And Trump Puts His Foot in His Mouth, Again

@Lolaze (5092)
St. Louis, Missouri
June 12, 2016 6:51pm CST
Trump is taking a heat again after claiming the Orlando nightclub shooting shows he was right on Islamic extremism being a problem. He's again saying he will ban Muslims from traveling to America if he is elected President. Even when reports of what happened were still vague, Trump was tweeting that what had happened supported his views being right about Islamic extremism. He gave a nod to someone who congratulated him on being right with the comment “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism. I don't want congrats, I want toughness and vigilance. We must be smart!". Everyone here knows I lean towards Trump for 2016 but man, I cringe. He just turned a disaster into a political ploy. Can I haz new candidates?
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@NJChicaa (127180)
• United States
13 Jun 16
He is an embarrassment. To think that he may become president. . . what a nightmare. He is not fit to represent the greatest nation in the world.
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@josie_ (10033)
• Philippines
13 Jun 16
He's assured of the religious fundamentalist, bigots and racists votes.
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@IvySaysHi (4603)
• United States
13 Jun 16
I wish he and Hillary weren't our only candidates. I wish the media and government would stop manipulating the votes
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@Lolaze (5092)
• St. Louis, Missouri
13 Jun 16
Agreed
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@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
13 Jun 16
was it ever out ?
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@KristenH (33591)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
13 Jun 16
Another good reason he shouldn't be president. I'm with Hilary.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
13 Jun 16
He has a point. Another incident involving a Muslim. Okay, you say that's not argument enough. Fine. That shooter was an American born citizen so Trump should have kept mum. Has you seen and heard of all the trouble the Muslim immigrants are wreaking in Europe? Violence, assaults, rapes, crime, demands have exploded. This isn't hearsay but documented. Those are same immigrants who would come there.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
13 Jun 16
There are a lot of media articles about these criminal migrants, but you should look at the official stats. Crimes committed by immigrants in Germany (all immigrants : there are no specific statistics available for Muslims) were representing only 1.7% of all crimes committed in Germany last year. They are diminishing this year according to the stats available since a few days for January to March and more than 95% of immigrants have never committed any crime...
@topffer (42155)
• France
13 Jun 16
@JohnRoberts Germany took a million immigrants because their population is aging, and without a renewal their social security system and retirement system would be compromised in a few years, that's all. I heard that a Fox News channel "expert" talked last year about the existence of these "all Muslim zones" in France where others are not welcomed and he made us laugh a lot here. Fox News made public excuses a few days later... And it was not the first time that Fox News was telling stupidities about France. We have a few districts where the police has a hard time to do its job and where I would not go during the night ; they are not specifically occupied by Muslims, and I think that these kind of districts exist in any country. Besides, there are districts with more Asians than Europeans, and districts with more Muslims than Catholics, and somewhere I understand it : I would not like to live in a Muslim district during this month of fasting which is a month where Muslims are partying during the night when others are trying to sleep. I have had Muslim neighbors and I had to knock at their doors several times during Ramadan to tell them to do less noise. But there is not a Muslim district where a Catholic cannot go and live, and the opposite. What is also true is that after the Paris attacks last year many French were worried by Islam and that several Islamophobic attacks happened. The only excuse is that France never had Muslim extremist attacks before... The main part of our Muslim population is issued from French Muslims who were repatriated here at the end of the war in Algeria at the beginning of the 1960's. They do not appreciate more than the rest of French people extremist Muslims.
@jstory07 (148771)
• Roseburg, Oregon
13 Jun 16
That is really sad to use a disaster like that.
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• Torrington, Connecticut
13 Jun 16
Thats exactly why I cant stand him... Ignorance is bliss