Trump says he disagrees with 'send her back' chant (UPDATED)

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Thu Jul 18, 2019, 02:00 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Thursday said he disagrees with the "send her back" chant that rang throughout his North Carolina rally when he attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

"I was not happy with it," Trump told reporters at the White House. "I disagree with it."

The president for days has continued to attack Omar and three of her colleagues after saying they should "go back" to their home countries, even though they are all U.S. citizens. Only Omar, who came to the U.S. a refugee from Somalia, was born outside the country.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/453735-trump-says-he-disagrees-with-send-her-back-chant

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Bullshit. He could have stopped that chant within seconds if he'd wanted to. He could have made his disagreement with it clear to his supporters, if he had disagreed with it.

He's backpedaling now because he knows he's in trouble.



UPDATING AFTER THE HILL ADDED TO THEIR INITIAL STORY:


According to the additions to the story, Trump was asked why he didn't stop the chant.

He said he thought he did because he "started speaking very quickly."

Facts disagree:

[div class"excerpt"]The president did not speak up to stop the refrain. After the chants began, he paused for 14 seconds, looked around with a neutral expression and waited for the crowd to quiet down before continuing his remarks.

Trump also suggested to reporters that they go to North Carolina and ask the people there why they were chanting those words. The Hill viewed this as Trump trying to distance himself from those supporters.




EDITING AGAIN to add a tweet with video:

Link to tweet

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Yeah just ask him tomorrow, LOL! He'll be fine with it then.

[crazytown]

32. Yeah. I can see him now,

in front of his rabid otters, raising his arms in that 'what can I do' gesture, then sneering 'I didn't say that, I didn't say that'.

[olegramps]

52. I have grown to despise everything about this cretin.

[DownriverDem]

66. The question

is who got to him to come out and say he disagreed? It sure looked like the base loved it. I did see where his campaign staff is mad as hell at his initial tweet against the reps. It could be that they leaned on him to say he was against the chant.

[left-of-center2012]

2. Bull crappy

Expect to hear it at his future rallies.

[Raster]

3. I watched the tape this morning... he did NOT disagree, in fact, he seemed to revel in it...

...and again, the Liar-in-Chief* lies.

[msongs]

4. got himself posted as LBN again, which is his primary goal, dominate the conversation nt

[littlemissmartypants]

49. Bingo. nt

[BeyondGeography]

5. Too late, you already violated federal law with that phrase and you put it in writing

Backing away now that his attorneys have told him to cut the shit IMO.

[BKDem]

58. You forgot

When the President does it, that means it's not illegal.

[Midnight Writer]

6. He's not backpedaling at all. He is giving cover to his supporters so they can defend him.

"Well, he said he disagrees with the 'send her back' thing. What more can he do?"

[hedda_foil]

7. Double bullcrap! That kind of chant is rehearsed by staff before the show begins.

Unison doesn't happen instantaneously like that.

[world wide wally]

8. Where do you think they got it, numbnutz?

[Hoyt]

9. BS. If so, do like McCain and tell them they are wrong.

[dawnie51]

10. A demonstrable lie.....

as he stood there and let the chants reach penultimate crescendo, with his very best Mussolini impression going on. But it's not going over well. So he's back pedaling. He's a coward.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. The Blowback must have been

a tsunami from his Donors. Just can not imagine the tension in those Rural towns in Minnesota,Iowa,South Dakota and Nebraska where their economy depends on Food Processing plants and the Somali and Hispanic Workers to do the jobs that they will not do.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. Fuck donald trump, lying sack of shit

[cstanleytech]

13. I agree that he is backpedaling because he knows he fucked up by

having who he really is as opposed to his reality TV persona captured live on video.

[FormerOstrich]

14. R..i..ght....I just bet

I think the more likely is the phrase was crafted, the chant was perfected, and then the attacks began to pave the way to it....

I think not only did he agree with it, it was all by design.

[global1]

19. I Would Like To See MSM Investigate Whether Or Not The Chant Was Spontaneous Or If It Was.....

pre-planned, deliberate and an intentional chant started by Trump's campaign people. Some journalist that was in that hall last night should be able to address that. Why haven't they addressed this question yet?

[Zoonart]

15. You mean like this?

He should have shut it down from the podium. Otherwisw, just more bullshit.

[hibbing]

25. Love the few quiet golf claps after this n/t

[BigOleDummy]

43. While I surely had many issues

and policy views that differed radically from Mr. McCains I never not once thought he was a dishonorable man. A bona fide war hero and a decent man who just had different views on certain things than I had. It's no wonder our draft dodger in chief hates him so. He was everything he isn't, brave, honorable and a man of conviction.

