissed him off.

[The Liberal Lion]

24. I'm just saying, he's lucky that protesting is the method of choice for many who resist

[meadowlander]

25. Running out of outrage bait?

I would have thought Space Force was good for a few more news cycles...

[ToTheStreets]

26. Let's throw Chump out

Tar and feather.

[FiveGoodMen]

50. "Tar and feather"?

That's going too far.

Dunk him in the hot tar and call it a day.

No need for feathers.

[olddad56]

27. Protesting is illegal .... in Russia

Donny just wants to be like Vlad.

[7962]

40. Exactly. Thats why he's so fond of Putin; he wishes he could rule like him.

[RainCaster]

28. Shit For Brains

I believe this is the 25th amendment? The one where we can get rid of a douche-in-chief whose brain has spent too much time composting?

[rusty quoin]

30. The tea party was good to them. The left protesting is treason to them.

I often wonder how many counter thoughts can be held in a right wing brain until it dissolves into mush.

I don’t know how they do it. It’s like they left logic behind and just react to what they see on Fox. I’m just kidding. That is exactly how they do it, and I include Trump.

[truthisfreedom]

31. The Anti-American party. The Trump Party.

The new GOP. Anti-Constitution, anti-American, all the way.
Any repuke that doesn’t attack this madman for his wacko positions is a member of the Trump Party.

[yuiyoshida]

32. Sounds like a wanna be dictator to me...

[area51]

33. If Faux "news" was around in the '60s...

[SergeStorms]

34. I protest!

Fuck off, Donald. Few people give a damn about what you say anymore. You can't keep any thought that pops into your head to yourself. You're under the mistaken belief that everyone is hanging on your every word. Nope! Dead wrong, Donald. Even your lawyers and advisors wish you'd shut your stupid mouth. But you won't. You're in love with the sound of your own voice. Anything that does flow forth from your gaping maw are lies or distortions anyway. The truth is as foreign to you as is humility.

So shut up and get the hell out of my way. I'm protesting, dammit!

[bucolic_frolic]

35. When did the United States deport protesters?

[duforsure]

36. Its putin

Pulling his strings now. Same reason he's attacking the press, and free speech, attacking businesses, and accusing other countries of fill in the blank , all putin generated. Cheeto is his puppet, and very desperate to please him probably because he's close to being broke again , and can't lift his oil sanctions for him . Putin has done this same thing in other places he's rigged elections for his puppets, and attacked some with cyber sector attacks hurting energy and more. Is that next here from putin for cheeto?

[Stuart G]

41. Thank You for posting this."... embarrassing for the country to allow protesters "

In my opinion it is a SMOKING GUN. Trump just defined himself again...



I guess this had to do with protesters at the hearing,????

[noneof_theabove]

42. Look at the numbers....

His base has an IQ below room temperature.

His IQ is getting better with a higher number as it approaches Absolute Zero [468 wait that is -468].

My Idiot ex-governor Rick Perry was the same way, Texas Education is doing great...we're #49 [of 50].

[Cold War Spook]

43. I just hope that he doesn't listen to his people to shut up.

At least until the 2018 elections are over. Then if the Republicans keep their majorities in both houses we will know that this country is screwed and if he wins in 2020, he will be the last president we ever have.

[Javaman]

44. so what else is new?

can we all just agree that none of this is shocking and that the orange asshole is just a wanna-be 3rd world dictator?

he's just scrambling and reacting to get a reaction out of us.

the more we tell him to go fuck off and that he's a bore, the better off we will be. because he feeds off this stuff because he knows it will get a reaction out of us.

if there is anything that we can predict about the orange asshole is that he is very predictable.

[DesertRat]

45. This is how dictators get started

Fortunately for us, the president doesn't have the power to override the 1st Amendment.

[Firestorm49]

46. Oath Of Office

Would somebody in the White House please re-read the Oath Of Office to the current president. He appears to have forgotten that silly part about “upholding the Constitution” again.
Boy, some people are really, really, really slow learners.

[malthaussen]

47. Well, I wonder if the bootlicking Congress would support this.

Such a direct defiance of the US Constitution would be an interesting test to see if the GOP have any backbone at all. So far, it doesn't appear so.

-- Mal

[geretogo]

48. Is there any doubt this piece of fascist garbage needs to be locked up ?

[FiveGoodMen]

49. There it is: Channeling Adolf

We SHOULD be sending the military after this guy.

[gopiscrap]

51. trump is a fucking orange shit stain fascist on the ass pimple of humanity

[FiveGoodMen]

52. And so are the 1-in-3 Americans who continue to support him

(well, except for the orange part)

[raccoon]

53. I think it's embarrassing for the POTUS to be a clueless dotard. Nt

[niyad]

55. sit at attention, slaves-- from the interview.

Trump has also prompted cries of “dictator envy” for remarks in which he seemed to emulate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “He speaks, and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same,” Trump told Fox News Channel in an interview after his Singapore summit with the North Korean leader.