The mournful CNN anchor apparently did what the sitting President of the United States hasn't or -- as some critics predict -- won't. Don Lemon wrote a poignant open letter of apology to Myeshia Johnson. She is the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, a Green Beret among three others slain during an ambush in Niger, Africa recently. At one point, Lemon succumbed to emotion and choked back tears while expressing sorrow to the Gold Star wife over the loss of her husband. Don Lemon's apology on live TV is reverberating around social media. Donald Trump disputed the Gold Star wife's account of the president's "disrespectful" comments during his recent condolence call placed to Mrs. Johnson in the wake of her husband's death. The controversy began days ago when Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who was present during Trump's call at the family's request, accused the president of being insensitive after he supposedly said to the widow, "He [Sgt. Johnson] knew what he signed up for." Trump insists that the story is "fabricated." …show more content…
A small number of Trump apologists have come forward on television networks and believe Trump's heart was "in the right place," but his means of delivery sent the wrong message. CNN's Don Lemon penned the open letter to Trump after he "attacked" the grieving widow on Monday over comments she made during her interview with ABC’s "Good Morning America." Johnson confirmed Rep. Wilson's account of the telephone call and said Trump "made her cry" because he appeared disconnected from the call and "didn't even know" her husband's name. Moments after the widowed mother of two -- pregnant with another -- blasted Trump for his mannerism during the call, the president took to Twitter and, as some characterize it, "picked a fight" with the grief-stricken
Friedman directly addresses Trump on his response that his comments were “just words”, employing the use of loaded language such as “bragging” to describe his demeanor during the video. Moreover, a sarcastic tone is used in likening Trump’s repeated use of the phrase “locker room talk” to having “magic powers”. In using such language the author undermines his response, alluding to the audience that his response was a blatant attempt to persuade the public of how he is right, rather than addressing their criticisms. Informally addressing him as “Donald”, Friedman purposefully attacks Trump, knowing that he hates “being addressed by his first name”. The
Anyone with a TV, Radio, Newspaper, Phone or ears have heard nothing but horrible things about trump over the past year or two. Every corner you look, or media you scroll on something will be pushed in front of your face on the negative aspect of Donald Trump. Casually scrolling through facebook and I notice yet again another, horrible headline for Trump. “Donald Trump Wrongly Corrected A Veteran About The Suicide Rate”. Being intrigued I clicked on it. It was a video, taken at the the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Commander-in-Chief Forum. Rachel Fredericks, aviations operations in the Marine Corps, asked trump a simple question on what he planned to do about the sing rates of suicidal veterans due to PTSD. Trump did not respond, instead he decided to 1. Not answer the question completely and 2, corrected Rachel with wrong information.
What Trump was trying to say and how Johnson and Wilson heard it wound up being two very different things. At one level, that's understandable and if is regrettable. Trump, who never held any political office before running for president, was trying his best to find the right words in a situation in which there are no words. Myeshia Johnson was and is trying to deal with the grief of losing a husband and not even knowing all the facts that led to his death. A normal phone call about nothing sometimes gets misinterpreted. One with this much emotional baggage attached to it? It's easy to see how the two sides just didn't connect.Suddenly the story wasn't about the death of Johnson. It was about whether Trump had "proof" that Wilson was lying. (He didn't -- although White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said several people, including chief of staff John Kelly, were listening to the call and thought the President handled it well.) About what, exactly, Trump had said. Over Wilson being "wacky." Over whether she "secretly" listened to the call between Trump and Johnson. (She didn't; the call was taken on
Pollak slams Obama for not condemning BLM after the Dallas police shooting. Pollak claimed, “Trump's critics never applied the same standard to Obama.” While I agree that this was an incredibly tragic event, BLM was not to blame. Xavier Johnson, the perpetrator of the shooting, may have supported BLM, but they did not support him and came out against him following the incident. On the other hand, the people at the protest in Charlottesville were, for the most part, chanting racial slurs and attacking counter-protesters. Even though the majority of the country opposed these actions, President Trump reluctantly condemned them only to later double down on his original statement.
