It doesn’t concern him
Trump has been using his words and his voice and his powerful eloquence just now to explain why The Enemy Women in Congress should get out.
TRUMP: "We're at war with Al Qaeda, and she's somebody talking about how great Al Qaeda is … that was Omar." pic.twitter.com/33QgBQDkOI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 15, 2019
Trump accuses Ilhan Omar of "speaking about how wonderful Al Qaeda is." Says she "hates Jews." pic.twitter.com/f9C9gvyUhn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 15, 2019
There’s applause in this one when he says “If you’re not happy you can leave.”
.@realDonaldTrump says it was @SpeakerPelosi who made "a very racist statement" when she claimed he was trying to "Make America White Again." pic.twitter.com/VFGrUGi1jC
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) July 15, 2019
Trump, asked if he has concerns that he's using the language of white supremacists and many view his tweets as racist, says: "It doesn't concern me because many people agree with me." pic.twitter.com/C0ranRv6vg
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 15, 2019
Yes, “Many people agree with me.” Richard Spencer, David Duke, James Alex Field….
I figured there must be something he was basing Omar’s alleged love for al Qaeda on, perhaps something she said that wasn’t completely negative, but apparently he just made it up out of whole cloth. Wow.
People got screenshots of his notes, complete with his unique spelling (“Alcaida”):
https://theweek.com/speedreads/852857/trumps-false-al-qaeda-accusation-against-rep-ilhan-omar-planned–misspelled
To be totally fair about this, that alcaida could have been a phonetic spelling someone did for him so he knew how to pronounce it.
iknklast, I think it’s his (tiny)handwriting, written with his big-boy felt-tipped colouring pen. He’s graduated from wax crayons now. Well, not exactly graduated, but his carers thought it would be a bad look for the president to be seen eating the stationery.