Enduring Trump Example 1: American Conservative rhetoric — expressed as dialogue —goes like this:

Conservatives: Immigrants need to assimilate into our country, learn our history and language, and contribute to our society.

Ilhan Omar: I have a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. I speak, read and write English, and I serve the people of Minnesota’s 5th District as a Congresswoman.

Conservatives: No, not like that.

Conservatives at Trump’s Rally July 17, chanting about Rep. Ilhan Omar: “Send her back! Send her back!”

Fun fact: Rep. Omar has been a US citizen longer than Melania Trump has.

Another fun fact: Trump rails against “chain migration” as something that needs to end.

A few months ago, Melania Trump’s parents became US citizens.

“How?” you might ask.

Melania Trump’s parents became citizens
through chain migration.

Enduring Trump Example 2: In July 2019, Trump said “If they don’t like it here, they should leave,” referring to 4 non-Caucasian members of the United States House. 

Trump hates these US Representatives because they have criticized him and his actions.

Neither I — nor millions of people like me — can send Trump back to where he came from, because he was elected to the office he now disgraces. I have to wait until he’s voted out of Office or convicted of crime and impeached, or until he resigns to avoid impeachment.

In the same way that I — and millions like me — have to tolerate him until he’s gone, no one can “send back” Rep. Ilhan Omar — or Rep. Occasio-Cortez, Rep. Pressley, or Rep. Tlaib — because the members of their districts elected them to their offices in the U. S. House of Representatives.

Apparently neither Trump nor his rabid supporters understand that.

The post Enduring Trump appeared first on Broken Laughter.