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Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 11:39 AM Aug 2019

Trump says "BE QUIET!"

Trump tells O'Rourke to 'be quiet' in wake of El Paso shooting
BY BRANDON CONRADIS - 08/07/19 12:13 AM EDT

President Trump late Tuesday night responded to criticism from former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), who has repeatedly assailed the president following a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.

"Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the Great State of Texas, where I trounced him, and is now even more embarrassed by polling at 1% in the Democrat Primary, should respect the victims & law enforcement — & be quiet!" Trump tweeted.

In response to Trump's tweet, O'Rourke said, "22 people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism. El Paso will not be quiet and neither will I." https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456479-trump-tells-orourke-he-should-be-quiet-in-wake-of-el-paso-shooting

As for mocking people, because of their given names:

Donald Trump's ancestors changed their surname from "Drumpf" to "Trump."

Donald’s grandfather was a German immigrant named Frederick Drumpf who emigrated to the U.S. in 1885 and became a naturalized citizen in 1892.

At some point, he started calling himself “Frederick Trump,” but it is unclear if he ever changed his name officially. Some have speculated that he didn’t want to be known as “Drumpf” because of prevailing prejudice against Germans (which would heighten, of course, during World War I). https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-drumpf/
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Trump says "BE QUIET!" (Original Post) Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 OP
The Trump family then went on to claiming they were Swedish! madaboutharry Aug 2019 #1
Aryan Swedish? William Seger Aug 2019 #16
No, Hadean lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #28
Projection and deception, lots of deception. TryLogic Aug 2019 #26
Beto O'Rourke with Jesse Jackson dalton99a Aug 2019 #2
:) True Blue American Aug 2019 #4
The P.U.S.H. is an acronym for littlemissmartypants Aug 2019 #30
I had never seen that pic... SMC22307 Aug 2019 #40
Love it malaise Aug 2019 #44
O'Rourke sounds Irish to me. As for the nick-name "Beto"... Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 #3
Yep, he is Irish. dalton99a Aug 2019 #5
There is no one as Irish as Barrack O'Bama.... safeinOhio Aug 2019 #23
trump is afraid of Beto Gothmog Aug 2019 #6
The racist Trump is always racist Kid Berwyn Aug 2019 #7
Gee, Melania looks swell there. (eyeroll) nt Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #8
Kidneys at full capacity dalton99a Aug 2019 #9
Wait.....🤔 Traildogbob Aug 2019 #18
She has HUGE PCIntern Aug 2019 #19
And he no no access. Traildogbob Aug 2019 #21
LOL, Traildogbob! But let's give the First stripper-Lady a break for claiming to watch CNN... Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 #38
Thank you Traildogbob Aug 2019 #39
I thinks she's on assignment. Kid Berwyn Aug 2019 #10
Boris on the right, Natasha on the left lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #31
More like... 3catwoman3 Aug 2019 #29
Frederick left Germany because he didn't want to serve in the army. gibraltar72 Aug 2019 #11
Yes, and then when he tried to repatriate to Germany geardaddy Aug 2019 #12
The OP recounted Drumpf as having 'emigrated.' He was actually kicked out of Germany. Texin Aug 2019 #32
Yep, it was an illegal emigration according to German authories geardaddy Aug 2019 #37
Sleaze bdamomma Aug 2019 #41
Yes and he owed taxes PatSeg Aug 2019 #15
Yeah, he might've destroyed Germany before Hitler got a chance! lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #33
Gramps Trump PatSeg Aug 2019 #46
No Nazis were involved in WWI. It is illegal to display swastikas in modern Germany... Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 #17
If this were his only deceitful thing, but it is a way of life. Every breath. Every word. Deceit. The Wielding Truth Aug 2019 #22
It must have been so stressful for Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #36
Felito Cruz - his own nickname keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #13
Frederick Drumpf was Expelled from Germany for Refusing Military Service dlk Aug 2019 #14
Drumpfry Mc Schnitzelnazi Ligyron Aug 2019 #20
Filing away for future use. 47of74 Aug 2019 #25
47of74 says fornicate you to Drumpf. 47of74 Aug 2019 #24
Good for Beto DeminPennswoods Aug 2019 #27
I have a better idea, Fat Boy. YOU Shut up! smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #34
hey smirky bdamomma Aug 2019 #42
Hopefully sooner rather than later, bdamomma! smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #43
Hell, smirkymonkey, your headline is the wish of ALL GPPs running for Senate. Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 #45
hem. if i said anything stronger ,my post would get taken down AllaN01Bear Aug 2019 #35

littlemissmartypants

(22,418 posts)
30. The P.U.S.H. is an acronym for
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 02:20 PM
Aug 2019

People United to Save Humanity.

