The majority of a group of prominent African American ministers scheduled to meet with Donald Trump Monday are making clear that they have made no commitments to endorse the real estate magnate. Their public declarations of non-endorsement come after a press release from the Trump campaign announced a coalition of 100 African American religious leaders will appear with the real estate mogul shortly after the meeting to endorse him.
Bishop Clarence McClendon, a Los Angeles-based minister who was invited to the Monday meeting with clergy, posted to Facebook after the Trump campaign announced the coming endorsements.
“I am not officially endorsing ANY candidate and when I do you will NOT need to hear it from pulpitting courtjesters who suffer from intellectual and spiritual myopia,” he wrote.
Bishop Corletta Vaughn, the Senior Pastor of the Holy Spirit Cathedral of Faith in Detroit, posted a message on Facebook after she said her inbox was “blowing up with inquiries” after her name was included on a list of pastors meeting Trump.
“Let me be clear,” she wrote. “I was invited to attend a gathering of clergy to listen to Mr. Trump on Monday November 30. I respectively (Sic.) declined as I do not support nor will endorse Donald Trump.”
“I was asked 2 meet with Mr Trump too but I refused because until he learns how to respect people you can’t represent me thru my endorsement,” Bishop Paul Morton, a prominent pastor in Atlanta tweeted on Friday.
"Hey I have an idea to help with that whole racism thing, I'll invite a bunch of black pastors to meet with me. What? They're telling everybody they DON'T endorse me? Well what can you expect from a bunch of........?"
You know as much fun as it was to watch the Donald Trump candidacy run roughshod through the Republican party, watching it fall apart is fairly entertaining as well.
Joe Scarborough SCHOOLS Donald Trump, Teaches Him How Most Muslims Really Reacted On 9/11 (TWEETS)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/29/joe-scarborough-schools-donald-trump-teaches-him-how-most-muslims-really-reacted-on-911-tweets/
Chuck Todd finally smacks down Trump: ‘Just because somebody repeats it doesn’t make it true’
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/chuck-todd-finally-smacks-down-trump-just-because-somebody-repeats-it-doesnt-make-it-true/
Hardly a smackdown, unfortunately. More like a timid rebuttal and still let tRump have the last word.
DeleteIf you notice, when interviewed, Trump talks constantly purposefully to keep the interviewer from interjecting. He does it all the time.
DeleteThe media/interviewers are too polite with him - he needs the exact same type treatment he gives them! He's nothing more than an obese bully! (Kind of like the guy from New Jersey!)
Everyone should forget about being politie to The Donald! He doesn't even know what the word means!
NAIL HIS ASS should be the slogan of all media, journalist and interviewers.
Let me interview him.
DeleteI'll scream "DON'T YOU EVER FUCKING SHUT UP?"
Then "YOU JUST KEEP RUNNING OFF AT THE MOUTH TO PREVENT ANYONE ELSE FROM SPEAKING."
And finally "ARE YOU SO AFRAID SOMEONE WILL CHALLENGE YOU ON YOUR LIES AND STUPIDITY?"
And I can scream pretty loud.
O/T but talk about white privilege!
ReplyDeleteWorld’s most ‘adorable drug kingpin’ is actually the daughter of Texas DEA head honcho
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/worlds-most-adorable-drug-kingpin-is-actually-the-daughter-of-texas-dea-head-honcho/
Oh, look at Sarah Palin's FB Devotional for today:
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin 4 hrs ·
Today, try to remember it’s our responsibility to always tell the truth—including calling a sin a sin
Attention Sarah! Donald Trump is lying. He tells so many lies that it is a sin against the ten commandments, who do command us to tell the truth. Sarah, call a sin a sin, and call out Trump for his lies-- or else you are nothing but a hypocrite. We're all calling him out for the terrible things that he says. Do it, practice what you preach-- or stop preaching.
Oh, about that sin stuff. So, it's OK for a girl to preach abstinence while continuing to get pregnant without being married. How many children and grand children do you have, Sarah, who were not conceived under the holy bonds of matrimony. Let me start counting-- or will you call a sin a sin?
“I have a great relationship with "THE" blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with "THE" blacks.”
ReplyDelete-Donald Trump
(2011)
“Laziness is a trait in blacks.”
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But Trump has been called out several times for racial insensitivity by former co-workers and civil rights activists. In 1991, Trump was accused of making racial slurs against black people in a book written by John R. O'Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, called “Trumped!" O'Donnell wrote that Trump once said, in reference to a black accountant at Trump Plaza, “laziness is a trait in blacks.” He also told O’Donnell: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."
- Huffington Post
Snoop Dogg: Now he's talking about running for President. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he kicked a black family out of their house.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/cnvZEikIPUQ
This is why Donald Trump is loved by ignorant redneck nazi imbreds and the likes of Sarah Palin
ReplyDeleteDonald J. Trump–Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Sadly, because president Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won't see another black president for generations!
