God bless America and our freedoms and Bill of Rights!
Good for this couple! They are not holding up traffic or getting violent with anyone. As much as I like Trump, if I was sitting next to this Muslim couple and someone came up and got physical with them, I would get very angry, very fast. America was founded on protest - check out the Boston Tea Party in 1773 when Americans took a stand against their colonial oppressors. God bless America and our Bill of Rights. Many brave Americans have given their lives for these freedoms, and their deaths can not be in vain. At least without a fight!
Good for this couple! They are not holding up traffic or getting violent with anyone. As much as I like Trump, if I was sitting next to this Muslim couple and someone came up and got physical with them, I would get very angry, very fast. America was founded on protest - check out the Boston Tea Party in 1773 when Americans took a stand against their colonial oppressors. God bless America and our Bill of Rights. Many brave Americans have given their lives for these freedoms, and their deaths can not be in vain. At least without a fight!
Good for this couple! They are not holding up traffic or getting violent with anyone. As much as I like Trump, if I was sitting next to this Muslim couple and someone came up and got physical with them, I would get very angry, very fast. America was founded on protest - check out the Boston Tea Party in 1773 when Americans took a stand against their colonial oppressors. God bless America and our Bill of Rights. Many brave Americans have given their lives for these freedoms, and their deaths can not be in vain. At least without a fight!
No not good for the couple.
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]She’s wearing a Star of David* with the word “Muslim” written on it:[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Which is… kinda ridiculous as a reference to the holocaust, since Muslims were fine back then with the holocaust, and many of them seem OK with wiping out Jews today as well.[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The message is quite simple.
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[h=1]Don’t Wear A Yellow Star Of David With ‘Muslim’ Written On It To A Trump Rally, Or Anywhere Else Really[/h]
Who the fuck died and made YOU King Henry VIII???? That attitude is one of the reasons you went from "the sun never sets on the British Empire" to stiffing the US after WWII and are now getting overrun with foreigners whom you can't stand, lol. You're always flapping your gums, nothing to say about your Fuhrer implying there will be violence if his lock step disciples dont get the result that they want?
Salam - I Come in Peace
She is also wearing a shirt that says "Salam - I Come in Peace"
I guess you might be one of those Americans who support the repeal of the Bill of Rights. I may strongly disagree with that Muslim couple, but I will defend their right to peacefully protest. Thanks again for the veterans who died for our freedoms!
She is also wearing a shirt that says "Salam - I Come in Peace"
I guess you might be one of those Americans who support the repeal of the Bill of Rights. I may strongly disagree with that Muslim couple, but I will defend their right to peacefully protest. Thanks again for the veterans who died for our freedoms!
Yep, he's as sick as the other Foreigner who hates our Country, Casper. You absolutelyabout the sick Brit Twit.
Just Another Lying Weasel who lives in a Foreign Country railing about our Country.
It was like when Negreanu calls out a guys hand on the turn. I called superbore before the flop.
He's trump drunk at this point....but trump appeals to the clueless.....so it's not a surprise.
[h=1]Flashback March 1980: Reagan Faces Probable
Defeat – Trails Carter by 15 Points[/h]Republican elites are very concerned this year that Donald Trump cannot beat Hillary Clinton or
Socialist Bernie Sanders in a general election.
You hear the establishment types talk about it nearly every day on the FOX News Channel.
Defeat – Trails Carter by 15 Points[/h]Republican elites are very concerned this year that Donald Trump cannot beat Hillary Clinton or
Socialist Bernie Sanders in a general election.
You hear the establishment types talk about it nearly every day on the FOX News Channel.
Mr. Kiss of Death vomits again.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/sen...res-better-gop-lose-election-heart-soul-trump
The Republican establishment is doubling down on its anti-Trump rhetoric with longtime senator Lindsey Graham declaring Sunday that it would be better for the GOP to lose the general election that lose its "heart and soul" by siding with Trump.
"We can lose an election, but I don't want us to lose our heart and soul," Graham said on CBS' Face the Nation:
"If we nominate Donald Trump, and he carries the banner of the Republican Party, given who he is and what he said about immigrants, about Muslims and young women, we will not just lose the election. We have lost the heart and soul of the conservative movement. That's what is at stake."
