MSNBC host Joe Scarborough ended his Monday show with an entreaty to Sens. Ben Sasse (R-NE) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) to condemn President Donald Trump’s comments about a group of Democratic congresswomen of color.
“I’m going to be looking today at Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, other Republicans who in the past who have had the courage to speak out,” he said. “These are not the words of an American President we heard over the weekend. These are the words of David Duke, Klans members and white nationalists, neo-Nazis. They know it. They know it. They need to condemn it today.”
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Trump this weekend tweeted that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” provoking widespread accusations of racism. He has since doubled down.
Yes, Sasse and Romney please do send us your thoughts and prayers.
The cancer in America exploded yesterday:
"Washington (CNN)The most shocking thing about Donald Trump’s racist tweets is that possibly the most fundamentally un-American outburst of modern presidential rhetoric did not come remotely as a surprise.
The second most shocking aspect of an episode that would have rocked any other administration is that the President knows he can trade in such base tactics because he will pay no price in a Republican Party cowed by his fervent political base."
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This is far worse than the days past of segregation, lynchings and murder because this is killing our government and that means the fabric of the country.
I’ll await the sounds of crickets from the gop.
Don’t hold your breath Joe. You will die first.
There IS no “Republican Party” anymore. It’s gone the way of the DoDo Bird.
It is now just the “TRUMP PARTY” 100%.
It is the party of Racist, Misogynistic, Fascists.
Deal with it.
“Those who always look backwards can only stumble blindly into the Future”.
Yep, we’ll be waiting for hell to freeze over, although maybe calling specific people out might work. But, how lame is that? No words for the disgusting Rethugs.