Obeidallah uses tweets to show that Trump is extremely unprofessional in the way that he addresses real
So I've been contemplating the whole Khan family vs Trump's exchange of words in the media. Trump claims to have respect for our veterans and their families yet he showed no compassion when he went after a fallen hero's parents. He didn't even hesitate to throw in the religion card when he insinuated that the mother of Captain Khan wasn't allowed to speak and correlating it to her being a Muslim. For those on the right that claim to love America and its veterans, if any of Donald's many hate filled tweets and speeches didn't wake you up earlier from supporting him, then this should be where the buck stops. Otherwise, you're reaffirming his insensitive and racist rhetoric. I want Trump to know that the sacrifice made by myself and the thousands
Most of the content in the article was about the actions that had been taken at the United Nations speech. For example, “But Trump’s U.N. speech was a read-from-the-teleprompter performance, not a case of his just blurting out something awful. People in the White House read it and talked about it in advance”. This example, is able to demonstrate that a professional speech delivered to many world leaders had been reviewed by people in the White House, yet it had unprofessional content. The humorous part of the article was when Collin stated, “Even though he won’t drink in mixed company unless his wife is present, or dine alone with a woman he’s not married to”. She is bringing up a fact that mocks Mike
An African American man serving in the U.S. army along with two other soldiers was killed. The widowed wife received a call from president Trump and his words were “He knew what he signed up for”. Doesn’t really sound like something a husbandless Mother would want to hear about her late husband. Previously I spoke about the very fine people who insulted, vandalized, and even killed some people. Instead of Trump condemning them they were just “very fine people on both sides”. Our president is blind to all the things that go wrong in our country and fails to address them.
Donald Trump recently gave a speech discussing rising Radical Islamic Terrorism, immigration from the Middle East, and a need for a rise in national security while Manchester, New Hampshire on June 13th 2016. He centers his whole speech around discussing how bad a President his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would be in difficult times. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Finance in 1968 with a bachelor 's degree in economics, and has become a very successful businessman. He’s the Republican nominee for this upcoming presidential election, and is a very controversial candidate and person. He has come under fire for many of his views that he discusses in his June 13th speech. While Trump does make some agreeably points, he renders his speech ineffective because of his heavy reliance on Clinton’s opinion to form his own. If Trump were to become President, his stance on important issues would need to be reached with careful consideration, and not just based on doing the opposite of his opponents.
Trump held a celebratory press conference after the House approved its health care bill in May, but later called the legislation "mean" in front of Republican senators.
Marketing involves knowing and appealing to your target audience.” He further states that Donald Trump knows himself (his brand) and the same Trump we have become familiar with in all of his other endeavors is the same Donald Trump we see on the campaign trail. Schwartz noted that Trumps brazen behavior and disparaging statements “seem to have boosted his performance in the polls.” He makes little effort to be politically correct and speaks loosely about life as he sees it, offering no apologies for his viewpoint or for verbally expressing such controversial views. According to Schwartz, this raises the questions: when should you apologize, what approach should be taken when apologizing, and when do you draw the line? He closes the article by saying that Donald Trump is “a fascinating one-of-a-kind figure in American Politics and business” and “you don’t have to become like Trump to learn from how he’s marketed himself and built his
The mother of a US soldier who was killed in action has backed a congresswoman's claim that President Donald Trump showed insensitivity during a phone call to her son's widow.
She argued that “it hurts” because he was degenerating all women values and their dignity. Michell has been an important person during the last years, not because she is the first lady. Because she has stood against all prejudice and discrimination issues. One day she mentioned that she doesn't felt good when she woke up her daughters in a white house built by slaves. What surprised the most about
This statement was made by her after a brief absence from Trump's campaigns following the bullying and mocking she faced on the internet when parts of her 2016 Republican National Convention speech were found to be plagiarized from Michelle Obama's speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
When Douthat writes he is good at keeping his emotion out of what he is writing, unless it gets personal or if he strongly doesn’t like something about it. There have been a few times when he put his personal opinion into the paper and then continued talking about it before he stated another fact or source. When Douthat starts talking about politics, especially about Trump, he starts to describe them with more opinionated ways than factual ways, for example, in his article,