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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pcstel who wrote (80725)	7/2/2018 12:21:09 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356298

Trump's hateful remarks bring new level of shame to the nation thehill.com Just when we think we can’t go any lower in our public discourse, the president takes us there. President Donald Trump, in a meeting Thursday with lawmakers discussing the Dream Act and immigration policy, tellingly asked why would we want more immigrants from “shithole countries?” He was specifically referring to immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and Africa. As outraged as many Americans are — and with good reason — we should not be surprised at this point in time. The president’s comments were racist, anti-immigrant, xenophobic and bigoted because that's exactly the type of person the president of the United States is. He has been that way his entire life. Remember the Central Park Five? Remember all the government lawsuits he and his father were slapped with for allegedly discriminating against potential renters who were African-American? Remember Trump’s launch of his five-year crusade to push the racist "birther" movement and discredit the first African-American president of the United States? Remember his insults to Mexicans, calling them rapists and criminals the day he announced his presidential campaign? Remember his slight against an American-born judge of Mexican descentbecause Trump doubted Judge Curiel could do his job due to his heritage? Remember Charlottesville? The list goes on. Trump has showed us time and again who he is at his core and in his heart. As an immigrant from a country Trump would surely consider a "shithole,” I am proud to be an American. But I am embarrassed every day that Trump is president of this great nation, and yesterday marked a new level of shame accompanied with great anger and even greater sadness. Our American children are growing up with a commander in chief who believes that a third of the country is less than American and not worthy of what the nation has to offer. African-Americans, Latinos and other immigrants have contributed billions to our economy in the form of both low- and high-skilled labor. When Trump trashes our immigrants and Americans of color, does he realize he is trashing America? Where exactly does Trump believe the fruits and vegetables on his plate come from? Who does he think cleans the rooms, waits the tables, cooks the food, tends the grounds and greets the guests at his five-star hotels? The fact that this president would so nonchalantly insult so many Americans and immigrants who only want to make a better life for themselves and their families, just to rile up his anti-immigrant, far-right base, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has zero interest in uniting the country or finding common ground on the tough issues of immigration.