"Donald Trump would be an absolute disaster for the Republican party, destroy conservatism as we know it," Graham said. "We would get wiped out."
After the past 7 years of conservatism as you know it you deserve to get wiped out. Next thing you know Graham will endorse a McCain/Romney ticket.
It's a different world now.....1980 is long gone.....you can't win elections by pandering to old white men and stupid white men, which is trumps base.......while bashing other races. It doesn't work and you will find out that a republican primary and a general election....two entirely different things.
dont be dave007.....he's been here thru several elections with his idiotic comments and always ends up looking like a fool.
Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast
TIM MAKSTAND AGAINST STRONGMAN
03.20.16 8:48 PM ET
Nazi-Hunters, Rabbis Going After Donald Trump
Hundreds of people will walk out of AIPAC—the most important pro-Israel event in America—to protest against Trump who they see as a strongman who vilifies minorities.
You’d think a presidential front-runner who once served as the grand marshal of a pro-Israel parade would be welcomed to the annual gathering of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee with open arms.
Instead, hundreds of protesters are expected to walk out of Donald Trump’s appearance before the powerful pro-Israel group as a form of silent protest to the Republican front-runner’s address, organizers said, revealing new details about their unprecedented demonstrations.
And in an unusual development, major Jewish institutions like the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center told The Daily Beast that a walkout would be an acceptable form of protest, even as they stopped short of endorsing such a move.
The theme of this year’s AIPAC conference is “Come Together”—a sad irony since this year’s event, which is said to draw some 18,000 attendees, could be the most discordant annual meeting in recent memory.
“I would be surprised to see less than 300, 400 people walk out,” said Rabbi Menachem Creditor, who is supporting one group of protesters, citing conversations among organizers and with those who have committed to this form of protest.
The controversy over Trump’s visit could be seen as a break with AIPAC’s recent past. For the past decade, the organization has been known for its support of the Netanyahu government in Jerusalem and opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. This protest, in some ways, is about an older set of values—like tolerance and care for outsiders—that predate Netanyahu, and even the State of Israel. It’s also a nod to several thousand years of Jewish history. Clownish demagogues and strongmen have, after all, traditionally been bad for the Jews.
Demonstrators plan to speak out given the tone, nature and substance of Trump’s campaign, which they argue are contrary to Jewish values. Trump and his campaign have proposed banning individuals from the United States based on their religion; justified allegations of violence against protesters and reporters; and, at one point, declined to immediately disavow the endorsement of the KKK. Trump’s use of anti-Semitic stereotypes hasn’t exactly helped him with this crowd, either. Nor has Trump’s less-than-full-throated support of Israel in recent months.
In a sign both of how divisive Trump’s attendance has become and how many people are interested in protesting his appearance, even those participating in the demonstrations cannot agree on how best to oppose the billionaire businessman’s address to thousands of attendees.
Some are planning to avoid attending completely; others plan to leave during his introduction; some have suggested turning their backs during Trump’s speech; and still others are planning to silently walk out during his speech.
Rabbi David Paskin is an organizer of one such effort to protest Trump’s appearance. Along with other rabbis, cantors and Jewish leaders, he has set up a Facebook group that as of this writing has 1,700 members, called “Come Together Against Hate.” Paskin has also set up a texting based mailing list so that updates can be sent to protesters in real time.
Paskin and his supporters will be distributing thousands of stickers and fliers at the conference, urging attendees to find a way to respectfully protest “the ugliness that has pervaded” Trump’s campaign, he told The Daily Beast.
“We are not protesting AIPAC… we are in full support of the work they do to enhance the Israeli-American protest. We are protesting hate. Some people will absent themselves altogether. Others will respectfully and quietly walk out,” he said. Protesters will then meet elsewhere so that rabbis can speak about two Jewish concepts: derech eretz—common decency—and sinat chinam—senseless hatred.
“Mr. Trump embodies senseless hatred because what we’ve seen throughout this campaign is that whoever isn’t like him, he attacks: women, immigrants, the disabled, the press,” Paskin said.