12:15 AM - 25 Nov 2014
Total bullshit, 9:57 AM President Obama has been an outstanding POTUS and is going to be very difficult to replace.
DeleteRepublicans the country over have lost their credibility - Alaska has especially suffered from their governing.
Alaska is now in financial crisis due to the spending habits of the majority Republicans in the Alaska Legislature and Gov. Parnel (thank god he lost his last election to Governor Walker - who is doing an outstanding jobl!!!!)
The Alaska Legislature now wants to increase fees, establish a state income tax and issue a sales tax statewide.
Remember Alaskans! Once they institute either, or both, they will never be taken away!
The country needs to rid themselves of the majority Republicans....2016 voting will be extremely important!
I have no problem with a State income tax or with the Legislature using the permanent fund to balance the State budget. It would be a crime for our government to further cut essential services, such as education, while we pay no income tax and receive an annual dividend. Cap the PFD at $1000 and balance the budget. I personally would rather see our credit rating stay strong and housing values remain solid than get a large PFD each year and pay no income tax while Alaska tanks.
DeleteI agree with you to a point, 12 PM It pisses many of us off that the Republicans created this financial mess for our State and hence, Alaskans are going to write the checks for the possible various taxing things they put into law. Once these fees and taxes are in place, they will never be eliminated!
DeleteALL of Alaska's voters need to pay close attention for whom they cast their votes. I suggest they determine which party the candidate belongs to (as they don't print that info much any more) and determine how they cast their votes on various issues (Alaska Legislature or the Anchorage Assembly) if they are running for reelection.
Republicans have been the majority in Alaska for WAY too long and many of them need to be replaced. New blood - younger folks - new ideas - more Democrats and Independents chosen - are sorely needed!
Plus, we could (and, perhaps, should!) have term limits as to their serving time. Some have grown old - with some moving very slowly when they walk!) I watch them -and kind of worry for them - while they are in Session each year - on TV).
Anyone who goes to this meeting IS an idiot. The person who sponsored this meeting is an idiot.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous10:33 AM
DeleteAnyone who goes to this meeting IS an idiot. The person who sponsored this meeting is an idiot.
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I agree. I don't respect any Black pastor who would meet with Trump. Trump thinks Blacks are inferior.
Looks like he is trying to shove his finger up somewhere??
ReplyDeletealso this:
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/29/the_truth_about_the_white_working_class_why_its_really_allergic_to_voting_for_democrats/
It seems as though the more repulsive his behavior, the more fans he has.,
ReplyDeleteSo far, his insufferably obnoxious narcissism has led him to believe he really could be president.
The upside to that same narcissism is that he will possibly drop out before anybody can call him the loser he actually is. I don't believe that Hindenburg-sized ego of his would allow the possibility of legally binding election results proving him to be a loser.
Then again he may just buy up all the voting machine companies.,
Last paragraph.....yeah....and the pipsqueak is riding on his coattails.
DeleteTrumps dog whistles appeal to the ignorant,same as palin. That's his "base".
DeleteTo say they don't support him isn't good enough. To just meet with him gives him a credibility he does not deserve.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin what do you see in Donald Trump? Why are you in love him?
ReplyDeleteYou and your daughters have been publicly ridiculed so we would have thought you would be enraged by Donald Trump's anti-women public comments.
Sarah your Donald tries to verbally hurt women by publicly talking about their faces and if he doesn't like you challenging him with questions then he publicly implies the lady must be on her menstrual cycle. Does this behavior attract Donald to you?
Sarah, Trig is a Special Needs child and we would have thought you would champion anti-inflammatory comments from insensitive people? Does Donald Trump having fun making fun of a disabled man draws you to him?
If you're a man who questions Donald Trump and you have some type of disability then Donald becomes like a blood thirsty shark and the man's disability is like blood in the water which triggers Donald Trump's senses to publicly attack the disabled man.
Sarah Palin is being Secretary of Energy more important to you than doing the right thing by distancing yourself from Donald Ttump and publicly demand that Donald Trump resign his position to be a presidential candidate?
Sarah Palin will you do the right thing?
My question is why is even one black pastor, Pastor Darrell Scott, who organized the meeting, endorsing t-Rump? "“All of these guys are my friends and they know me,” he said. “I let them know I am endorsing, but that doesn’t mean you are endorsing.”
ReplyDeleteWhy? Why? Why? Why?
Why the hell would a pastor be endorsing anyone politically? Preaching politics from the pulpit should result in an immediate suspension of the organization's tax-exempt status, period. Stick to talking about your sky fairy, buddy, that's what you're paid for.
Delete12:03 PM So agree with you! Reminds me of a preacher in Anchorage, Alaska that speaks from the pulpit of the Anchorage Baptist Church.
