Comments on: Mexico, Immigration, and Donald Trump

By: Wil

Wil — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 04:13:48 +0000

CNN:
Donald Trump's highly anticipated speech on US immigration reform was a hit with white nationalists. CNN's Tom Foreman reports.

By: Mr. BD

Mr. BD — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:45:26 +0000

First of all that whole Mexico event was a disaster. Trump used the Mexican president to make himself look statesmen and the Mexican president fell for it ended up looking like a fool. He stood there and just let Trump say whatever he wanted now he can use that for a campaign ad or whatever. Trump had no business being down there since he is not the president and Mexico should have never let him come. As for the speech in Arizoan that was a big waste of time. Trump knows he's not getting blacks or latinos to vote for him so he just talked the same people he already has in his corner. That was unnecessary. After pretending he was going to try and include more people he just went back to the old way. I think DJ is right, he is just talking to his base because he has a plan past the presidential election. So he's gathering up people to be on his side after he loses. We are chumps because Trump is playing everybody.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:12:47 +0000

Politico Reader:
To think that Republicans nominated this man to be the leader of the most powerful country on earth. Simply astounding. […]

HA Reader:
Scapegoating and hatred aimed at an innocent group of people. Madness. Could have been Hitler talking about taking back Germany from the Jews and their back stabbing allies.

That's it for me; I'm no longer just nevertrump, I'm voting for Hillary to stop this madness. Any patriot should do the same or you're marching in lockstep with a movement that will destroy America. […]

Tweets

Joan Walsh: "I hope the journalists who called this Cro-Magnon "presidential" {yesterday} are resigning their jobs."

Charles Johnson: "Journalists who promoted Trump's "softening" – after this insane speech, you should hang your heads in shame."

Jelani Cobb: "This is is not a general election speech. It’s pure id to id communication."

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:08:39 +0000

"Several Hispanic Trump surrogates reconsider support"

Several major Latino surrogates for Donald Trump are reconsidering their support for him following the Republican nominee’s hardline speech on immigration Wednesday night.

Jacob Monty, a member of Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, has resigned, and Alfonso Aguilar, the president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, said in an interview that he is “inclined” to pull his support.

“I was a strong supporter of Donald Trump when I believed he was going to address the immigration problem realistically and compassionately,” said Monty, a Houston attorney who has aggressively made the Latino case for Trump. “What I heard today was not realistic and not compassionate.”

He withdrew from the board following Trump’s speech in Phoenix, which was heavy on calls for border security and emphasized that all immigrants in the country illegally were subject to deportation.

“When we met [earlier in August] he was going to approach this issue with a realistic plan, a compassionate plan, with a plan that was not disruptive to the immigrants that were here that were not lawbreakers,” said Monty, one of the Latino leaders who met with the candidate at Trump Tower recently, a gathering at which Trump reportedly softened his tone toward undocumented immigrants already in the country. “He didn’t deliver any of that.” […] Katie Glueck, writer at Politico

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:04:08 +0000

Another great summary DJ. Thank you. .

I got off work a little early yesterday and was able to catch the Mexican presser (such as it was). The event didn't last long but I think it revealed a lot about both men. Each man tried to use the other to give himself some cred. And IMO they both failed. Miserably.

So then last night, I forced myself to sit through Trump's entire rant (a policy speech it was not). I endured that painful ordeal because I wanted to see for myself the degree to which he would be unhinged following his weak-azz performance in Mexico.

Sure enough, he served up his usual heaping of scapegoating and Hate- to the delight of his rabid supporters. But he did so with even more bile and machismo BS than usual. A fake alpha-dog like Trump is SO predictable.

As he raged on and on, I kept saying to myself – This. is. a. total. disaster.

No way he moved the needle beyond HIS base of support. In fact, I'd wager he probably lost some votes.

To quote a Politico reader: "I think Trump figured out a way to guarantee he loses and executed on it."

What a fiasco. An absolute fiasco…smh.