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Title: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Silver Pines on November 19, 2017, 06:10:44 pm
Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail

By Brett Samuels
11/19/2017


President Trump on Sunday lashed out at the father of a UCLA basketball player who downplayed Trump’s importance in getting his son released from shoplifting charges in China.

Read more at:

http://thehill.com/homenews/361110-trump-i-should-have-left-ucla-basketball-players-in-jail
 (http://thehill.com/homenews/361110-trump-i-should-have-left-ucla-basketball-players-in-jail)

Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Silver Pines on November 19, 2017, 06:11:11 pm
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Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Silver Pines on November 19, 2017, 06:19:38 pm
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Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: ABX on November 19, 2017, 06:22:02 pm
What an ass. He takes a good move and craps on it because of a player's dad. He should have ignored Ball. Now he is back to tweeting like a 13 year old girl who is stomping away with her Barbie Dream Car because someone in the playground called her ugly.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: jpsb on November 19, 2017, 06:31:24 pm
What an ass. He takes a good move and craps on it because of a player's dad. He should have ignored Ball. Now he is back to tweeting like a 13 year old girl who is stomping away with her Barbie Dream Car because someone in the playground called her ugly.

The ass is the father. Shop lifting is "No big deal". Really dad, so it's OK for your son to steal?
Trump should have left them to rot in China.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: dfwgator on November 19, 2017, 06:48:52 pm
Yes, he should have.  But then they would have called him racist, and claimed he would have gotten them out if they were white.  So there was no win, there.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: mountaineer on November 19, 2017, 07:20:26 pm
If he had to say anything, why not, "Would Lavar Ball prefer his son stayed in a Chinese jail?"

Just kidding. Idiots like Ball and his sons don't warrant a response and should be ignored at all cost - except he could say to the miscreant son who actually thanked him for springing him from jail, "You're welcome." And leave it at that.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Silver Pines on November 19, 2017, 07:33:39 pm
The thing is, the sons apologized and thanked Trump.  But he, the president, is saying he should have left them in a Communist prison because he’s mad at their dad?
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Concerned on November 19, 2017, 07:36:40 pm
Yes, he should have.  But then they would have called him racist, and claimed he would have gotten them out if they were white.  So there was no win, there.

The win to me was simply doing the right thing on behalf of the citizens you represent.  No need to ask for thanks or praise, no need to get into a spat with the father of one of them, and certainly no need to childishly claim you “should have left them in jail”.  All that does is belittles yourself and the office IMO.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Oceander on November 19, 2017, 07:40:27 pm
The win to me was simply doing the right thing on behalf of the citizens you represent.  No need to ask for thanks or praise, no need to get into a spat with the father of one of them, and certainly no need to childishly claim you “should have left them in jail”.  All that does is belittles yourself and the office IMO.

Exactly
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Cripplecreek on November 19, 2017, 07:40:49 pm
Good ol Tiny Fingered Donnie.

I don't like what someone said so I should have let them sit in a foreign prison.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: mystery-ak on November 19, 2017, 07:43:43 pm
The win to me was simply doing the right thing on behalf of the citizens you represent.  No need to ask for thanks or praise, no need to get into a spat with the father of one of them, and certainly no need to childishly claim you “should have left them in jail”.  All that does is belittles yourself and the office IMO.

Agreed...never expect thanks for your good deeds..you will be sorely disappointed.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: edpc on November 19, 2017, 07:43:53 pm
The thing is, the sons apologized and thanked Trump.  But he, the president, is saying he should have left them in a Communist prison because he’s mad at their dad?

Yes, because he’s a self-admitted child, mentally.

Mr. Trump memorably told Mr. D’Antonio that “when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same.”

“The temperament is not that different,” he said.


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/politics/donald-trump-likens-his-schooling-to-military-service-in-book.html?_r=0&referer=
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: musiclady on November 19, 2017, 07:50:41 pm
Yes, he should have.  But then they would have called him racist, and claimed he would have gotten them out if they were white.  So there was no win, there.

