Trump: Deadly violence in Germany is 'attack on humanity'

[webfact]

Trump: Deadly violence in Germany is 'attack on humanity'

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JULIE PACE

 

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped." He also suggested he might go forward with his campaign pledge to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants from coming to the United States.

 

"All along, I've been proven to be right, 100 percent correct," Trump said when asked if the attack in Berlin had caused him to reevaluate the proposal. "What's happening is disgraceful."

 

Trump proposed the Muslim ban during the Republican primary campaign, prompting criticism from both parties. He shifted his rhetoric during the general election to focus on temporarily halting immigration from an unspecified list of countries with ties to terrorism, though he did not disavow the Muslim ban.

 

Trump addressed reporters for less than two minutes before a meeting with incoming White House national security adviser Michael Flynn. Transition officials did not respond to questions Wednesday seeking clarification about Trump's positions.

 

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for Monday's attack in Berlin that left 12 people dead and 48 injured. On Wednesday, German officials launched a Europe-wide manhunt for a "violent and armed" Tunisian man suspected in the killings.

 

Trump was spending the final days of 2016 huddling with advisers at his palatial private estate in South Florida. He also met Wednesday with the heads of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, companies with high-dollar government contracts that Trump has criticized. Boeing has a contract to build two new Air Force One planes and Lockheed Martin builds the F-35 fighter jet.

 

Trump said of his meeting with Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson, "It's a little bit of a dance. We're trying to get costs down."

 

Dennis Muilenburg, CEO of Boeing, said his company was committed to working with Trump to lower costs on the Air Force One project.

 

The president-elect was also finalizing his senior White House team, wrapping up a decision-making process that has been dogged by infighting among rival factions within Trump's organization. Some of Trump's original campaign aides have expressed concern to the president-elect himself that they are getting boxed out in favor of those more closely aligned with incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chairman of the Republican National Committee.

 

Among the early advisers who will not be joining Trump at the White House is Corey Lewandowski, his combative first campaign manager. But the operative won't be far away — Lewandowski announced plans to start a political consulting firm with offices just a block away from the White House.

 

Lewandowski oversaw Trump's campaign through the Republican primaries, but he clashed with the candidate's family and was fired. Still, he remained close to Trump, talking with him frequently and showing up occasionally at the president-elect's offices during the transition.

 

Lewandowski said he was offered "multiple opportunities" to join the administration, though people with knowledge of the process said those opportunities did not include senior positions in the West Wing.

 

The president-elect announced plans to hire economist Peter Navarro to run a new National Trade Council that will be housed in the White House. Navarro, author of "Death By China," has endorsed a hard line approach toward relations with Beijing.

 

In a statement, the Trump transition team said the creation of the council "demonstrates the president-elect's determination to make American manufacturing great again."

 

Trump also named billionaire investor Carl Icahn as an adviser on regulatory reform, though the transition team said Icahn would not be serving as a federal government employee.

 

Transition officials said additional announcements on White House jobs were expected this week.

 

Trump opened his day by boasting anew about his Nov. 8 election victory, tweeting that his win in the Electoral College was more difficult to pull off than winning the popular vote would have been if he had tried. Democrat Hillary Clinton won at least 2.6 million more votes than Trump, an apparent sore point for the president-elect. "

 

"I would have done even better in the election, if that is possible, if the winner was based on popular vote - but would campaign differently," he tweeted.

 

-- © Associated Press 2016-12-22

[ThaiWest]

Can anyone disagree with that? If so, please, give complete details!  

[Dustdevil]

Let Angela take them in and be the European clearinghouse for unvetted refugees. Leave the US out of it.

[ThaiWest]

He'll, After all, IT WAS, Angela's whole idea, right?

[phantomfiddler]

Basically, islam itself is an attack on humanity. A woman gets raped and subsequently sentenced to death for sex outside of marriage. A woman uncovers her face and fanatics are calling for her execution. When is the world going to wake up ?

[JulesMad]

Trump himself is an attack on humanity, and the safety of the whole world!

