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'100 Days From Hell': Chuck Schumer Issues Brutal Takedown Of Trump After Poor Approval Rating Polls
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4/29/2025
During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the first 100 days of the Trump Administration.
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Donald Trump's first hundred days have been a hundred days from hell.
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Over the past week, as I've thought about this hundred-day mark, as I met with people
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throughout my state, with business owners and nurses and seniors and veterans and many
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Republicans, I couldn't think of another way to describe the sentiment I felt back home.
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These hundred days have been hundred days from hell.
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Donald Trump is not governing like a president of a democratic republic.
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He's acting like a king, a despot, a wannabe dictator.
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Remember that during the campaign he indicated that he'd be a dictator just on day one.
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But everything we've seen so far shows he wants to be a dictator for much, much longer.
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And he's eating away at America's rule of law, America's norms, America's fundamental
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values.
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And people are scared and people are angry.
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When seniors in Buffalo tell me they're legitimately worried about whether or not they'll keep
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seeing their Social Security checks.
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And that's not just a political expression.
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They wonder how they're going to pay the rent, buy the food, buy the drugs next month if Social
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Security's, if their check isn't there.
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When doctors and health workers in Albany tell me they fear losing Medicaid funding for
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their hospitals and clinics, they're worried about caring for their patients who desperately
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need help and may not get it, they're worried about their jobs.
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When Republican business owners on Long Island tell me they're losing sleep over Donald Trump's
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tariffs, it's because their businesses may go under.
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This is not just a political game.
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People are really worried in ways they haven't seen in a long time.
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And when young people across New York tell me they're scared of being rounded up on the streets
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and sent to a prison in Louisiana because of the way they look or because of some blog
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post they may have shared a year ago, years ago, it's hard to fathom that this is all happening
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in America 2025.
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One hundred days into this presidency, there's a feeling of incompetence and indecision and
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chaos from the White House, in the White House, eating away at much of the country, emanating
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from the man who occupies the Oval Office.
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Donald Trump promised a golden age on the first day he became president.
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What Americans got instead was fool's gold.
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We knew Donald Trump was lying by the time he pardoned 1,600 insurrectionists a few hours
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later, pardoned outright criminals who beat up cops so much for back the blue, pardoning
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lawbreakers who had an intent on disrupting the Congress as we counted electoral votes.
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What a disgrace.
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What kind of morals is he setting for this country?
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This will go down in history as one of the ways America has declined under Donald Trump.
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So this morning, let's talk about Donald Trump's so-called golden age.
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Democrats are going to hammer away at this topic all day long today as we've done many
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days in the past.
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And tonight, we will come to this chamber and hold the floor until late tonight to mark these
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dismal hundred days by speaking the truth.
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Tonight, we will come to the floor and hold the chamber to mark these dismal hundred days.
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What is the truth?
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The truth is this.
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No president in modern history has promised more on day one and delivered less by day 100
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than Donald Trump.
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In record time, the president has turned a golden promise into an economic ticking time
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bomb.
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It's getting worse every day, and he calls it progress.
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Let's remember what Donald Trump said again and again on the campaign trail.
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Starting on day one, he said, we'll end inflation and make America affordable again.
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A vote for Trump, he said, means your groceries will be cheaper.
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We're going to get energy prices down by 50 percent.
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Well the opposite is happening.
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The economic winds are pointing in the wrong direction and reaching hurricane speed.
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Americans are still paying more and more today for their groceries, their rent, their housing,
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their gas, their cars, auto parts, drugs, and household necessities.
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And Donald Trump's asinide trade war has made it all the worse.
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Forty-four percent of families now believe they'll be worse off financially a year from
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now.
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A level of pessimism not even seen during the Great Depression or the 1970s stagflation.
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According to an AP Nork poll, half of Americans are worried about a recession and expect inflation
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to keep going up.
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These aren't just poll numbers.
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When I talk to New Yorkers, when I hear from Americans, that's exactly where they're
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at.
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Consumer sentiment is at a decades-long low.
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It's plunged by 30 percent.
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So the consumer's holding back.
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They're not spending.
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They're not planning that trip to see the grandkids.
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They're not thinking of buying the new car or new furniture.
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Because they're worried.
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And then businesses, seeing that, hearing that, they hold back.
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I've heard from business after business, large and small, everything's on freeze.
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Everything's hold.
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And you know what that does?
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That leads to a recession.
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In fact, Amazon announced that they will begin displaying how much tariffs contribute to the
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total price of products to consumers.
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I urge more companies, particularly national retailers that compete with Amazon, to adopt
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this practice.
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If Amazon has the courage to display why prices are going up because of tariffs, so should all
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of our other national retailers who compete with them, and I'm calling on them to do it now.
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To the large businesses that sell to consumers, I say, show your customers how much tariffs are
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hurting in their pocketbook.
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People deserve to know the impact tariffs have on their finances.
