Play time

Trump explains it all:

President Trump is defending his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, saying, “It’s not our problem,” and that “they’ve got a lot of sand over there. There’s a lot of sand they can play with.”

He said the Kurds, longtime U.S. allies, are “much safer right now,” and added, “They’re not angels.”

Ah. Okay then. They’re not angels, and they have a lot of sand they can play with. Why didn’t he tell us that sooner?

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6 responses to “Play time”

  1. iknklast Avatar

    So blatant in his treatment of them as children.

    I was raised that it wasn’t socially acceptable to say you hate someone, so watch out everyone, I am about to be antisocial. I hate this man.

  2. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    I was raised that it wasn’t socially acceptable to say you hate someone, so watch out everyone, I am about to be antisocial. I hate this man.

    But is it antisocial to hate someone who is himself antisocial?

    Since when does Trump get to adjuticate on whether anyone is “angelic?” That’s quite a step up for a pervy beauty pageant owner.

  3. Holms Avatar

    Kurds probably smoked pot in their teens, it’s fine if they all die out.

  4. Holms Avatar

    (^ sarcasm btw)

  5. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    ‘No angels’. Isn’t that what he said about the Central Park Five when he insisted that they be executed despite being innocent? ‘OK, maybe they didn’t do it, but they’re no angels’.

    It’s his go-to justification for wanting to hurt people for no other reason than he doesn’t like them.

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Yes, pretty much, which I hadn’t known. I looked it up.

    Twelve years later, the group—who were also the subject of a 2012 Ken Burns documentary—agreed to a more than $40 million settlement with New York City. Trump called the deal a “disgrace” in a June 2014 op-ed for the New York Daily News and wrote “What about the other people who were brutalized that night, in addition to the jogger?…These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.”

    https://time.com/4523257/donald-trump-central-park-five/