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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 09:24 AM Jun 2019

Trump: Officials doing 'fantastic job' with detained migrant children given 'circumstances'

Source: The Hill



BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 06/23/19 09:17 AM EDT

President Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that his administration is going a "fantastic job" with detained migrant children, given the "circumstances."

Trump on NBC's "Meet the Press" blamed Democrats when host Chuck Todd brought up the fact that the administration cut recreation and English classes at shelters for migrant kids.

"We're doing a fantastic job under the circumstances," Trump said. "The Democrats aren't even approving giving us money. Where is the money? You know what? The Democrats are holding up the humanitarian aid."

Todd also suggested that the children were being used politically, and the president once again knocked the other side.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/449901-trump-officials-doing-fantastic-job-on-detained-migrant-children

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Trump: Officials doing 'fantastic job' with detained migrant children given 'circumstances' (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2019 OP
"...given the circumstances"...He created the circumstances. Frustratedlady Jun 2019 #1
+1000 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2019 #9
Which probably really means duforsure Jun 2019 #2
Immigrant lives DO NOT MATTER.... ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2019 #3
tRump and the GOP are not just abusing children, pazzyanne Jun 2019 #5
I object! pazzyanne Jun 2019 #4
Given the circumstances? MuseRider Jun 2019 #6
No money for their soap and toothbrushes, but $1.3 million on rental cars for his Scotland golf trip dalton99a Jun 2019 #7
107M spent on his weekends in Florida n/t sarge43 Jun 2019 #11
tRump's your doing a heck of a job moment, but this disaster is a gop made disaster nt yaesu Jun 2019 #8
trump is the best child abuser BarbD Jun 2019 #10
Given the fact the policy is by definition a human rights violation, and the effort is Nitram Jun 2019 #12
Heckuva job, eh? Flaleftist Jun 2019 #13

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
1. "...given the circumstances"...He created the circumstances.
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 09:29 AM
Jun 2019

Idiot in Chief.

Does he EVER project into the future to see how his decisions will affect people? What a bumbling fool.

duforsure

(11,882 posts)
2. Which probably really means
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 09:37 AM
Jun 2019

More bad news about how there's more dead then reported , and even worse conditions . trump always puts out the opposite of the truth just before something bad about him becomes reported , and its one of his tells, and patterns. He knows how bad they're being treated, and being abused, and dying, but like always he'll claim he didn't know, when he did. He almost always denies everything that implicate his failures, and will with this too. trump and the gop are abusing children.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,485 posts)
3. Immigrant lives DO NOT MATTER....
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 09:53 AM
Jun 2019

Even little babies. He created this crisis and his M.O. is to BLAME others for his policies.

pazzyanne

(6,518 posts)
5. tRump and the GOP are not just abusing children,
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 10:10 AM
Jun 2019

They are killing them! Genocide is occurring within our borders because of this POS and his minions.

pazzyanne

(6,518 posts)
4. I object!
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 10:06 AM
Jun 2019

"We're doing a fantastic job under the circumstances," Trump said. "The Democrats aren't even approving giving us money. Where is the money? You know what? The Democrats are holding up the humanitarian aid."

$700 per day per child is not enough when a US prisoner has full amenities on $72 per day per prisoner. The pResident thinks we are idiots.

MuseRider

(34,060 posts)
6. Given the circumstances?
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 10:25 AM
Jun 2019

That is the criteria? That should never be the criteria in something that is controllable. After rapid flooding? For the moment that would be OK but that moment should be for the moment not long term.

So he thinks that given the circumstances is OK for immigrant children. Who would have guessed that? Major asshole and that is the best thing I can say about him.

We need him gone so we can be humane humans again. Or at least opt for that rather than the "whatever" we are doing now.

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
12. Given the fact the policy is by definition a human rights violation, and the effort is
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 09:54 PM
Jun 2019

vastly underfunded, detainees are lucky to have a place to lie down on a piece of concrete. That's what Trump means by "the circumstances."

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