Trump Tweets Warning To Waters After She Urged Protests Against His Staffers

WASHINGTON, DC - July 12:  Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) looks on as Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Committee about the State of the economy on July 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. Yellen said the Federal Reserve expects to begin shrinking its $4.5 trillion bond stimulus later this year. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) looks on as Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Committee about the State of the economy on July 12, 2017 ... WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) looks on as Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Committee about the State of the economy on July 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. Yellen said the Federal Reserve expects to begin shrinking its $4.5 trillion bond stimulus later this year. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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After Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called for continued protests against Trump administration staffers in public spaces, President Donald Trump unloaded a threatening tweet Monday, warning her to “be careful what you wish for.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in fact did not join Waters’ call for public demonstration, but tweeted a plea for civility in response to Waters’ comments.

Waters made her comments at a “Keep Family Togethers” rally in Los Angeles on Saturday.

“For these members of his Cabinet who remain and try to defend him they’re not going to be able to go to a restaurant, they’re not going to be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store, the people are going to turn on them, they’re going to protest, they’re going to absolutely harass them until they decide that they’re going to tell the President ‘no I can’t hang with you, this is wrong this is unconscionable and we can’t keep doing this to children,’” she said then.

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  1. I’m with Max, appeasement never works! You let that slide yesterday, today you get this – that is how it works. Yesterday they try to systematically undermine that group of people, today it’s this group, tomorrow another. Yesterday it was grabbing women by their pussies, today it’s grabbing their children, tomorrow ?.

  2. I stand with Maxine. Don’t give them a moment’s peace. Call them out for their abhorrent behavior. Shame them relentlessly. Make them suffer the way America is suffering at their hands.

  3. Why is Rep. Pelosi trying to curb Democratic turn out in November? I am completely baffled. Stunned even.

  4. Avatar for henk henk says:

    One thing he has right, its really difficult to out nasty a Donald supporter.

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