[hdkane]

It's quite sad actually...Germany is no longer Germany...one million refugees...about 2% were estimated to be terrorists BEFORE admission to the country...that's 20,000...who out breed the natural German population by almost 100%...very soon...perhaps only a decade or two, the streets of Germany will be filled with thousands of people who only wish to destroy the citizenry...

[bangon04]

1 hour ago, hdkane said:

It's quite sad actually...Germany is no longer Germany...one million refugees...about 2% were estimated to be terrorists BEFORE admission to the country...that's 20,000...who out breed the natural German population by almost 100%...very soon...perhaps only a decade or two, the streets of Germany will be filled with thousands of people who only wish to destroy the citizenry...

and when Germany becomes just like the country they ran away from.....

[Boon Mee]

5 hours ago, ThaiWest said:

Can anyone disagree with that? If so, please, give complete details!  

Nope.

Enough is enough and with the new Sheriff in town, perhaps we will see an improvement w/respect to the carnage.

[elgordo38]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

"All along, I've been proven to be right, 100 percent correct," Trump said

Is the White House big enough to contain this ego. Ye gads. I could handle 99.9% right but a 100% is a bit much even for you. He might give Nero a good run for his money. 

[elgordo38]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped."

What a profound statement. His speech writers words no doubt. I doubt if his profoundness would reach this far. 

[dunroaming]

As expected from Trump and the Trumpsters.  Terrible tragedy in Germany once again.  Easiest to blame all the millions of Muslims in the world rather than the terrorists who are just that.

[dcpo]

There is nothing IS would like more than for the US to ban Muslim immigrants. 

[Morch]

5 hours ago, hdkane said:

It's quite sad actually...Germany is no longer Germany...one million refugees...about 2% were estimated to be terrorists BEFORE admission to the country...that's 20,000...who out breed the natural German population by almost 100%...very soon...perhaps only a decade or two, the streets of Germany will be filled with thousands of people who only wish to destroy the citizenry...

 

...about 2% were estimated to be terrorists BEFORE admission to the country...

 

Estimated by...?

 

And your demographic calculations do not add up, I think.

But hey....the sky is falling.

[dunroaming]

8 minutes ago, dcpo said:

There is nothing IS would like more than for the US to ban Muslim immigrants. 

 

Sure fire way of making Americans around the world targets for the ISIL wannabe lone wolves let alone the orchestrated attacks.  Still this is dumb assed Trump's way of adding to the problem and I am sure he won't disappoint.

[Boon Mee]

2 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

 

Sure fire way of making Americans around the world targets for the ISIL wannabe lone wolves let alone the orchestrated attacks.  Still this is dumb assed Trump's way of adding to the problem and I am sure he won't disappoint.

Well, he was correct so there's denying that. 

[dunroaming]

Interesting how "they" can estimate the amount of terrorists before entering Germany.  "They" must belong to the ancient order of bullsh*t pollsters.  Incredible what people will believe if someone writes in down.

[dunroaming]

2 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Well, he was correct so there's denying that. 

 

You missed out the "NO" or maybe you were right in the inclination.

[Morch]

4 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Nope.

Enough is enough and with the new Sheriff in town, perhaps we will see an improvement w/respect to the carnage.

 

The "Sheriff"'s jurisdiction does include Germany, or Europe, for that matter. To date, the Sheriff" failed to explain how he would handle things, other to hint at a secret plan, advocating taking the backseat on Syria and indulging in fantasies about grabbing (yeah, not that...) ME oil fields. At the same time, he also claims to be against getting involved in wars abroad or taking care of allies security issues.

 

So far more like

 

[Boon Mee]

6 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

Interesting how "they" can estimate the amount of terrorists before entering Germany.  "They" must belong to the ancient order of bullsh*t pollsters.  Incredible what people will believe if someone writes in down.

Well, perhaps they don't get in for all the free benefits to begin with?

[dunroaming]

2 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Well, perhaps they don't get in for all the free benefits to begin with?

 

Or may be they are fleeing for their lives from certain death.

[White Christmas13]

Yeah they are

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/video-reportedly-shows-parents-chilling-goodbye-as-their-daughters-leave-for-suicide-missions/news-story/da871371cd64b48672d734cadf96010a

 

 

[boomerangutang]

10 hours ago, ThaiWest said:

Can anyone disagree with that? If so, please, give complete details!  