Separately, Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin has organized at least 40 rabbis who will protest in a different manner: by skipping Trump’s speech altogether.
“We are urging people not to disrupt the [speech] in any way… we are asking to absent themselves from the hall before he speaks… I recognize there are various styles of protest here. We wanted ours to be as respectful to other conference attendees as it could be,” he told The Daily Beast. “We want our absence to be eloquent.”
“Zionism means owning and standing up for Jewish values,” Salkin added. “In many ways AIPAC is the largest gathering of Jews and Gentiles who are sympathetic to the Jewish state. We believe that the Trump candidacy… and the outrageousness of his positions merits a Jewish response.”
However, the absence of some protesting attendees could have an unintended outcome, leaving the remaining attendees to give Trump a warmer welcome than he would have otherwise received.
Major institutions within the Jewish community felt compelled to speak out and legitimize the protests. These groups, as opposed to the pro-Israel advocacy community, typically stay out of presidential politics—making their comments all the more glaring.
The CEO n the day before Trump’s speech, the Anti-Defamation League announced that it was redirecting $56,000—the sum of donations from Trump and his foundation over the years—to fund new “anti-bias and anti-bullying education programs” in the United States.
The founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Marvin Hier, said that a silent walkout was a “reasonable” approach, even as he stressed he was not endorsing such a form of protest, and was “fearful” that protests will develop into something more disruptive. The center is a human rights organization that confronts anti-Semitism and terrorism, with a history of aiding in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals.
“Every political season is rough. This one particularly so. We have to remember that the greatness of America is that America is the leading democracy in the world… let’s not change the script and make America a place of ridicule, where people are going to say it’s like going to a boxing match… where all that takes place is chaos,” Hier urged.
Liel Leibovitz, a writer for The Tablet magazine, a self-described “big tent” Jewish publication, endorsed the concept of a protest walkout earlier this week. As a conservative who supported Marco Rubio for president, he told The Daily Beast that he had “deep, deep, deep disgust with the fact that Trump has made such an open appeal to bigotry, and incited this kind of behavior, and has at least failed to stop it… I support a walkout because regardless of where you stand on political issues, there is a baseline of civility that has been violated by this candidacy.”
Leibovitz’s call for a walkout, which was greeted on Twitter with a number of anti-Semitic tweets, was supported by his publication in a broader editorial Sunday.
Despite the unrest surrounding Trump’s appearance at their annual conference, AIPAC stuck to their tradition of inviting all of the presidential contenders to speak to attendees.
“As is our longstanding policy during presidential election years, we invited all of the active Democratic and Republican presidential candidates—so far, Clinton, Trump, Cruz, and Kasich have confirmed that they will participate,” said a spokesperson for the organization.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The prospect of protests at a pro-Israel conference is a weird position for a man with a Jewish daughter to be in—Trump’s daughter Ivanka married businessman Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, and converted.
But the businessman’s history of support for Israel has been uneven. While he has cited serving as a grand marshall of a pro-Israel parade as part of his credentials, his statements in recent months have been far more neutral.
Asked whether Israelis or Palestinians were at fault for the lack of a peace accord, Trump has said he wants to be “sort of a neutral guy” on that question.
In December, Trump questioned whether Israel really wanted peace, telling theAssociated Press: “I have a real question as to whether or not both sides want to” come to a peace accord, he said. “A lot will have to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal—whether or not Israel’s willing to sacrifice certain things.”
And that same month he was booed at a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition, after he declined to support Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, a critical position for many in the pro-Israel crowd.
At that speech, Trump also alluded to a number of anti-Semitic stereotypes: “Stupidly, you want to give money... But you’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money… You want to control your own politicians,” he told the mostly-Jewish crowd. At another point, he said, “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t renegotiate deals? Probably 99 percent of you… I’m a negotiator like you folks.”
Trump was originally scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in December, but his trip to Israel was postponed after the prime minister criticized his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.
On Monday evening, Trump will have an opportunity to clarify his positions on Israel—absent a number of protesting dissenters.
