'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants

[Lynsab]

Can you not read my posts properly Geoff? Or link into the added links? Why ask a question I've already answered about Trump alongside many others...I never said Blair was bonkers, I said like or loathe him his speech had substance...rather than troll my posts as you did on the other other forum try doing some reading...again. How many leaders make such mad mistakes about imagined terrorist attacks in Sweden when making speeches televised around the world.....He's a laughing stock...you keep on defending him if that's your choice...some of us see it all very differently..

I just read his twitter everyday I don't need to even read the media...bonkers is a kind word for him.

[geoffreys]

Can you not read my posts properly Geoff? Or link into the added links? Why ask a question I've already answered about Trump alongside many others...I never said Blair was bonkers, I said like or loathe him his speech had substance...rather than troll my posts as you did on the other other forum try doing some reading...again. How many leaders make such mad mistakes about imagined terrorist attacks in Sweden when making speeches televised around the world.....He's a laughing stock...you keep on defending him if that's your choice...some of us see it all very differently..

I just read his twitter everyday I don't need to even read the media...bonkers is a kind word for him.

Listen, bonkers is no word to call anybody unless they are clinically insane.
Just say what you mean Lyn:
1. You don't like him.
2. You don't agree with him.

Fine, that is how I feel about Tony Blair who I am on record as calling a pratt.
Call Trump a pratt too if it makes you feel better (although it won't change anything!) but not bonkers, anymore than
someone should call UK's Tony Blair bonkers.
Thank you,
Geoff.

[Lynsab]

I think I'll decide myself what names I call politicians Geoff ...thanks anyway

[keving]

Can you not read my posts properly Geoff? Or link into the added links? Why ask a question I've already answered about Trump alongside many others...I never said Blair was bonkers, I said like or loathe him his speech had substance...rather than troll my posts as you did on the other other forum try doing some reading...again. How many leaders make such mad mistakes about imagined terrorist attacks in Sweden when making speeches televised around the world.....He's a laughing stock...you keep on defending him if that's your choice...some of us see it all very differently..

I just read his twitter everyday I don't need to even read the media...bonkers is a kind word for him.

Listen, bonkers is no word to call anybody unless they are clinically insane.
Just say what you mean Lyn:
1. You don't like him.
2. You don't agree with him.

Fine, that is how I feel about Tony Blair who I am on record as calling a pratt.
Call Trump a pratt too if it makes you feel better (although it won't change anything!) but not bonkers, anymore than
someone should call UK's Tony Blair bonkers.
Thank you,
Geoff.

Geoff, what have you been smoking?

You are telling us that anyone who is diagnosed as "clinically insane" is (in medical terminology) "bonkers".

You, sir, are fuddled. Most definately fuddled.

[geoffreys]

I think I'll decide myself what names I call politicians Geoff ...thanks anyway

Just don't tell us on here then.
Geoff.

[keving]

I think I'll decide myself what names I call politicians Geoff ...thanks anyway

Just don't tell us on here then.
Geoff.

Do you remember the 60s Geoff?

[geoffreys]

I think I'll decide myself what names I call politicians Geoff ...thanks anyway

Just don't tell us on here then.
Geoff.

Do you remember the 60s Geoff?

Why? Do YOU?
Geoff.

[Lynsab]

Politicians who have used a divisive and dehumanised rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, says rights group Amnesty International.
Its annual report singles out President Donald Trump as an example of an "angrier and more divisive politics".
But it criticises other leaders, including those of Turkey, Hungary and the Philippines, who it says have used narratives of fear, blame and division.
The group also says governments are exploiting refugees for political ends.
The report, which covers 159 countries, cited a rise in hate speech across the US and Europe targeting refugees and said the reverberations would see more attacks on people on the basis of race, gender, nationality and religion.
It criticised countries that, it said, once claimed to champion rights abroad and that were now rolling back human rights at home.
"Instead of fighting for people's rights, too many leaders have adopted a dehumanizing agenda for political expediency," Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International, said in a statement.
"The limits of what is acceptable have shifted. Politicians are shamelessly and actively legitimizing all sorts of hateful rhetoric and policies based on people's identity: misogyny, racism and homophobia."

More here.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39048293

[OhSusana]

Politicians who have used a divisive and dehumanised rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, says rights group Amnesty International.
Its annual report singles out President Donald Trump as an example of an "angrier and more divisive politics".
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A Deafening Silence
Two Indian nationals were shot by a man yelling racial epithets. The president said nothing. That’s all we need to know about who matters in Trump’s America....
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... lumes.html

With regard to the original post, from the bbc -
now they are barred. So much for freedom of the press. Putin's Russia beckons!
Donald Trump bars BBC, CNN and New York Times from media briefing as White House press war escalates
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02 ... use-press/

[Jersey]

Short of assassination, sedition or resignation I cannot see Trump not serving his term of 4 years

I think it's more likely Trump will be impeached ( Offences do not have to violate criminal law to be impeachable) or there is another rule in the constitution that may be used to be rid of him.....the 25th Amendment...

I have to agree with Steve, I can't see why anyone can defend Trump, he's completely bonkers...

1. Where is your evidence he is bonkers, or is that just your perception of him because you don't like him?
2. Would you say Tony Blair was bonkers?
Geoff.

Well said

[geoffreys]

With regard to the original post, from the bbc - now they are barred. So much for freedom of the press. Putin's Russia beckons!

Quite shocking OhSusana. Funny thing is that Trump doesn't appear to realise how bizarre he come across. Suppressing the media is what dictators and tyrants have done throughout history.

And tonight we learn that Muhammad Ali's son endured 2 hours of quite oppressive questioning on his return to Florida from a business engagement abroad. His father represented the USA and mixed with presidents of the USA, yet Trump has no comment as to the adverse effects of his new screening process.

Still, Trump has at least two overseas admirers: Farage and geoffreys

I think you meant to say:
"Still, Trump has at least two million overseas admirers: Farage and geoffreys included"

The BBC impartial? Nah..
Geoff.

[OhSusana]

Still, Trump has at least two overseas admirers: Farage and geoffreys

You might actually be right.
Apparently even before he took office -
Pew poll: Trump at 9% with Europeans
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/29/polit ... p-clinton/

So most already knew the guy was a goofball (one of Letterman's favorite terms))
And during the past month the reality of the situation has probably dawned on almost all that 9% - probably 1.999998 million people.
Yes - leaving just two...