DeleteHe guides his flock in politics - encourages them how to vote, etc.
There is no separation of Church and State in Alaska with the Alaska Legislature being majority Republican...currently.
Even he saw the light and canceled the whole thing.
DeletePastor Scott's church should be losing their tax exempt status if they are going to meddle in politics.
Delete11:32, what's in it for him??
DeleteSaw this quote elsewhere. How do we change this:
ReplyDeleteMen are doubly praised if they stick to moral codes, and women are doubly damned if they don't.
How do we "equalize" genders when women are still, to date, shamed for ridiculous double standards?
You'd think men would be offended that society expects them to be cheating schmucks who treat girls like shit.
Weren't there a group of girls about a year ago who wore shirts that said "slut" on them, trying to make a statement that women too are sexual beings?
Nah, they just wanted all the boys to know they were sluts, ya know, so they could get laid.
DeleteTrump campaign forced to cancel press conference with black pastors after they shred him in the press
ReplyDeleteA press conference scheduled for Monday, where GOP front runner Donald Trump had expected to announce the support of black clergyman, has been cancelled after the pastors blasted the campaign for announcing they would be endorsing him, reports CNN.
A scheduled private meeting with black pastors was supposed to be followed by a press conference where, according to the campaign: “A coalition of 100 African American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders will endorse the GOP front runner after a private meeting at Trump Tower.”
This did not sit well with prospective attendees, many of whom claim that they had no intention of endorsing Trump, with one calling him “an insult and embarrassment. But he represents the country we have become.”
Bishop Paul S. Morton of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship tweeted on Friday that he had refused to meet with Trump, saying that the candidate lacks “respect for people.”
“I was asked 2 meet with Mr Trump too but I refused because until he learns how to respect people you can’t represent me thru my endorsement,” Morton wrote.
Faced with a potential disaster on their hands should the attending pastors address the press in front of the candidate, the Trump campaign called off the press conference and stated the meeting would remain private — no press allowed.
“On Monday, Mr. Trump will host an informational meet and greet with many members of the Coalition of African American Ministers,” Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks said on Sunday. “This is not a press event, but a private meeting, after which, a number of attendees are expected to endorse Mr. Trump’s campaign for President.”
In an op-ed published by EBONY magazine on Friday, Christian activists asked pastors who might back Trump to consider the implications of endorsing a candidate who is considered by many to be an unrepentant racist.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/trump-campaign-forced-to-cancel-press-conference-with-black-pastors-after-they-shred-him-in-the-press/
It's private so he can LIE about the endorsements.
DeleteI have plenty of endorsements from THE blacks. Their support is huuuuge. HUUUUUGE I tell you.
Ben Carson’s refugee plan: Money spent on ‘Halloween candy’ can spruce up camps for Syrians instead
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-carsons-refugee-plan-money-spent-on-halloween-candy-can-spruce-up-camps-for-syrians-instead/
Like Martha Raditz,not sure of spelling,said..these people want Jobs. They're stuck out in the desert in extreme heat,with winter coming on. Halloween candy? Let's take Dopey,take away his $$$, and stick him in a tent with rampant disease and malnutrition for Years. Asshole.
DeleteBlack religious leaders: No Trump endorsement
ReplyDelete"By siding with a presidential candidate whose rhetoric pathologizes Black people, what message are you sending to the world about the Black lives in and outside of your congregations? Which Black lives do you claim to be liberating," the leaders wrote.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/28/politics/black-religious-leaders-donald-trump-endorsement/index.html
Jeb Bush: I’d still support Trump over Clinton because ‘anybody is better than Hillary’
ReplyDelete...Asked if he would support Trump for the presidency if he won the primary contest which begins in Iowa on 1 February, Bush said: “Look, I’ve said … because anybody is better than Hillary Clinton. Let me just be clear about that.
“But I have great doubts about Donald Trump’s ability to be commander-in-chief … I’ll let the voters decide about Donald Trump. I’m pretty confident that the more they hear of him, the less likely he’s going to get the Republican nomination.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/jeb-bush-id-still-support-trump-over-clinton-because-anybody-is-better-than-hillary/
Is Jeb still in the running??
DeleteVery bad, Jeb. You could have found a way to reply without supporting Trump.
DeleteBlack religious leaders say they will not endorse ‘insult and embarrassment’ Donald Trump
ReplyDelete...“Mr. Trump routinely uses overtly divisive and racist language on the campaign trail. Most recently, he admitted his supporters were justified for punching and kicking a Black protester who had attended a Trump rally with the intent to remind the crowd that ‘Black Lives Matter,'” the op-ed reads. “Trump followed this action by tweeting inaccurate statistics about crime prevalence rates in Black communities — insinuating that Black people are more violent than other groups.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/black-religious-leaders-say-they-will-not-endorse-insult-and-embarrassment-donald-trump/
November 29, 2015 - 11:57 AM EST
ReplyDeleteTrump’s rhetoric turning Muslims against the US, McCain says
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric is only serving to turn the international Muslim community against the U.S.
