Lara Trump Says the Average American Had to Google 'Who Are the Kurds' Before Getting Outraged

[demmiblue]

Senior 2020 campaign adviser Lara Trump said average Americans had to "Google" who the Kurds of northern Syria even are before they could be outraged about President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from the region.

Trump, who is married to the president's younger son, Eric Trump, defended her father-in-law's decision to withdraw U.S. troops near the Turkish border in a move many have described as an abandonment of Kurdish allies. More than 440 Kurdish fighters have been killed since the pullout last week, but Lara Trump said such losses should be put in context because regular Americans would have no idea who the Kurds or why the U.S. has been involved in the northern Syrian region since 2015. (Relevant video portion begins at 3:00 mark).

Speaking with Trump Monday, Fox News at Night host Shannon Bream asked the president's daughter-in-law to react to a New York Times story, "Trump Followed His Gut on Syria, Calamity Came Fast," which went on to describe how the decision to abandon the Kurds lended an "unanticipated victory to four American adversaries: Russia, Rian, the Syrian government and the Islamic State."

"Well, Shannon, I think we should start with the fact that if you ask the average American out there, I think they would have to Google 'Who are the Kurds, and why is America even over there fighting this war?'" Trump responded.

https://www.newsweek.com/lara-trump-who-are-kurds-average-americans-google-kurdish-forces-endless-wars-fox-news-1465462?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&__twitter_impression=true

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Sure that true for conservatives who think ignorance is a virtue.

[Brother Buzz]

17. Not necessarily. Back when Lara Trump was a nobody, there was Sal Russo, the King of Astroturf

Sal Russo, a veteran Republican consultant in Sacramento, California, spoon feed the Kurds to America back in 2005.

The Other Iraq was an advertising campaign created to promote commerce in the Kurdish region of Iraq. It was run by the Kurdistan Development Corporation to promote investment and trade. Sal Russo made some serious jingle pitching Kurdistan to republicans.

https://original.antiwar.com/aaron-glantz/2006/08/01/kurdish-thank-you-a-republican-stunt/

That being said, it's a scientific fact that conservatives have a collective memory of about three months. So there's that.

[gratuitous]

2. Because when people are abandoned to be slaughtered

It's just like some people to get all high and mighty on their virtue-signaling high horse against wholesale massacres.

[unblock]

3. so i guess low ratings makes genocide ok.

[dchill]

4. More projection.

[Hav]

5. She has shown her ignorance

No idea why she went on TV with no knowledge of the matter. Also, I'm not sure what her argument really is. At first, I thought it's a variant of "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there...".

[CentralMass]

6. No we didn't and this isn't the first. time that we have abandoned them either

Didn

[Vinca]

7. Apparently she hasn't read about the outrage amongst the evangelical base.

Genital grabbing okay, porn stars okay, kids in cages okay, denying healthcare okay, grifting okay, buying elections okay, but swearing and endangering Christians bad.

[MFGsunny]

8. Colbert speaks eloquently for me on this one! n/t

[NYC Liberal]

9. So people did research before forming an opinion? And that's bad, why?

Oh, I know: because Trump wouldn't have won if more people had bothered to do so.

[bdamomma]

10. They are

all mentally unwell, even if she is an in law.

[BlueMTexpat]

11. The one thing that everyone

in the Trump Criminal Family excels at is projection.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. That Colbert gif is the thread winner!

[Hekate]

13. Lara Trump can tke a flying leap

[Journeyman]

14. The pertinent point, however, is the President DOES KNOW who the Kurds are . . .

and yet, knowing this, he stabbed our ally in the back and consigned them to genocide.

What the average citizen knows or doesn't know, and what they must be educated upon, is irrelevant in the day-to-day operations of a representative democracy.

[BlueTsunami2018]

15. In fairness, she's probably right about that.

The average American doesn’t know shit from shinola when it comes to world events. Those of us who are politically engaged know about them of course but average Joe? Not so much.

[CousinIT]

16. So she thinks everyone is as ignorant as SHE is?

NO.

[Takket]

18. so what if they did?

what does that matter?

[Midnightwalk]

19. Problem is trump had to google the Kurds and didn't care

That’s the problem with electing a moron narcissist

[Mike Nelson]

20. That statement...

...reveals much more about Laura Trump than the average American.

[spanone]

21. Who says What?

trump kids can kiss my ass.

[eissa]

22. So as long as you're ignorant about a people

you shouldn't be outraged by their slaughter?

[struggle4progress]

23. "I just adored Malaria's fabulous nobody-cares coat!"

[Leith]

24. So what?

Let them google and find out. It will do no harm (and a lot of good) to do so.

[Hamlette]

25. which is why "Average Americans" should not be in positions of power

sheesh

[catrose]

26. No, Lara, we didn't

[elias7]

27. Which is why many don't really get what America is about

Our foreign policy seeks, not always successfully, to spread goodwill and a humanitarian philosophy around the world. If the world cannot trust us to be consistent and humane, but rather cheat, lie and steal like many we would hope would emulate our ideal, then we’ve squandered a noble position.

It’s fine if you have to google the Kurds. It’s not fine not to care what we’ve done, however.

[NCLefty]

28. Hang on, I have to Google "Who is Lara Trump?"

You know you didn't have to Google who the Kurds were?: Our troops who were working with them as our ally.

[dalton99a]

29. Yeah, the one who married the dipshit son

so she could change her name to TRUMP

[lame54]

30. Most people would have to look up Cleveland Steamer...

If Trump did it to the Constitution

That doesn't make it right

[robbob]

33. Is THAT what he was doing to the flag?

Yeesh!

[RobinA]

31. Geesh, These People

are totally about appearances. Lara, apparently believing that if the average American doesn’t know about it, it doesn’t matter if it happened. Really, a disgusting comment.

[UniteFightBack]

32. So the wooden headed trumpet concedes that people DID GET outraged. She is nothing but a stupid

trump sperm receptacle.