Michelle Obama tells Donald Trump: 'In America we don't build walls'

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Michelle Obama tells Donald Trump: 'In America we don't build walls'

• Agence France-Presse

3 JUNE 2016 • 8:48PM





Michelle Obama took a veiled swipe at Donald Trump on Friday, by telling an audience that in America "we don't build up walls to keep people out".
The first lady delivered a passionate defense of immigration and diversity, in the final commencement address of her husband's presidency on Friday.
"Infusions of new cultures and new ideas, generation after generation, created the matchless alchemy of our melting pot and helped us build the strongest, most vibrant, most prosperous nation on the planet," Obama told the 2016 graduating class of City College of New York.
"Some folks out there today seem to have a very different perspective," she said, appearing to allude to the presumptive Republican nominee for president, without using his name.

 

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"They seem to view our diversity as a threat to be contained rather than as a resource to be tapped, they tell us to be afraid of those who are different," said the first lady, wife of Democratic president Barack Obama in remarks that appeared more pointedly political than usual.


"They act as if name calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate, as if anger and intolerance should be our default state."


Donald Trump has vowed to build a wall along America's southern border to keep out illegal immigrants, and has run a controversial campaign insulting women, Mexicans, Muslims, the disabled and journalists whom he dislikes, among others.

 

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"In America we don't give in to our fears, we don't build up walls to keep people out, because we know that our greatness has always depended on contributions from people born elsewhere but sought this country," Obama said.


She deliberately chose CCNY, a public college and immigrant-rich New York for her final address to a university graduating class.


The school welcomes students who speak more than 150 different languages and come from every possible background in a city that for centuries was the gateway for immigrants striving for a better life in America, Obama said.



While she did not mention Trump, Michelle Obama did reference ex-secretary of state Colin Powell, a CCNY graduate and son of Jamaican immigrants who served Republican president George W. Bush, calling him a role model for young people.

 

[ScottL]

Donald reign it it. Don't tweet she's a gorilla. I know you wanna, but it'll cost ya

 

[guitarjosh]

Unless it's a wall to keep people or money from leaving. We do build those.

 

[Willie99]

Donald reign it it. Don't tweet she's a gorilla. I know you wanna, but it'll cost ya

LMFAO

go for it Donny, don't stop now

 

[Willie99]

Michelle is just another fucking libtarded idiot

we build walls all over this country to keep people out, including her homes and her daughters' schools

 

[Coldweather]

He should tell her she looks like a FOOL! F HER! :youmad:

 

[superbeets]

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First lady Michelle Obama, in her final college commencement speech, blasted those who view 'diversity as a threat'




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Who me? Obama usually stays away from politics in public, but clearly aimed at Donald Trump

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She chose the highly diverse City College of New York as the location for her remarks



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The Princeton grad picked up an honorary doctorate of humane letters from CCNY

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Obama reacted to cheers from students before picking up her degree



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[The Guesser]

Michelle is just another fucking libtarded idiot

we build walls all over this country to keep people out, including her homes and her daughters' schools

This always Wrong Idiot is actually comparing Walls that are built in and around Houses, to a Wall across The Mexican border??hno: No wonder he gets negative Reviews on Twitter that he is an incompetent failure at his job.

 

[ScottL]

This always Wrong Idiot is actually comparing Walls that are built in and around Houses, to a Wall across The Mexican border??hno: No wonder he gets negative Reviews on Twitter that he is an incompetent failure at his job.

You're trying too hard Spammy. We welcome people into our homes because they aren't trying to throw us out and take our house. We welcome people into our nation who embrace our culture and come here to be like us, to become Americans. We build walls to keep out the people who want to come here without integrating into our societies. The irony of the whole thing is there are too many of these immigrants who do not embrace diversity as the rest of us do.