“He is going to be addressing some of his toughest critics in the Republican and Democratic parties. He has made a serious effort to be neutral on Israel, and he is going before an audience which promote stronger U.S.-Israel relations,” said Aaron Keyak, a Democrat who was formerly the spokesman for the National Jewish Democratic Council. “The problem with Trump is he has at least rhetorically a weak record on Israel, and he is so unbelievably offensive when it comes to non-Israel issues that it’s a step too far for some of these attendees.”
O of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan A. Greenblatt, gave his blessing to those who chose to walk out, even as he declined to specifically endorse it.
“We believe AIPAC was right to extend an invitation to Mr. Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee for the highest office in the land… Having said that, we believe that those attendees who might be offended by Mr. Trump’s message have every right to walk out on him should they choose to do so because they believe that his offensive statements deeply clash with their Jewish values. Just as others have the right to remain in the audience and hear him out,” Greenblatt told The Daily Beast.
I know you'll assign to me the attributes of one of Trump's main constituencies his 'poorly educated voters' but if
Trump doesn't gain the presidency it won't be because of the new demographics which sadly has formed the electorate.
I have never seen the kind of attacks Trump is undergoing and from every single aspect of those in power,
hte democrats, the republican establishment and even the litmus test conservatives, the pundits, all the media
from those I expected it from MSNBC, CNN & especially from FOX an unexpected friendly fire barrage,
.A relentless pummeling..
Without Obama in the race there is already evidence of an unusual dropoff in black voting patterns.
Blacks supported Obama over Romney by 94% and for the first time came out to vote in a greater
percentage than whites. If Trump can double the black vote for himself which would be 12-14 %
and the black enthusiasm for voting deceases to even 60% instead of the 66% Obama years that
put Trump in the ball game. If you check out outlier polls of much higher black support for Trump
in the 20-25% among others According to the SurveyUSA poll, Trump would more than double the
best result for a Republican in modern American history. McCain received 4% black votes.
Along with the disdain that the evangelicals had for Romney & his Mormon faith any unbias person
surely could see 2 or 3 million coming out of the woodwork for Trump.
CHECK OUT THIS RCP VOTE CALCULATOR:
It's easy to come to a reasonable analysis with Trump on top
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...raphics_and_the_2016_election_scenarios.html#!
THEY ARE SCUM and deservedly thrown out, disrespectful Muslims
Sick Muslims demonstrating antisemitism by wearing the yellow star with muslin written on it.
She’s wearing a Star of David* with the word “Muslim” written on it:
Which is… kinda ridiculous as a reference to the holocaust, since Muslims were fine back then with the holocaust, and many of them seem OK with wiping out Jews today as well.
The message is quite simple.
Don’t Wear A Yellow Star Of David With ‘Muslim’ Written On It To A Trump Rally, Or Anywhere Else Really
Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast
STAND AGAINST STRONGMAN
03.20.16 8:48 PM ET
Nazi-Hunters, Rabbis Going After Donald Trump
Hundreds of people will walk out of AIPAC—the most important pro-Israel event in America—to protest against Trump who they see as a strongman who vilifies minorities.
You’d think a presidential front-runner who once served as the grand marshal of a pro-Israel parade would be welcomed to the annual gathering of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee with open arms.
Instead, hundreds of protesters are expected to walk out of Donald Trump’s appearance before the powerful pro-Israel group as a form of silent protest to the Republican front-runner’s address, organizers said, revealing new details about their unprecedented demonstrations.
And in an unusual development, major Jewish institutions like the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center told The Daily Beast that a walkout would be an acceptable form of protest, even as they stopped short of endorsing such a move.
The theme of this year’s AIPAC conference is “Come Together”—a sad irony since this year’s event, which is said to draw some 18,000 attendees, could be the most discordant annual meeting in recent memory.
“I would be surprised to see less than 300, 400 people walk out,” said Rabbi Menachem Creditor, who is supporting one group of protesters, citing conversations among organizers and with those who have committed to this form of protest.
The controversy over Trump’s visit could be seen as a break with AIPAC’s recent past. For the past decade, the organization has been known for its support of the Netanyahu government in Jerusalem and opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. This protest, in some ways, is about an older set of values—like tolerance and care for outsiders—that predate Netanyahu, and even the State of Israel. It’s also a nod to several thousand years of Jewish history. Clownish demagogues and strongmen have, after all, traditionally been bad for the Jews.
