Former Bush speech writer slams Trump’s ‘shocking’ speech

Liberal pundits such as Van Jones weren’t the only people who came away shaken by President Trump’s inaugural address — some conservatives were unnerved by it as well.

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, who was a speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, took to Twitter on Friday to express his astonishment at just how divisive the new president’s speech really was. In particular, Gerson thought it sounded as though Trump was only speaking too the 46% of voters who supported him this past fall.

“It is truly shocking how disconnected this speech was from inaugural history,” wrote Gerson, who has been a longtime critic of Trump dating back to last year’s Republican primaries. “An inaugural for red American alone.”

Gerson also knocked Trump for painting an overly negative portrait of life in the United States, and for not offering a positive, uplifting message other than promoting his own grandiosity.

“There was the ‘New Deal,’ the ‘New Frontier’ — we have been treated to the “American Carnage” speech,” he wrote. “Trump has only one style of leadership — amplify resentments to intimidate opponents and force change.”

To sum up the speech, Gerson cribbed a line from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address and twisted it into a Trump-esque concoction.

“With malice toward many,” he wrote. “And charity is for losers.”

See the tweet storm here:

‘An inaugural for Red America alone’: Former Bush speech writer slams Trump’s ‘shocking’ speech

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Dark days are here, my friends. Brace yourselves.

His "America first" comment struck me. As if any President in the United States that was ever sworn into office didn't or didn't intend to put America First? WTF was that all about--LOL

It sounded like he was campaigning.

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/---- Barack Insane Obama put America last for 8 years.
 
It's the energy he rides on.

But does he really care? For example - he wants to undo the banking regulations that were put into effect after the financial crisis. That was something that really hurt the people who he claims are not being heard - the forgotten people.

I don't believe Donald cares about anyone other than Donald. I don't think he even really cares all that much for his own kids. He practically ignored them growing up and had next to nothing to do with them until they could start making him money in his company. Whatever he does, we can be fairly sure every decision he makes will benefit him first and foremost.
If what you say is true, then his Presidency will fail.....just like the Left Wing Loonies hope it will.

OTOH, since he's already backpedaled from most of his campaign rhetoric, it will be interesting to see what he chooses to do this first 100 days of his Presidency. Let's not forget the oath he took today. If he did what you suggest, he would be impeached. Also remember that his speech today took shots at the Republican establishment/status quo. Like you and the Loony Left, there are plenty in the RNC who hope he falls flat on his face. For the sake of the country, I hope he doesn't. Time will tell.

Trump may not have 100 days in office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/world/europe/trump-campaign-russia.html?_r=0

Trump and his supporters have made a lot of Republican enemies on the hill that won't come running with a bucket of water to put out the problems he is currently engulfed with. He is the most illegitimate President ever to be sworn into the oval office.


From your own link, rube:

It is not uncommon for the presidential nominees of major parties to have contact with foreign leaders, or to meet with foreign government officials. During the campaign, Mr. Trump traveled to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton met separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in September. Mrs. Clinton also met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt during the United Nations General Assembly session in October; a spokesman for her campaign said there were no communications with Russia.

No one gives a fuck if any of Trump's team spoke with a Russian, because guess what, it's a free country and they can speak to foreigners if they want.


The fact you said you don't care if anyone on Trump's team talked to Russia during the election says everything anyone needs to know... anything you say is now invalid and totally absurd.

Do you care that Hillary spoke with Israelis and Japanese during the election?
 
I don't believe Donald cares about anyone other than Donald. I don't think he even really cares all that much for his own kids. He practically ignored them growing up and had next to nothing to do with them until they could start making him money in his company. Whatever he does, we can be fairly sure every decision he makes will benefit him first and foremost.
If what you say is true, then his Presidency will fail.....just like the Left Wing Loonies hope it will.

OTOH, since he's already backpedaled from most of his campaign rhetoric, it will be interesting to see what he chooses to do this first 100 days of his Presidency. Let's not forget the oath he took today. If he did what you suggest, he would be impeached. Also remember that his speech today took shots at the Republican establishment/status quo. Like you and the Loony Left, there are plenty in the RNC who hope he falls flat on his face. For the sake of the country, I hope he doesn't. Time will tell.

