The well-known comedic icon Jerry Lewis, is not a fan of President Obama. And in a newly released interview with Raymond Arroyo, Lewis did not hold back.
“Refugees should stay where the hell they are,” said Lewis bluntly. “Hey, no one has worked harder for the human condition than I have, but they’re not part of the human condition. If 11 guys in the group of 10,000 are ISIS—how can I take that chance?”
…Lewis then said that President Obama was “never prepared” for ISIS and suggested that he was not a real leader…
…The clip concludes with Lewis praising Trump for his “showmanship.”
“I think he’s great,” said Lewis of Trump. “He’s a showman and we’ve never had a showman in the president’s chair.”
“Well, we had Ronald Reagan,” Arroyo interjected.
“Well, that’s different,” answered Lewis. “You can’t make do a comparison on Ronald Reagan because I can do three hours on him with just praise, he was so good.”
After the dust-up today between Donald Trump and the New Hampshire Union Leader – a dust-up that materialized because the paper endorsed Chris Christie in November then wrote an editorial entitled, “Trump campaign insults NH Voters’ intelligence,” – Donald Trump responded in his usual kindergarten way, calling the paper’s editor “a lowlife” and later calling the paper, “a pile of garbage.”
On MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tonight, Grant Bosse of the very conservative New Hampshire Union Leader, continued his paper’s editorial point, saying that Trump’s name-calling on the paper’s editor was “expected.”
“We were kind of expecting this for a while,” Bosse said. “Frankly, whenever anything doesn’t go Donald Trump’s way he attacks, so we knew this was coming for a while, it just happens to be today.”
Hayes asked Grant Bosse about Pat Buchanan, another Republican presidential candidate the newspaper endorsed on two previous occasions, and Hayes wanted to know if there was a difference between Buchanan and Trump, since both candidates campaigned on the same issues. Bosse answered that Buchanan knew what he was talking about while Donald Trump “just makes stuff up.”
“Well the big difference is that Pat Buchanan knows what he is talking about,” Bosse said. “He had decades of public policy experience. He was a top aide to presidents before he ran for president. He had some policy expertise and something behind what he said. Trump just makes it up off the top of his head.”
Later on in the interview, Bosse suggested that Trump is just running for president to make sure that Hillary Clinton gets elected president. “He’s been friendly with the Clintons for decades…Donald Trump has the ego to think that he should be president,” Bosse said. “But I think he got into to this thinking that he didn’t like some of the other Republican candidates and that if it was him or Hillary, well it’s no lose.”
“I find it strange that every single time Donald Trump attacks Hillary Clinton, it’s with the stupidest, least effective means possible. He attacked her for going to the bathroom, now he’s trying to remind Democrats of her more popular husband.”
Republicans love Donald Trump. White Supremacists love Donald Trump. The two groups are sometimes mistaken as the other, but one thing is for sure – their love for the man is unmistakable.
Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and Louisiana politician David Duke says Republican front-runner Donald Trump speaks “a lot more radically” than he does, which, he says, is a “positive and negative.”
In an interview conducted on Dec. 17 that Duke labels “Fox interview” on his YouTube channel (it’s unclear who the interviewer is or if the interview aired), Duke praised Trump for giving people the courage to speak out, but was critical of his support of Israel.
“As far as what I see, according to the candidates that are out there now, Republicans and Democrats, I think he’s head and shoulders right now above the rest,” Duke said, noting he hadn’t officially endorsed Trump. “I don’t agree with everything he says, he speaks a little more, actually he speaks a little more, a lot more radically than I talk. And I think that’s a positive and negative.”
“It’s positive in the fact that there’s less political correctness and people are getting the courage to speak out,” Duke continued. “At the same time, I’m concerned that I don’t agree with all of his policies. I certainly don’t support the idea of America supporting the nation of Israel, which has committed terrorism against the United States of America, with the Lavon affair and the attack on the Liberty and the incredible treachery and the damage that was done by Israel with its spy Jonathan Pollard, who basically caused the death of hundreds of our operatives. I think, and I see this Jewish extremist, this basically Zionist, minority having enormous influence.”
I remember not too long ago when one of Donald Trump’s supporter went on television and proclaimed that Donald Trump is the only politician who tells the truth and that President Obama lies all the time. But if you look at the supporter and listen to the things she said, it was obvious she was talking purely from an emotional state of mind.
PolitiFact however, did not base their Lie of The Year award on their emotions, no, they based their findings and award on facts!
PolitiFact has been documenting Trump’s statements on our Truth-O-Meter, where we’ve rated 76 percent of them Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire, out of more than 75 statements checked. No other politician has as many statements rated so far down on the dial.
In considering our annual Lie of the Year, we found our only real contenders were Trump’s — his various statements also led our Readers’ Poll. But it was hard to single one out from the others. So we have rolled them into one big trophy.
To the candidate who says he’s all about winning, PolitiFact designates the many campaign misstatements of Donald Trump as our 2015 Lie of the Year.
