Now Drumph Pisses Off The Girl Scouts!

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This clueless buffoon is hopeless!

Add to the list of groups the president and his staff have offended: the Girl Scouts of America. Yes, the same group that put patriotism ahead of politics and took heat for marching in his inauguration.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders stereotyped Girl Scouts as egg-throwing hooligans when explaining why the president was skipping the White House Correspondents Dinner and fundraiser.

She said, "You know, one of the things we say in the South [is] 'If a Girl Scout egged your house, would you buy cookies from her?' I think that this is a pretty similar scenario."

Yes, it's that old familiar cliche every Southerner knows.

She made the statement Sunday on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanapoulos, and some Girl Scouts have been raging mad since then.

Possibly mad enough to egg the White House, but probably not.

Stephanopoulos didn't let her statement rest, replying, "I think a lot would argue the eggs have gone both ways on that. But we're going to have to leave it there today."

But the Girl Scouts are not happy leaving it there.

Girl Scout leadership groups on Facebook are outraged, and if President Trump were to buy cookies, rest assured, they would not wrap them up in nice little bows with a thank you note for him. But, they're Girl Scouts, so they probably practice magnanimity and still get him his Thin Mints.

On Facebook, Debra Johnson Pendleton wrote Monday, "Girl Scouts are not known for throwing eggs. They are GIRL SCOUTS!"

Supporter Deb Williams asked, "Do girl scouts egg houses in the south?"

Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, has not responded to the criticism.

Coincidentally, the White House and Girl Scouts have a long and usually amicable history. The first lady has long since been given the title of honorary national president of the Girl Scouts.

Michelle Obama had the title last, and it began in 1917 with First Lady Edith B. Wilson beginning the tradition.

A Change.org petition is trying to prevent Melania Trump from receiving the title, calling her unfit for the model of leadership the Girl Scouts hope to emulate.

So far, there's no word on whether the title will be bestowed on the current first lady. Calls to the White House have not been returned.

[MajGenl.Meade]

What a contrived fuss over nothing.

IF a girl scout egged your house.... IF. But they don't, do they? The fact that people buy cookies kinda shows that.

But IF a girl scout egged your house, would you buy cookies from her? No, you wouldn't and neither would I

The dense woman (and her dense president) have said NOTHING whatsoever about the Girl Scouts as a group, or as to what they do.

Maroons

[oldr_n_wsr]

What a contrived fuss over nothing.

I agree.

[BoSoxGal]

Right, it's nothing to slur the Girl Scouts of America. Or anybody else you feel like casting aspersions on in your Presidential administration incompetence.

[Joe Guy]

What a contrived fuss over nothing.

That's it exactly. Yet another example of victimhood wannabee syndrome.

If the mailman.... err.... mail delivery person... pepper sprayed your dog every time the mail was delivered, would you give a tip at Christmas?

Oops! I just offended every mail carrier that ever delivered mail in this country...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Right, it's nothing to slur the Girl Scouts of America. Or anybody else you feel like casting aspersions on in your Presidential administration incompetence.

No slur. Simply an observation that if a person does you dirty, then you ain't gonna buy their cookies. It's a metaphor.

Only the terminally determined to be offended would be offended.

[Lord Jim]

Frankly, I'm not going to use up any of my outrage quota over this kind of small potatoes, especially when we have an Administration that provides so many yooge Idaho Russets to get outraged over...

[BoSoxGal]

And that's how the bar of civility is lowered further and further . . .

[rubato]

The real reason is that Trump was whupped hard and humiliated at the WH Cor. dinner and he's still not over it.


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[Lord Jim]

And that's how the bar of civility is lowered further and further . . .

We've got such a low bar that it's big news that the President Of The United States was able to speak publicly for an entire hour without hurling juvenile insults....

I'm not sure the bar can get a whole lot lower then that...

[Gob]

The real reason is that Trump was whupped hard and humiliated at the WH Cor. dinner and he's still not over it.


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Must be rough seeing your president treated so Rubato.

[rubato]

Brexiteers voted for Trump. Your tribe.


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