‘Close the Camps’ trends nationwide on Twitter as Trump suffers massive public rebuke
President Donald Trump faced public outrage on Saturday over his concentration camps, despite his two-week delay of ICE raids.
Trump announced the delay on Saturday, angering many of his own supporters.
Trump’s critics were also outraged, with many believing that Trump was holding children hostage in an attempt to extort Congressional Democrats for more money for his crackdown.
Here is some of what people were saying:
#CloseTheCamps is trending. This is America in 2019.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 22, 2019
He's holding children hostage to get more funding to expand the concentration camps.
We demand #Not1MoreDollar for the camps.
It's time to #CloseTheCamps.
— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) June 22, 2019
Holding people hostage in this way is evil and repulsive. Dems better not be selling us out. #CloseTheCamps #BuildABridge https://t.co/01x1xuxisX
— Erika Andiola (@ErikaAndiola) June 22, 2019
It’s interesting. When I was deployed to Iraq, we had detainee camps WITH free medical check ups, food, water, and education resources while they were detained. Why can’t we have those resources in America? I don’t understand it. Just #CloseTheCamps #ConcentrationCamps
— 𝓚𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓷 𝓟𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓽𝔃 (@KevinPlantz) June 22, 2019
#CloseTheCamps
Jesus warned, "Whatsoever you have done to the least of these, you have done also to me."
I spent 40 years preparing for this test, only to watch most of my brethren fail.
White evangelicals, you may not have voted to put children in cages, but you are responsible. pic.twitter.com/Uir5tj8SZx— Ruth Peitz (@chicopeitz) June 22, 2019
First it was concentration camps holding people who were crossing the border. Now they are rounding people up city by city. If this doesn't sound dangerous to you, you don't know your history. They are already dying. Evil wins when good men do nothing. #CloseTheCamps #AbolishICE
— Tabitha (Sam) S (@moonaticsam) June 22, 2019
"And when I was asked why he didn't have diapers on, I was told he didn't need it. He immediately urinated. And he was in the care of another child." There is no excuse for this. trump is the sole cause of this crime. https://t.co/p0JQ1gSiVQ #CloseTheCamps
— KnowYourObama (@KnowYourObama) June 22, 2019
You keep taking hostages to get your wall & make America white. Dreamers, TPS, now little children huddled together in cages…This abuse must STOP.
Dems must say NO. #Not1Dollar in funding until you #CloseTheCamps, moratorium on raids & DACA & TPS have permanent protection. https://t.co/NEY76vNCOT
— Kai Newkirk (@kai_newkirk) June 22, 2019
Children have been drugged. Children have been put in cages. Children have been sexually assaulted. Children have been denied basic hygiene supplies. Children have been fed spoiled food. Children have been denied beds. This must end. #CloseTheCamps https://t.co/JfjbYGtjzP
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) June 22, 2019
So this means that when we put Donald Trump and his co-conspirators in prison, we don’t have to give them soap or blankets. #CloseTheCamps
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) June 22, 2019
What else would you expect from a rapey premature ejaculator with impulse control issues? #ImpeachTheRapist #CloseTheCamps https://t.co/FnXXrFdW8B
— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) June 22, 2019
#CloseTheCamps https://t.co/bmHPpx8NOP
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) June 22, 2019
I’m calling on ALL Texas state representatives to step up and #CloseTheCamps
We must match the urgency of this moment with powerful leadership. Be brave enough to do what’s right!
— Antonio (@AntonioArellano) June 22, 2019
I don't want to ruin your weekend, but at a minimum you should read this. At a maximum, you should be marching in the fucking streets. #CloseTheCamps https://t.co/ydSkMaZqdM
— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) June 22, 2019
Years from now, students in school will be taught about people getting rounded up, and put into camps in cages and denied basic human rights.
And they'll have to distinguish which fascist country was doing this.
Those who forget their past…#CloseTheCamps#ProtectEachOther pic.twitter.com/HeBZ18JrGU
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/taradublinrocks/status/1142534996789301249
The GOP has supported building mass concentration camps on the southern border. Kids & families are dying.
Now they want money for more – w/ ZERO negotiation on how $ is spent.
We can’t do that. They‘ve shown that when they get more money, they build more camps. #CloseTheCamps https://t.co/DYhXuU9Crz
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2019
Do you need more proof that these are concentration camps than this week's shameful court appearance by the Trump Administration? #CloseTheCamps
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) June 22, 2019
FIgured it out. Making myself a #CloseTheCamps shirt and thank @AOC for the inspiration. https://t.co/zJWZ2Fe7Os
— Heather Matarazzo (@HeatherMatarazz) June 22, 2019
You keep taking hostages to get your wall & make America white. Dreamers, TPS, now little children huddled together in cages…This abuse must STOP.
Dems must say NO. #Not1Dollar in funding until you #CloseTheCamps, moratorium on raids & DACA & TPS have permanent protection. https://t.co/NEY76vNCOT
— Kai Newkirk (@kai_newkirk) June 22, 2019
Members of the great Masai tribe greet one another with a question, not a salutation. They ask, "how are the children?"
Americans should be ashamed of the answer under @realDonaldTrump. Thousands are living in filth, hate, & neglect.#CloseTheCamps https://t.co/ufA5JsmU81
— Andrew Gillum (@AndrewGillum) June 22, 2019
#CloseTheCamps: Children have died. Children have been put in cages. Children have been denied basic hygiene supplies, food and beds. Children have been sexually assaulted. Children have been traumatized. Children have been separated from their families.
— COMMON (@common) June 22, 2019
The latest from the New York Times on what it's like inside the concentration camps.
It's time to #CloseTheCamps.
It's definitely not the time to give more funding to ICE and CBP to lock up more people. https://t.co/LEE20OX4pr
— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) June 22, 2019
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Russian trolls recently have started hyping a mix of misinformation about the coronavirus and crazed conspiracy theories posted by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
The Daily Beast reports that one of the trolls' main information operations revolves around blaming the United States Department of Defense for purportedly creating the coronavirus, even though all credible epidemiologists agree it originated in China.
"The story, posted to Russian-language blogs and Reddit by multiple fake personas, tries to pin the blame on the COVID-19 outbreak on the U.S. and Kazakhstan by casting the virus as the byproduct of a U.S. nonproliferation program in the country," the publication finds. "The trolls pointed to social media posts by a group of hackers calling themselves 'Anonymous Kazakhstan.'"
This Thursday, President Trump fired off a tweet commemorating National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, writing, "we honor the more than 500,000 American warriors captured while protecting our way of life. We pay tribute to these Patriots for their unwavering and unrelenting spirit!"
The post was noticed by Meghan McCain, who is a talk show host and daughter of the late Arizona Senator John McCain, who Trump disparaged in past comments regarding his being taken prisoner during the Vietnam war.
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