Far-Right Web Personalities Claim WH Invited Them To ‘Social Media Summit’ | Talking Points Memo

A bevy of far-right internet personalities has claimed in recent days to have received invitations to the White House’s “Social Media Summit” on Thursday, further diminishing the line between the mainstream Republican Party and fringe figures that cater to its farthest edges.


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ANOTHER far right whackos rally at taxpayer expense. Oh joy.

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Jacob Wohl’s invitation must have been lost in the subpoena.

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Declining to confirm an actual invite list, White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in an email, “This event will bring together digital leaders for a robust conversation on the opportunities and challenges of today’s online environment.”

Oh look it’s the new and improved Trump University with their initial offering on how to do self promotion (otherwise know as a bitch and moan session).

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A rendering of the actual event.

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Clearly something the Trump campaign should be sponsoring. A partisan event should not be paid for by the public, but grifters got to grift.

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Are these the professors or the administration?

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Students , they received a limited one time offer. The course will only cost $5K and if you want a picture with Chancellor Trump it’s only going for $7K, lunch included of course.

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Ugh. I’m sickened by those cartoons. They look like the onion’s parody of political cartoons, where the cartoonist is too much of a self-absorbed F#ckstick to realize that he’s making a total ass of himself.

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. . . and it is also reliably reported that Julius Streicher, editor-in-chief of the somewhat controversial Der Stürmer, will attend.

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These empty grifters don’t have the cash. If they did they’d be doing something else.

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It appears that the number of conventional foot soldier in Trump’s Army may be diminishing - so it is imperative that more flying monkeys be recruited.

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That’s why God invented credit cards.

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Lincoln wept.

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Carnival Barkers all ….

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Wanna know how low trump will go??
you have to look under the whale shit at the bottom of the ocean.
somewhere around where osama bin laden resides.

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further blurring the line between the mainstream Republican Party and fringe figures that cater to its farthest edges reality, civility, and the common good.

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Only the best.

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No Cambridge Analytica reps? What about Internet Research Agency – I know it takes a bit to get from St. Petersburg, Russia.

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A bevy of far-right internet personalities has claimed in recent days to have received invitations to the White House’s “Social Media Summit Plummet”…

FIFY!

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