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Trump and John Lewis' funeral

Was skipping John Lewis' funeral politically savvy?

  • No, Trump missed an opportunity

    Votes: 18 48.6%
  • Yes, John Lewis skipped Trump's inaguration

    Votes: 11 29.7%
  • Yes, Trump's supporters don't like blacks

    Votes: 8 21.6%

  • Total voters
    37
  • Poll closed .
Now speaking to the topic, I meant Trump would have just turned up to perform a dull state function rather than actually care about the funeral itself. Therefore it wouldn't have made any difference to his popularity one way or the other. It certainly wouldn't have changed many minds among his supporters or detractors just to see the president turn up as expected, give a run-of-the-mill eulogy when his heart's not in it. Therefore it makes no difference that he stayed away.

What exactly were you hoping Trump would do? Show up at the funeral, surrounded by secret service? You feel that this would have been safe?

We have instances of Antifah members firing weapons at/stabbing black Republicans because they support Trump, both Kanye and Ben Carson have reported death threats from black Democrats. And it's possible that they might have plotted against Hermain Cain.

You seriously would have advised Trump to show up in person at the funeral?
 
I'm confused? Who are these Communists you keep belittling?

Now if you want to call Trump a fascist that would be accurate because he fits the definition:
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Describes Trump 100%!


How am I belittling the democrat party?

Tell me though; If we take a system where the state has absolute control of the means of production using central planning to determine what products are produced and what price they are sold for, where an authoritarian state rules under dictatorship of either a single man or a group of rulers, where the rights of individuals are subverted to the privilege of groups, where individualism in general is oppressed in favor of the collective, where any competing political or economic ideas are suppressed by the state, where the press is controlled by the state or the party and operates to further the agenda of the rulers, where speech against the state or collectivism in general is a criminal offense; how does this substantially differ from the Marxism the Chinese Communist controlled democrat party promotes?
 
Oh yeah! Now I remember. Didn't we see a bunch of Republicans getting their heads bashed in along side Lewis and the others?

Regardless, it was democrats bashing the heads.

Used to be the Ku Klux Klan, now it's the BLM Klan. democrats have changed only the color of their victims, NOTHING else about democrats has changed.
 
no


are you a white supremacist or one of their supporters or sympathizers?

Am I an N word?

Isn't every hated white besmirched with your racist epithets? According to democrats, my skin is my sin.

{First, learn what racism is, and what it’s not. I need White people to understand that all White people are racist.
Admit it, and let’s move onto the business of repairing and healing the country. We can’t do it without you.
Yes my dears, all White people are racists. All. Of. Them.}

Yes My Dear, All White People Are Racists | by Marley K. | Age of Awareness | Jun, 2020 | Medium

democrats hate white people and seek to punish the scapegoat. Racism has ALWAYS been one of the major pillars of the democrat party. That democrats turn their vile racism against whites now instead of blacks doesn't change anything.

That democrats call the object of their racist hatred "white supremacist" instead of the N word that inferior whites are forbidden to use, because they are inferior after all, alters nothing. A democrat today is no different than Bull Conner or Orval Faubus, the objects of their shameful racism just have lighter skin tones.

democrats, democrats never change.
 
John Lewis initiated impeachment proceedings against Trump, and called him an illegitimate president. They weren’t personal friends. And, again, it wouldn’t have been safe anyway.

Rep. John Lewis did not initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump, he just didn't, those were initiated by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Did Rep. John Lewis call for ersatz president Trump's impeachment, yes, rightfully so.

Not any different than ersatz president Trump calling for the impeachment of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff and the other House Democrats involved in the impeachment hearings and investigations and vote for impeachment, which included Rep. Lewis. So that looks like they were even up on that score.

How would it not have been safe for Dip **** Donny to not attend? Please do tell us. Remember that President Bill Clinton's Secret Service detail was there. President Barack Hussein Obama's Secret Service detail was there. George W. Bush's Secret Service Detail was there. Donald Trump's Secret Service Detail would have been there if he had gone to the funeral and an advance team would have arrived in advance of course to shore up any points that would have been unsafe or pose safety issues.

So do tell us how poor widdle Donny would have been so unsafe from all those funeral participants?

Was it because the church there in Georgia didn't have a bunker he could emergency inspect in case peaceful folks had started exercising their FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS out on the streets?

Guess you have some notion that ersatz president Trump wasn't feeling the love down in Georgia that he so RIGHTLY deserves.

He gave those folks Cost Co. membership money, so what the hell?

Unsafe?

As Right Wing Icon Michelle "The Mouth" Malkin would say, "Boo Freaking Hoo!"

Chicken **** Bunker Boy Trump, can't go to a funeral, cause it is too unsafe!

:lamo
 
I didn't attend it either.
 
Did Rep. John Lewis call for ersatz president Trump's impeachment, yes, rightfully so.
So, just to get this straight, John Lewis actively tried to end Trump's career mid-office. And you expect Trump to go jumping up and down about attending his funeral?
 
What exactly were you hoping Trump would do? Show up at the funeral, surrounded by secret service? You feel that this would have been safe?

