Don Cheadle unleashes Twitter storm on Donald Trump

[pnwmom]

Source: USA TODAY

"Dwayne Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago," Trump tweeted Saturday morning, misspelling the basketball player's first name. "Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!" . . . .

Actor Don Cheadle and other Trump critics Saturday pounced on the tweet, saying he was seizing on Aldridge's death and Chicago's gun violence for political gain. In a series of tweets — often employing pretty salty language — Cheadle blasted Trump as using the shooting to throw "red meat to his alt-right troglodytes."

"People of Drumpf's ilk are contributors to the conditions that lead to the 'Chicagos' of this country," Cheadle said in one tweet, referring to the surname of Trump's German ancestors.

The election, Cheadle added in another tweet, "is like a Shakespearean farce except it could end in a mushroom cloud."


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/27/don-cheadle-unleashes-twitter-storm-donald-trump/89477440/

[SummerSnow]

1. You tell him Mr. Cheadle

[MiniMe]

2. Guess Don Cheadle is never going to be on Celebrity Apprentice

I don't think he cares.

[brush]

3. No need. He's not a has been.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Lololol!

[wordpix]

9. 'xactly, he's in a league way above

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. Exactly!

[SunSeeker]

5. BOOM!

[mopinko]

6. i love that he calls him drumph.

you tell him.

[Loki]

7. Call him what he really is

Scheiße Fleck Drumpf. Shit Stain Trump.

[Tempest]

15. He's calling him by his original family name

Drumpf is his real family name. His grandfather changed it to hide their German heritage.

Drumpf's father even went as far as claim they were from Sweden to hide their heritage.

[Stuart G]

8. In some ways..this is the worst...

The woman killed had not been dead 21 hours, and Trump had to stick himself in..not even a day...

How would anyone, who had a loved one killed less then a day earlier, feel if Trump inserted himself in any way into the horror?

The last thing a family would want is to become part of a Trump political ploy when they are grieving ..

This one defines him as much as anything...

..... No sense of sympathy, propriety, or sensitivity.......... all about Trump...

.......But ....this proves that the other stupid comments were no mistake..they define him...

Good...more votes for Hillary..

[They_Live]

10. Alt-right, my ass!

Republican party all the way.

[Sand Rat Expat]

18. Most the Republicans I know can't tolerate him and are aghast that he won the nomination.

I've been working on several of them to give up on the GOP and come on over to join the rest of us on the right side of history. The only ones I'm not bothering with are the bigots. Of the dozen or so Republicans I know, only two are voting Trump, and more because they have an irrational hatred of Hillary than because they like Trump. I really think Trump may well be the end of the Republican Party, at least as we know it.

If a new right-leaning party emerges, I would hope it would be guided by conservatives who are willing to at least try to find some common ground so that we wouldn't have the gridlock we've endured with the GOP holding both houses of Congress. I can respect those who have honest differences of opinion and view the world differently than I do. I can't respect bigotry and obstruction for the sake of it.

[They_Live]

19. Yeah, but it's not just Trump.

He is a low point on a downward trend. From what I've seen lately, a they're all pretty bad. Last time I checked, both of my Texas Senators and my Representative are either insane, or corporate sluts, or both.

[Unit 001]

11. Very good actor.

I enjoy him as an actor.

[KT2000]

12. Love Don Cheadle

he does a lot of charity work and a great actor as well!

[MFM008]

13. really like him

He was so good in 'Colors'.
Hes good in everything.

[BLACK4EVER]

14. Damn, I love Don Cheadle

[Initech]

16. Go get him, War Machine!

Or is it Iron Patriot?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. WARMACHINEROX.

[salin]

17. *standing... slow clap... accelerating to full applause*

Still giving a standing ovation and flicking my bic for an old fashioned tweet encore.