[Sogo]

59. well said.... nt

[PSPS]

72. He rubber stamped every trump nominee. Not an honorable man at all.

[BigOleDummy]

75. Mr. McCain ...

… had and has vast respect among veterans like me. I guess we have differing opinions on what "honor" means. As I stated in my op I had many differences of opinion with him but that doesn't change the facts that he was a decent , honorable man. Lets see if I can come around to your point of view.....

I guess him voting for repeal of the ACA counts..... oh wait, he voted against repeal.
I suppose him leaving his men in the Hanoi Hilton means...… oh, wait he stayed and was tortured some more.
I can see where him wanting to send troops to Lebanon in 1983 was standing with his party …. oh wait again he was against that too
I see that he was all for taxing lower income people and tax cuts for the rich … oops in his presidential campaign he said "“There's a growing gap between the haves and have-nots in America,” said McCain at a GOP debate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “And that gap is growing and it is unfortunately divided up along ethnic lines.”
Again ... his total rejection of climate change along with the repgulicans could prove your point but sorry "Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring"

As I said , you can disagree with some of his policies and thoughts on some things as I did but to call him a dishonorable man is a disservice to him and to all veterans who looked upon him as a person to admire as I do.

[Paladin]

16. trump LOVES it. It's his 2020 campaign slogan.

The question is: What are Democrats going to do about it?

Puerto Rico has an asshole for a Governor, and there's rioting in the streets as a result. trump is putting this country's civil rights back more than a half-century, placing Congressional lives in danger, and all he seems to be receiving is encouragement. Are we really going to cede our country to trump and his scumbag followers, with hardly more than a whimper? Christ, I'm disappointed in the Democratic Party.

[kstewart33]

17. What a cowardly creep.

Can't take the heat from something he encouraged and so, like the sniveling snake he is, he blames his followers.

[Pachamama]

18. TRUMP IS A LIAR

He stood there and stepped back from Podium and then looking side to side allowed them to chant - uninterrupted

[riversedge]

20. I watched the video. #RacistTrump just stood still on the one I saw. He did NOT try to stop

the chant.

[bronxiteforever]

21. Kick and recommend. Agree with highplains 100%

More BS “GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says he wasn't mocking a New York Times reporter's muscular disorder when he made jerking motions seeming to imitate the man's condition during a speech last week, saying today at a rally in Sarasota, Florida, that he was just showing a reporter who was "groveling." “I was very expressive in saying it, and they said that I was mocking him," Trump said. "I would never mock a person that has difficulty. I would never do that. I'm telling you, I would never do it."


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-making-fun-reporters-disability/story?id=35463888

[dalton99a]

22. No idea who gave them the idea

[robbob]

37. Yeah but he said they should go back...

which implies to “go back” of their own volition, whereas the chant “send her back” implies forcibly removing them from the country. Huuuuge difference...

...do I really need the sarcasm thingy? I am getting so tired of his gaslighting America.

[kacekwl]

23. If his mouth is moving

He's "Making a false statement" or something like that.

[riversedge]

24. After the chants began, he paused for 14 seconds, looked around with a neutral expression and waited

The hill did not let trumps lie stand..





...........Asked why he did not stop the chants, Trump responded, “I think I did. I started speaking very quickly.” [LIAR}

The president did not speak up to stop the refrain. After the chants began, he paused for 14 seconds, looked around with a neutral expression and waited for the crowd to quiet down before continuing his remarks.

Trump also sought to distance himself from his supporters who made them, telling reporters to go to North Carolina and “ask the people why they chanted.”

[highplainsdem]

29. Yep. I was updating the OP with the new info while you were posting this. I'll see if I can

find a brief video clip of that chant showing Trump's expression.

[highplainsdem]

31. Just added a tweet with video of that chant and Trump's reaction to the OP.

[highplainsdem]

26. I've updated the OP to include information The Hill added to their original, brief story.

[guillaumeb]

27. Perhaps Trump's brain needed 14 seconds to process the information?

If so, he might need to defragment his hard drive.

[moonseller66]

33. Hard Drive?

He's running a limited Z80 fed by an overused, over-the-hill 3 and a quarter inch floppy with no internal memory and 75 baud connection!

Although Melania probably misses his older 5 and a half inch really floppy!

[guillaumeb]

35. I saw what you did.

Melania always looks so angry. That might explain one reason for the anger.

[moonseller66]

47. On second thought...

it's probably just her reminiscing for those older 8 inch floppies that trump missed out having. Poor Mel, Terrible to be stuck with a 3 and a quarter (pun intended) with him using the fastest (30 seconds) chip available. Guess those billions make up for all the "QUICK" little inconveniences.

Oh well. He can still try to shoot the old mushrooms in Centipede.

[guillaumeb]

51. 30 seconds is a very long time.

For a rodeo rider.

[mountain grammy]

28. What a fucking liar!!

He stood there nodding through the whole thing.. Fuck this lying asshole.

[Botany]

53. 100% gas lighting .... Donny is trying to district from Cohen's files and Epstein.

