Trump Continues To Berate Press Amid ‘Animals’ Comment Backlash

on May 1, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump is responding to continued criticism of his “animals” comment by scolding the press for taking his comment out of context.


On Wednesday, Trump himself did not specify that he was only talking about only gang members when he made the comment during a roundtable about sanctuary cities, saying “these aren’t people, these are animals, and we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before.”

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  1. The “animal” in the White House is, as usual, wrong.

  2. This is the full context of what he said:
    Sheriff: I want to be able to report suspected MS13 members to ICE without probable cause
    Trump: Yes! The people coming into this country are animals!

    The thing is, Trump doesn’t draw a distinction between immigrants who are MS13 and immigrants who aren’t. This is the “they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crimes, they’re rapists” guy.

  3. Ummmmm…who exactly was “begrudgingly forced to withdraw their stories”???

    'Cause I sure haven’t seen any “withdrawals”…

  4. Taking another early morning ragedump from the golden throne, I see. Somebody tell the White House kitchen to stir some metamucil into his mashed potatoes.

  5. previously on ‘The Donald Trump Show’

    “My administration is coordinating closely between federal and local officials to investigate the attack and to further investigate this animal who did this attacking.”

    Trump then said the attacker should be held as an enemy combatant and sent to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    also DJT

    “I guess a lot of people think they understand what happened, but he was a demented, sick individual, The wires were crossed pretty badly in his brain. Extremely badly in his brain. And it’s a very sad event.”

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