Trump may not have 100 days in office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/world/europe/trump-campaign-russia.html?_r=0

Trump and his supporters have made a lot of Republican enemies on the hill that won't come running with a bucket of water to put out the problems he is currently engulfed with. He is the most illegitimate President ever to be sworn into the oval office.


From your own link, rube:

It is not uncommon for the presidential nominees of major parties to have contact with foreign leaders, or to meet with foreign government officials. During the campaign, Mr. Trump traveled to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton met separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in September. Mrs. Clinton also met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt during the United Nations General Assembly session in October; a spokesman for her campaign said there were no communications with Russia.

No one gives a fuck if any of Trump's team spoke with a Russian, because guess what, it's a free country and they can speak to foreigners if they want.


The fact you said you don't care if anyone on Trump's team talked to Russia during the election says everything anyone needs to know... anything you say is now invalid and totally absurd.

Do you care that Hillary spoke with Israelis and Japanese during the election?


Did they hack components in the election to help get their candidate elected? There's your answer...
 
If what you say is true, then his Presidency will fail.....just like the Left Wing Loonies hope it will.

OTOH, since he's already backpedaled from most of his campaign rhetoric, it will be interesting to see what he chooses to do this first 100 days of his Presidency. Let's not forget the oath he took today. If he did what you suggest, he would be impeached. Also remember that his speech today took shots at the Republican establishment/status quo. Like you and the Loony Left, there are plenty in the RNC who hope he falls flat on his face. For the sake of the country, I hope he doesn't. Time will tell.

Trump may not have 100 days in office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/world/europe/trump-campaign-russia.html?_r=0

Trump and his supporters have made a lot of Republican enemies on the hill that won't come running with a bucket of water to put out the problems he is currently engulfed with. He is the most illegitimate President ever to be sworn into the oval office.


From your own link, rube:

It is not uncommon for the presidential nominees of major parties to have contact with foreign leaders, or to meet with foreign government officials. During the campaign, Mr. Trump traveled to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton met separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in September. Mrs. Clinton also met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt during the United Nations General Assembly session in October; a spokesman for her campaign said there were no communications with Russia.

No one gives a fuck if any of Trump's team spoke with a Russian, because guess what, it's a free country and they can speak to foreigners if they want.


The fact you said you don't care if anyone on Trump's team talked to Russia during the election says everything anyone needs to know... anything you say is now invalid and totally absurd.

Do you care that Hillary spoke with Israelis and Japanese during the election?


Did they hack components in the election to help get their candidate elected? There's your answer...

Do you know they didn't? Do we know the Russians that Trump team members "may have talked to" were the ones that did any hacking?
 
Trump may not have 100 days in office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/world/europe/trump-campaign-russia.html?_r=0

Trump and his supporters have made a lot of Republican enemies on the hill that won't come running with a bucket of water to put out the problems he is currently engulfed with. He is the most illegitimate President ever to be sworn into the oval office.


From your own link, rube:

It is not uncommon for the presidential nominees of major parties to have contact with foreign leaders, or to meet with foreign government officials. During the campaign, Mr. Trump traveled to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton met separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in September. Mrs. Clinton also met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt during the United Nations General Assembly session in October; a spokesman for her campaign said there were no communications with Russia.

No one gives a fuck if any of Trump's team spoke with a Russian, because guess what, it's a free country and they can speak to foreigners if they want.


The fact you said you don't care if anyone on Trump's team talked to Russia during the election says everything anyone needs to know... anything you say is now invalid and totally absurd.

Do you care that Hillary spoke with Israelis and Japanese during the election?


Did they hack components in the election to help get their candidate elected? There's your answer...

Do you know they didn't? Do we know the Russians that Trump team members "may have talked to" were the ones that did any hacking?

Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.
 
From your own link, rube:

It is not uncommon for the presidential nominees of major parties to have contact with foreign leaders, or to meet with foreign government officials. During the campaign, Mr. Trump traveled to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton met separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in September. Mrs. Clinton also met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt during the United Nations General Assembly session in October; a spokesman for her campaign said there were no communications with Russia.

No one gives a fuck if any of Trump's team spoke with a Russian, because guess what, it's a free country and they can speak to foreigners if they want.


