Paralympics fires back at Trump for insulting disabled athletes as 'tough to watch'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory




TOM BOGGIONI
28 APR 2018 AT 11:24 ET

Using their Twitter platform, the organizers of the Paralympics shot back at President Donald Trump on Saturday morning for his rude comments about the events and athletes being “tough’ to watch.

While meeting with the athletes at the White House on Friday for a photo-op, the president blurted, “What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me. And I watched — it’s a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could.”

Trump’s off-the-cuff comments did not sit well observers who found his remarks insulting, and Saturday the Paralympics Twitter account included a shot at Trump without specifically mentioning him by name.

“Record numbers around the world are not finding @Paralympics tough to watch,” the tweet read. “Billions of viewers now take in the Paralympics in hundreds of countries around the world. We hope the US President continues to watch and be inspired by the Paralympics.”

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[hlthe2b]

1. way too subtle... Trump won't get its intended point...

But, maybe a small few of the morons who feel similarly to Trump, will.

[brewens]

2. Trump misspoke. He meant to say, tough to watch without laughing. He should have

mimicked one of them to show us just exactly what he meant.

I'd like to be able to use the sarcasm smiley here, but I really can't.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Follows, it skeeves out fascists when they have to face others they see as less than them...

[Mr. Ected]

4. From the lips of the parapresident

Yeah, your term in office has been very hard for all of us to watch, Dotard.

[PunkinPi]

5. What's "tough to watch" is Trump being a constant embarrassment. nt

[tanyev]

6. Good on them for saying something, but maybe no athletes should allow this man

to use them for a photo op ever again.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. I wish they weren't so deferential to the insulting asshole but

I understand thinking better of trying to get anywhere with this insensitive creep.

[left-of-center2012]

8. I recall how he mocked a disabled journalist

Although Trump's staff said Trump just waves his hands around when speaking.

[Butterflylady]

13. After that comment why did they even go?

All he did was to use them for a photo op. That's disgraceful.

[heaven05]

9. just such a pig

rooting through filth all his life and now he is the perfect embodiment of the corrupt politician and as potus... I hope he ends loveless.

[KPN]

10. Asshole lacks a single decent bone in his entire pigish body!

[area51]

14. +1 n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

11. I always thought Trump was a mere racist, white supremacist.

Turns out, he's a full-on eugenics-loving Nazi.

(As an aside, Trump must do his own makeup. No professional would assess that orange-brown smear of crap on his face and say to themself, "That looks good".)

[DinahMoeHum]

12. No wonder several Olympic athletes chose NOT to go to the WH.

Really, who needs this embarrassment??

[Scarsdale]

15. What IS "tough to watch"

is this orange arse trying to be presidential. Now THAT is tough to watch. He will NEVER measure up to the gentlemen who came before him. Most ignorant, unqualified, uncouth, smarmy ignoramous EVER to inhabit the WH. Thanks GOP.

[lunatica]

16. His mocking of the handicapped is what's tough to watch!

Fucking asshole!

[Maxheader]

17. Cheetoz

just doesn't see how people with disabilities have more
integrity than it does...

[More_Cowbell]

18. "Tough to watch" from the dope who looked at the sun during an eclipse. nt

[lunamagica]

19. You are tough to watch pretending to know what you are doing

[EarthFirst]

20. What the fu*k?

It’s just one colossal embarrassment after another with this dolt!