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> With his London tweets, Trump embarrasses himself — and America — once again
> By Jennifer Rubin <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jennifer-rubin/> June 4 at 9:51 AM 
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> People leave the scene of a terrorist attack on London Bridge in central London on June 3. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
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> The stoic determination and decency of the British people and their leaders were on full display in the hours after the latest horrific terrorist rampage <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/follow-up-on-london-bridge-attack/2017/06/04/5216bbb2-48c5-11e7-8de1-cec59a9bf4b1_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_britain-615pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e59640bab3a7>. The Brits fought back, launching drinking glasses and chairs at the savages who attacked them. The police acted with lightning-fast precision, killing the three assailants within eight minutes of the emergency call. And, God Bless him, a man returned  <https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3720372/london-bridge-terror-attack-customer-restaurant-pays-bill/>[see. http://tinyurl.com/yd9pparz <https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3720372/london-bridge-terror-attack-customer-restaurant-pays-bill/>] to the bar where he experienced Saturday’s horror — to pay his bill and tip. Civilization is not going to be driven out of Britain by three or three hundred killers.
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> Meanwhile — and it pains me to write this — our president acted like a clod, a heartless and dull-witted thug in sending out a series of tweets. He — commander in chief and leader of the Free World — first retweeted an unverified, unofficial Drudge headline <https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/871126902467051520> about the unfolding terrorist attack. Then he aimed to bolster his Muslim travel ban (which is not supposed to be a Muslim travel ban). “We need to be smart, vigilant and tough <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871143765473406976>,” he tweeted. “We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!” (Aside from the inappropriateness of President Trump’s tweet, he fails to grasp that the courts in these cases are reaffirming our rights against an overreaching, discriminatory edict.)
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> After receiving blowback for that obnoxious missive, he tweeted out <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871145660036378624>, “Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there – WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!” But then he decided to slam the mayor of the city attacked, who had calmly warned <http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/04/trump-hits-out-at-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-for-response-to-bridge-terror-attack.html> his fellow Londoners: “Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days. There’s no reason to be alarmed.” Trump took the second part out of context and responded viciously <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871328428963901440>, “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!'” (The mayor, of course, was telling them not to be alarmed by the heightened police presence.) Trump was not done, however, inanely tweeting <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871331574649901056>, “Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck!”
>  One is prompted to ask if he is off his rocker. But this is vintage Trump — impulsive and cruel, without an ounce of class or human decency. His behavior no longer surprises us, but it should offend and disturb us, first, that he remains the face and voice of America in the world and, second, that his fans hoot and holler, seeing this as inconsequential or acceptable conduct. We wound up with this president because millions of Republicans could not prioritize character, decency and overall fitness to serve over their mundane and frankly petty partisan wish list (28 percent top marginal tax rate!). Self-appointed religious leaders fail to see that this soullessness — not the dreaded liberal elite who insist on saying “Happy Holidays” or refuse to countenance discrimination against gay customers — is a threat to the moral fiber of a democracy that requires a modicum of common sense and human decency to function.
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> Sure, Trump’s policies and rhetoric are incoherent and based on a tower of lies. Far worse, however, is his appalling character, which accelerates the erosion of democratic norms and social cohesion a diverse democracy requires. In instances like this, those who would lecture us on President Obama’s under-appreciation of America’s unique place in human history or proclaim that they simply had to vote for Trump because Hillary Clinton was some sort of monster are exposed as fools or hypocrites or both.
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> The London attacks bring out the best in Britain and in Western leaders on the European continent; it brings out the worst in Trump and his followers. The former protect the soul of Western civilization; the latter drive a stake through the animating ideas that make America special.
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> MPorter88
> 1:30 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/f757a1df-4ba7-478c-956d-63edf5abade3>
> I keep telling people to stop being surprised. 
> He is who we elected. 
> We can hope that the events that are driving us forward will bring this to an end sooner rather than later. 
> I would like to be able to write that there is no way he can win the office again...but I said that the first time around. 
> Now...events are in the saddle, and ride mankind. 
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> impeachtrump
> 1:28 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/e655678e-d243-4362-8fc6-609274992ac2>
> We have all talked about this hateful moron far too much. Let's just get rid of him.
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> RationalCat
> 1:28 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/deab8efc-6b41-414f-863a-98f782e96d6d> [Edited]
> Very well said Ms Rubin. Thank you for letting the thuggish Trump and the people who supported him on election day have it with both barrels! Decent, public spirited, rational thinking people across the country need to keep up the resistance so we can rid ourselves of this cancer on the very soul of our country at the earliest possible opportunity and begin the work of rebuilding all the good that's being thoughtlessly, heartlessly destroyed under the Trump regime.
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> Rico Ad
> 1:26 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/f3d75463-82d9-4187-8ee6-7188d0cf76e9>
> I wonder what people will be writing when these attacks start showing up in America at the same rate they are in the UK (1 a month)? What will it take for people to wake up?
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> 5ame9ame
> 1:28 AM GMT+0200
> We are awake, but we don't need a blow hard incompetent to make matters worse with his stupid tweets.
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> Clinton_Hill_N8tive
> 1:30 AM GMT+0200
> It's already happening here. Have you checked homicide statistics lately? Oh, I forgot, those deaths are different from being killed by a radical extremist with a different religion than yours.
