The Boy Scouts invite him to speak, and look what he says. Next it’s police chiefs, and my goodness!
I shudder to think what he’d say if a nun’s convention asked him to speak.
I hope (but don’t expect) that more police departments follow suit. Whatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?
It’s Groundhog’s Day around trump, isn’t it? Right this moment some other organization is trying to book trump to give a speech, knowing full well their org. will be apologizing for that speech three days after. Right this very moment some idiot is doing his background check to become the next DHS secretary, knowing full well he’ll be humiliated by trump in the role and will fired in disgrace a few months from now.
As someone who kinda sorta would like to be treated as innocent until proven guilty when dealing with cops, I applaud the push back. Seeing a bunch of uniforms hooting and hollering at the suggestion that they violate the constitution was revolting. But not, unfortunately, surprising.
Any Officer that was shown to be laughing and cheering sadism could open themselves up to major scrutiny if they get into a situation of police brutality.
Was this really worth it to their careers?
A supremely sick individual we have as president requiring a constant stream of pooper shoppers to clean up his messes.
In the past week he has been reprimanded by the U.S. military over trans soldier policy. The Boy Scouts for injecting politics into the jamboree. Now it’s police organizations calling him out for endorsing brutality toward suspects who have not been convicted of a crime.
What uniformed agencies and service organizations are left for him to offend, misstate and lie about statistical data and policy? The Girl Scouts?,The 4H, Future Farmers of America?, Or some EMT’s in Podunk?
As a regulatory official I worked with cops. All of them have heard stories of what it’s like for cops when the population universally believes that the cops are abusive.
It’s unsafe–for the cops. I’m sure that by and large they didn’t appreciate Trump’s input.
Everyone please note that Trump WAS NOT condoning any of this rough behavior for white-collar criminals…like you know who. His commentary is just more fuel for the wildly different types of “justice” we have here.
Trump’s ongoing fascination with violence in general and in the powerful abusing the less powerful in particular is a pretty strong argument for the sadism component of malignant narcissism. That’s in addition to the incident with Ivanka, and the time he knocked his son on the ground for not greeting him with a tie on, and for potential other incidents we don’t know about. Yet.
Police Depts Push Back On Trump
Trump: ‘Police brutality! They’re pushing on me!!’
Street execution before a defense atty can be appointed.
Flipping the script…and it won’t be long before the Mooch is fired for hogging the limelight - P.T. Barnum would have skinned Trump alive and Trump would have been none the wiser.
Fake tough guy wouldn’t last a day in law enforcement or the military, but he knows his base eats this shit up.
Who gets arrested according to his base? Blacks, browns, and immigrants. So it’s ok to assault them. Just another example of Trump’s underlying weakness, both in terms of character and politically.
He doesn’t care about destroying our society if it helps him personally.
Any organization that invites him would be smart to issue a pre-apology…or better yet, not invite him.
At least the nuns wouldn’t applaud and laugh. That’s what’s been so appalling in these two instances.
Haha, what a knee slapper. Brutal extrajudicial assault.
I think he told that one to the Pope. Remember the grimace on his face in that classic photo?
“The @POTUS made remarks today that endorsed and condoned police brutality,” the department wrote in a Friday tweet. “GPD rejects these remarks and continues to serve with respect."
That is a profoundly direct rebuttal. I applaud the department for the intent but also the lack of being gentle. They put themselves in direct opposition to the President.
This president is a stupid thug by proxy.
I don’t think that he understands what the “bully” in “bully pulpit” is supposed to mean.