Whatever happened to the concept of doing the right thing and then keeping quiet no matter how stupidly somebody else responds?   :shrug:
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Silver Pines on November 19, 2017, 07:53:06 pm
Yes, because he’s a self-admitted child, mentally.

Mr. Trump memorably told Mr. D’Antonio that “when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same.”

“The temperament is not that different,” he said.


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/politics/donald-trump-likens-his-schooling-to-military-service-in-book.html?_r=0&referer=

@edpc

Holy cow
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: musiclady on November 19, 2017, 07:53:44 pm
The thing is, the sons apologized and thanked Trump.  But he, the president, is saying he should have left them in a Communist prison because he’s mad at their dad?

And there will be defense of his childish idiocy and excuses for how it was right of him to wish imprisonment on a son for his Dad's nonsensical response.

I am so tired of this endless pre-adolescence.

Make it go away!    **nononono*
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: musiclady on November 19, 2017, 07:54:35 pm
@edpc

Holy cow

Yeah.............. he knows he's a child, and hasn't done a thing to fix it.   :shrug:
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Fishrrman on November 19, 2017, 08:04:48 pm
I've got no problems with Trump's tweet.

He got the miscreant kid off the hook, and the kid's dad lambasts him for doing so. Very well -- give the dad his due.

I would have left those 3 in a Chinese prison for a while to think their behavior over.
It would have served as a good lesson to American blacks that "actions have consequences..."
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: dfwgator on November 19, 2017, 08:08:24 pm
I've got no problems with Trump's tweet.

He got the miscreant kid off the hook, and the kid's dad lambasts him for doing do.

I would have left those 3 in a Chinese prison for a while to think their behavior over.
It would have served as a good lesson to American blacks that "actions have consequences..."

Bet anyone else who didn't have a talent for putting a ball in a hoop would have indeed rotted in a Chinese jail.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: musiclady on November 19, 2017, 08:09:09 pm
I've got no problems with Trump's tweet.

He got the miscreant kid off the hook, and the kid's dad lambasts him for doing do.

I would have left those 3 in a Chinese prison for a while to think their behavior over.
It would have served as a good lesson to American blacks that "actions have consequences..."

More like American athletes.

If you think no blacks understand that actions have consequences, you must not know many.

Jocks of all colors tend to think they can get away with anything because all their lives they have.

It's not a color thing. It's a pampered star athlete thing.

But I'm sure you'll keep thinking in color and not humanity..........
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on November 19, 2017, 08:11:13 pm
And there will be defense of his childish idiocy and excuses for how it was right of him to wish imprisonment on a son for his Dad's nonsensical response.  I am so tired of this endless pre-adolescence.

Make it go away!    **nononono*

Yet you're one of the ones consistently drawn to this like a moth to a flame.   :shrug:
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: edpc on November 19, 2017, 08:12:33 pm
Holy cow

Yes, or as Trump might say.........

Sad!
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: mountaineer on November 19, 2017, 08:14:06 pm
The thing is, the sons apologized and thanked Trump.  But he, the president, is saying he should have left them in a Communist prison because he’s mad at their dad?
Only one of the miscreants was a Ball.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: ABX on November 19, 2017, 09:04:17 pm
The win to me was simply doing the right thing on behalf of the citizens you represent.  No need to ask for thanks or praise, no need to get into a spat with the father of one of them, and certainly no need to childishly claim you “should have left them in jail”.  All that does is belittles yourself and the office IMO.

This....
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: truth_seeker on November 19, 2017, 09:18:08 pm
What an ass. He takes a good move and craps on it because of a player's dad. He should have ignored Ball. Now he is back to tweeting like a 13 year old girl who is stomping away with her Barbie Dream Car because someone in the playground called her ugly.
When I want professional opinions on subjects like this, I weigh....