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And certainly, when people hear it, they'll let their congressmen and senators know, and
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businesses, then you'll have a chance to get rid of these tariffs, which are so stultifying
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your ability to move forward.
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And it's also small businesses.
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They don't want to get blamed for hiking prices when Donald Trump's tariffs have put them in
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terrible position, in a position that says, raise your prices or close your doors.
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They hate doing either.
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And finally, let's not forget Donald Trump's favorite measuring stick, the stock market,
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which he has conspicuously been silent about over the last few months.
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The Dow Jones is on track for its worst April since 1932.
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Did you hear that, Donald Trump?
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Your beloved stock market is on track for the worst April since 1932, the last year of Herbert
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Hoover.
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I asked this chamber, Mr. President, is this what a golden age looks like?
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Are we supposed to feel good that Donald Trump has single-handedly pushed us to the brink
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of a recession?
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This president, who governs chaotically and reverses himself like a weather vane in a windstorm,
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is driving the robust American economy into a ditch?
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I think if you asked Americans to pick one word that describes Donald Trump's economy and how he's
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handling it, it would be one word, a five-letter word, chaos, C-H-A-O-S, chaos.
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Another five-letter word is Trump, T-R-U-M-P.
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Chaos equals Trump.
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Trump equals chaos.
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Are Americans supposed to just take it when Donald Trump says family should be okay with prices going up, with
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experiencing some pain and disturbance?
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That's what he says.
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It's okay if prices go up.
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You'll get some pain and disturbance.
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Pretty rich, coming from a billionaire.
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American consumers are not supposed to take it.
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There is precious little, if anything, on the economic front to feel good about the 100 days in Trump 2.0.
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And don't take it from me.
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Today, Donald Trump has lower approval ratings than he did at this point in 2017.
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And, in fact, he has the lowest approval ratings of any president through 100 days in the last 80 years
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when they started doing these polls.
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The only thing historic about Donald Trump's golden age is how fast public confidence in him has collapsed,
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faster than any other president in modern history.
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Americans don't trust him on the economy, nor should they.
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They don't trust him on keeping America safe, nor should they.
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They don't trust him on his ability to fight for the interest of ordinary people,
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because they know that the whole place is run by a small coterie of billionaires
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who don't really care about average folks at all.
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And we are only 100 days in.
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And finally, on a related subject, let me say this.
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As Donald Trump races to sabotage the American economy,
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he has likewise already inflicted lasting harm to the foundations of American democracy.
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When our founders drafted the Constitution, they feared precisely a man like Donald Trump.
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They feared a man who sees rule of laws in nuisance,
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who considers the truth an inconvenience,
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who regards his federal citizens as little more than subjects.
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Either kiss the ring, bow the throne, bow before the throne, or watch your back.
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That's the ethos of Donald Trump.
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Kiss the ring, bow before the throne, or watch your back.
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The Trumpian ethos.
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In 100 days, Donald Trump is moved with lightning speed
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to weaponize the federal government against anyone he thinks might oppose him.
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Prain and simple, Donald Trump does not believe in democracy or debate,
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nor do the people around him.
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He doesn't believe in honest disagreement.
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He simply wants to crush his opponents.
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And that is what dictators do.
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He wiped the government clean of its independent watchdogs and rid the government of most measures of transparency.
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He has fired public workers by the tens of thousands and illegally paralyzed agency after agency that helps everyday Americans.
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He's attacked the free press.
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He's attacked our education system.
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He's attacked our scientists.
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He is systematically attempting to weaken any political opposition, anyone who might hold him accountable.
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In the name of security, which is a favorite justification for many of history's despots,
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Trump is arresting people with little due process and, in some cases, without even regard to immigration status.
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Last week, just look last week, four American citizens, all of them children, two of them battling life-threatening cancers,
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were deported from the U.S., from their homeland.
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They're citizens, like we are, and sent to places like Honduras.
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Let me repeat, these are American citizens, Donald Trump.
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And America, if you thought something like this could never happen in America, then unfortunately you were wrong.
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It's happening right in front of us.
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And what did Donald Trump have to say about the risk of deporting U.S. citizens?
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He said, let me tell you that nothing will ever be perfect in this world.
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That's what he said.
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That's disgusting.
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That's disgusting, just disgusting.
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If it was a member of his family, trapped in such a calamity, would he say, tough luck, nothing's perfect?
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Donald Trump's inability to feel empathy for people who do not look like him is shocking to the core.
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So as America marks 100 days of the worst president of our lifetimes,
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I ask America to look at this administration for what it is,
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full of frontal attack on the core elements of what America has made America truly great.
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The rule of people over kings and oligarchs.
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The rule of law and not the dictates of an authoritarian.
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Respect for the rights of all people.
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A commitment to, quote, promoting the general welfare, unquote, for the whole of society.
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Not cruel, cheap, and lying scapegoating.
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So let us commit ourselves, America.
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Let us commit ourselves to continue to struggle against this administration
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and to uphold the core values and principles of this great nation.
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Yield the floor.
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