Trump cites scheduling issues and cancels MLK Day tour of civil rights museum featuring John Lewis

[RandySF]

Donald Trump’s transition team said on Sunday that the president-elect has canceled a Martin Luther King Jr. Day visit to the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture which features civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)

According to ABC News, sources on the Trump transition team said that “the visit was removed from his calendar due to scheduling issues and was not fully planned out.”

Lewis first introduced legislation to create the museum in 1988. After fighting for over a decade, Lewis and his bipartisan co-sponsors were finally successful in passing a bill to fund the museum in 2001.

The museum prominently features Lewis’ contributions to the Civil Rights movement, including his historic “Blood Sunday” march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

The decision to cancel the museum visit comes after Lewis questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency due to Russian interference in the U.S. election. Trump fired back on Twitter, accusing Lewis of not taking enough “action” to help his constituents.


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-cites-scheduling-issues-and-cancels-mlk-day-tour-of-civil-rights-museum-featuring-john-lewis/

[Lint Head]

1. Coward.

[Charles Bukowski]

2. Trump fired back on Twitter, accusing Lewis of not taking enough action to help his constituents.

The normalization of Gump continues SMH.

Shitbag said a lot more than that - - his tweets were textbook racist dig whistle garbage.

[elleng]

3. Nothing to cancel.

Museum never heard from him/no plans. (Saw a post with quotes yesterday.)

[Solly Mack]

4. Trump lies and then lies again.

I was going to do - whatever - but not now - because - whatever. Children and the childish pull that shit all the time. Claim they were going to do something they never planned to do and then claim they aren't doing it now because of some slight (real or imagined, almost always imagined). Resulting in it, somehow, being the fault of everyone else but them. (in their mind)

He never was going to visit.

[Lucinda]

5. He should have gone...he might have actually learned something...

[C_U_L8R]

6. What's more important than MLK Day

... on MLK Day, Trump?

What a jackass.

[Cha]

7. Good..

would want him stinking up the place with his racist ugly shite, anyway.

[bearssoapbox]

8. So Trumplesthinskin Tiny Hands cancelled a trip that wasn't scheduled?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/trump-museum-plans?utm_term=.tyryoZL4A#.waqp2nyQK

>snip< "Smithsonian officials told BuzzFeed News Saturday that despite reports, there are no plans for a Trump visit on MLK Day.

Despite reports, there are no plans for Donald Trump to visit the Smithsonian African American History Museum on Martin Luther King Day, multiple spokespeople for the venue told BuzzFeed News on Saturday.

ABC News, citing senior level transition team members, reported that Trump was planning to visit the museum amid widespread criticism of the president-elect for his Twitter attack on respected congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

But Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas told BuzzFeed News Saturday that while someone from Trump’s had been in touch with the museum at one point, “I just know that there isn’t a visit.”

“I think the transition team, there was a question about a visit, but it wasn’t set,” she said.

St. Thomas then referred questions to John Hiller, a senior advisor from Trump’s campaign.

Other spokespeople for the museum also told BuzzFeed News there was no scheduled visit by the president-elect as of Saturday evening.

Hiller, and other members of Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News’ request for comment."
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Like he was going to really go there in the first place.

Right?

[Gothmog]

9. What a weak excuse