--Scott Adams, who predicted Trump's win in 2015 and now comments on TV and writes books, about the success of Trump's successful communication paradigm, persuasion, and other subjects,

--and you, a self-identified "social media advisor"

Based on accuracy of results and depth of insight, who do you think prevails?

Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: corbe on November 19, 2017, 09:58:23 pm
   YEA, BUT if hellary was President his whole Family would have the added advantage of being investigated by the IRS.  :smokin:
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: WingNot on November 19, 2017, 10:01:32 pm
Agreed...never expect thanks for your good deeds..you will be sorely disappointed.

No good deed goes unpunished.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Machiavelli on November 19, 2017, 10:02:12 pm
I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I sympathize with how President Trump must feel. On the other hand, why does he have to respond to everything, including the really small stuff like this? Mr. President, this is a nothing burger!

:facepalm2:
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: corbe on November 20, 2017, 05:52:56 am
   Best one so far
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Brandt  ‎@UrbanAchievr 

I like basketball players who weren't captured.

10:02 AM - Nov 15, 2017 · Manhattan, NY

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Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: DB on November 20, 2017, 06:22:13 am
Trump is blaming the son for his dad's actions.

The son has already thanked Trump.

Trump looks petty when he does this crap. But what's new...
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Cripplecreek on November 20, 2017, 03:57:47 pm
Guess we should just be glad they weren't captured soldiers with a critical parent.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: verga on November 20, 2017, 04:17:53 pm
The ass is the father. Shop lifting is "No big deal". Really dad, so it's OK for your son to steal?
Trump should have left them to rot in China.
@jpsb Agreed-not even in the NFL and he is acting like a spoiled privileged brat. (Yes I know He is a Basketball player)
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Restored on November 20, 2017, 04:18:03 pm
Sometimes, it's like having a middle school girl as President.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 20, 2017, 05:14:25 pm
Agreed...never expect thanks for your good deeds..you will be sorely disappointed.

^^^^^^^^ These right here are words of great wisdom.  This is why I think this Trump Tweet was a dick move.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: RoosGirl on November 20, 2017, 05:29:14 pm
When I want professional opinions on subjects like this, I weigh....

--Scott Adams, who predicted Trump's win in 2015 and now comments on TV and writes books, about the success of Trump's successful communication paradigm, persuasion, and other subjects,

--and you, a self-identified "social media advisor"

Based on accuracy of results and depth of insight, who do you think prevails?

If Scott Adams is correct then I am glad there are a few of us that are not so weak-minded as to fall for the persuasion techniques that Trump supposedly uses.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 20, 2017, 05:52:44 pm
If Scott Adams is correct then I am glad there are a few of us that are not so weak-minded as to fall for the persuasion techniques that Trump supposedly uses.

Adams is a strange bird.  He's as leftist as they come, yet detested Hillary so much he probably pushed the button on his voting machine for Trump, just to keep her out.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: kidd on November 20, 2017, 06:11:00 pm
The win to me was simply doing the right thing on behalf of the citizens you represent.  No need to ask for thanks or praise, no need to get into a spat with the father of one of them, and certainly no need to childishly claim you “should have left them in jail”.  All that does is belittles yourself and the office IMO.

Yes.

The kids were grateful - which was only appropriate.
If Trump didn't respond to the dad, the dad would've looked ungrateful.

Now Trump looks silly.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: verga on November 20, 2017, 06:24:47 pm
Yes.

The kids were grateful - which was only appropriate.
If Trump didn't respond to the dad, the dad would've looked ungrateful.

