Discussion: Trump, Pence Honor MLK Day With Two-Minute Visit To Memorial

plebeian · January 21, 2019, 4:28pm

If only Townes Van Zant was still around. Pancho and Lefty meets Q-Tip and Creamsicle.

pmaroneyb · January 21, 2019, 4:37pm

Sounds like a Young adult novel: The Creamsicle and His Q-Tip

mrf · January 21, 2019, 4:38pm

Trump’s visit to the Dr. King memorial was as short as his review of the apartment applications from Black applicants. The only difference is he didn’t mark a letter C on it.

lestat · January 21, 2019, 4:47pm

That’s exactly two minutes more than either of them has ever spent recognizing Dr. King in their entire lives. Combined.

bodie1 · January 21, 2019, 4:51pm

Oh dear. And the trash takers are furloughed.

bodie1 · January 21, 2019, 4:52pm

Don’t think it’s that long.

the_loan_arranger · January 21, 2019, 4:56pm

Well, we’re lucky it wasn’t raining or we wouldn’t have gotten that much.

dommyluc · January 21, 2019, 4:56pm

The best tribute these two KKK wanna-bes could have given to MLK would have been to stay away and not soil his monument with their presence.

And Trump is probably mucho pissed that there isn’t a monument to Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis in DC that he could have visited.

dommyluc · January 21, 2019, 4:59pm

Didn’t Seth McFarlane once say that Donald Trump is the only man in the world who screams his own name during orgasm?

caltg · January 21, 2019, 5:01pm

Obviously they felt compelled to make a “token” visit.

the_loan_arranger · January 21, 2019, 5:01pm

Doubtless someone on staff told him that was the least he could do. And he decided that was the most he was going to do.

occamscoin · January 21, 2019, 5:02pm

Trump, Pence Honor MLK Day With Two-Minute Visit To Memorial

Still lasted 90 seconds longer than his usual hookup.

manhattan123 · January 21, 2019, 5:03pm

According to Stormy, it’s like a button mushroom. Oh, you mean time-wise. Who knows.

outis · January 21, 2019, 5:04pm

Trump was just lucky that it wasn’t raining. We know how that affects him, especially for things he doesn’t want to do anyway.

srfromgr · January 21, 2019, 5:05pm

Honors MLK? It’d be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.

bodie1 · January 21, 2019, 5:08pm

One kind of prefigures the other.

zenicetus · January 21, 2019, 5:13pm

I don’t think his racism makes any nod to history, or that he even knows much about it. It’s just an instinct. And the only monument he cares about are the ones to himself. I’ll bet he has surveyors hired to go out tonight, and measure the height of that MLK statue. He will now insist on a Wall that’s at least one foot taller.

emiliano4 · January 21, 2019, 5:14pm

The fact that he felt he had to make the visit at all means he is still tangentially connected to some sort of reality.

zenicetus · January 21, 2019, 5:23pm

I dunno… the visit could also be just what it looks like: An intentional show of the least possible amount of respect for the day, indicating to his rabid white base that he doesn’t give a shit about MLK. It’s harder to dog whistle from the Oval Office.

dickweed · January 21, 2019, 5:23pm

One minute each?