Pres. Trump on hurricane survivors trying to leave the Bahamas: "We have to be very careful. Everyone needs totally proper documentation...I don't want to allow people who weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people." pic.twitter.com/NK66ftrC6o— ABC News (@ABC) September 9, 2019
He should know a lot about "bad people"; they're in his mirror and all around him.
Trump can declare without evidence that desperate refugees were turned away because some were "bad people" and it isn't even really a top story. None of the historical precedents on this sort of move end well.— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 9, 2019
Trump on Bahamas victims: Gang members, drug dealers, bad people.— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 10, 2019
Trump on Mexicans: Gang members, rapists, drug dealers.
Trump on black athletes who kneel: Sons of bitches.
Trump on white supremacists at a rally where one of them murdered someone: Fine people.
I'm not going to make any Holocaust analogies, because only NYT editorial writers are allowed to make them, but man does turning away much of a boat of refugees back to danger and death sound like *certain* ships I could name.— Zackary Berger, MD, PhD (@ZackBergerMDPhD) September 9, 2019
(He could name the S.S. St. Louis episode, another moral stain in our country's history.)
BONUS: A reminder that if you want to contribute to Hurricane Dorian relief for the devastated Bahamas, there are links to worthy organizations here.
