Trump’s Response to Terrorism Is Exactly What the Terrorists Want: Reduce Freedoms and Rights
President Donald Trump launched into one of his infamous Twitter tirades Friday morning, after having been cautiously focused mostly on policy issues in the wake of two historic and deadly hurricanes. But just after 6:30 AM, Trump weighed in on a litany of issues that clearly were on his mind, including Friday morning’s terror attack in London at the Parsons Green train station. He called the attacker that injured 22 people a “loser” and “sick and demented,” and called for the Internet to be “cut off” to battle terrorism.
Cutting off the Internet is literally what authoritarian regimes do. It is a First Amendment violation of the highest order. That a president would ever even think about it in any form should be cause for great concern.
Trump also falsely claimed to have done more than Obama in the fight against ISIS. (That is false unless Trump is talking about killing civilians, the number of which has already surpassed Obama’s.) Â
And Trump said Americans must be more “nasty.” (He has that covered.)
Never one to waste an opportunity – the president on Thursday used the death and devastation of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma to renew his call for tax cuts for the wealthy – Trump said the London terrorism proved his Muslim travel ban must be “larger,” and lamented that his opponents won’t allow that to happen because of political correctness, which is one hundred percent false.
The president also re-upped his repeated calls to use the nuclear option and end the filibuster in the Senate, which is laughable since a bipartisan group of 61 Senators have signed a letter stating they support the filibuster, and Trump can’t pass legislation even when a simple majority is required. The 60-vote threshold is the least of his problems.
Trump ended his Twitter tirade by going after ESPN after a reporter at the sports network called the president a “white supremacist.” Jemele Hill’s viral tweets attacking Trump led to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calling for her to be fired. That outrageous attack on the First Amendment drew the anger and ire of many on Twitter, including many in the media, who responded by tweeting, “Donald Trump is a white supremacist.”Â
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