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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 06:29 PM Jul 2017

Donald Trump would be immediately fired for his crude tweets if he was anyone else, experts say

Barbara Ortutay
The Independent
June 30, 2017

If President Donald Trump were anyone else, he’d be fired, or at least reprimanded, for his latest tweets attacking a female TV host, social media and workplace experts say.

And if he were to look for a job, the experts say, these and past tweets would raise red flags for companies doing social media background checks, an increasingly common practice as tweets and Facebook posts become a daily, sometimes hourly part of our lives.

Of course, Trump is anything but typical.

Still, experts say it’s a mistake to think that because the president is getting away with calling a man “Psycho Joe” and saying a woman was “bleeding badly from a face-lift” and had “low I.Q.,” regular people would get away with it, too.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-immediately-fired-crude-065128368.html

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Donald Trump would be immediately fired for his crude tweets if he was anyone else, experts say (Original Post) inanna Jul 2017 OP
And yet rock Jul 2017 #1
As a teacher, I tell my students neeksgeek Jul 2017 #2

rock

(13,218 posts)
1. And yet
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 06:42 PM
Jul 2017

It is the behavior of our leaders that set the standards for a lot of the rest of us. If trump sh*ts on the table after eating and wipes his ass on The Constitution, then so do his followers.

neeksgeek

(1,214 posts)
2. As a teacher, I tell my students
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 08:33 PM
Jul 2017

That they can learn something from anybody. In Trump's case, it's how not to act.

That should be the message here:

Don't be like this guy!

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