Trump Questions Point of ‘Screaming’ Protesters: ‘Embarrassing For The Country To Allow’ Them

US President Donald Trump speaks during a fundraiser at the Carmel Country Club August 31, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AF... US President Donald Trump speaks during a fundraiser at the Carmel Country Club August 31, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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In the same vein as candidate Trump’s calls for violence against protesters who interrupted his campaign rallies, President Donald Trump on Tuesday questioned why dissenters are allowed to “just keep screaming.”

During an interview with The Daily Caller in the Oval Office, Trump told the conservative news site that he was “amazed” by what took place during the confirmation hearing for his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday, when 70 people were arrested by Capitol Police for demonstrating.

“I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that,” he told the Caller. “I think it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protestors. You don’t even know what side the protestors are on. … To allow somebody to stand up and scream from the top of their lungs — and nobody does anything about it — is, frankly … I think it is an embarrassment.”

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  1. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    DT: Only Me! Only I should be able to scream/rave/tweet rampage and whine about any and all things, and thus be the (only!) official Embarrassment for this country.

  2. To allow somebody to stand up and scream from the top of their lungs — and nobody does anything about it — is, frankly … I think it is an embarrassment.

    In some situations, yes, I suppose so.
    
    
    
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  3. Trump is the only person in America who has to look upward with a telescope in order to see the bottom of the barrel.

  4. If you think the protesters were screaming at the top of their lungs before, Dotard, wait until after they read your Tweet saying the right to free speech should be eliminated.

  5. Avatar for docd docd says:

    “I think it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protestors.

    Question one: What, pray tell, is a “protestor”?
    Question two: What is with his obsession with what is “allowed”?
    Question three: Has he ever…oh never mind, of course he either hasn’t read the constitution or doesn’t think it applies to him.

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