Now Trump looks silly.
@kidd No they weren't! they didn't say thank you until after Trumps first commented.
They are modern day Michael Fay's (The student arrested in Singapore for vandalism that was supposed to be caned). I can almost guarantee that within 9 months one of these miscreants will be arrested for something else. I am also dead nuts certain that this was not the first time they have engaged in illegal behavior.   
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: truth_seeker on November 20, 2017, 06:39:30 pm
Adams is a strange bird.  He's as leftist as they come, yet detested Hillary so much he probably pushed the button on his voting machine for Trump, just to keep her out.
He is a Trump supporter, a big participant in free enterprise capitalism, and would move out of California for lower taxes.

I would classify him as closer to libertarian. He is brutally straight talking.

He is far more interesting and insightful, than virtually all politicians and self-described political commentators and analysts.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 20, 2017, 06:47:15 pm
He is a Trump supporter, a big participant in free enterprise capitalism, and would move out of California for lower taxes.

I would classify him as closer to libertarian. He is brutally straight talking.

He is far more interesting and insightful, than virtually all politicians and self-described political commentators and analysts.

Still seems leftist to me, but that could be simply be cause I haven't followed him much since the Dogbert World Domination days (I was the Secretary of Floppies Lost Under the Keyboard).  He took some strange turns in the campaign last year, and what little I read of his blog had the messages turned off because he was catching a lot of flack.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: NavyCanDo on November 20, 2017, 07:20:07 pm
What an ass. He takes a good move and craps on it because of a player's dad. He should have ignored Ball. Now he is back to tweeting like a 13 year old girl who is stomping away with her Barbie Dream Car because someone in the playground called her ugly.

 :amen:    But haven't you learned, Trump is incapable of being an ass.  His loyal flock will defend what he says or tweets regardless of what it is.   
Just once, I would like to see one of the usual Trump loyalist say, "Yea that was dumb, he should have not tweeted that". It would go a long way in proving their objectivity. 
Title: Trump Blasts Ingrate Dad After Aiding Shoplifting Son’s Release from Chinese Jail
Post by: rangerrebew on November 20, 2017, 07:20:22 pm
Trump Blasts Ingrate Dad After Aiding Shoplifting Son’s Release from Chinese Jail

November 19, 2017| by Donn Marten
 

You have to hand one thing to President Trump, he is an absolute master when it comes to using Twitter to bamboozle the media and change the subject, always keeping them off balance.

The media hydra had completely reconfigured after Thursday’s nasty surprise when photographic proof that Democrat Senator Al Franken emerged that he grabbed a sleeping woman’s breasts during a USO tour in Afghanistan.

https://downtrend.com/donn-marten/trump-blasts-ingrate-dad-after-aiding-shoplifting-sons-release-from-chinese-jail
Title: Re: Trump Blasts Ingrate Dad After Aiding Shoplifting Son’s Release from Chinese Jail
Post by: driftdiver on November 20, 2017, 07:34:33 pm
It seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree with that kid.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: debrawiest on November 20, 2017, 07:38:43 pm
Three more years of “I know you are but what am I”.  **nononono*

Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on November 20, 2017, 08:18:22 pm
This is another case where I agree with Trump, just disagree with him making a scene about it.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 20, 2017, 08:25:32 pm
This is another case where I agree with Trump, just disagree with him making a scene about it.

I think that's a pretty fair assessment of this.  :beer:
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: cato potatoe on November 21, 2017, 03:06:48 pm
The thing is, the sons apologized and thanked Trump.  But he, the president, is saying he should have left them in a Communist prison because he’s mad at their dad?

The only reason Trump intervened was to gain praise.  We have no-name citizens rotting in Chinese prison, and he couldn't care less. 
Title: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: edpc on November 22, 2017, 02:15:48 pm
President Donald Trump continued his war of words against LaVar Ball on Wednesday morning by calling him an “ungrateful fool” and “a poor man’s version of Don King.”

Ball went on CNN to discuss the president’s role in helping release his son, LiAngelo Ball, and two other UCLA basketball players from detention in China over a shoplifting charge. Ball questioned Trump’s involvement in resolving the issue and said that he had nothing to be thankful from the president.

