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Henhouse

(646 posts)
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 08:37 AM Jun 2016

Donald Trump couldn’t name any Muslim athletes. Here are 38.

Donald Trump couldn’t name any Muslim athletes. Here are 38.

Fusion News
12/7/15

Last night, Donald Trump livetweeted President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office. One part of the tweetstorm stuck out: Trump’s reaction to the President saying, “Muslim-Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co- workers, our sports heroes.”

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Obama said in his speech that Muslims are our sports heroes. What sport is he talking about, and who? Is Obama profiling?




1) Muhammad Ali, boxer

2) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball

3-4) Hakeem Olajuwon and Shaquille O’Neal, basketball

http://fusion.net/story/242243/donald-trump-muslim-athletes/

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Donald Trump couldn’t name any Muslim athletes. Here are 38. (Original Post) Henhouse Jun 2016 OP
The man and his minions are idiots, that's no surprise caquillo Jun 2016 #1
heads would explode n/t DemonGoddess Jun 2016 #3
Trump is such an embarrassment. nt BootinUp Jun 2016 #2
Trump is such an ignorant schmuck, thucythucy Jun 2016 #4

caquillo

(521 posts)
1. The man and his minions are idiots, that's no surprise
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 09:10 AM
Jun 2016

In their tiny, little, redundant brains, Muslim and terrorist are interchangeable. Imagine if we told them that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all Abrahamic faiths and believe in the same deity?

thucythucy

(8,742 posts)
4. Trump is such an ignorant schmuck,
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 09:16 AM
Jun 2016

a moral cipher, an intellectual vacuum. His very presence on the national stage is a sordid reminder of the ethical bankruptcy of the Republican Party.

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