These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:
1.
“Okay, and who’s the president?”
“Obama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him… what’s his name…”
“It’s okay, you know who he is.”
2.
“Who’s the president?”
“*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhh…Orange… damn it what’s the fuck’s name….
“Yup, good enough.”
3.
“And who’s the president,”
“Not fuckin’ Obama!”
“I feel ya.”
4.
“Who’s the president- wait, nevermind you’re from Korea you said, right? So who’s-“
“Everybody knows that Trump-bitch.”
“Oh, well, alright then.”
5. (My personal favorite)
“Who’s the president?”
“Ew.”
“Good enough.”
My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been “ay dios mio” during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.
lol me too , lady
The context and import of President Trump’s remarks are not simply that the countries are “shitholes.” It’s much more than that. It’s that we don’t want people from those countries because the awfulness of the countries attaches to the people themselves. Speaking of whole classes of people, specifically people of color, as basically garbage – is not only disgusting but entirely of a piece with the campaign President Trump ran in 2016 and the policies he is implementing as President today.
Reactions to Donald Trump labelling news media “the enemy of the American people” from:
David Axelrod, former adviser to President Barack Obama
Carl Bernstein, investigative journalist and author who covered the Watergate scandal and was the first to suspect that Nixon was involved
Gabriel Sherman, national affairs editor at New York magazine
Eliot A. Cohen, scholar of international affairs and former counselor in the United States Department of State
Jesse Berney, writer and activist
Andy Greenwald, writer and critic
David Evan McMullin, former CIA operations officer and independent candidate during the 2016 United States presidential election
If anything, we’re underreacting.
we are absolutely underreacting.
Surely Donald’s too unsubtle and lacking in tactical intelligence for this to go on for long? People have a lot of blind eyes to turn when it comes to misinformation and prejudice about groups of which they are not a part, but every time he says something like the NYT is an enemy of the people’ there must be a few thousand more people who finally go ’…OK this guys batshit’.
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