President Trump was being criticized by the mainstream media for having a few illegal aliens working at his golf club, so he fired them. And now he’s being criticized for that too!
From the Hill:
About a dozen employees were reportedly abruptly fired last week from Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, because they were found to be in the country illegally.
The firings, which were reported Saturday by The Washington Post, follow revelations last year that undocumented immigrants were hired and subsequently fired at a Trump property in New Jersey.
The workers in New York were told that the Trump company had recently audited their immigration documents, which were found to be fake, the Post reported. Those documents had been submitted years prior to their firing.
“Unfortunately, this means the club must end its employment relationship with you today,” a Trump executive told the employees, according to a recording one worker gave to the Post.
“I started to cry,” Gabriel Sedano, a former maintenance worker from Mexico, told the newspaper. “I told them they needed to consider us. I had worked almost 15 years for them in this club, and I’d given the best of myself to this job.”
I mean, yeah that’s kinda sad, but also, isn’t that what these reporters wanted? If you didn’t want them fired, you wouldn’t have reported on them being hired. Again, they’re playing both sides – pointing at Trump’s hypocrisy for hiring them in the first place, and then pointing at his cruelty for firing them after the media bashes him. It’s all kinda silly.
Speaking of silly, have yourselves a special open thread for Saturday.
Here’s some comment fodder:
When you notice that Mike Pence always. talks. like. this. 🔊 pic.twitter.com/K610milDKD
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 25, 2019
They won’t find it so funny when he’s president!
This is amazing and I am thoroughly jealous:
This is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me on Twitter.https://t.co/KLeqiqvQaF
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 25, 2019
This uh sounds like a joke but it’s not:
As she left her table at a Washington restaurant Friday night, the staff cheered and applauded Nancy Pelosi. What a week she had had. Said a waitress in near tears,"We need someone who will fight for us." The Speaker carried a small white paper bag, I know not what was in it.
— Elizabeth Drew (@ElizabethDrewOH) January 26, 2019
This is awkward:
Sebastian Gorka tries to convince Lou Dobbs that the end of the shutdown was a “master stroke” by Trump.
— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 26, 2019
Dobbs, unmoved, says that Pelosi “whipped the president” and is now "queen of the Hill” https://t.co/X59yXPYh2K
Interesting:
I texted Roger on Mon asking if he had thoughts on why he hadn't been indicted. He sent this:
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) January 25, 2019
"I think it is possible that I will be framed In which case I will expose both illegal surveillance on me and gross prosecutorial misconduct by a number of lawyers working for Mueller"
Establishment blaming the Freedom Caucus:
Senior R: “I hope the president remembers this when the Freedom Caucus types tell him what to do next time. They only have a first move - start a fight. They never have a second move.”
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) January 25, 2019
ANd..
"So I'm assuming Nancy Pelosi will be giving the State of the Union now, since she's running the country," a former White House staffer texts.
— Jackie Alemany (@JaxAlemany) January 25, 2019
Enjoy!!!