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‘Everything is a scam!’ Trump ridiculed after pics of Black church event show white crowd
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Oh my god, I saw a meme about this and I didn’t think it was really a photo from the event.
God he sucks
I thought it was fake too
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-paper-shoe/
If you'd put this in a satire movie circa 2014 people would have called it too over the top.
I thought it was disrespectful to wear your hat in church. Huh.
It's historically disrespectful for (men) to wear a hat indoors in quite a few buildings. That guy there looks like he'd be old enough to know better.
And iirc the historical reason it's not disrespectful for women to keep their hat on is that hats were much more integrated into women's hairdos. So, it'd be a whole production of removing hat pins, re-arranging curls, etc.
That might be part of it and seems practical. I think another was that men taking off a helmet/lifting a visor was a thing - similar to (possible?) origins of the handshake - military men signifying they mean no harm.
Norms change over time - used to be, until JFK, there was even more rituals conformed to around men and hats until he came along. JFK was apparently blamed for men mostly abandoning the hat, but apparently that was building before he came along...in today's world, I don't know that it makes a whole lot of sense for something decorative like a hat to have all these rules only apply to one gender...might have been a time when someone got the vapors over a guy not removing his hat when he entered a library, church, etc...but I suppose that sort of thing is fading nearly daily. People don't always wear a suit and tie everywhere, either...
While it doesn't really exude "classy" vibes to have some guy sitting in a church wearing a hat, or, even worse, a hat with a slogan most Americans associate with a hate group, but if violating fading fashion norms was all these people were doing, I doubt too many would care.
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That's an interesting theory but there are many churches where women are supposed to put on a hat especially for church.
Probably it has more to do with this rather ridiculous passage from Corinthians:
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. Source 1 Corinthians 11: 2-16
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"that guy"? The are dozens of them... This isn't a church service, it's clearly a cult service.
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It is.
From what I remember, it is
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The guy wouldn't even take his RED HAT in the church.
Looks like there were several men in there wearing hats. The hat "rules" don't apply to women, but I see a few women wearing that hat, too.
I saw someone wearing a Maga hat at their kids highschool graduation this past week. I just can't fathom how someone is so cringe that they can't put politics aside to be happy for their kid.
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Would be interesting to find out how many were paid to attend also.
Ask Alex Jones. I hear he's an expert on the subject.
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In a different article, a report spoke to 8 black people in attendance. Of the 8 only 1 lived in the Detroit area and none were members of that church.
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why would he expect white people to not follow him in there
Trump arrived at the event bragging about meeting the church’s pastor, Lorenzo Sewell, but then failed to recognize that the man was sitting beside him.
Clown.
It is funny to see him shout about lies and scam when there is publicly available evidence on the contrary.
Literally since day one.
Remember the origin of "Alternative Facts?". It was Kellyanne Conway on Meet the Press Sunday after Trumps inauguration. She was claiming that despite the rain, crowds were bigger than Obama's, even though photos and transit statistics say otherwise.
Really set the tone for the rest of the administration.
Oh well. Ignorance is strength.
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