We have instances of Antifah members firing weapons at/stabbing black Republicans because they support Trump, both Kanye and Ben Carson have reported death threats from black Democrats. And it's possible that they might have plotted against Hermain Cain.

You seriously would have advised Trump to show up in person at the funeral?

I truly doubt his personal safety would have been in any more danger than his puts his colon through with the six buckets of chicken he obviously eats per day.

I was pointing out why it was superfluous of him to attend the funeral - except as a state function and a goodwill gesture that 's so far overdue nobody cares to collect on.
 
So, just to get this straight, John Lewis actively tried to end Trump's career mid-office. And you expect Trump to go jumping up and down about attending his funeral?

Glad you have given me the opportunity to disabuse you of any mistaken notions of what I expect or don't expect.

I certainly had-have no expectations that ersatz president Trump should have gone to Rep. Lewis's funeral, much less that he should have been "jumping up and down about attending" the funeral.

I have never stated he should have gone, actually I stated the opposite. But yes, I have argued that there was no reason he couldn't have gone, but not that I wanted him to go.

Rep. John Lewis most certainly did not try to end ersatz president Donny Dip ****'s career.

That just isn't true.

What Rep. Lewis did was call for putting Donny Dip **** on trial for criminally and improperly soliciting aid from a foreign entity to did up or more importantly to manufacture dirt on his presumed opponent to help his reelection campaign.

That was no different than ersatz president Donny Dip **** calling for the impeachment of Rep. Lewis, as I said, they evened out, in their calls for impeachment of each other.

There is nothing about, GOD willing, the singular anomaly of ersatz president Trump's presidency that qualifies as a "career". There just isn't. The man is 74 years old and he has only been an elected person for the last 3 1/2 years of his life. That does not define in any way a "career".

Trump didn't deserve the presidency in the first place.

It was only by the pernicious technical proclivity of the Electoral College system to go against the popular vote that allowed his victory in 2016.

Hopefully that clears up any possible confusion about what I did or did not expect of ersatz president Donny Dip ****.
 
Regardless, it was democrats bashing the heads.

Used to be the Ku Klux Klan, now it's the BLM Klan. democrats have changed only the color of their victims, NOTHING else about democrats has changed.

BS! Is it too much to expect that you would not lie? BLM Klan? Please, please show us some proofs that BLM = KKK? One thing I know is that the KKK HATES all Blacks, Jews, Latinos, Asians, Jews etc. Show us that BLM hates ALL white people and where they've made any death threats to anyone? Please don't waste your and our time with a random quote from BLM, as an organization that wants to kill white people?
 
democrats hate white people and seek to punish the scapegoat. Racism has ALWAYS been one of the major pillars of the democrat party. That democrats turn their vile racism against whites now instead of blacks doesn't change anything.

That democrats call the object of their racist hatred "white supremacist" instead of the N word that inferior whites are forbidden to use, because they are inferior after all, alters nothing. A democrat today is no different than Bull Conner or Orval Faubus, the objects of their shameful racism just have lighter skin tones.

democrats, democrats never change.

Dems hate white people? All white people are racists? So white Dems who marry within their "race" actually hate each other?

Enough with your BS. That's all it is. Pointless and divisive - a habit of your posts. The hate your posts project is vile and why many people believe that there are so many haters in the GOP - led of course by the Hater In Chief, Trump. No one hates more than Trump so I guess if you're one of his lemmings you will hate too.
 
I truly doubt his personal safety would have been in any more danger than his puts his colon through with the six buckets of chicken he obviously eats per day.

I was pointing out why it was superfluous of him to attend the funeral - except as a state function and a goodwill gesture that 's so far overdue nobody cares to collect on.

I mean, lol as funny as the part about buckets of chicken is...

Having Trump sit at a crowded funeral would put our national security at risk.

Lewis spent his last months on this Earth trying to end Trump's career. If the two had been friends, maybe it would have been worth it.
 
I mean, lol as funny as the part about buckets of chicken is...

Having Trump sit at a crowded funeral would put our national security at risk.

Dafuk it would. No more than his rallies. It would be a proper state function with the proper security if he'd gone.

His real reason for not going was he didn't care enough, saw no political gain in it and frankly knew he wouldn't be missed. He wasn't.

But he didn't have to be so petty as to remind a TV audience he didn't like the fact John lewis missed his inauguration, or make the ridiculous claim he's done more for black people than the acclaimed civil rights leader.
 
But he didn't have to be so petty as to remind a TV audience he didn't like the fact John lewis missed his inauguration

He was explaining that he hadn't gotten to know John Lewis personally.

If you're all going to follow his interviews, learn how he thinks, and what he means when he speaks.

The moral of all this, be nice to other people, and they will be nice to you. John Lewis despised Trump.
 
Uptower, at his rallies he's surrounded by friends and supporters.;) Come on...

It's a state occasion. Come on. If the president is in danger at a state funeral, then he's no safer at his rallies. Unless that 'danger' is that he'll get booed. Poor Donnie.

When you move the goalpost, you're at least supposed to stay on the field.

He was explaining that he hadn't gotten to know John Lewis personally.

