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THE WHITE HOUSE has said that property mogul Donald Trump has “disqualified” himself from being US President with his latest comments on Muslims.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest today said that Trump’s plan to bar Muslims from entering the US is disqualifying. He says every Republican presidential candidate should say that they wouldn’t support Trump if he is the GOP nominee.
Earnest described Trump’s campaign as a “carnival-barker routine.”
The White House is deeming Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims as harmful to the United States and its national security. Earnest says it’s “offensive and toxic” and clearly shows Trump lacks the judgment to be president.
He said:
“The Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin-of-history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies to even the fake hair. The whole carnival-barker routine that we’ve seen for some time now.
Now, I know that each of the Republican candidates has already taken an oath pledging to support Donald Trump for president of the United States if he wins the nomination. But the fact is, the first thing a president does when he or she takes the oath of office is to swear an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. And the fact is, what Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president.
“And any Republican who’s too fearful of the Republican base to admit it has no business serving as president either.”
Trump yesterday called for a “total and complete” block on Muslims entering the United States, in the wake of last week’s mass shooting in California by a Muslim couple believed to have been radicalised.
London
Trump also took criticism from the Mayor and police force in London as well as British Prime Minister David Cameron.
He had said that parts of London “are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives.”
London’s Mayor Boris Johnson said that this was “complete and utter nonsense”.
“Crime has been falling steadily both in London and in New York — and the only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump,” Johnson said.
The Met Police broke with protocol to issue a statement, saying Trump “could not be more wrong” about their city and was “welcome to receive a briefing from the Met Police on the reality of policing London”.
A Cameron spokesperson said that Cameron “completely disagrees with the comments made by Donald Trump, which are divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”.
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I wasn’t too impressed with their “Bomb Gaza ” game; as a parent I was horrified actually !
I know – the graphics on it were terrible.
Google made that game?
They made it available …Here’s a question that might help you understand ; Do heroin dealers grow poppies in Afghanistan ?
I got a nasty letter from the bank last week.
I was none too impressed with the basstarding postman
But you said “their” game.
It’s not their game. It’s someone else’s.
Sorry Cpm , when I buy my shopping I tend to hold the shopkeeper somewhat responsible for insuring the quality … but that’s just me …you are obviously a bit different …cool !
Is your postman paying taxes and going around shooting people for money Gaggsy ?
Not enough postmen both pay tax & shoot people…… Its pretty niche.
“Sorry Cpm , when I buy my shopping I tend to hold the shopkeeper somewhat responsible for insuring the quality … but that’s just me …you are obviously a bit different …cool !”
I see…
So you do you hold Google responsible for anything you purchase which you’ve found using their search engine? Do you hold them responsible for anything you purchase after you’ve clicked one of their Adword ads?
Do you not think you’d be better off holding yourself responsible, as a parent, for what your kids see and install on their phones, instead of expecting on someone else to do the job for you? Google aren’t responsible for babysitting kids, and over-sensitive parents.
“Is your postman paying taxes and going around shooting people for money Gaggsy ?”
Jaysus, I hadn’t suspected so but I do now! His eyes are quite close together now that you mention it.
Are google also paying taxes and shooting people for money? The dirty hoors (for the shooting people, not for the tax paying). If they are they should reconsider their “Do no evil” slogan. And I’ll rewatch the Internship in a new light after this.
The things you learn on the internet.
Thanks!
So smartasses – if was such a good idea then why did they remove it …which begs the question why did they put it there in the first place – Google apps store I believe – if I am wrong I would contact Google and apologise – but I tried to contact Google some time ago – and guess what – very hard to contact them for some reason !
You probably need to get yourself an iPhone, Dermot.
I still don’t get the ‘paying taxes and going around shooting people for money” reference/analogy.
One of these is a good thing and one is a really really terrible thing. Throw my postman into the mix and now I am nothing but perplexed.
The tax-compliant double-jobbing postman/hitman is a rather unusual concept, it has to be said.
But the real OUTRAGE lies in them upsetting Dermot (as a parent).
sorry gagsy – I was referencing the heroin dealers in the analogy …..
Is thirteen the upper or lower age limit for children?
Will parents be enabled to control what their children will be doing on the Internet?
Probably not.
Maybe it is progress!
have your say