 

No, I can't disagree, but it's a pantywaist sound bite.  Even a 92 yr old great granma in Western Slobovia could say what Trump says.  He has to get beyond his dough-headed redneck 8-year-old mentality, and start thinking like an adult.   It's a big world out there, full of intrigue.  John Waynish / Hulk Hoganish thinking won't offer solutions.

 

If anything, Trump's rhetoric will make the US more of a target for terrorists.  It's almost as if he's goading terrorists to be more active.  He's playing right into the terrorists' game plan, and is unwittingly a one-man campaigner for swelling terrorist ranks.

[mesquite]

Trump has a lot on his plate right now, but he is quite obviously the best choice we Americans could have made for president.  It's hard to say exactly what he will do as he does not tip his hand, but certainly he will do better against ISIS than his predecessor who called ISIS the junior varsity, or his opponent who took money from Saudi Arabia.

 

I do think we are looking at a multi-generational Trump Dynasty.  Donald for 8 years, then one of his children, possibly Ivanka.  I would like to see her as the first woman president.

[boomerangutang]

Just now, mesquite said:

Trump has a lot on his plate right now, but he is quite obviously the best choice we Americans could have made for president.  It's hard to say exactly what he will do as he does not tip his hand, but certainly he will do better against ISIS than his predecessor who called ISIS the junior varsity, or his opponent who took money from Saudi Arabia.

 

I do think we are looking at a multi-generational Trump Dynasty.  Donald for 8 years, then one of his children, possibly Ivanka.  I would like to see her as the first woman president.

 

I want to see the US prosper, so we don't agree on who should be leading the country.

 

How can Trump be effective as Commander in Chief?  He's already admitted to intentionally missing 'intelligence briefings'. When a CIA or FBI finding comes along that he doesn't personally like (example: Russians intercepted both Dem and Rep memos, but only released Dem memos because it could contribute to HRC's defeat) ......Trump disses it as incorrect or not-believable.  

 

He's already said he knows more than the US top military brass.  He's already said Putin is a much better leader than Obama (if you like invading Ukraine and killing journalists, then you probably agree).  Trump is to being presidential, what an armadillo is to ice skating.

[Silurian]

12 hours ago, webfact said:

"All along, I've been proven to be right, 100 percent correct," Trump said when asked if the attack in Berlin had caused him to reevaluate the proposal.

 

Yep, because in the mind of the child POTUS-elect he makes sure first that everyone should know that he was right and it is all about him. Which can also be seen from his first Tweet of the Day (see quote below).

 

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Trump opened his day by boasting anew about his Nov. 8 election victory, tweeting that his win in the Electoral College was more difficult to pull off than winning the popular vote would have been if he had tried.

 

Got to make sure everyone knows how great he is. Got to reaffirm that ego. 

[mesquite]

Let's see...first we had "Trump will never win the nomination," then "Trump will never win the general election," then "Trump will quit after winning the nomination," and so on.  Then we had the electoral college nonsense and the alleged Russian hacking.  Now it's more nonsense.

 

Trump has done more for the US in his few weeks as president-elect than Obama did in 8 years.  Trump has secured commitments to keep/bring jobs to the US and has let China (and others) know the party's over. 

 

Trump has appointed a retired general as SECDEF.  Don't worry about the military, in fact don't worry about anything, unless you're an enemy of the US (inside or out).  He does need to get Obama's political appointees out of the CIA and FBI as well as the rest of the government.  He's got his work cut out for him.

 

When Trump showed up at the Army Navy game, again as president ELECT, he made Obama look pathetic.  Hello, the president should go to that game.

 

By the way, who do you think should be leading the country if not Trump?  You guys tried to influence the electoral college and that did lead to Trump losing two votes... and Hillary losing FIVE!!

 

If Trump does one fourth of the things he's promised, he'll end up on Mt Rushmore.

