Celebrities including Kim Kardashian West and Justin Bieber
Sweden is not impressed by Trump’s attempt to tell them what to do in the matter of a US citizen accused of assault in Stockholm.
“The rule of the law applies to everyone equally and is exercised by an independent judiciary,” tweeted former prime minister Carl Bildt. “That’s the way it is in the US, and that’s certainly the way it is in Sweden. Political interference in the process is distinctly off limits. Clear?”
Clear to everyone except Donnie Two Scoops. He thinks he’s the emperor of the world.
Trump said on Thursday he was very disappointed in Stefan Löfven for being unable to act. He said “Sweden has let our African American community down in the United States. Give A$AP Rocky his freedom.”
The US president also said: “We do so much for Sweden but it doesn’t seem to work the other way around. Sweden should focus on its real crime problem.”
“Our African American community,” as if President Racist had a history of being a huge fan and defender of our African American community, as opposed to a history of being sued for refusing to rent to members of that community and a history of trying to get members of that community railroaded to execution for a crime they didn’t commit.
Other Swedish politicians also rebutted Trump’s comments, pointing out that the charges against the rapper were not arbitrary and wondering by what right Trump felt entitled to make such requests. “So, what is it you do for us, Mr President?” Fredrick Federley MEP tweeted.
I too would like to know by what right Trump feels entitled to make such demands. It wasn’t a request, it was a demand, a peremptory bossy entitled demand.
Celebrities including Kim Kardashian West and Justin Bieber have rallied behind the rapper and backed a #FreeRocky campaign…
Kardashian West appealed directly to Trump to help Mayers, prompting the US president to tweet last week that he would “call the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden to see what we can do about helping A$AP Rocky”.
It’s all about pulling strings. It’s about fame and money and huge tits. It’s about a world where famous rich people get to decide who is prosecuted for assault and who isn’t. Fortunately that world is a fantasy inside the heads of people like Kim Kardashian and Ivanka Trump and her noxious Daddy, but if they had their way it would be like that in the real world. Remain vigilant.
I don’t know, sounds a lot like Manhattan under its District Attorney Cy “he donated how much?” Vance.
Only natural for Trump to try to spring a fellow celebrity from jail. He might need the favour returned some day.
Oh, and for all you political prisoners out there, sucks to be you.
Screechy – oh god. I hadn’t thought of that.
It also gives him a talking point when he wants to claim he is not racist. “I tried to help A$AP Rocky, didn’t I?” He’ll wink and nod and his fans will wink and nod and assume that moderates and liberals are stupid enough to fall for the “some of my best friends are black” gambit. Probably some are, but not many.
To be fair to Bieber (not something I ever thought I’d write) he did end his supportive tweet with something about Trump maybe doing something about the kids in cages.
He seems to be working with quite a sophisticated point system: Celebrity, looked up in another country, and with famous friends cancels out being African-American. Set him free! Child, accused of no crime, but Brown and not from the U.S. – shove ’em in cages! There’s a perverse board game in this.