Lakhota
Diamond Member
Less than three days before the year’s end and President Donald Trump has managed to shock his critics with more insensitive rants.
This time, it was about the immigrant children who recently died while in the custody of Customs and Border Patrol after surrendering to immigration authorities.
Trump, whose policies have caused thousands of immigrant children to be separated from their families, blamed Democrats in Congress for the deaths of 8-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo and 7-year-old Jakelin Caal.
In response, Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) said Trump had hit a new low by using the children’s deaths to promote his border wall.
Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty, who covers national politics, doubled down on that sentiment.
“With President Trump, there is no bottom,” she wrote on Saturday.
“We have a president who is willing to politicize the deaths of two young children to score points against the opposition party,” she added. “And the most shocking thing about seeing him scrape along a new moral bottom is this: It is no longer shocking at all.”
For Trump’s fiercest critics, it is impossible for Trump to get any worse. But, somehow, he always does.
Below, 5 more times people thought Trump had hit a new low in 2018:
When Trump said he’d defend Saudi Arabia even if the crown prince ordered the murder of a Saudi Washington Post journalist
When Trump called Hurricane Maria’s death toll “fake news”
When Trump met with Vladimir Putin and publicly defended the Russian president against accusations of meddling in the election
When the Trump administration separated children from their families as part of his zero tolerance crackdown on illegal immigration
When Trump called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries”
When Trump called Hurricane Maria’s death toll “fake news”
When Trump met with Vladimir Putin and publicly defended the Russian president against accusations of meddling in the election
When the Trump administration separated children from their families as part of his zero tolerance crackdown on illegal immigration
When Trump called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries”
DETAILS: 6 Times Trump 'Hit A New Low' In 2018
It's hard to imagine that a president could go so low. I expect he can even go lower. I also expect that Speaker Nancy Pelosi may drive him over the edge. What do you think.
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