Demonstrators plan to speak out given the tone, nature and substance of Trump’s campaign, which they argue are contrary to Jewish values. Trump and his campaign have proposed banning individuals from the United States based on their religion; justified allegations of violence against protesters and reporters; and, at one point, declined to immediately disavow the endorsement of the KKK. Trump’s use of anti-Semitic stereotypes hasn’t exactly helped him with this crowd, either. Nor has Trump’s less-than-full-throated support of Israel in recent months.
In a sign both of how divisive Trump’s attendance has become and how many people are interested in protesting his appearance, even those participating in the demonstrations cannot agree on how best to oppose the billionaire businessman’s address to thousands of attendees.
Some are planning to avoid attending completely; others plan to leave during his introduction; some have suggested turning their backs during Trump’s speech; and still others are planning to silently walk out during his speech.
Rabbi David Paskin is an organizer of one such effort to protest Trump’s appearance. Along with other rabbis, cantors and Jewish leaders, he has set up a Facebook group that as of this writing has 1,700 members, called “Come Together Against Hate.” Paskin has also set up a texting based mailing list so that updates can be sent to protesters in real time.
Paskin and his supporters will be distributing thousands of stickers and fliers at the conference, urging attendees to find a way to respectfully protest “the ugliness that has pervaded” Trump’s campaign, he told The Daily Beast.
“We are not protesting AIPAC… we are in full support of the work they do to enhance the Israeli-American protest. We are protesting hate. Some people will absent themselves altogether. Others will respectfully and quietly walk out,” he said. Protesters will then meet elsewhere so that rabbis can speak about two Jewish concepts: derech eretz—common decency—and sinat chinam—senseless hatred.
“Mr. Trump embodies senseless hatred because what we’ve seen throughout this campaign is that whoever isn’t like him, he attacks: women, immigrants, the disabled, the press,” Paskin said.
Separately, Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin has organized at least 40 rabbis who will protest in a different manner: by skipping Trump’s speech altogether.
“We are urging people not to disrupt the [speech] in any way… we are asking to absent themselves from the hall before he speaks… I recognize there are various styles of protest here. We wanted ours to be as respectful to other conference attendees as it could be,” he told The Daily Beast. “We want our absence to be eloquent.”
“Zionism means owning and standing up for Jewish values,” Salkin added. “In many ways AIPAC is the largest gathering of Jews and Gentiles who are sympathetic to the Jewish state. We believe that the Trump candidacy… and the outrageousness of his positions merits a Jewish response.”
However, the absence of some protesting attendees could have an unintended outcome, leaving the remaining attendees to give Trump a warmer welcome than he would have otherwise received.
Major institutions within the Jewish community felt compelled to speak out and legitimize the protests. These groups, as opposed to the pro-Israel advocacy community, typically stay out of presidential politics—making their comments all the more glaring.
The CEO n the day before Trump’s speech, the Anti-Defamation League announced that it was redirecting $56,000—the sum of donations from Trump and his foundation over the years—to fund new “anti-bias and anti-bullying education programs” in the United States.
The founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Marvin Hier, said that a silent walkout was a “reasonable” approach, even as he stressed he was not endorsing such a form of protest, and was “fearful” that protests will develop into something more disruptive. The center is a human rights organization that confronts anti-Semitism and terrorism, with a history of aiding in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals.
“Every political season is rough. This one particularly so. We have to remember that the greatness of America is that America is the leading democracy in the world… let’s not change the script and make America a place of ridicule, where people are going to say it’s like going to a boxing match… where all that takes place is chaos,” Hier urged.
Liel Leibovitz, a writer for The Tablet magazine, a self-described “big tent” Jewish publication, endorsed the concept of a protest walkout earlier this week. As a conservative who supported Marco Rubio for president, he told The Daily Beast that he had “deep, deep, deep disgust with the fact that Trump has made such an open appeal to bigotry, and incited this kind of behavior, and has at least failed to stop it… I support a walkout because regardless of where you stand on political issues, there is a baseline of civility that has been violated by this candidacy.”