Rainbow/PUSH is a non-profit organization formed as a merger of two non-profit organizations founded by Jesse Jackson — Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition. The organizations pursue social justice, civil rights and political activism.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow/PUSH


Beto's activist past runs deep.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
3. O'Rourke sounds Irish to me. As for the nick-name "Beto"...
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 11:56 AM
Aug 2019

He has two younger sisters, the younger one born intellectually impaired. In his infancy, his family gave him the nickname "Beto", a common Spanish-Portuguese nickname for first names ending in "berto" to distinguish him from his namesake grandfather.

Traildogbob

(8,584 posts)
18. Wait.....🤔
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:23 PM
Aug 2019

I thought her campaign as First Lady was "Be Best"? With her broken "American" lanquage, one of dozens, maybe she was telling her team of PR assistants, she wanted them to create a campaign in support "Big Breasts".

Traildogbob

(8,584 posts)
21. And he no no access.
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:30 PM
Aug 2019

Don't touch, just for display. If he could touch they must look massive in his baby hands. Like his tax audit, she claims to him, her doctors said no touching after surgery until the audit is completed.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
38. LOL, Traildogbob! But let's give the First stripper-Lady a break for claiming to watch CNN...
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 06:23 PM
Aug 2019

I don't think the First lady-Stripper likes small hands (and other small things) associated with Teflon Don. And she might be upset by his infidelity.

That reply was too funny for words:

Don't touch, just for display. If he could touch they must look massive in his baby hands. Like his tax audit, she claims to him, her doctors said no touching after surgery until the audit is completed.

Traildogbob

(8,584 posts)
39. Thank you
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 09:37 PM
Aug 2019

We need to keep each other strong by laughing at the humor the TTrumps offer, despite the hell they bring. If she is ok with his whoring around, then she has zero credibility. All about the Bucks.judt a highly paid ho. Baron has not a chance in hell with their lack of any morals.

geardaddy

(24,924 posts)
12. Yes, and then when he tried to repatriate to Germany
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 12:39 PM
Aug 2019

They kicked him out because he dodged the draft.

Texin

(2,585 posts)
32. The OP recounted Drumpf as having 'emigrated.' He was actually kicked out of Germany.
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 02:21 PM
Aug 2019

And he was kicked out because he was a draft dodger, just like tRump. He may have landed in the U.S. back then, but he then migrated to Canada, and there he set up a bordello. Thus, the legacy began.

geardaddy

(24,924 posts)
37. Yep, it was an illegal emigration according to German authories
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 02:57 PM
Aug 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump#Marriage_and_family

Soon after the family arrived in Germany, Bavarian authorities determined that Trump had emigrated from Germany to avoid his military-service obligations, and he was classified as a draft dodger. On 24 December 1904 the Department of Interior announced an investigation to expel Trump from Germany. Officially, they found that he had violated the Resolution of the Royal Ministry of the Interior number 9916, an 1886 law that punished emigration to North America to avoid military service with the loss of German citizenship. In February 1905, a royal decree was issued ordering Trump to leave within eight weeks due to having emigrated to evade military service and failing to register his departure with the authorities. For several months, Trump petitioned the government to allow him to stay but he was unsuccessful.

PatSeg

(46,804 posts)
15. Yes and he owed taxes
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:08 PM
Aug 2019

Just imagine how different our lives would be today, if Germany had let the fool back in their country.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
33. Yeah, he might've destroyed Germany before Hitler got a chance!
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 02:21 PM
Aug 2019

Or maybe he would've opened chain of brothels. Either way, we wouldn't have gotten Trumped.

PatSeg

(46,804 posts)
46. Gramps Trump
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 09:44 AM
Aug 2019

and his son Fred Jr. probably would have become involved in the Nazi party and its possible they wouldn't even have survived the war, meaning NO Donald!

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
17. No Nazis were involved in WWI. It is illegal to display swastikas in modern Germany...
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:20 PM
Aug 2019
Cowardliness appears to be a Trump family tradition.

