President Obama Refuses to Tell Anti-Trump Protesters to Stay Silent

[DonViejo]

Republicans have repeatedly called on President Obama to calm protesters demonstrating against Donald Trump, and on Thursday he passed up that opportunity. Speaking in Germany, Obama instead said he would not advise people to be “silent.”

“I’ve been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years,” he said during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “And I suspect that there’s not a president in our history that hasn’t been subject to these protests. So I would not advise people who feel strongly or who are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the campaign, I wouldn’t advise them to be silent.”

The president also offered some advice to Trump. He revealed that he told Trump in the White House last week that successful campaigning is much different from successful governing and then suggested that the president-elect needs to get “serious” about the job he’s two months from taking.

“I think the president-elect is going to see fairly quickly that the demands and responsibilities of a U.S. president are not ones that you can treat casually,” Obama said. “If you’re not serious about the job, then you probably won’t be there very long, because it will expose problems.”

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[sheshe2]

1. Love my President!

[LonePirate]

2. Repubs have a lot of gall to ask Obama to quell protests against the incoming President

After all the shit they said about him and after all of the anger, fear, hatred and protests they fomented against him, they have no place to seek Obama's help in quieting the anti-Trump protesters.

[bmpbmp]

3. Talk on, Mr. President!

Obama: ..."then you probably won’t be there very long, because it will expose problems.”

Trump's gutter-brain probably interpreted that another way.

[uponit7771]

4. Why is this even an issue?!!? Grown working people don't have time for this kinda shit

... and grown working people with kids or dog running the fuckin country shouldn't even be thinking about this shit !!!

[Thinkingabout]

5. The same Republicans who are asking President Obama to quiet the demonstrations

Is the same ones who should be shouting down Trump's racial picks for his cabinet and the same ones who should have shut down Trump's words during the primaries and GE. They produced, directed and voted for Trump.

[MontanaMama]

6. Our President could tell someone to go to hell...

And they'd gladly ask for directions.

Miss him already.

[Equinox Moon]

7. The protests will not only continue...

THEY WILL GROW!

People Power!

[katmondoo]

8. I am getting ready to attend

Just bought a walker with a seat as I have problems standing for a long period of time. I want to be able to be an activist again.

[Equinox Moon]

11. FANTASTIC!!!

See you out there!

[malaise]

9. GObama!

White racists must be welcomed - fuck that!

[Equinox Moon]

12. Maybe the white racists need Pence's conversion therapy?

You know... the one he devised for gay people.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

17. For the pst 8 years the RW has been obstructing

and screeching about the "tyranny" of our President because he dared to do his job while black.

Yet, they have now elected a man whose campaign consisted in large part of him yelling about all the tyrannical things he plans to do if elected. Their blatant hypocritical propaganda has brainwashed millions of Americans into voting for a would-be dictator who cares not what happens to anyone but the wealthiest citizens.

[NastyRiffraff]

10. OMG I'm going to miss our president!

When I think of what will follow him, I actually get nauseous.

[C Moon]

13. I think the protests are upsetting the Trumpsters. Most of my neighbors are Trump supporters...

and I heard them yesterday talking in frustration about the protests: "It's a waste of time. He's already in." "Yeah, it's ridiculous."

I'm in a middle-class part of Los Angeles—don't ask me how I got lucky enough to find a place that is surrounded by right wing types. They aren't bad neighbors. Nice people. Which is what I don't understand. Maybe just weak minded: they don't like to make their own decisions, so they listen to domineering friends? I dunno. :/

Anyway, hearing that made me sigh inside. A good sigh of relief.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Good for him!

It only makes me respect him more.

[DFW]

15. Me too

And I already liked him plenty

[fleabiscuit]

16. '1500 Days of Protests'

[Lucinda]

18. KNR