Trump tweeted: “It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence – IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think…..LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!”


http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-lavar-ball-feud-don-king/
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: edpc on November 22, 2017, 02:16:38 pm
I thought King supported Trump in the election.   :shrug:
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Applewood on November 22, 2017, 02:50:30 pm
I wish both of these little boys would knock it off. 
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: musiclady on November 22, 2017, 02:53:26 pm
"IT WAS ME."

Pretty much says it all, doesn't it?   **nononono*
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: driftdiver on November 22, 2017, 02:56:13 pm
I wish both of these little boys would knock it off.

Actually he's very adept at using these situations to energize his base.   And his enemies keep giving him issues to use.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on November 22, 2017, 02:58:29 pm
I see trump is taking advantage of the new character limit on twitter
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: edpc on November 22, 2017, 02:58:31 pm
Back in April, 2016.......

"The campaign is evolving and transitioning, and so am I," he told the Wall Street Journal. "I'll be more effective and more disciplined."

Trump put it another way during a Thursday morning appearance on NBC's Today Show. "I will be so presidential," he said, "you will be so bored. You'll say, 'Can't he have a little more energy?'"
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: musiclady on November 22, 2017, 03:01:51 pm
Actually he's very adept at using these situations to energize his base.   And his enemies keep giving him issues to use.

It's actually the other way around.

He keeps giving his enemies issues to use.

It may make a tiny part of the base happy, but not the grown ups........
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: driftdiver on November 22, 2017, 03:05:39 pm
It's actually the other way around.

He keeps giving his enemies issues to use.

It may make a tiny part of the base happy, but not the grown ups........

The only people who seem to complain about it are . ......  his enemies.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Applewood on November 22, 2017, 03:08:25 pm
Actually he's very adept at using these situations to energize his base.   And his enemies keep giving him issues to use.

Trump reinforces the belief that he has the maturity of a little kid. 

And notice I said "both."  The punk's father is just as much of a baby as Trump is. 

Fine example both of them are to their kids.   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Applewood on November 22, 2017, 03:10:48 pm
The only people who seem to complain about it are . ......  his enemies.

Perhaps because his supporters are just as immature as he is. 

I guess these idiotic controversies distract Trump's base from the fact that he hasn't done what he promised them he would.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: driftdiver on November 22, 2017, 03:27:42 pm
Perhaps because his supporters are just as immature as he is. 

I guess these idiotic controversies distract Trump's base from the fact that he hasn't done what he promised them he would.

So adding immature to the list of insults, now anyone who doesn't uniformly condemn Trump is an immature monkey who is also a communist.   I get real tired of the attacks and BS from DUMFUKS like you who can't think beyond the end of their nose.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: edpc on November 22, 2017, 03:35:55 pm
So adding immature to the list of insults, now anyone who doesn't uniformly condemn Trump is an immature monkey who is also a communist.

Not necessarily, but you can add ‘dense’ to the list for some of the Trump supporters Twitter bombing LaVar Burton - aka Geordi LaForge.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/11/star-trek-actor-levar-burton-angry-tweets-lavar-ball-ucla-trump-cnn
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Applewood on November 22, 2017, 03:58:15 pm
So adding immature to the list of insults, now anyone who doesn't uniformly condemn Trump is an immature monkey who is also a communist.   I get real tired of the attacks and BS from DUMFUKS like you who can't think beyond the end of their nose.

I believe you just proved my point.  Trump and his supporters are little kids. 
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: musiclady on November 22, 2017, 04:22:48 pm
The only people who seem to complain about it are . ......  his enemies.

Yeah...... right................ any civilized adult conservative who doesn't like his baby ways is his "enemy."

I'll give you this.......... you certainly are loyal to the guy. 


