Trump suggests that protesting should be illegal

[esquared]

That's not the context but nice try anyway.

What should have happened to those people who were in attendance at the Hearings is to toss them out which is what happened. And they could have been (and should be) charged with disorderly conduct in some cases.

Protest all you want outside in an open public area. Not in the US Senate Chambers where serious work is underway.

No, what amused said is correct in context. The SCOTUS hearing precipitated the comment from cheeto but what he said to the daily caller was protesting in general.

""I think it's embarrassing for the country to allow protesters."
"In the old days, we used to throw them out. Today, I guess they just keep screaming."

 

[sandorski]

Many of the same people that think owning a gun is a useful tool against a Government they would find unacceptable, condemn people protesting against a Government they find unacceptable.

 

[sportage]

Protesting ban? OH? SO?
Sure sounds like a tyrant to me. Or a dictator. Certainly a government coup.
But frankly... we all know what this is..... this is A CULT.
One day down the road of time, some psychologist out there will analyze all of this, this massive American cult, to try and determine how an entire political party fell victim into a cult.
Why?
What the weaknesses were?
What the warning signs were?
How this all happened?
And I doubt that psychologist will blame Donald Trump.

No... I believe that psychologist will chalk it up to a massive weakness of humanity, a vulnerability, a condition caused by not one but many causes.
Possible the lingering affect from the Vietnam war, the assassinations during the 1960's, absolutely the horror from 9/11, and a gross lack of confidence in politics AND our religious beliefs as well as our religious leader(s) and religious institutions.
Child sexual molestation, abuse, failures of our institutions to prevent such acts, and the institutions themselves having taken part in the crime.
THEN, covering it up.

No... I believe the psychologist will see the era of Donald Trump as the typical example of a cult.
The leader in name will be unimportant.
What will be important will be how and why such a large portion of American society could reach the point of such vulnerability. Such weakness. Such a condition where they could be caught up in this cult.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

That's not the context but nice try anyway.

What should have happened to those people who were in attendance at the Hearings is to toss them out which is what happened. And they could have been (and should be) charged with disorderly conduct in some cases.

Protest all you want outside in an open public area. Not in the US Senate Chambers where serious work is underway.

Protesters were removed and so if the comments were about the hearing they would be pointless. Raise a fuss, get removed and perhaps more. Considering the events and actions taken, Trump is either being beyond the pale inane yet again or talking a more general case.

Let's look at Trump's actual words.

"I think it's embarrassing for the country to allow protesters, you don't even know which side the protesters were on, but to allow someone to stand up and scream from the top of their lungs and nobody does anything about it is frankly — I think it's an embarrassment."

If this is about the hearings, the country "did not allow" and neither was it tolerated in the Senate. "Something" was done, these people ejected.

None of Trump's actual statements had any relationship to what happened in the Senate. Nothing. I'm for contextual understanding but none of the words spoken apply. Context and interpreting someone speaking is tongues are not the same thing.

 

[zinfamous]

That's not the context but nice try anyway.

What should have happened to those people who were in attendance at the Hearings is to toss them out which is what happened. And they could have been (and should be) charged with disorderly conduct in some cases.

Protest all you want outside in an open public area. Not in the US Senate Chambers where serious work is underway.

"You Lie!"

hahahahahaah, remember that guy, a canonized hero of the right, who had the balls to protest at a joint gathering of Congress, Justice, and the Executive, an annual event where POTUS details and plans the State of the Union? You know, the same type of Congressional event where protesters are "out of context" in that setting? Remember how much you respect that hero of yours?

Hahahahahha, remember that guy? Oh, he also happened to be an actual congressman. Someone that is supposed to give a shit about rules and decorum. But nah, a republican. Rules don't apply to them. You'll be sitting here laughing and cheering the next time a deplorable shows up at a Congressional hearing or vote and waves around some documents printed from the internet about Jade Helm and Pizza rapists, because "Their voices need to be heard!" Until then, you just sit here, wet yourself, and mope that you aren't being "treated fairly" by "the other team."