Remaining steadfast
Trump…
takes deep breath
Trump proclaims April as National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
During National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, we remain steadfast in our efforts to stop crimes of sexual violence, provide care for victims, enforce the law, prosecute offenders, and raise awareness about the many forms of sexual assault. We must continue our work to eliminate sexual assault from our society and promote safe relationships, homes, and communities.
Unless the sexual assaulter is Donald Trump. Then we sue the accusers.
Sexual assault crimes remain tragically common in our society, and offenders too often evade accountability. These heinous crimes are committed indiscriminately: in intimate relationships, in public spaces, and in the workplace.
Donald Trump should know; he’s committed them in all three of those environments…and evaded accountability.
We must respond to sexual assault by identifying and holding perpetrators accountable. Too often, however, the victims of assault remain silent. They may fear retribution from their offender, lack faith in the justice system, or have difficulty confronting the pain associated with the traumatic experience. My Administration is committed to raising awareness about sexual assault and to empowering victims to identify perpetrators so that they can be held accountable. We must make it as easy as possible for those who have suffered from sexual assault to alert the authorities and to speak about the experience with their family and friends.
We must? For real? But then why aren’t you?
Together, during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we recommit ourselves to doing our part to help stop sexual violence. We must not be afraid to talk about sexual assualt and sexual assult prevention with our loved ones, in our communities, and with those who have experienced these tragedies. We must encourage victims to report sexual assault and law enforcement to hold offenders accountable, and we must support victims and survivors unremmittingly. Through a concerted effort to better educate ourselves, empower victims, and punish criminals, our Nation will move closer to ending the grief, fear, and suffering caused by sexual assult. The prevention of sexual violence is everyone’s concern.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 2018 as National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. I urge all Americans, families, law enforcement, healthcare providers, community and faith-based organizations, and private organizations to support survivors of sexual assault and work together to prevent these crimes in their communities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.
He’s really got one hell of a nerve.
H/t Screechy Monkey
He had to issue it today. If he’d waited until April 1, everyone would have assumed it was an April Fool’s Joke, as opposed to just the regular kind of sick joke it really is.
And I suppose the next month will be declared National Anti-Corruption and Nepotism Month.
I wonder who wrote all that for him. It’s a pretty big lump of literature.
Well, lump of something.
This is bad.
Every Irony Metre in the galaxy just exploded.
Omar, it sounds like something he could have cut and pasted from something Obama left behind. That sounds much more like our last president than our current one.
All I can say is
Fuck. You.
If you really mean those words, shut up and go to jail.
Anything less is bullshit.
Also thanks for the character photo :^)
During the Watergate crisis, someone said that “to be on Nixon’s list is to stand with the Founding Fathers and the Constitution”. Beside the who-will-we-sack-today? Trump regime, I would say that Obama’s was the very essence of brilliance, consistency, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, and whatever else gets the mainstream historians of America into raptures.
Standing beside Trump, the average sleazy used car dealer would be another Abe Lincoln.
(Apologies for this digression, and apologies if I’m the last person to notice this…)
Ha ha, we have a USA-centric year numbering system? Does it start on January 1or July 4? Either way, I can’t wait to wish everyone a happy 248! #AmericaFirst #MAGA
Googling shows that variants of this silliness go back to at 1787, so Trump certainly didn’t start it. The Google results seem to indicate Obama used that verbiage sparingly while Trump and Reagan used it all the time. Interesting that conservatives would be more keen to challenge our long-standing, Jesus-based year numbering.
Hagroan, I didn’t even notice that – didn’t really read the Verbiage portion after the “IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand” bit.
Meanwhile Brian Williams on MSNBC starts his hour with the number of the day of the Trump presidency – as one might say “of the Occupation.” On clandestine radio.