Whatever makes you feel good, I guess....     **nononono*
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: musiclady on November 22, 2017, 04:24:12 pm
Not necessarily, but you can add ‘dense’ to the list for some of the Trump supporters Twitter bombing LaVar Burton - aka Geordi LaForge.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/11/star-trek-actor-levar-burton-angry-tweets-lavar-ball-ucla-trump-cnn

Or Kunta Kinte..........  ^-^
Title: Twitter Wars: Trump Vs. LaVar Ball, The Supertroll War America Deserves
Post by: SirLinksALot on November 22, 2017, 05:41:46 pm
SOURCE: HOTAIR

URL: https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/22/trump-vs-lavar-ball-supertroll-war-america-deserves/ (https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/22/trump-vs-lavar-ball-supertroll-war-america-deserves/)



Two men, both brash, both alpha males, both forever in search of a camera, both convinced that they’re incapable of losing a war of words. It’s easy to see how this escalates endlessly, with each refusing to give the other the parting shot. It’s impossible to see how it ends peacefully, or soon.

Basically it’s the North Korea standoff of loudmouth trolling. An all-out exchange of nuclear blowhardery seems inevitable.

In fact, I’d say a Don King putdown constitutes a mushroom cloud. Is this real life?

Quote
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..
5:25 AM - Nov 22, 2017

Quote
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
...LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!
5:33 AM - Nov 22, 2017

Trump’s pissed off because Ball refuses to give him credit for getting his son LiAngelo sprung after a shoplifting charge during the UCLA hoops team’s trip to China. Ball being Ball, he’s probably doing that deliberately, precisely because he knows Trump’s apt to whine about it, raising Ball’s national profile further. He’s already semi-notorious in sports media for being a shameless self-promoter (Trump’s Don King analogy isn’t wildly off) and a bit of a basketball version of a “tennis dad.” Now he’ll be known to the wider population and non-sports media as That Guy Trump Hates. That’s a lucrative niche, and Ball is eager to fill it:

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“Did he help the boys get out? I don’t know. … If I was going to thank somebody I’d probably thank President Xi (Jinping),” Ball said Monday night when asked about his back-and-forth with the President by CNN’s Chris Cuomo.

“It wasn’t like he was in the US and said, ‘OK, there’s three kids in China. I need to go over and get them.’ That wasn’t the thought process,” he told Cuomo…

“If you help, you shouldn’t have to say anything,” he said. “Let him do his political affairs and let me handle my son and let’s just stay in our lane.”

If he really wants to get under Trump’s skin, he should say that Obama would have gotten the players released in half the time and had China throw in a few other American prisoners as well. To which Trump would reply by reminding the world of Obama’s sterling record on prisoner releases.

Here’s Ball doing his thing on CNN Monday night, the interview that probably inspired Trump’s tweets this morning. Which will end first, Ball denying Trump credit he’s rightly due for freeing the players or Trump tweeting like he’s a morning shock jock instead of the president?

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO
Title: Re: Twitter Wars: Trump Vs. LaVar Ball, The Supertroll War America Deserves
Post by: kevindavis007 on November 22, 2017, 05:43:32 pm
Here is an idea. Trump should just stop tweeting.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Machiavelli on November 22, 2017, 06:19:37 pm
"IT WAS ME."

Pretty much says it all, doesn't it?   **nononono*

(https://i.imgur.com/OJkyxL3.jpg)
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: NavyCanDo on November 22, 2017, 06:26:03 pm
The only people who seem to complain about it are . ......  his enemies.

So if we complain about something he does, says or tweets we are his enemy?   Ooookaaay
Title: Re: Twitter Wars: Trump Vs. LaVar Ball, The Supertroll War America Deserves
Post by: Applewood on November 22, 2017, 07:39:12 pm
Here is an idea. Trump should just stop tweeting.

