Trump Abandons All Pretense Of Disowning Chant, Calls Crowd ‘Patriotic’

US President Donald Trump speaks at a "Make America Great Again" rally at Minges Coliseum in Greenville, North Carolina, on July 17, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM... US President Donald Trump speaks at a "Make America Great Again" rally at Minges Coliseum in Greenville, North Carolina, on July 17, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump dribbled his weakest yet denunciation of the crowd’s “send her back” chants over his Saturday morning tweet — that he was not “particularly happy” with the cries — before fully embracing the chanters as “patriotic” people who “love the USA!”

Trump paused for a full 13 seconds to let the crowd chant before continuing with his speech at the rally. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), about whom the crowd was chanting, is an American citizen who came to the U.S. from Somalia as a pre-teen.

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  1. Support Trump = Patriotic

    Criticize or oppose Trump = Un-American

    Simple. Join the cult or go back where you came from.

  2. Saw that coming a mile away…

  3. Doesn’t know when to stop digging himself into a deeper hole, does he?

  4. …a proud part of the GOP playbook for decades.

  5. It was bad but it was good, and above all it was very, very big.

    It seems like there was a time when dotard preferred to contradict himself between paragraphs, not within a sentence.

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