Are you going to believe what your eyes saw and your ears heard?

[William Seger]

30. I don't think "he knows he's in trouble"

Trump's superpower is having no fear of consequences -- certainly not of being exposed as an overt racist or lying about anything. He'll keep saying racist things while denying he's a racist, then pat himself on the back for being such a genius.

[thegoose]

34. Yeah, right

Despicable asshole.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

35. He stood at that podium LOVING every minute of it....

When people were chanting..."Send her back". He said and did nothing.

[Greg K]

38. They'll do it again at the next rally, and he'll make a joke about it.

[dalton99a]

39. It's guaranteed to happen

[angrychair]

40. The Hill is protecting a racist

The Hill viewed this as Trump trying to distance himself from those supporters.

This is called LYING

[bullwinkle428]

41. Think about John McCain shutting down that crazy lady at the rally -

this MFer doesn't have the stones to ever attempt to do something like that.

[Timmygoat]

42. What a lying cowardly hypocrite

He was egging them on and loving it, now he is getting some blowback (did you know some British politicians sent solidarity messages to the 4) he, as is usual for this cowardly bully tried to distance himself from what he did.

[deminks]

44. Gaslighting - "you must be crazy to think I would agree with the 'send her back' chants."

Almost as good as denying he ever tweeted it.

[lsewpershad]

45. Lying for the nth time

he paused to soak the love and pride he felt from his fawning empty headed racist fans.

[littlemissmartypants]

46. I'm sick to death of "tr*mp says" wherever I see it!

Haven't we heard enough of his lies? Why do we keep giving over our power and focus to this liar? I'm seriously concerned we are doing nothing but supporting him by boosting his signal.

We have to stop and start focusing on getting out the vote! He doesn't deserve the time of day! Get a clue people!! We're just magnifying his lies when we repeat them.

He wins every time we do it and in so doing we become the ultimate losers.

If you scan the titles in GD it's like the tr*mp underground. If he ever, or if his minions ever, check in here I can only imagine how delighted they are to see how much we mention him here.

I'd like to see, if he had his own group, where all information pertaining to him was mandatorially posted, in isolation, removed from general posts. How much would we have an environment focused on really defeating him in 2020? I'm starting to wonder.

Trashing the word didn't help me out one bit. I hate speaking, seeing and typing it. I am sick of it.

Sorry, highplainsdem but I just had to get it out. Nothing against you personally.



GOTV!!!

[Sogo]

62. Excellent points! Excellent suggestions!

[littlemissmartypants]

64. Thanks Sogo. I appreciate your support. ❤ nt

[kairos12]

48. Plays the media like a conductor.

[Qutzupalotl]

50. Jeffrey who? Michael who?

[richsonpoordad]

54. They know he doesn't mean it.

[Vinca]

55. Two words: bull and shit.

[rurallib]

57. And from the pig capital of the world, Iowa, we say Hog manure!

[LW1977]

56. BS!

[C_U_L8R]

60. Bullshit

The crowd said exactly what they were instructed, right on cue.

[Enoki33]

61. This despicable creep seems to think he is so powerful and persuasive that

simply by lying he can change reality.

[ancianita]

63. More likely he was running beta test of a campaign theme to see how far it could go, and now

sees that it's a loser.

He doesn't want divisions that incite violence as much as he wants votes to win with. Just enough to hit 270.

He admits that Stephen Miller's tack won't get him there.

[treefarmers]

65. Now that it is polling poorly

So, after seeing that this is going badly he says he disagrees with it. Why not tweet this? It will get more publicity? Why not stop it after he hears it or say something about it?

[duforsure]

67. He lies

And probably had people planted in the crowds starting these chants. He never tells the truth.

[NCjack]

68. Looks like the first poll on "send her back" exploded in the Fueher's face. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

69. Trump is playing both sides

This worthy of the Bush White Houses, where on Monday it was pro-A, but by Thursday night it as not-A. People on both sides of the A issue heard what they wanted to hear.

Creating confusion, Trump is playing both sides. He told them to 'go back where they came from', and his red meat base heard him, now he is mollifying that idea for the rest of the general public. WE MUST PIN HIM DOWN to his transgressions and make the public hear what he is really saying.

Trump cannot be allowed to escape his harsh side by appearing reasonable as he says the same thing again.

[Martin Eden]

70. Donald Trump is a pathological liar. He has zero credibility.

That should be the first response when asked about anything this POtuS says.

Every Democrat, elected or otherwise, should say that every time.

Why?
Because repetition works.

And because it is absolutely true.

[riversedge]

71. you are a sick SOB (#racistTrump)

[PSPS]

73. Wasn't there a story that said it was actually on his teleprompter?

[highplainsdem]

74. Not the chant. He didn't chant those words at all. But his vicious comments were

read off the teleprompter.