NYT Charles Blow "The King and Queen of Cruelty"

[NRaleighLiberal]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opinion/family-separation-melania-trump.html?WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&action=click&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&pgtype=Homepage&region=opinion-c-col-left-region

You just can’t construct prisons for babies. You can’t rip children from mothers and fathers. You can’t use the power of the American government to institute and oversee a program of state-sponsored child abuse. You can’t have a system where the process and possibility of reunification is murky and maybe futile.

You can’t do any of that and assume that decent people won’t rise up in revolt.

Donald Trump learned that this week as an avalanche of indignation came down on him and his administration for his brutal, inhumane “zero tolerance” policy at the border, which was resulting in the terrible suffering of children and their parents.

Citizens were outraged. Politicians were outraged. Corporate leaders were outraged. Foreign leaders were outraged. The pope was outraged.

This is an immoral act of an immoral man, one who saw absolutely no flaw in using the anguish of children and families — people he viewed as deficient and less-than, “not their best” — as pawns in a political fight to force Congress to fund his ridiculous hate symbol: a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.


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Last part

Donald and Melania are a team in this terror. They have worked together to make the abhorrent normal. They deserve each other; we deserve better.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. They do deserve each other. We deserve better.

Melania pushed the birther crap back in 2012and gets no quarter from me.

[sheshe2]

4. If anyone ever tells me they feel sorry for her I will scream.

Yes, she made an unusual step in publicly condemning the family separation policy, but she did so using her husband’s false “both sides of the aisle” talking point. That was a lie. The president alone started this and had the power to end it.

Then she tweeted this tone-deaf, Marie Antoinette-ish statement, as her husband was still separating children from their parents and sending them to internment camps:
“A great visit with the King & Queen of Spain at the @WhiteHouse today. Queen Letizia & I enjoyed tea & time together focusing on the ways we can positively impact children.”
Enjoyed tea?

Positively impact children?

I just can’t.

Is she or her husband going to visit the child internment camps he created, to see what they wrought and console the crying children there? Is either going to work tirelessly for the swift reunification of every single family that has been torn apart? Will either publicly apologize to the families who were damaged?

Until then, I give her no laurels. Donald and Melania are a team in this terror. They have worked together to make the abhorrent normal. They deserve each other; we deserve better.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. How tone deaf of her!

That definitely reeks of Marie Antoinette. She sounds so entitled while talking about the Queen of Spain. "Positively impact children", my ass. It's not theory, do something real about it rather than just give lip service to it. All hat, no cattle.

[sheshe2]

7. In that article she also stated how Baron was traumatized

leaving the Manhattan penthouse and his friends to live at the WH.

Children are literally being ripped from their mothers breast and here we have Mel having worried about the traumas of leaving his penthouse. Oh Marie.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Kids move all the time!

Thanks for the details. I've hit the NYT's paywall and so can't read the whole thing.

[sheshe2]

10. Hey, gaot

I am so upset and her fugging comments? She can fugg off. TONE DEAF!

As Ms. Trump told Us Weekly in January 2016 about talking to the couple’s son about potentially moving to Washington:

“At that age, it’s hard to explain to them. … I tell him: Take it day by day, enjoy your life, live your meaningful life as I like to do. … Of course, at that age, every child would worry, especially if they love school, if they love friends; they don’t want to lose that. Everything is a new opportunity and it brings new friends and a new school. You never know, you never know what happens. Enjoy it day by day, live your life and don’t stress yourself.”

Luv ya too.

[onetexan]

13. The woman is ignorant

And obviously blinded by wealth, which is why she's still married to a crazy man.

[CatMor]

2. They are both so creepy and strange looking.....

they have disgraced our country while squatting in the White House. How much longer can our country endure the trump family and the devastation they have caused and will continue to do.

[RainCaster]

3. This pair deserves a lifetime in prison

Not a nice one, but a nasty one full of those gang members he admires so much.

[Cha]

5. Yes, like Many of us have said all along.. melania/melanie

is no better that the pos she supports.

Look at them up.. fucked up cruelty.

Thank you, Charles Blow!

[Hekate]

9. Kick and Rec

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Hey Melanie, is this what you meant by #BeBest?

She's an immigrant herself (albeit of dubious "extraordinary talent&quot , who got her parents admitted via what her POS husband calls "chain migration".


RIP irony

RIP ethics

RIP American values

[onetexan]

14. An illegal one at that

For a period of time

[Scurrilous]

12. K&R