Trump's ignorance about DACA is stunning

[Solly Mack]

Though I don't see how anyone could be surprised, much less stunned, by Trump's ignorance. The two are synonymous, Trump and ignorance - a natural pairing that has resulted in an indistinguishable hot mess.

With his tweets, the President has displayed his ignorance of immigration laws, including those governing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. His social media outburst was as at best uninformed, and at worst blatantly misleading.

For starters, it makes absolutely no logical sense that the President would make a big deal of announcing "NO MORE DACA DEAL"-- in all caps, as though he were taking some bold new stance. Let's recall, he was the one who ended DACA, the program that allowed roughly 800,000 young people brought here illegally as children, known as the Dreamers, to live and work openly.

The President unilaterally began the unwinding of this program in September, with no plan to replace it, and since then has rejected several bipartisan proposals that would have provided a legislative fix for the plight of the Dreamers. It is nonsensical for Trump to be vowing that there will be "no more deal" when there is not now and never has been any realistic chance of a DACA deal.

Referring to what he regards as unchecked illegal entries at our southern border, the President tweeted, "These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!" But his anger about illegal border crossings seems motivated by something other than...reality.

[Skittles]

1. at this point I don't think his ignorance about ANYTHING could be considered "stunning"

[Solly Mack]

2. No kidding.

It's like being stunned you have a nose on your face.

[thesquanderer]

20. It may not be ignorance. He could know exactly what he's saying...

...and instead is intentionally misleading people, whipping up his base, etc.

[Skittles]

22. no

there is no game plan - the man is IGNORANT and don't even get me started about the people (Russian and American) who inflicted that piece of shit on America

[Eliot Rosewater]

32. He couldn t answer basic business questions any small or big business-owner would know in their

sleep.

Because he knows nothing, he inherited a bunch of money, organized crime mobsters helped him throw people out of buildings he bought and work he had done he just didnt pay for it.

Ask him any question about real estate, he wont know the answer. I am willing to bet LARGE on this.

[Skittles]

34. I agree

the only thing Trump ever had going for him that was real was his name......oh wait

[Hortensis]

33. No. :) Oh, he schemes and does know how to

manipulate fools and profit-chasing media, but he has big deficiencies that keep him from being a normal person. Including what is believed to be about a maximum 2-minute attention span, IF he's willing to listen at all, and he has almost no interest in most subjects. So even if he pays attention briefly, he usually forgets most things almost immediately.

Ask the admirals who showed him around the Navy's new multi-billion-dollar hydroelectric catapult system. He came off the ship calling the obsolete and new systems "steam" and "digital" and declaring they were tossing the new system because it didn't work and returning to "steam."

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I stopped being stunned by his ignorance a long time ago.

I'm stunned by the people who still believe him.

[Solly Mack]

6. His followers don't stun me.

Ignorance is their drug of choice and Trump's both their dealer and their fellow addict.

[oberliner]

4. It's actually the opposite of whatever stunning is

Predictable.

[Solly Mack]

7. Yep

It's expected.

[malaise]

5. His ignorance about everything other than lying and conning people

is stunning

[Solly Mack]

8. Heh

Hello malaise!

[malaise]

10. Hi there

[Soxfan58]

9. Reminds me

Of a cornered amimal, lashing out in all direction. He sees the future,and its not good for him. And this hurts many innocent people. He is a sick bastard.

[Solly Mack]

11. He is sick.

And his reach for causing harm is tremendous.

[brer cat]

12. He seems to enjoy causing pain and suffering.

That he is in a position to do that world wide is terrifying.

[Solly Mack]

13. I agree. He does enjoy it. Gets satisfaction from hurting people.

[nature-lover]

28. I think that it is more than that. It is getting something over on someone that is important.

He gets a feeling of pride in doing so. He does it because he can.

[Solly Mack]

30. Makes him feel superior.

[OneBro]

14. Trump trumps my already low expectations of him.

To qualify for DACA, immigrants must have lived in the United States since 2007, have arrived in the country before age 16 and have been younger than 31 on June 15, 2012. No one arriving in the country after 2007 is eligible.


[Solly Mack]

15. Facts never get in the way of his ignorance.

He'd have nothing to say otherwise.

[gademocrat7]

16. He is a pox on our country.

His hate filled rhetoric is despicable.

[Solly Mack]

23. He disfigures everything he touches.

[joshdawg]

17. You have to remember that he gets his talking points from fox spews.

fox and friends is his favorite program and he just repeats on twitter what those dumbasses spew on the airwaves.
He's a moron, a putin puppet, and every other derogatory adjective in the dictionary.

[Solly Mack]

24. He feeds on stupid.

A steady diet of it.

[progressoid]

18. His ignorance is only equalled by his supporters.

[gratuitous]

21. Hey, the popular media are working hard too!

I've seen only a couple of brief items about Trump's latest pissiness, and nobody in the media seems to remember that it was Trump who issued an executive order ending the DACA program. Why they don't remember this salient fact is beyond me; it's not like it was some minor action taken in the dim recesses of yesteryear where nobody can quite put their finger on the reason the DACA program is being terminated.

[Solly Mack]

26. Yep

That fact is skipped almost always. Trump is allowed to pretend it was beyond his control.

[Solly Mack]

25. The collective ignorance.

[democratisphere]

19. An illegitimate president that knows nothing about his respondsiblities and duties as a president.

[Solly Mack]

27. Not even on the most basic of levels either.

[Shrike47]

29. There should be a lot more yelling about who ended DACA.

[Solly Mack]

31. Yes!

That is the important part.