Uh....yeaaaaaahhhh!   That's obvious to most of us,

But you see, according to Trump's fans, he has to respond to everything...because anyone who doesn't worship him is an enemy with an agenda.   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Applewood on November 22, 2017, 07:47:09 pm
So if we complain about something he does, says or tweets we are his enemy?   Ooookaaay

If you do not fall on your knees and worship the orange god, you are an enemy of the state, a traitor, a closet liberal/democrat, Hillary voter, yadda, yadda, yadda -- all of the pejoratives that have been hurled against the nonbelievers since Trump announced he was running for president.   Those who are not in lockstep with the Trump cult will never be forgiven. They are the infidels and must be destroyed.

Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: musiclady on November 22, 2017, 08:31:30 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/OJkyxL3.jpg)

Amen to that!
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: musiclady on November 22, 2017, 08:34:00 pm
So if we complain about something he does, says or tweets we are his enemy?   Ooookaaay

That's what he said.   Aayuppp............. that's what the guy said.


(Same as the Obama cult.  Don't diss the idol.  Don't say nothin' bad about him, or you're his enemy....and probably considered the enemy of the free world, and the United States of America....   **nononono*)
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Cripplecreek on November 22, 2017, 09:06:25 pm
So if we complain about something he does, says or tweets we are his enemy?   Ooookaaay

Remember when people who weren't "his enemy" were going to hold his feet to the fire for unpresidential crap like this?

Good times.

I called them out for the lying cowards they were then and they haven't disappointed.

Cult members praying to their orange baboon god. Cheering as he flings crap into the crowd where they can pick it up and smear it on themselves as an act of devotion.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: truth_seeker on November 22, 2017, 09:28:53 pm
Remember when people who weren't "his enemy" were going to hold his feet to the fire for unpresidential crap like this?

Good times.

I called them out for the lying cowards they were then and they haven't disappointed.

Cult members praying to their orange baboon god. Cheering as he flings crap into the crowd where they can pick it up and smear it on themselves as an act of devotion.

Quite a filthy, fecal obsession on display by you here, now daily.

Can't you control yourself? (Can not, or Will not?)
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Machiavelli on November 22, 2017, 09:57:27 pm
The only people who seem to complain about it are . ......  his enemies.

Are you serious? There are plenty of us who support his policies but just want him to be an adult.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: NavyCanDo on November 23, 2017, 12:24:36 am
If you do not fall on your knees and worship the orange god, you are an enemy of the state, a traitor, a closet liberal/democrat, Hillary voter, yadda, yadda, yadda -- all of the pejoratives that have been hurled against the nonbelievers since Trump announced he was running for president.   Those who are not in lockstep with the Trump cult will never be forgiven. They are the infidels and must be destroyed.

In all seriousness, demonstrating what you said is not that much of an exaggeration, my sister and her husband have been convinced early in the campaign that Trump was sent by God to save America from its backsliding ways...Even saying he is the modern King Cyrus.  They still believe it demonstraiting it all the time on facebook.  I can understand people supporting Trump during the election, and I don't fault them for that....but good God use your brain by being objective when it is called for.
Title: Re: Twitter Wars: Trump Vs. LaVar Ball, The Supertroll War America Deserves
Post by: goatprairie on November 23, 2017, 12:30:54 am
Here is an idea. Trump should just stop tweeting.
:amen:
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: goatprairie on November 23, 2017, 12:36:16 am
If you do not fall on your knees and worship the orange god, you are an enemy of the state, a traitor, a closet liberal/democrat, Hillary voter, yadda, yadda, yadda -- all of the pejoratives that have been hurled against the nonbelievers since Trump announced he was running for president.   Those who are not in lockstep with the Trump cult will never be forgiven. They are the infidels and must be destroyed.
Anybody who criticizes Trump's childish behavior is a "deep state operative" or high muckety muck in the establishment.  No criticism of His Orangeness allowed.
I'll reiterate, I voted for him, he's done some good things........ but he has to stop the juvenile tweeting.  He wants to be seen as presidential, he has to start acting like he's grown up.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Night Hides Not on November 23, 2017, 05:46:57 pm
Not necessarily, but you can add ‘dense’ to the list for some of the Trump supporters Twitter bombing LaVar Burton - aka Geordi LaForge.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/11/star-trek-actor-levar-burton-angry-tweets-lavar-ball-ucla-trump-cnn