Leibovitz’s call for a walkout, which was greeted on Twitter with a number of anti-Semitic tweets, was supported by his publication in a broader editorial Sunday.
Despite the unrest surrounding Trump’s appearance at their annual conference, AIPAC stuck to their tradition of inviting all of the presidential contenders to speak to attendees.
“As is our longstanding policy during presidential election years, we invited all of the active Democratic and Republican presidential candidates—so far, Clinton, Trump, Cruz, and Kasich have confirmed that they will participate,” said a spokesperson for the organization.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The prospect of protests at a pro-Israel conference is a weird position for a man with a Jewish daughter to be in—Trump’s daughter Ivanka married businessman Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, and converted.
But the businessman’s history of support for Israel has been uneven. While he has cited serving as a grand marshall of a pro-Israel parade as part of his credentials, his statements in recent months have been far more neutral.
Asked whether Israelis or Palestinians were at fault for the lack of a peace accord, Trump has said he wants to be “sort of a neutral guy” on that question.
In December, Trump questioned whether Israel really wanted peace, telling theAssociated Press: “I have a real question as to whether or not both sides want to” come to a peace accord, he said. “A lot will have to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal—whether or not Israel’s willing to sacrifice certain things.”
And that same month he was booed at a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition, after he declined to support Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, a critical position for many in the pro-Israel crowd.
At that speech, Trump also alluded to a number of anti-Semitic stereotypes: “Stupidly, you want to give money... But you’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money… You want to control your own politicians,” he told the mostly-Jewish crowd. At another point, he said, “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t renegotiate deals? Probably 99 percent of you… I’m a negotiator like you folks.”
Trump was originally scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in December, but his trip to Israel was postponed after the prime minister criticized his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.
On Monday evening, Trump will have an opportunity to clarify his positions on Israel—absent a number of protesting dissenters.
“He is going to be addressing some of his toughest critics in the Republican and Democratic parties. He has made a serious effort to be neutral on Israel, and he is going before an audience which promote stronger U.S.-Israel relations,” said Aaron Keyak, a Democrat who was formerly the spokesman for the National Jewish Democratic Council. “The problem with Trump is he has at least rhetorically a weak record on Israel, and he is so unbelievably offensive when it comes to non-Israel issues that it’s a step too far for some of these attendees.”
O of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan A. Greenblatt, gave his blessing to those who chose to walk out, even as he declined to specifically endorse it.
“We believe AIPAC was right to extend an invitation to Mr. Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee for the highest office in the land… Having said that, we believe that those attendees who might be offended by Mr. Trump’s message have every right to walk out on him should they choose to do so because they believe that his offensive statements deeply clash with their Jewish values. Just as others have the right to remain in the audience and hear him out,” Greenblatt told The Daily Beast.
ANOTHER MOMENTOUS GUESSER FAIL.
Trump woos Israeli-Americans by sticking to script with a teleprompter, telling how he was Israeli parade's grand marshal and promising not to 'pander' (then mentions his Jewish grandchildren)
- Donald Trump spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this evening after a day-long tour of Washington, D.C.
- Trump threw out red meat to the crowd hitting Iran, the Palestinians and President Obama and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton
- The Donald used a teleprompter - which is unusual for the generally off-the-cuff speaker - though inserted the speech with many trademark lines
PUBLISHED: 23:29, 21 March 2016 | UPDATED: 23:59, 21 March 2016
Donald Trump's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was billed as an opportunity for the Republican frontrunner to begin to impress on foreign policy.
But while a teleprompter stood onstage with The Donald, the speech was less wonkish showmanship and more classic Trump.
In the early moments, Trump promised not to 'pander' before recalling the time he served as grand marshal in a pro-Israel parade.
He brought up his Jewish grandkids too.
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Donald Trump spoke to a crowd in Washington this evening at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference
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Despite warnings beforehand that there might be an organized protest, Donald Trump was greeted by a mostly friendly crowd who ate up his skewering of the Iran deal and President Obama
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The usually off-the-cuff politician tonight used a teleprompter though still said many of his trademark lines like bragging about poll numbers and talking about 'deals'
Trump happily recalled the honor of being made the grand marhsal of New York City's Israel parade in 2004.
