I got invited to go to the Obama Library opening today but couldn't find a babysitter so I am watching Michelle Obama speak with my 3 month old in my lap so she can see what a powerful leader looks like.
WOW, everybody is there at the Grand Opening for the Obama Presidential Center: The Clintons, The Bushes, The Bidens, and of course The Obamas.
Every presidential family that matters. 🙏💪🏽
Do you agree with Trump being left out?
For the first time in US history the sitting President was not invited to attend the opening of a predecessor's library. Clinton, Bush and Biden all showed up at the Obama library... no Trump.
Your Thoughts?
Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter
P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.
@Suzierizzo1 💯There’s involvement from shady Saudi companies to Palantir to the Ellisons to individuals and groups from the Christian Nationalist movement. Strange bedfellows.
These women did their research and physically followed the money of who was actually purchasing the island Sazan in Albania that the Kushner’s are trying to turn into a massive resort. This whole thing is Shady as hell especially the shell Companies being used.
When a redneck mud wrestler, maliciously defames a former first lady you don’t take the high road.
You temporarily get in the cesspool with him and respond with facts that the current part-time First Lady was Jeffrey Epstein’s sloppy seconds when he gave her to Trump.
"The UFC event captures something about this moment in our history.
After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."
https://t.co/4JB8V0GX4L
Say what you will about Obama’s JCPOA deal with Iran but it didn’t get 15 service members (that we know of) killed and 500 wounded.
Obama’s deal also didn’t shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
Obama didn’t kill 168 innocent school children.
Nor did he start a war that has cost taxpayers $35B and when indirect costs kick in, the fiscal burden could amount to $1T .