This quote was taken from Donald Trump’s 1987 bestseller, The Art of the Deal. In it, Trump explains that people who think little of themselves find comfort in those who lies and indulge in “hyperbole.”
“People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts… People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.”
Sometimes, someone on Fox News gets hit with a jolt of truth. After yet another dumb statement by the Republican leader, Donald Trump, Greg Gutfeld, co-host of The Five showed his frustration at Donald Trump for his bullying of Hillary Clinton and his network’s unending attempt to defend the bully!
I just wanted to hear you defend this. Because I’ve heard people defend him about making fun of a disability, making fun of John McCain, making fun of women, a woman’s face, I wanted to hear somebody defend this as well. Because it never ends.
No one will ever stop defending the crass stuff he says. By the way, I haven’t used that word since I was seven years old. I don’t understand this. And I also, I don’t understand the comment about the bathroom. And I’m sick of hearing people defend this stuff. By the way, we’re not even allowed to use the word that he said, but somehow we’re going to have him on our network all the time. Meanwhile, we treat our employees far differently than that.
A little later in the interview, Gutfeld continued his outburst of truth, explaining that Trump is surrounded by “toadies” and because of that, Trump is always trying to be “the comedian,” saying foolish things and acting “very impulsive.” Gutfeld then concluded that an impulsive leader will not win against Hillary Clinton.
“When are you surrounded by toadies that cheer you on, you’re like a comedian, and you like the laughter. So I don’t — he’s very impulsive. Instead of thinking about what he says, he’s impulsive and it makes you wonder, do you want an impulsive leader, or do you want a leader that thinks? I want somebody who can beat Hillary. I don’t think an impulsive leader is going to beat Hillary.”
The leader of the Republican went on Fox News to answer questions about some of the things he has said during his presidential campaign, and whether he can seem more presidential to win over independents if or when he wins the Republican nomination. Trump, who apparently thinks he is God’s gift to make America great again, patted himself on the back, stating that he has done great things in his lifetime, all of which were presidential. Among those great presidential things, Trump mentioned “The Apprentice.”
“When you have to deal with the independents in a general election should you get the nomination, are you going to have to change your language a bit and appear, what I call, more presidential,” ask Fox host, Greta Van Susteren.
“Well I think I’m presidential,” Trump answered. “And I think I’ve done presidential work… even with The Apprentice…”
And somewhere in the United States, hearing this news will obviously fill some people with excitement. Their party and its leaders are getting their wish to apply a religious test for Muslim-like people wishing to come to America. To hell with the Constitution, save the Second Amendment!
The Guardian identified one of the British travelers as Mohammad Tariq Mahmood, who said he was headed to Disneyland with his brother and nine of their children.
The group, according to the Guardian, was “about to embark on a dream holiday for which they had saved for months, were approached by officials from US homeland security as they queued in the departure lounge and told their authorisation to travel had been cancelled, without further explanation.”
“We were devastated,” Mahmood told the British TV station ITV. “We’d planned this trip for two months — the kids were excited — and all of a sudden some person just comes and says ‘you’re not allowed to board the plane,’ with no explanation.”
“We were alienated,” he added, “the way we were just taken out the room.”
Mahmood said the children were “devastated” and had “tears in their eyes.”
In an interview with the BBC, Mahmood said he was taken aside by a British border control official just before his family was due to board the flight — and that the children knew almost instantly what was happening.
“We were the only family that were Asian, Muslim appearance. It was embarrassing that we were the only family that were taken out,” he said. “When they saw me shaking my head, the younger ones started crying. They knew straight away.”
No American officials told them why they weren’t being allowed to enter the United States, Mahmood told the Guardian, but he said the reason was “obvious.”
“It’s because of the attacks on America — they think every Muslim poses a threat,” he told the newspaper.
On a recent interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Donald Trump was asked about his new-found friend Vladimir Putin, and whether knowing that Putin is responsible for the deaths of people and some journalists means anything. In that interview, Donald Trump’s answer on Morning Joe was “that’s the way it is.”
The Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday pushed back on the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin has killed journalists, saying that it’s “terrible” if it’s happened but he hasn’t seen proof that it has.
“In all fairness to Putin, you’re saying he killed people. I haven’t seen that. I don’t know that he has. Have you been able to prove that? Do you know the names of the reporters that he’s killed? Because I’ve been – you know, you’ve been hearing this, but I haven’t seen the names,” Trump said on ABC.
The Russian president, who some of Trump’s GOP rivals have called a “thug” and a threat, recently praised Trump as “bright and talented.”
When confronted with Mitt Romney’s tweet also alleging that Putin kills journalists and political opponents, Trump again dismissed the claims. “He’s always denied it,” Trump said of Putin. “He’s never – it’s never been proven that he’s killed anybody. So, you know, you’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, at least in our country. He has not been proven that he’s killed reporters.”
