I DENOUNCE Donald Trump

[NanceGreggs]

I denounce a so-called “pResident” who cannot – nay, will not – denounce racists, white supremacists, and nazis, and call them out for who they are and what they represent.

I denounce any man who sees any equivalence between those promoting hatred and violence and those who are willing to stand against them, their ideology, and their tactics.

I denounce ANY American – regardless of their political affiliation or their political position – who is too spineless to speak out clearly and decisively against those who would divide us as a nation, those who would cast our fellow citizens as unworthy of inclusion as Americans based on their race, religion, or ethnicity.

I denounce a so-called “pResident” who sees today’s events as being the result of ill feeling “on many sides”, when it is only one side that is promoting violence, and advancing the idea that racism is not only acceptable, but something to be embraced.

I denounce a so-called “pResident” who dismisses today’s events as being something that’s “been going on for a long, long time”, as though racism is something we should just learn to live with, rather than unite to eradicate.

I denounce Donald Trump as being a champion of violence, a champion of bigotry, a champion of encouraging division among us.

In addition, I denounce the Republican Party that saw Trump repeatedly incite violence and divisiveness throughout his campaign, and supported him and elected him nonetheless. They knew who he was from the beginning, and their comments today, which amount to Oh, my, we never saw THIS coming, are an insult to every citizen who saw today’s occurrence as an inevitable outcome of putting a self-proclaimed bigot in the Oval Office.

Trump has never been, and never will be, my “president”. And I denounce any and all attempts to portray him as other than what he is: an ignorant, lying bigot desperately clinging to his “base” of knuckle-dragging racists, who have not only been encouraged by his remarks, but ultimately emboldened by them.

I denounce Donald Trump, his racist supporters, and the party that enabled him. There is no place in our country for any of them.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Shit yes Nancy,

[maddiemom]

20. Ironically beginning of Trump's dowmfall with any luck.--

but how long has it taken the backlash to subdue "th deplorabld

[Jack-o-Lantern]

2. Spot on Nance!

[Thinkingabout]

3. He is corrupt, the trumpsters is not doing him any favor by "supporting" him with their lies.

I thought it could be bad, but this is worse than I thought it could be.

[DDySiegs]

4. Thank You Nance

Thumbs Up! I recommend this post to all DUers!!

[calimary]

16. Welcome to DU, DDySiegs!

Nance rocks it AGAIN. For sure!

She always finds a way to say exactly what I'm thinking - or grimacing over.

[Docreed2003]

5. Hell yes!!! Thank you Nance!!

[spiderpig]

6. Hellyeah.

We all know 45 is like one of those Star Trek TOS entities that would invade the Enterprise and feed on the hate and discourse it generated.

45 is out for 45. Not Barron, the Udays, Melania, Tiffany-Who? or even Ivanka. It's all about the glorification of everything Donald. I've never seen anything like it in my life, since I wasn't around in the 17th century.

The most fitting punishment for this disgusting traitor would be for him to be frog-marched out of the people's house and incarcerated someplace where his ice cream would be limited to one scoop per month. And it would be Walmart brand.

[Doreen]

8. Are you saying I am not the only one who has believed

all this time that trump would throw any of his family under the bus to benefit himself?

[spiderpig]

12. We've been out here for decades

since the old 60 Minutes interviews, where he came across as a young bombastic predator. But we never thought there would be enough knuckle-draggers to allow this waste of air to get within shouting distance of the White House.

Did you see Rachel Maddow's piece Friday on Trump and the Commodore Hotel? Trump was insufferable 30 years ago, but he was Prince Charming compared to the insidious demon he is today.

Make it stop!!!

[Doreen]

18. Watching him for years drooling his poison

was scary. Now he is freely puking his poison and it is frightening. Those knuckle-draggers came out of the woodwork when he announced his run for the presidency.

Rachel Maddow's piece was very enlightening. I personally do not see a difference between him then and now. He has always been an evil piece of crap.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Hear, hear.

[lunamagica]

9. YES!!!

[Sunlei]

10. he IS the Republican Party

[DFW]

11. Trump and his Republicans deliberately ignore who killed and who was killed

They deserve every denunciation heaped upon them.

[SCVDem]

13. Agree! nt

[hibbing]

14. I'm afraid this is the first of many of these

I'm afraid this will spread. I like the idea of their pictures getting spread all over the place and them being identified. On a side note I saw a picture of the now Senate Majority Leader getting a plaque from some group with a traitor flag in the background on my Twitter feed, it looked about ten years old, I vaguely remember it, but can't recall the name of the group. I also saw repost of the selfie with the Speaker of the House with all of the Republican interns in the background, all white? It's frightened for years just how white that party is.

On a more positive note, Mitt posted a strong comment.


Peace

[smirkymonkey]

15. Bravo!

[iluvtennis]

17. ++++++++ Agree

[world wide wally]

19. I'm with her

[Generic Other]

21. The spinelessness is the most noticeable part

They spit on the memory of the "greatest generation" and show themselves to be the "worst."

[Gothmog]

22. I agree Nance