 

 

Edited December 22, 2016 by mesquite

[dunroaming]

16 minutes ago, mesquite said:

Let's see...first we had "Trump will never win the nomination," then "Trump will never win the general election," then "Trump will quit after winning the nomination," and so on.  Then we had the electoral college nonsense and the alleged Russian hacking.  Now it's more nonsense.

 

Trump has done more for the US in his few weeks as president-elect than Obama did in 8 years.  Trump has secured commitments to keep/bring jobs to the US and has let China (and others) know the party's over. 

 

Trump has appointed a retired general as SECDEF.  Don't worry about the military, in fact don't worry about anything, unless you're an enemy of the US (inside or out).  He does need to get Obama's political appointees out of the CIA and FBI as well as the rest of the government.  He's got his work cut out for him.

 

When Trump showed up at the Army Navy game, again as president ELECT, he made Obama look pathetic.  Hello, the president should go to that game.

 

By the way, who do you think should be leading the country if not Trump?  You guys tried to influence the electoral college and that did lead to Trump losing two votes... and Hillary losing FIVE!!

 

If Trump does one fourth of the things he's promised, he'll end up on Mt Rushmore.

 

 

 

You may be right.  You are obviously a true believer in Trump and his mantra.  It could be that all the doubters and critics are wrong and Trump will save America.  Certainly if he has his way the USA will be unrecognisable, so I guess it's whether you consider that his way is the right way.  The world can definately survive without America and Trump believes that the USA can survive without the rest of the world.  The American people have voted for the Trump way (or at least a lot of them) so I am afraid it is their funeral.

[Grouse]

11 hours ago, Dustdevil said:

Let Angela take them in and be the European clearinghouse for unvetted refugees. Leave the US out of it.

Trump was referring to Muslims 

 

I'm inclined to agree

 

Refugees are a different issue...

[Morch]

1 hour ago, mesquite said:

Let's see...first we had "Trump will never win the nomination," then "Trump will never win the general election," then "Trump will quit after winning the nomination," and so on.  Then we had the electoral college nonsense and the alleged Russian hacking.  Now it's more nonsense.

 

Trump has done more for the US in his few weeks as president-elect than Obama did in 8 years.  Trump has secured commitments to keep/bring jobs to the US and has let China (and others) know the party's over. 

 

Trump has appointed a retired general as SECDEF.  Don't worry about the military, in fact don't worry about anything, unless you're an enemy of the US (inside or out).  He does need to get Obama's political appointees out of the CIA and FBI as well as the rest of the government.  He's got his work cut out for him.

 

When Trump showed up at the Army Navy game, again as president ELECT, he made Obama look pathetic.  Hello, the president should go to that game.

 

By the way, who do you think should be leading the country if not Trump?  You guys tried to influence the electoral college and that did lead to Trump losing two votes... and Hillary losing FIVE!!

 

If Trump does one fourth of the things he's promised, he'll end up on Mt Rushmore.

 

 

 

Quite done adulating Trump? Good.

 

Let's ignore not a word of the above post being related to the topic at hand as the norm whenever any criticism is passed on Trump.

 

Trump supporters tend to alternate between two phases - either Trump already did a lot (only when it comes to praise) or he didn't do anything yet (when it comes to criticism), depending on the occasion. Occasionally, posts will include both versions, despite the glaring contradiction. Logic is overrated.

 

And so is accuracy. Trump did not, in fact, secure jobs as such. Reading them pesky details is  boring, but bottom line - not as claimed. At best, he got a short term effect for a price. Let the PRC the party is over how? What actually changed other than hot air statements? Not saying things will not change, just trying to separate fantasy and reality.

 

Mattis is not a bad choice for SECDEF, perhaps. But it doesn't mean anything like "don't worry". Certainly not the case with many of his other appointments. And even if they were all the best - it would be a poor display of democracy to place undue levels of trust in any administration.

 

And here's another thing. Trump supporters often go on about supporting the president-elect, getting behind him, showing respect for the office. Somehow, these things are not required of Trump himself. Making the president look weak counts as a result, conducting himself in a manner not befitting his position is a norm, obvious conflict of interest issues are ignored.

 

And get over it. No one says he didn't win. No one says he won't be the next POTUS. Just that not everyone signs up for the "don't worry" nonsense.