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> cpointes
> 1:26 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/74cb2797-d37a-4c88-989a-463d5a8e357a>
> Ms. Rubin: Thank you for your succinct to the point description of our commander  
> and thief. Thief of America's consciousness. If Trump were to read your column I doubt if he would even understand what you are saying. It truly  
> makes you stare in amazement when you see his backers cheer him on as if he is Winston Churchill or something. In reality he is more Alfred E. Neuman  
> "What me worry".... 
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> LIMESlott
> 1:26 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/1fd83600-5fd4-4c34-9f1f-55c7e860a9ed>
> I prefer to bury my head in the sand and think of President Trump in the words of Hope Hicks, as reported in the Post: "President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor … and an amazing ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than even they thought possible."
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> gryphone
> 1:26 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/5449c3e0-b07a-4c5f-a081-f1bda6ef3aec>
> Donald Trump is mentally ill. Isn't there some way we can remove a person with a mind this sick from office?
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> hawk41
> 1:29 AM GMT+0200
> I think it's amendment #25, @gryphone.
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> Objectivism
> 1:25 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/cf8df425-bc70-4881-880a-d123c32e55f6>
> Well, it is an opinion page so if Rubin wants to bias things one way or another, it's her privilege to do so. 
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> Rather than get into sticky details, I'll just go straight to the point. 
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> Tomorrow morning, all of you Obama/Clinton sycophants will still be nothing more than a bunch of sullen whiners with no real point to make, and with your globalist-collectivist pied pipers out of power for decades, and Trump will still be president. 
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> It's a good day.
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> greysuit
> 1:27 AM GMT+0200 [Edited]
> You are supporting a president that can not think. This goes beyond any political affiliation.
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> OldSnowy
> 1:27 AM GMT+0200
> Ayn Rand applauds you from the grave, you and her two other followers.
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> StarsandStripes 4 ever
> 1:30 AM GMT+0200
> So that's who we are if we see Trump for what he is? Okay. Enjoy your good days while you can. Between the possibility of impeachment and implementation of the 25th amendment due to impairment, I don't think any president has had such long odds of serving his full term. But these kind of blinders got us into the mess to begin with, so I'm just typing for the satisfaction of it, not that I think I'll connect with you.
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> Modiola
> 1:25 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/69df3127-f172-4d8b-897c-805bfa5c2a39>
> Let's hear no more about "moderate" Republicans -- every last one of them is an accomplice to this monster.
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> Baron Donny Harkonnen
> 1:26 AM GMT+0200
> They think Earth could be as old as TEN thousand years!
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> Lateral Line
> 1:27 AM GMT+0200
> Bashing religion makes u no better than him
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> Baron Donny Harkonnen
> 1:28 AM GMT+0200
> I'm not bashing religion, I'm bashing morons who believe a fairy tale the VATICAN doesn't even buy any more.
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> Cromag82
> 1:24 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/56ac34e4-7b84-4c80-886a-7b792bb3826d>
> I have to hand it to Jennifer. I used to be one of her biggest critics back in the days of Jenghazi but she has proven to be one of the few conservatives who isn't afraid to tell it like it is about the orange menace
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> i am the caretaker
> 1:24 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/961a9948-e23b-4797-bc75-4723b59b4846>
> Good article!
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> Lateral Line
> 1:23 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/f4050a59-e7a2-4bd9-aa7b-3bdd5f83ef39>
> He is a national embarrassment who is intellectually defective. It seems improbable he can see his first term out. A weak case on collision is not going to be enough to terminate his presidency but most should take some comfort that he has proven so stupid he is bound to soon commit a slam dunk impeachable offense that will end this national nightmare.
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> 5ame9ame
> 1:26 AM GMT+0200
> He has already committed several impeachable offenses in the category of repeatedly taking Foreign Emoluments to the benefit of his businesses.
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> Clinton_Hill_N8tive
> 1:27 AM GMT+0200
> Maybe so, but in our political system it's only an impeachable offense if the opposition party controls Congress. The founding fathers really blew it on this topic.
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> Clinton_Hill_N8tive
> 1:22 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/f82077de-767e-4784-9a84-26221c1e9906>
> Way to go Jennifer, again! Keep linking trump and his supporters. They are one and the same and one enables the other. They aren't deplorable, they're despicable.
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> Baron Donny Harkonnen
> 1:22 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/fdc8d21e-40a8-4bc1-9618-e1ffafcff722>
> I’m beginning to think that in America, a Conservative Christian is one who thinks the Beatitudes are a Chinese hoax 
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> — John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 26, 2017
> 1:22 AM GMT+0200 <http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/04/with-his-london-tweets-trump-embarrasses-himself-and-america-once-again/?outputType=comment&commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/91c1cd35-4a75-48d1-a165-f9a04a29b959>
> Part of me feels sorry for Trump. He's not wired for this kind of criticism, and he's never really had to deal with it. I think the presidency is going to age him fast and his presidential...awfulness...is only going to get worse. Impeachment may not happen, but I wouldn't write off the 25th amendment (due to impairment) just yet. I mean, it's not as if the impossible hasn't already happened once. He is after all, the...cough...cough...president. And THAT should be an interesting moment. Nobody tells Donald Trump to do anything, especially give up the office of the president.
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