The fact you said you don't care if anyone on Trump's team talked to Russia during the election says everything anyone needs to know... anything you say is now invalid and totally absurd.

Do you care that Hillary spoke with Israelis and Japanese during the election?


Did they hack components in the election to help get their candidate elected? There's your answer...

Do you know they didn't? Do we know the Russians that Trump team members "may have talked to" were the ones that did any hacking?

Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.


It's the commiecrats fault they were corrupt enough to have content worthy of releasing, isn't it?
 
The fact you said you don't care if anyone on Trump's team talked to Russia during the election says everything anyone needs to know... anything you say is now invalid and totally absurd.

Do you care that Hillary spoke with Israelis and Japanese during the election?


Did they hack components in the election to help get their candidate elected? There's your answer...

Do you know they didn't? Do we know the Russians that Trump team members "may have talked to" were the ones that did any hacking?

Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.


It's the commiecrats fault they were corrupt enough to have content worthy of releasing, isn't it?


How many times do we have to go through this. Victim blaming is not the answer. I keep asking people who say what you are saying the same question... and no one has the guts to answer it. If a woman gets sexually assaulted do you blame her for dressing slutty?

I supported Bernie Sanders and he got screwed by Hillary and the DNC... however that doesn't mean their right to privacy should be allowed to be violated.
 
Do you care that Hillary spoke with Israelis and Japanese during the election?


Did they hack components in the election to help get their candidate elected? There's your answer...

Do you know they didn't? Do we know the Russians that Trump team members "may have talked to" were the ones that did any hacking?

Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.


It's the commiecrats fault they were corrupt enough to have content worthy of releasing, isn't it?


How many times do we have to go through this. Victim blaming is not the answer. I keep asking people who say what you are saying the same question... and no one has the guts to answer it. If a woman gets sexually assaulted do you blame her for dressing slutty?

I supported Bernie Sanders and he got screwed by Hillary and the DNC... however that doesn't mean their right to privacy should be allowed to be violated.


False equivalences, is that really the best your got. Political parties are nonprofit organizations funded by public donations. Their donors have a right to know if they are corrupt or not. The emails and the undercover videos exposed them not only being corrupt, but criminal also.
 
Liberal pundits such as Van Jones weren’t the only people who came away shaken by President Trump’s inaugural address — some conservatives were unnerved by it as well.

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, who was a speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, took to Twitter on Friday to express his astonishment at just how divisive the new president’s speech really was. In particular, Gerson thought it sounded as though Trump was only speaking too the 46% of voters who supported him this past fall.

“It is truly shocking how disconnected this speech was from inaugural history,” wrote Gerson, who has been a longtime critic of Trump dating back to last year’s Republican primaries. “An inaugural for red American alone.”

Gerson also knocked Trump for painting an overly negative portrait of life in the United States, and for not offering a positive, uplifting message other than promoting his own grandiosity.

“There was the ‘New Deal,’ the ‘New Frontier’ — we have been treated to the “American Carnage” speech,” he wrote. “Trump has only one style of leadership — amplify resentments to intimidate opponents and force change.”

To sum up the speech, Gerson cribbed a line from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address and twisted it into a Trump-esque concoction.

“With malice toward many,” he wrote. “And charity is for losers.”

See the tweet storm here:

‘An inaugural for Red America alone’: Former Bush speech writer slams Trump’s ‘shocking’ speech

--------

Dark days are here, my friends. Brace yourselves.
What conservatives were rattled?
 
Did they hack components in the election to help get their candidate elected? There's your answer...

Do you know they didn't? Do we know the Russians that Trump team members "may have talked to" were the ones that did any hacking?

Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.


It's the commiecrats fault they were corrupt enough to have content worthy of releasing, isn't it?


How many times do we have to go through this. Victim blaming is not the answer. I keep asking people who say what you are saying the same question... and no one has the guts to answer it. If a woman gets sexually assaulted do you blame her for dressing slutty?

I supported Bernie Sanders and he got screwed by Hillary and the DNC... however that doesn't mean their right to privacy should be allowed to be violated.


False equivalences, is that really the best your got. Political parties are nonprofit organizations funded by public donations. Their donors have a right to know if they are corrupt or not. The emails and the undercover videos exposed them not only being corrupt, but criminal also.