I rather prefer "obtuse" over dense, but that's just me.   :silly:
Title: Re: Twitter Wars: Trump Vs. LaVar Ball, The Supertroll War America Deserves
Post by: Night Hides Not on November 23, 2017, 05:47:58 pm
Uh....yeaaaaaahhhh!   That's obvious to most of us,

But you see, according to Trump's fans, he has to respond to everything...because anyone who doesn't worship him is an enemy with an agenda.   *****rollingeyes*****

 :amen:
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Night Hides Not on November 23, 2017, 05:49:01 pm
Remember when people who weren't "his enemy" were going to hold his feet to the fire for unpresidential crap like this?

Good times.

I called them out for the lying cowards they were then and they haven't disappointed.

Cult members praying to their orange baboon god. Cheering as he flings crap into the crowd where they can pick it up and smear it on themselves as an act of devotion.

Damn CC, you just described TOS.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Night Hides Not on November 23, 2017, 05:51:20 pm
Are you serious? There are plenty of us who support his policies but just want him to be an adult.

As Mark Davis and friends at Salem Radio trumpeted: it was a binary election.

Mark has been noticeably mute when discussing Trump's tweeting and off the wall comments, as expected.
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: Machiavelli on November 24, 2017, 04:51:19 pm
(http://www.michaelpramirez.com/uploads/3/4/9/8/34985326/mrz112417-color-2mb_orig.jpg) (http://www.michaelpramirez.com/unpardoned-trump-turkey-by-michael-ramirez.html)
Title: Re: Trump: I should have left UCLA basketball players in jail
Post by: NavyCanDo on November 24, 2017, 05:00:12 pm
(http://www.michaelpramirez.com/uploads/3/4/9/8/34985326/mrz112417-color-2mb_orig.jpg) (http://www.michaelpramirez.com/unpardoned-trump-turkey-by-michael-ramirez.html)

 :silly:
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Machiavelli on November 24, 2017, 05:17:00 pm
In all seriousness, demonstrating what you said is not that much of an exaggeration, my sister and her husband have been convinced early in the campaign that Trump was sent by God to save America from its backsliding ways...Even saying he is the modern King Cyrus.  They still believe it demonstraiting it all the time on facebook.  I can understand people supporting Trump during the election, and I don't fault them for that....but good God use your brain by being objective when it is called for.

Cyrus did make the list. (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,177374.msg1272589.html#msg1272589)
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 24, 2017, 05:43:36 pm
Cyrus did make the list. (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,177374.msg1272589.html#msg1272589)

He was compared favorably to Darth Vader?
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: Machiavelli on November 24, 2017, 07:16:25 pm
He was compared favorably to Darth Vader?

Affirmative. Those are all positive, serious comparisons.
Title: Re: Donald Trump Calls UCLA Dad An 'Ungrateful Fool' And 'A Poor Man’s Version Of Don King’
Post by: edpc on November 24, 2017, 07:53:30 pm
He was compared favorably to Darth Vader?

The only way it makes a lick of sense is if after being a liberal (dark side) for so many years, he became conservative (light), destroyed the Emperor and scattered the Empire.  Aside from being silly, they’re forgetting that killed him.
Title: Trump
Post by: verga on December 01, 2017, 02:09:14 am
Are you serious? There are plenty of us who support his policies but just want him to be an adult.
Are you serious? There are plenty of us who support his policies but just want him to be an adult.
@Machiavelli I did not vote for him, but I do support his policies. I must admit a little guilty pleasure in seeing him go after the lame stream media, but I do agree that he needs to back off on some of the twittering. Sometimes you just have to take a deep breath and a step of two back.