Discussion: Report: Trump Told Advisers 'My People Love' The Family Separation Policy

system1 · June 23, 2018, 5:55pm

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blandsten · June 23, 2018, 5:59pm

Stop the presses. Trump said something believable.

j.dave · June 23, 2018, 6:00pm

"Your people?"

As in … government of your people, by your people and for your people?

Not happening. Now or ever.

Power to the people!

faeyin · June 23, 2018, 6:04pm

We don’t love it. He’s saying we’re not his people, y’all! falls over in a faint

socalista · June 23, 2018, 6:05pm

I think the way to read it is as a definitional tautology:

My people are the people who love separating families at the border.

dorado · June 23, 2018, 6:07pm

my people = basket of deplorables

danny · June 23, 2018, 6:07pm

Is he leading his people to the Promised Land? Or is he conning them too? I suspect the latter.

smiley · June 23, 2018, 6:11pm

I’m not buying it. trump cares exactly as much about “his people” as he does about Baron – NOT AT ALL. When he said that, trump meant “I love the family separation policy.” Nobody else matters.

juliagrey · June 23, 2018, 6:15pm

Maybe “his people” who love this are only Stephen Miller, Bannon, and other White House sycophants.

pike_bishop · June 23, 2018, 6:16pm

That’s because 97% of your people are ill-informed, paranoid crackers, Comrade Dennison.

bankerpup · June 23, 2018, 6:16pm

So, the decision to torture children was a political one.

Did Putin suggest it or did you come up with it yourself?

mymy · June 23, 2018, 6:20pm

“His people” is down to a handful: Gallup showed that a full 75% of all Americans welcome immigration and think it is good for the country. 25% is not enough people for whose narrow minds and hard hearts we should be running the country.

caltg · June 23, 2018, 6:21pm

Herr Trump, your people are un-American shitheads!

dorado · June 23, 2018, 6:21pm

my people

coimmigrant · June 23, 2018, 6:21pm

an assistant U.S. attorney in San Diego warned that focusing prosecutors’ energy on parents apprehended with children would divert resources away from pursuing more serious crimes

In Trumpistan that is a distinction without a difference.

just_observing · June 23, 2018, 6:22pm

He loves their adulation…could care less about the deplorables themselves.

jonney_5 · June 23, 2018, 6:26pm

…we’re gonna need a bigger basket.

smiley · June 23, 2018, 6:27pm

He loves their adulation…could care less about the deplorables themselves.

That’s the entire secret to trump right there.

sooner · June 23, 2018, 6:28pm

The day before he signed an executive order regarding his administration’s migrant family separation policy, President Donald Trump told advisers “my people love it,” the New York Times reported Friday.

Your people also like strangling puppies and pulling the wings off flies.

jonney_5 · June 23, 2018, 6:28pm

That, and Kompromat.