Read more at:
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/261443-trumps-rhetoric-turning-muslims-against-the-us-mccain-says
McCain needs to keep his mouth shut and stop trying to get into the mess of Donald Trump.
DeleteMcCain is as much as trouble maker as is The Donald! Look at what the idiot man did by bringing Sarah Palin onto his ticket! Thank God they lost to President Obama. McCain would have been a horrible POTUS. Remember his little song: "Bomb, bomb, Iran!!! Fucking idiot!
Chuck Todd Finally Has Enough Of Trump
ReplyDeleteIn a phone-in interview with Donald Trump, Todd took The Donald down the road to reality, smacking him upside the head with the facts. Trump’s insane claims of Muslims cheering in New Jersey as the Twin Towers fell was too much for Todd, who explained to him in no uncertain terms, and at times in a very loud voice, that it never happened.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/29/chuck-todd-finally-has-enough-of-trump-loses-his-sht-and-calls-out-the-lies-video/
Chuck Todd (whom I cannot stand and never watch his Sunday show!) sounds as though he tried to go after Trump, but Trump wasn't having any of it.
DeleteAll folks interviewing Trump need to drop being respectful of him.
He's such an idiot saying all Mexicans love him and so do the blacks!!!! Yea, right!
He fell flat today saying black ministers were going to meet with him and give him their endorsements! Many of them came forward indicating they would NOT support (or endorse) him with some even stating why! Yea!
He is going to fail! And, it's going to be as much fun watching as it was in viewing Sarah Palin hit the bottom. Only Trump is going to do it in a much shorter time frame.
Hillary Clinton WILL be the next POTUS!
Trump looks like an asshole in the majority of his photos. He'll never be picked by Republicans as the nominee and NO Republican is going to be the next POTUS!
ReplyDeleteBoy, have they screwed up their party across the nation! Watch for a huge change in 2016. On all levels of the government.
“I have a great relationship with the Mexican people,”
ReplyDelete-Donald Trump
“They love me, I love them,”
-Trump
“I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.”
- Donald Trump
Donald doesn't know what a great relationship is.
DeleteWitness his three marriages.
Does he even have any real friends?
A story that circulated after the lunch was that the donors engaged in a hypothetical question: "If it was Donald Trump running against Hillary Clinton, who would you vote for?"
ReplyDeleteOne version has it that most of the Republicans at the table put their hands up for Clinton.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/261227-gop-donors-wrestle-with-possibility-of-trump-nomination
Donald, try to be more loving.
ReplyDeleteDonald loves Donald. There's not any love left for women, the blacks, Mexicans and the disabled.
DeleteDonald what about the handicap, disabled, Special Needs and others?
ReplyDeleteDonald do you have a great relationship with the disabled?
Donald do they love you , do you love them?
Donald do you have a great relationship with the disabled. Have you always had a great relationship with the disabled?
Donald you have a weird way of showing affection towards the disabled.
Donald we would hate to see how you treat the disabled if you despised them.
Apparently this has been canceled. Look, I'm no fan of the Donald, but I think Hillary has a better chance against him than say, Jeb Bush. So I'm hoping the Donald lasts a whole lot longer and completely fractures the Rethugs apart.
ReplyDeleteProbably canceled when everyone declined his invitation.
DeleteCan you say "LOSER"?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-black-clergy-216245
Donald "Whah whah whah I just wanna be treated fairly" Trump has a huge surprise waiting for him. What comes around, goes around. Racist, anti immigrant, anti woman, anti handicapped and anti sanity can only get you so far. We want your take, in detail, on problems, and what you'll do to "make america great again". Things like policy, international relations, war, infrastructure, job creation, etc. Platitudes can only get you so far, and if your feewings get hurt a wee bit, tough titty said the kitty when the milk ran dry. All I know is your're building a huge wall and having the mexicans pay for it. And that if Ivanka wasn't your daughter, you'd hit that in a heartbeat. Keep your fantasies to yourself, but do go on about the wall.
ReplyDeleteTrump should be very afraid of being treated fairly and like everyone else.
DeleteHe couldn't handle the truth.
We Black Americans are NOT as stupid as Trump and some others in the GOP/TP seem to think we are. We haven't dealt with persons like them for hundreds of years and are unable to realize when someone means to harm us in some way and has no love for us. In contrast to what some in the GOP/TP might think, the majority of us don't suffer with Stockholm Syndrome.
ReplyDeleteThe easiest way for these pastors to show they do not endorse Trump is to not show up. No photo op. Wouldn't hurt to also tweest and post that they are NOT endorsing him.
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