If you're all going to follow his interviews, learn how he thinks, and what he means when he speaks.

The moral of all this, be nice to other people, and they will be nice to you. John Lewis despised Trump.

We all follow his interviews. It was a display of vanity and pettiness. Given all Trump has done to stoke racial divides it should be no surprise he was disliked by a civil rights icon. What he should have tried as president is to mend fences. He could have at least tried to hide it and made a decent excuse for not going. Instead - pure pettiness.
 
When Trump was asked "why didn't you attend John Lewis' funeral?"

Trump said, "he didn't come to my inauguration."


During this time of racial tension, was skipping John Lewis' funeral the politically savvy thing to do?

Not interested as written because funerals are supposed to be about the family and loved ones of the deceased, not about how things poll. If his presence would have made the family and friends uncomfortable, he should not attend. Next question is how to spin it, so that nobody looks bad because he is not where he really is not welcome? You sure don't use the inauguration line. That was typically Trump, and typically stupid.
 
He was explaining that he hadn't gotten to know John Lewis personally.

If you're all going to follow his interviews, learn how he thinks, and what he means when he speaks.

The moral of all this, be nice to other people, and they will be nice to you. John Lewis despised Trump.

Utter BS. Trump knows how to say the words ' I never got to know him well', He said nothing like that and he meant nothing like that. He connected it with the inauguration, because even this funeral was about him giving 'payback' for a perceived snub.
 
Utter BS. Trump knows how to say the words ' I never got to know him well', He said nothing like that and he meant nothing like that. He connected it with the inauguration, because even this funeral was about him giving 'payback' for a perceived snub.
Trump talks the way he talks. He has no obligation to change the way he speaks so that it is easier for liberals, who take him out of context, to understand.

Lewis tried to ruin Trump’s life. They were not friends. Hence, Trump did not show up at the funeral, especially when our national security might have been at risk.

Look at the title if the thread lol.

It doesn’t even talk about going to the funeral as “the right thing to do.” It simply asks if it was politically savvy to skip it.

In other words, was it politically savvy for Trump to skip the funeral of a black Democrat. Be honest. That’s what this is about.

Race politics.
 
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Since the racial tension has been created and is being fueled by democrats, attending the funeral of a Trump-hating black democrat politician would have been hypocrisy in my eyes.


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September 2019 - "... Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) ... came out for starting impeachment proceedings into President Donald Trump’s conduct on Tuesday. “I truly believe the time to begin impeachment proceedings against this president has come,” ..."


What a despicable man John Lewis was ...

I assure you that when Historians look back, John Lewis will not be the one they call despicable.
 
Given all Trump has done to stoke racial divides it should be no surprise he was disliked by a civil rights icon.

Here's the meat of what you're arguing right here.

Lewis is on the right side of politics, Trump is on the wrong side, Trump should make ammends by showing up at a brilliant liberal hero's funeral.

Did you have a problem with Obama not showing up at Nancy Reagan's funeral? Or Justice Scalia's funeral?


BTW the "racial divides" were stoked by the Democratic Party, not Trump. By insisting that Muslim Extremist Terrorists be left alone out of respect for American Muslims. And insisting that all borders be left open, regardless to the economic impact, simply because many immigrants are Hispanic, and that's good. And that we had better not blame China for causing a worldwide pandemic, out of respect for Chinese Americans, who apparently have a greater sense of loyalty to China than to our own government?

Trump is simply standing up to all this PC nonsense, which you all have created, not us.
 
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Trump talks the way he talks. He has no obligation to change the way he speaks so that it is easier for liberals, who take him out of context, to understand.

Lewis tried to ruin Trump’s life. They were not friends. Hence, Trump did not show up at the funeral, especially when our national security might have been at risk.

Look at the title if the thread lol.

It doesn’t even talk about going to the funeral as “the right thing to do.” It simply asks if it was politically savvy to skip it.

In other words, was it politically savvy for Trump to skip the funeral of a black Democrat. Be honest. That’s what this is about.

Race politics.
I have no problem with the decision. It was in everyone's best interest especially if it makes the family and loved ones uncomfortable . They are the people I care about at this funeral. But he told us why he did not. And it was not for the reason you claim.

He's an adult. He supposedly knows how to use his native tongue to communicate. Its not some liberal witch hunt to expect that the President of the United States communicate clearly. If he says he did not go to the funeral because Lewis did not go HIS inauguration we get to believe those words and we get to infer a 'payback' because Trump connected them.

YOU don't get to rewrite what the President said to soften it into something else. He did not decide not to go because he 'did not know him well' We know that because he told us why. Don't play games here.
 
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He's an adult. He supposedly knows how to use his native tongue to communicate. Its not some witch hunt to expect that the President of the United States communicate clearly. If he says he did not go to the funeral because Lewis did not go HIS inauguration we get to believe those words and we get to infer a 'payback' because Trump connected them.

YOU don't get to rewrite what the President said to soften it into something else. He did not decide not to go because he 'did not know him well' We know that because he told us why. Don't play games here.

Why didn't Obama show up to Nancy Reagan's funeral? Or Anthony Scalia's?
 
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