Trump Vows To Veto Defense Bill If It Includes Provision To Remove Confederate Names From Military Bases | Talking Points Memo

President Trump vowed late Tuesday that he would veto this year’s proposed $740 billion annual defense bill if an amendment is included that would require the renaming of bases named after Confederate military leaders.


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Please proceed, motherf**ker.

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Trump is tweeting (and retweeting) ferociously this morning.

The president is deranged.


The Russia bounty story is now a hoax!

The Russia Bounty story is just another made up by Fake News tale that is told only to damage me and the Republican Party. The secret source probably does not even exist, just like the story itself. If the discredited @nytimes has a source, reveal it. Just another HOAX!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020

Here’s a response to the above tweet, for those who are keeping track…

- I wasn't briefed.
- I didn't read the brief.
- It was a hoax. [YOU ARE HERE]
- It was Obama.
- Save the Statues!

— JeremyNewberger (@jeremynewberger) July 1, 2020
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Beat me to it.

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Nice to know he has his priorities,twisted as they may be.

YOU’RE FIRED, IMPOTUS!

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Frederick Douglass told him that was a fine idea.

He’s one a my blacks.

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Oh, yeah, that’s a good move. :smirk:

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So, this is the hill he dies on, preserving racism and treason?

Bullshit.

His advisors needed three hours to convince him to delete the white power tweet, then only one more hour to concoct the “he was out golfing” story. It was, no doubt, three long hours. But he caved.

He will be talked down from the roof on this one, too.

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IMPeetus Trump = Defending the inanimate objects/dead people while doing nothing for the living!

IMPeetus Trump = Name calling again…
Does he know that he has the BESTEST moniker?
Trump is a TREASONOUS TRAITOROUS THUG who is also Putin’s Orange Poodle aka POP!

The only statue that needs to be kept as a reminder of Trump’s misogyny:

Trump-Matilda2

Addendum:
Dear Congress,
Trump pants after money like Putin’s Orange Poodle that he is…
Take Walter Shaub’s advice!

Trump%3DPocahontas

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Vetoing the defense bill; another great move to win the hearts and minds of the military voter.

Is it November yet?

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Even Mourning Joe got it right

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Just.Do.It.
Nike

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Keep digging that hole, Donald.

538’s composite approval/disapproval is now -15.9

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Republican enablers, you totally own this damned mess!

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To avoid a veto from Skanky Turdface, one of the bases should be named Iwanka Daddywife Grabb’em Golden Showers Fourth Base.

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Nate Silver’s 538 has Trump at 40 % approve 56 % disapprove. The Confederate memorial issue is unpopular with over 65% of the American people and 67 % just voiced approval for removing them. Put all that together and you have to wonder why Parscale handed Trump a shovel to get out of a hole.

Trump can’t win by packing down his base. There are are not enough of those folks to hand him a victory. I hope he continues his odd Russian Roulette with 5 bullets in the revolver.

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Go ahead and do it

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So many homeless pigeons, too!
Wait! Statues to Trump would give them something to shit on!

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The most informed person on the planet may have miscalculated here.

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