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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeautiful snark from Slate - Trumps Support for Beautiful Babies Is Tremendous
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/04/13/trump_s_support_for_beautiful_babies_is_tremendous.htmlby Ruth Graham
It was a slow and brutal death for so many, Donald Trump said last week from Florida as he announced the American attack on a Syrian airbase in retaliation for the Assad regimes reported use of chemical weapons on a rebel town. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. If the images of the beautiful babies themselves swayed Trumps heart, then his invocation of them seemed to sway many of his critics. This was a speech that turned the president of the United States into the president of the United States, we were told. This was a new president whose heart came first, and who is an emotional man, but also a very smart man.
Some cynics, perhaps not understanding the consistency of the presidents support for beautiful babies, have been skeptical about his baby-induced change of heart toward Syria. If Donald Trump truly cares about the beautiful babies of Syria, he wouldnt have banned them from entering the United States as refugees, California congressman Ted Lieu told MSNBC on Wednesday. Others pointed out that more than 55,000 children had already died in the Syrian civil war, seemingly with no emotional effect on the American president.
But what if Trump's interest in beautiful babies is sincere? We already knew Trump has an eye for beauty, of course. He ordered the Syrian strike while polishing off a piece of beautiful chocolate cake. He appreciates beautiful funerals, beautiful air, beautiful rallies, beautiful suits, a beautiful common touch, and beautiful American tax dollars; he has enjoyed beautiful mornings and beautiful evenings and beautiful standing ovations. And, of course, he has an eye for beautiful girls (women).
But the president also has a longstanding interest in beautiful babies in particular. Last spring he anticipated the birth of his daughter Ivankas third child, a beautiful Jewish baby. And way back in 1994, the mogul and his then-wife Marla Maples appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous soon after the birth of their daughter, Tiffany. I think that she's got a lot of Marla, Trump remarked of his infant daughter. She's a really beautiful baby. Some men might have stopped there, but not Trump. She's got Marla's legs, he continued. Then he made a cupping gesture at his chest. We don't know whether she's got this part yet, but time will tell.
snip - more at the link above -well worth reading it all!
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Beautiful snark from Slate - Trumps Support for Beautiful Babies Is Tremendous (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Apr 2017
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greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)1. He cares about his bank accounts.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)2. Specifically, their anatomical parts
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3. The beautiful baby he cares the most about
Is himself.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)4. he is an infant without any of the charm and wonder of a true infant.
We have as president an all time damaged human being. Ironic. Regrettable.
Certainly not "beautiful!"!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)6. I'm sure in his own mind, he is.
mopinko
(70,112 posts)5. nothing like using babies as a prop to start a war.
like the babies tossed out of incubators at the start of gulf war 1.