No... that is not how it works. The info was in private emails and on private servers. You didn't answer my question, that right there tells me you know you are wrong.
 
Liberal pundits such as Van Jones weren’t the only people who came away shaken by President Trump’s inaugural address — some conservatives were unnerved by it as well.

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, who was a speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, took to Twitter on Friday to express his astonishment at just how divisive the new president’s speech really was. In particular, Gerson thought it sounded as though Trump was only speaking too the 46% of voters who supported him this past fall.

“It is truly shocking how disconnected this speech was from inaugural history,” wrote Gerson, who has been a longtime critic of Trump dating back to last year’s Republican primaries. “An inaugural for red American alone.”

Gerson also knocked Trump for painting an overly negative portrait of life in the United States, and for not offering a positive, uplifting message other than promoting his own grandiosity.

“There was the ‘New Deal,’ the ‘New Frontier’ — we have been treated to the “American Carnage” speech,” he wrote. “Trump has only one style of leadership — amplify resentments to intimidate opponents and force change.”

To sum up the speech, Gerson cribbed a line from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address and twisted it into a Trump-esque concoction.

“With malice toward many,” he wrote. “And charity is for losers.”

See the tweet storm here:

‘An inaugural for Red America alone’: Former Bush speech writer slams Trump’s ‘shocking’ speech

--------

Dark days are here, my friends. Brace yourselves.
What conservatives were rattled?

The imaginary ones.
 
Do you know they didn't? Do we know the Russians that Trump team members "may have talked to" were the ones that did any hacking?

Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.


It's the commiecrats fault they were corrupt enough to have content worthy of releasing, isn't it?


How many times do we have to go through this. Victim blaming is not the answer. I keep asking people who say what you are saying the same question... and no one has the guts to answer it. If a woman gets sexually assaulted do you blame her for dressing slutty?

I supported Bernie Sanders and he got screwed by Hillary and the DNC... however that doesn't mean their right to privacy should be allowed to be violated.


False equivalences, is that really the best your got. Political parties are nonprofit organizations funded by public donations. Their donors have a right to know if they are corrupt or not. The emails and the undercover videos exposed them not only being corrupt, but criminal also.


No... that is not how it works. The info was in private emails and on private servers. You didn't answer my question, that right there tells me you know you are wrong.

It was on DNC servers, and if they were concerned about privacy, maybe they should have hired better geeks. Also there is no privacy in this country, the NSA, patriot act and ACA made sure of that. Plus the tech companies scan every character of email and sell info to marketers. If you don't want someone else to see it, don't put it out on non-encrypted systems.
 
Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.


It's the commiecrats fault they were corrupt enough to have content worthy of releasing, isn't it?


How many times do we have to go through this. Victim blaming is not the answer. I keep asking people who say what you are saying the same question... and no one has the guts to answer it. If a woman gets sexually assaulted do you blame her for dressing slutty?

I supported Bernie Sanders and he got screwed by Hillary and the DNC... however that doesn't mean their right to privacy should be allowed to be violated.


False equivalences, is that really the best your got. Political parties are nonprofit organizations funded by public donations. Their donors have a right to know if they are corrupt or not. The emails and the undercover videos exposed them not only being corrupt, but criminal also.


No... that is not how it works. The info was in private emails and on private servers. You didn't answer my question, that right there tells me you know you are wrong.

It was on DNC servers, and if they were concerned about privacy, maybe they should have hired better geeks. Also there is no privacy in this country, the NSA, patriot act and ACA made sure of that. Plus the tech companies scan every character of email and sell info to marketers. If you don't want someone else to see it, don't put it out on non-encrypted systems.

Fucking listen to yourself... I'll ask you one more time, and if you don't answer then I'll just assume you are one of those asshole victim blamers. When a woman gets sexually assaulted do you say she deserved it for dressing slutty? You already just said it was the DNC's fault for getting hacked because they didn't have good enough security.
 
Do you know they didn't? Do we know the Russians that Trump team members "may have talked to" were the ones that did any hacking?

Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.


It's the commiecrats fault they were corrupt enough to have content worthy of releasing, isn't it?