Podiatrist's daughters say bone spur diagnosis that helped Trump avoid Vietnam draft was 'favor'
William Cummings, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Two daughters of a New York podiatrist say that 50 years ago their father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs in his heels as a favor to the doctor's landlord, Fred Trump, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Trump received five deferments from the draft for military service during the Vietnam War. He received four education deferments while he was a college student and a fifth deferment in 1968 for a medical exemption after he graduated.

Elysa Braunstein said their father made the diagnosis to gain access to the landlord [Trump's father] and that she didn't know if her father even examined the junior Trump.

"I had a doctor that gave me a letter – a very strong letter on the heels," Trump told the Times. [But alleged bone-spur didn't interfere with Teflon Don's athletic endeavors]

"I was the best baseball player in New York when I was young," Trump told interviewer Michael D'Antonio in 2014. "I was always the best at sports."

Questions about Trump's deferments have dogged him at least since 2011 when The Smoking Gun published an extract of his draft record. Critics have noted that Trump was an athlete who enjoyed playing football, baseball, squash, tennis and golf in the years before his medical deferment.

Trump told the Times in 2016 that a doctor wrote him a letter for the draft board about the bone spurs – which Trump said were "temporary" and "minor" – but he could not recall the doctor's name. "I had a doctor that gave me a letter – a very strong letter on the heels," Trump told the Times.

When asked which foot had the problem, Trump – who has claimed to have "one of the greatest memories of all time" – told reporters that he could not remember. His campaign later released a statement saying the spurs affected both feet. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/27/trump-vietnam-war-bone-spur-diagnosis/2420475002/

The Wielding Truth

(11,411 posts)
22. If this were his only deceitful thing, but it is a way of life. Every breath. Every word. Deceit.
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:50 PM
Aug 2019
We have no "political appetite" for him.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
36. It must have been so stressful for Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris,
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 02:25 PM
Aug 2019

to know there was a better player in town!

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
13. Felito Cruz - his own nickname
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:04 PM
Aug 2019

Felito Cruz - his own nickname

Until age 13, Cruz - born Rafael Edward - went by the Spanish-language nickname ‘Felito’

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article37358505.html

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PolitiFact: Why Rafael Cruz goes by Ted and Robert O’Rourke by Beto

https://www.statesman.com/news/20180817/politifact-why-rafael-cruz-goes-by-ted-and-robert-orourke-by-beto

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210505814

"will never be accepted as white"

It seems to have worked for 'Ted' Cruz.

Rafael Cruz changed his nickname from 'Felito to Ted' and pretends his real first name is not worthy of the white culture.

He ridiculed an opponent's nickname.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142006229

Funny that he never ridiculed 'Bobby' Jindal who named himself after a tv character to be more 'white'.

dlk

(11,438 posts)
14. Frederick Drumpf was Expelled from Germany for Refusing Military Service
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:06 PM
Aug 2019

The family tradition has continued.

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
27. Good for Beto
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 02:11 PM
Aug 2019

I love the continuing righteous indignation from both Beto and Tim Ryan who will be leading a caravan to McConnell's house in Kentucky.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
34. I have a better idea, Fat Boy. YOU Shut up!
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 02:24 PM
Aug 2019

For once. For five fucking minutes. For a day. Give us all a rest, because we are so damned sick and tired of having to listen to your whining and your lies all day every day for the past 2 1/2 years! I cannot wait until you are six-feet under because that is the only thing that will shut you up for good.

Even if you are voted out of office, you will still torture us with your inane tweets, hideous visage and hateful speech. You are a horrible nightmare that won't go away.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
45. Hell, smirkymonkey, your headline is the wish of ALL GPPs running for Senate.
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 03:38 AM
Aug 2019

Has anyone - other than me - noticed that Teflon Don presents the worst usage of English language EVER ATTRIBUTED TO ANY OTHER US PRESIDENT on Twitter? Drump (German word: Stuhlgang) utilizes capital letters in ways that would get high-school students extremely poor grades. Also...

AllaN01Bear

(17,383 posts)
35. hem. if i said anything stronger ,my post would get taken down
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 02:24 PM
Aug 2019

sombody please have this guys twitter page blocked and banned !!!!!
if i were to do half of what he said id get removed post haste . and no beto dosent have to be quiet.

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