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Trump tells O'Rourke to 'be quiet' in wake of El Paso shootingBY 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) ORourke, 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."
Donalds 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 didnt 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/
madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)They are Masters of Projection.
William Seger
(10,742 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)TryLogic
(1,721 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)People United to Save Humanity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow/PUSH
Beto's activist past runs deep.
SMC22307
(8,088 posts)it's so sweet!
malaise
(267,825 posts)Thanks
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)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.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)One day at an Hispanic heritage event ...
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Traildogbob
(8,584 posts)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".
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)tracts of land...
Traildogbob
(8,584 posts)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)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)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.
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Faking it would certainly be big part of job.
https://www.vogue.com/article/donald-trump-after-helsinki-with-putin-doesnt-care-about-democracy-only-himself
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)jokers to the left of me, clowns to the right -
3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)...swelled up.
gibraltar72
(7,486 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)They kicked him out because he dodged the draft.
Texin
(2,585 posts)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)runs in the family.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)Just imagine how different our lives would be today, if Germany had let the fool back in their country.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Or maybe he would've opened chain of brothels. Either way, we wouldn't have gotten Trumped.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)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)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)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)to know there was a better player in town!
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)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 ORourke 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)The family tradition has continued.
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)My new name for Trump.
47of74
(18,470 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)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)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.
bdamomma
(63,658 posts)we will be dancing on that grave.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have never been more disgusted in my life.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)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)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.