How many times do we have to go through this. Victim blaming is not the answer. I keep asking people who say what you are saying the same question... and no one has the guts to answer it. If a woman gets sexually assaulted do you blame her for dressing slutty?

I supported Bernie Sanders and he got screwed by Hillary and the DNC... however that doesn't mean their right to privacy should be allowed to be violated.


False equivalences, is that really the best your got. Political parties are nonprofit organizations funded by public donations. Their donors have a right to know if they are corrupt or not. The emails and the undercover videos exposed them not only being corrupt, but criminal also.


No... that is not how it works. The info was in private emails and on private servers. You didn't answer my question, that right there tells me you know you are wrong.

Oh so now it's all about privacy. The left didn't care about privacy when they got their hands on an old tape of Trump having a private conversation 15 years ago. That was used to "influence the election" just as much as DNC emails were.
 
Do we know they didn't... is that a serious question?

It was the Russian government, so yes, if a Trump team member was in contact with someone in the Russian government it is very suspicious and wrong. The fact you just blew it off and don't care says a lot.


It's the commiecrats fault they were corrupt enough to have content worthy of releasing, isn't it?


How many times do we have to go through this. Victim blaming is not the answer. I keep asking people who say what you are saying the same question... and no one has the guts to answer it. If a woman gets sexually assaulted do you blame her for dressing slutty?

I supported Bernie Sanders and he got screwed by Hillary and the DNC... however that doesn't mean their right to privacy should be allowed to be violated.


False equivalences, is that really the best your got. Political parties are nonprofit organizations funded by public donations. Their donors have a right to know if they are corrupt or not. The emails and the undercover videos exposed them not only being corrupt, but criminal also.


No... that is not how it works. The info was in private emails and on private servers. You didn't answer my question, that right there tells me you know you are wrong.

Oh so now it's all about privacy. The left didn't care about privacy when they got their hands on an old tape of Trump having a private conversation 15 years ago. That was used to "influence the election" just as much as DNC emails were.


He was recorded as part of a conversation that was happening for a Soap opera... not even remotely like the DNC hack.
 
Easily the darkest, murkiest, most fearful inauguration I've ever seen in my life. Darth Vader himself couldn't have made this a darker day.

Oh, yeah, it is real dark, murky and fearful for an American president to call all fellow Americans to be and act like Americans.

%The horror!! The shame!!
 
No, the workforce participation rate does not include retirees, you dishonest c*nt. It also does not include students, or incarcerated people. It only includes people working, or unemployed, over the age of 16.

Participation Rate
Labor Force Participation : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Got any more lies?

In that case C#nt, it has always been artificially low. So when is was 7.8% in Jan 2009 before Obama took office the unofficial rate was really a lot higher? Cool. So let's use the c#nts logic. It is now 4.7%? Let's add 5% percent for the wingnut c#nt Hawk. So the real rate is 9.7%. Using your 'logic' when Obama took office it was 12.8%. So it has still gone down over 3%. Thanks Hawk you dumb c#nt.
 
No one undermined the process, you dumbfuck. Some idiots in the DNC getting their personal email hacked isn't "hacking the election", as your precious MSM keeps repeating.

I'm not quoting the DNC nimrod. I'm quoting the 16 intel agenices. Yeah, those conspiracy theorists whereby all of those agencies sat down and came to the same conclusion....yeah, that's really believable that they all did it together to undermine the Orange Buffoon.
 
No one undermined the process, you dumbfuck. Some idiots in the DNC getting their personal email hacked isn't "hacking the election", as your precious MSM keeps repeating.

I'm not quoting the DNC nimrod. I'm quoting the 16 intel agenices. Yeah, those conspiracy theorists whereby all of those agencies sat down and came to the same conclusion....yeah, that's really believable that they all did it together to undermine the Orange Buffoon.
Awwww.....angry snowflake....
 
What a surprise, another homo-progressive bitch believes everything CNN tells him.

There's a homo-progressive bitch posting on here? I thought muffdiving Irish Lass was on another thread. oh well..

Nah, I just have a lot more faith in them than Breifart, Fake News and Faux News. I know you're a Deplorable and not that bright. Anytime you feel like posting something from CNN that isn't true, feel free....
 

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