 

[The Guesser]

You're trying too hard Spammy. We welcome people into our homes because they aren't trying to throw us out and take our house. We welcome people into our nation who embrace our culture and come here to be like us, to become Americans. We build walls to keep out the people who want to come here without integrating into our societies. The irony of the whole thing is there are too many of these immigrants who do not embrace diversity as the rest of us do.

Coming from "The only Jew on the forum", I'll take that under advisement. . It has nothing to do with what I posted, though.
I agree with alot of what you posted, but again, that has nothing to do with Drumpf's silly wall nonsense.

 

[superbeets]

Coming from "The only Jew on the forum", I'll take that under advisement. . It has nothing to do with what I posted, though.
I agree with alot of what you posted, but again, that has nothing to do with Drumpf's silly wall nonsense.

Guesser the baby talker , so silly , so childish use of Drumpf

 

[Willie99]

You're trying too hard Spammy. We welcome people into our homes because they aren't trying to throw us out and take our house. We welcome people into our nation who embrace our culture and come here to be like us, to become Americans. We build walls to keep out the people who want to come here without integrating into our societies. The irony of the whole thing is there are too many of these immigrants who do not embrace diversity as the rest of us do.

it's what liars do, they change the narrative

if you don't believe in man made global warming and you don't think driving smaller cars is going to stop climate change, they say you're so dumb you don't even know the climate is changing. As a matter of fact, since their their narrative did not blend nicely with reality, they changed it from man made global warming to man made climate change so they could blame every significant weather event on Republicans.

if you believe an unborn child has constitutional rights at some point in time and there should be some restrictions on abortions, they say you hate women and you're waging a war on women

if you believe we shouldn't have an open border enabling people to come as they please, if you believe we should try to impose the enforce the law of the land, they say you oppose diversity, you're a racist

if you believe we're all equal and the government should not segregate us with racial preferences, they call such people selfish white men, racist or even uncle tom's



they're disingenuous lying fucking idiots speaking to the fucking idiots of this world, they are genetically inferior DNA

 

[ScottL]

Coming from "The only Jew on the forum", I'll take that under advisement. . It has nothing to do with what I posted, though.
I agree with alot of what you posted, but again, that has nothing to do with Drumpf's silly wall nonsense.

I don't even want to make an OVER/UNDER line for the number of times you've been called a Goyishe Kop because I'd get one-sided action

 

[The Guesser]

it's what liars do, they change the narrative

if you don't believe in man made global warming and you don't think driving smaller cars is going to stop climate change, they say you're so dumb you don't even know the climate is changing. As a matter of fact, since their their narrative did not blend nicely with reality, they changed it from man made global warming to man made climate change so they could blame every significant weather event on Republicans.

if you believe an unborn child has constitutional rights at some point in time and there should be some restrictions on abortions, they say you hate women and you're waging a war on women

if you believe we shouldn't have an open border enabling people to come as they please, if you believe we should try to impose the enforce the law of the land, they say you oppose diversity, you're a racist

if you believe we're all equal and the government should not segregate us with racial preferences, they call such people selfish white men, racist or even uncle tom's



they're disingenuous lying fucking idiots speaking to the fucking idiots of this world, they are genetically inferior DNA

This Wrong Way idiot is babbling about nonsense totally unrelated to anything. It's gotta be the genes. No wonder he is such a failure at his job.

 

[ScottL]

This Wrong Way idiot is babbling about nonsense totally unrelated to anything. It's gotta be the genes. No wonder he is such a failure at his job.

You on Troll Patrol until your usual 7am?

 

[The Guesser]

I don't even want to make an OVER/UNDER line for the number of times you've been called a Goyishe Kop because I'd get one-sided action

Only my Grandma, when I played with the Christian Girls upstairs, and she would curse me in yiddish for playing with Shiksas.

 

[The Guesser]

You on Troll Patrol until your usual 7am?

One never knows. Maybe you'll have to ask Lying WELCHING Ace to list the times of my posts tomorrow, when he takes a break from stalking Vit.

 

[bobbyjones2]

poor, poor, michelle..