'It was a very dangerous time for Israel and for, frankly, anyone supporting Israel,' The Donald said. 'I took the risk and I'm glad I did.'
He also mentioned daughter Ivanka's almost-born baby, expected to come any time now.
'My daughter Ivanka is about to have a beautiful Jewish baby,' Trump told the crowd, earlier having told reporters that he consulted his son-in-law Jared Kushner when writing his speech.
Trump tossed out all sorts of red meat to the predominantly friendly crowd.
'I speak to you today as a lifelong supporter and true friend of Israel,' Trump said. 'I am new to politics, but not to backing the Jewish state.'
While there were some reports of rabbis threatening to walk out during the Republican frontrunner's speech, he was greeted by a standing ovation when he discussed his first policy point - ridding the world of President Obama's controversial Iran deal.
'It's a bad deal,' Trump stated.
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Tonight's speech to AIPAC was supposed to show a Donald Trump who had a better handle of foreign policy, instead he tickled the audience by talking about his Jewish grandkids and his best-selling book
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'And we are leading in every poll, remember that please,' he added in a quick aside, touting his presidential run.
The billionaire candidate also reminded the crowd, which filled Washington, D.C.'s Verizon Center, usually the home of the NHL hockey team the Washington Capitals, that he had authored 'The Art of the Deal,' so he realized just how bad any peace deal would be that would promote Palestinian bad behavior.
'You don't reward behavior like that, you cannot do it,' Trump said, recalling the tragic murder of 28-year-old American Taylor Force, who was brutally stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist earlier this month during a trip to Israel.
While Ted Cruz immediately mocked Trump and the billionaire's grasp of foreign policy and proper terminology when he sauntered onto the AIPAC stage - 'Palestine has not existed since 1948,' Cruz said - Trump was more concerned about ribbing the Democrats.
At first he cut into President Obama.
'He may be the worst thing to ever happen to Israel believe me,' Trump said.
He vowed to no longer treat Israel as a 'second class citizen' before bringing in his likely general election rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
'She and Obama have treated Israel very, very badly,' Trump said.
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Hilarious how Elizabeth Warren cleaned Herr Frump's clock today: repeatedly calling him "loser," "bankruptcy...bankruptcies" lol
http://www.mediaite.com/online/eliz...-a-twitter-war-he-didnt-even-start-this-time/
[h=3]Elizabeth Warren Goes Off On ‘Loser’ Trump In a Twitter War He Didn’t Even Start This Time[/h] by Lindsey Ellefson | 4:32 pm, March 21st, 2016
Elizabeth Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, has always been outspoken and determined. She’s had her plate full lately as she’s taken on the Republican establishment in the Senate, routinely lambasting their refusal to vote on President Barack Obama‘s Supreme Court nominee. She’s also surely under a little pressure due to persistent rumors that she might be the Democratic nominee for Vice President. Her opponents have shot back at her in their own ways, but up until very recently Donald Trump had no bones to pick with her. Perhaps that is because she once defended bits of his policies. Regardless, she lashed out at him on Twitter recently and now it is on between the much-beloved lib and the equally-influential GOP frontrunner.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/eliz...-a-twitter-war-he-didnt-even-start-this-time/
[h=3]Elizabeth Warren Goes Off On ‘Loser’ Trump In a Twitter War He Didn’t Even Start This Time[/h] by Lindsey Ellefson | 4:32 pm, March 21st, 2016
Elizabeth Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, has always been outspoken and determined. She’s had her plate full lately as she’s taken on the Republican establishment in the Senate, routinely lambasting their refusal to vote on President Barack Obama‘s Supreme Court nominee. She’s also surely under a little pressure due to persistent rumors that she might be the Democratic nominee for Vice President. Her opponents have shot back at her in their own ways, but up until very recently Donald Trump had no bones to pick with her. Perhaps that is because she once defended bits of his policies. Regardless, she lashed out at him on Twitter recently and now it is on between the much-beloved lib and the equally-influential GOP frontrunner.