I usually look forward to the December holidays because, for at least one month, people in the United States tend to he hopeful, helpful, optimistic and happy. They look backward at the year that was and take stock, and they look forward with anticipation at what the new year will bring.
This year, things are most certainly different. The terrorist attacks here at home and in France, Afghanistan, Iraq and other places have sapped some of the love and light from the season. We are a scared nation with no clear path forward. Want to brutally bomb Syria? An option. Want to send ground troops to Syria and Iraq? Another option. Want to create a coalition of American, European and Middle Eastern countries to fight ISIS and other terrorist groups? A third option. But none of these seem like THE option and they all involve terrible risks both overseas and at home.
President Obama has been steadfast in his insistence that we will not send masses of American troops to Syria or Iraq and I think that’s exactly the correct strategy for now. He has rightly been criticized for downplaying the ISIS threat and for not standing behind his threat to attack Syria if Assad used Chemical weapons, but most Americans do not want to see our men and women coming home in body bags. The old joke is that we shouldn’t elect anyone who actually wants to be president because it’s a terrible, impossible job. These are the times.
The focus on attacks from radical terrorists has overshadowed the home-grown terror that has also shaken the nation. The killings at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs was quickly forgotten in the wake of San Bernardino, but both were shocking events by people who were motivated by hatred, a misplaced fanaticism, and unbending ideology. In both shootings, the perpetrators should never have been allowed to get their guns, but because we are rapidly making the Second Amendment more important than the First, more people will get guns and use them on innocent people.
The left also has its problems when it comes to these issues. Calls for safe spaces and trigger warnings on college campuses only serve to segregate students and ideas, making common cause that much more difficult. If a person doesn’t feel safe in the general population, that’s a problem that needs to be addressed head-on. The answer is not to provide areas where people can retreat to or have their ideological bubble re-inflated.
The unfortunate aspect of this particular racist, phobic spasm we’re living in now is that it’s a very American trait. In fact, it’s more a part of our history than acceptance of different people and ideas. We eventually do make room in our society for those we first shun and isolate, but it takes too long and we backslide far too often. One need only look at how African-Americans and Latinos are treated by police forces to understand just how much more work we need to do on justice, even as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
We will eventually move forward as a country and I’m looking forward to a shift in tone from politicians and a shift in attitude from many of my fellow Americans. In the meantime, I wish you peace and joy, humility and introspection, thoughtfulness and forthrightness, love and honor. And let’s turn the ugliness around. Now.
Right-wing Republican extremist activist Theodore Shoebat says he’s all for Donald Trump’s apparent position to kill all family members of terrorist. In fact, Shoebat says that killing all family members of terrorists is exactly what God wants and demands.
“God himself is for that because when He commands His armies to invade the enemy nations, He makes it very clear you kill their families as well,” Shoebat stated. “So Trump actually has the most biblical policy in killing the families. I mean, if you want to take out an evil nation, you’ve got to kill the families because if you don’t kill the families, they’re going to produce children and those children wind up being your enemies and you’re just never going to get rid of the problem.”
“Look at the Japanese,” he continued. “America killed like, what, a half a million Japanese? Guess what? The Japs are still causing problems! They’re still causing problems. Yeah, they were peaceful for a few decades here and there, but look, now they want weapons, now they want to become independent from U.S. military influence, now they want their own fighter jet, now they want to start causing problems with China, now they want to commence conflict, now they want to change the history books and make it like America was the bad guy and Japan was the holy nation. Japan is now causing us problems. Why? Because we didn’t finish the job in World War II.”
“When you want to get rid of a problem, you need to get rid of the families as well,”Shoebat concluded. “It’s a biblical solution.”
Donald Trump is the same Republican presidential candidate who promised on many occasions to “go after” the family of terrorists here in America, their constitutional rights be damned. He has not specified exactly what he would do to these family members, but he hasn’t ruled out killing them simply because they are related to a terrorist. When asked what he would do with these family members, Trump has said, “I will be very very hard on them.”
With that in mind, and the fact that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin recently paid Trump a compliment, is it any surprise that Donald Trump sees nothing wrong with Putin killing political opponents and journalists who disagree with him?
In a telephone interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday, Trump was asked about Putin’s compliment and whether the fact that Putin kills people is worrisome. And, as expected, the new leader of the Republican party saw nothing wrong with that!
Brzezinski: Do you like Vladimir Putin’s comments about you?
Trump: Sure. When people call you brilliant, it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.
Scarborough: Well, I mean, also, it’s a person that kills journalists, political opponents, and invades countries. Obviously, that would be a concern, would it not?
Trump: He’s running his country, and at least he’s a leader, you know, unlike what we have in this country.
Scarborough: Yeah. But, again, he kills journalists that don’t agree with him.
Trump: Well, I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe, you know.
Scarborough: What do you mean by that?
Trump: There’s a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now, Joe. A lot of killing going on. A lot of stupidity. And that’s the way it is. But you didn’t ask me the question. You asked me a different question. So that’s fine.
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