#TrumpDebateExcuses mercilessly mocks Donald Trump’s debate complaints
After GOP nominee Donald Trump began complaining about the general election debate schedule that was set by the debate commission years ago, he then began generating false excuses as to why the schedule conflicted with him.
“I got a letter from the NFL saying, ‘this is ridiculous, why are the debates against — because the NFL doesn’t want to go against the debates,” Trump told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.
It’s unclear if Trump is beginning to realize his foreign policy chops aren’t up to snuff. After all, Trump made a substantial flub in the same interview, claiming Russia will stay out of Ukraine despite Russia already having a presence in Ukraine.
Twitter responded to the whole ordeal in the way that only Twitter can: With a brilliant hashtag mocking the candidate. Here is a selection of the best.
#TrumpDebateExcuses The moderators will ask questions with words I don’t know about policies I’ve never heard of & she’ll know the answers.
— Pat Fuller (@bannerite) July 31, 2016
A reference to the fact that Trump won’t release his tax returns because he’s being audited.
“I’m busy being audited.” #TrumpDebateExcuses — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) August 1, 2016
"No sane person would participate in a presidential debate while they're being audited. Everybody knows that. Everybody."#TrumpDebateExcuses
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) August 1, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses cuz date night with Putin pic.twitter.com/hW5H13PvfP
— Bim 4 #DisarmHate (@bimmerella) August 1, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses
My friend, Vlad Putin, was not able to hack and see the questions in advance pic.twitter.com/MCp4fD0M2S— NaphiSoc (@NaphiSoc) July 31, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses “I have to find my African American.” pic.twitter.com/593eqqSiyI — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 1, 2016
“I’m just too busy, believe me. I’m a very important person very important. I have things to do that are more important” #TrumpDebateExcuses
— Sarah Burris (@SarahBurris) August 1, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses I might have Affluenza. pic.twitter.com/BvUl5fqjUe — Vlan Trunk (Tim) (D) (@VlanTrunk) August 1, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses
Believe me, I know excuses. Mine will be biggest. Trust me.— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) August 1, 2016
Then there’s always the standard excuse: The liberal media.
The dishonest media will replay my exact words and say I said them. Unfair! #TrumpDebateExcuses
— Aღanda (@GrnEyedMandy) August 1, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses They wont let me wear my favorite hat pic.twitter.com/pZ1GaJd3sU
— #DumbDonald (@Adolf_Trump) August 1, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses Too soon to use Michelle Obama's speech.
— Men4Hillary (@HillarysMen) August 1, 2016
The inevitable hair jokes:
"I have to wash my hair. It's more complicated than you think." #TrumpDebateExcuses
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) August 1, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses My dog ate my hair.
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) July 31, 2016
The cameraman is Mexican so he has “an inherent conflict of interest” and cannot provide fair on-screen time. #TrumpDebateExcuses
— Amadi (@amaditalks) August 1, 2016
Debate commission won't let me use my gold-encrusted lecturn.#TrumpDebateExcuses#NeverTrump
— Crimea River (@HooplaHappens) July 31, 2016
Believe me, I won. You didn't see it, but I won. Believe me. I was there. It was beautiful. I used big words. #TrumpDebateExcuses
— Sarah (@redpainter1) July 31, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses I am meeting with Sarah Palin for intelligence and foreign policy briefings
— R Joseph (@rjoseph7777) July 31, 2016
Can't. Still googling "how to get Mexico to pay for the wall".#TrumpDebateExcuses
— HillarysGotThis2016 (@VileEpiphany) July 31, 2016
Chris Chistie refuses to wear a pantsuit when playing Hillary in the practice debate #TrumpDebateExcuses
— Ronin Mara (@RoninMara) July 31, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses I'm scared! Hillary's gonna be mean to me! pic.twitter.com/Lnhc7JmXcX
— TraitorTrump (@TeaTraitors) July 31, 2016
HRC: I'll debate you any time, anywhere, any place Trump: I can't make that #trumpdebateexcuses
— Sam Josephs (@SamJosephsSN) July 31, 2016
Planning to actually shoot someone in Times Square.#TrumpDebateExcuses#NeverTrump
— Crimea River (@HooplaHappens) July 31, 2016
How dare the people who schedule debates actually schedule debates. #TrumpDebateExcuses https://t.co/IaWLa8A9qe
— Don'tBooVote (@OFSCOTUS) July 31, 2016
I have all the best words but Ivanka says they aren't as bigly as Hillary's & that's rigged against me! #TrumpDebateExcuses
— Cherokee Lair (@CherokeeLair) July 30, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses girls are mean
— k8 (@rolling_2) June 2, 2016
"…bullying grieving parents, for instance. I've created millions of jobs doing that and believe me, it's huge." https://t.co/LypkzyZ81r
— Terri Farley (@Terri_Farley) August 1, 2016
It's not important that I'm there, but if I was there the ratings would be YUUUGE. @SarahBurris #TrumpDebateExcuses https://t.co/XJPt3nAk5O
— Nick Dechenne (@ndechenne) August 1, 2016
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White supremacists accounted for majority of terror-related arrests in last year: FBI director
FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers on Tuesday that his agency has so far made roughly 100 terrorism-related arrests so far this fiscal year -- and the majority of them are related in some way to the white supremacist movement.
As Washington Post reporter Matt Zapotosky reports, Wray made his remarks about white supremacist terrorists while being questioned by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) during an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Despite the fact that white supremacists accounted for a majority of terror-related arrests in the first three quarters of this fiscal year, however, Wray also said that the FBI still considers jihadi-inspired terrorism to be the greater overall threat.
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Jaydon Stubbs and four friends were riding July 17 on their way to Hollywood Beach when an officer spotted the teens in an area where there had been a string of recent burglaries, reported WPLG-TV.
The officer saw the boys popping wheelies and ignoring traffic laws, so she tried to stop them for questioning -- but they split up and rode away from her.
On Tuesday, Boris Johnson, former British Foreign Secretary and leader of the Conservative Party, secured the votes in Parliament to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
It is an outcome that was long considered likely — and it creates parallels with the 2016 election of President Donald Trump in the United States, as there are a great many similarities between the politics and styles of these two men, notes NPR.
First, and most obviously, both men are brusque right-wing populists who have made controlling immigration their core issue on the political stage — in Trump's case it is building the wall, while in Johnson's case it is implementing Brexit.
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