After President-elect Donald Trump attacked Georgia congressman and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and his district on Twitter Saturday morning, colleagues and admirers of Lewis responded forcefully.
Lewis said Friday that Trump was not “a legitimate president,” due what he called a Russian “conspiracy” to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Lewis also said he would not attend Trump’s presidential inauguration.
Below is a selection of responses from around the political world from Lewis’ colleagues others. Lewis' constituents have also taken to Twitter to defend their district, which Trump described as “in horrible shape,” “falling apart,” and “crime infested.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA):
“I can only hope that Trump will govern differently than he has campaigned," wrote Rep. Todd Lieu (D-CA), who released a statement Saturday explaining why he would join other Democratic lawmakers in not attending Trump’s inauguration. "For me, the personal decision not to attend the Inauguration is quite simple: Do I stand with Donald Trump, or do I stand with John Lewis? I am standing with John Lewis."
Evan McMullin, independent candidate for president in 2016:
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MI):
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI):
Stephen Colbert:
Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA):
"Mr. Trump said that John Lewis is all talk and no action. I say, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, I say that John Lewis took action," said interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile, in remarks that brought the audience to its feet at the DNC Future Forum. "He took action marching from Selma to Montgomery. He took action in marching towards men welding clubs across the Pettis Bridge. They fractured his skull because of the color of skin. But John Lewis never stopped marching for justice and equality for all people!”
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC):
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA):
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA):
"Number one, don't tweet that. Number two, don't go there. And number three, step back and try to appreciate what's being said and what the concern is," Michael Steele said during an appearance on MSNBC. “John Lewis has a walk that very few people in this country–least of all Donald Trump–have ever walked. So you have to respect that and pay attention to that in a real sense," he added.
Rep. John Yarmouth (D-KY):
Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL):
“I was like, ‘Is he serious by saying that he’s all talk and no action? He’s already taken the action, the ultimate sacrifice, his blood there on the bridge. It’s like, ‘Really?’” said Jennifer Holliday, who backed out of a commitment to perform at Trump's inauguration Saturday. She was speaking to The Hollywood Reporter. “I thought that was just very disrespectful and an insult to every person," she added.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE):
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR):
?SNL’ star Michael Che blasted for his dating app etiquette
By Maggie Coughlan and Jessica Sager
All’s fair in love … and texting?
Married to the Mob founder Leah McSweeney slammed “Saturday Night Live” player Michael Che, calling the comedian “arrogant” and “D-list” after she encountered him on a dating app, but text messages sent to Page Six by Che tell a different a story.
“I met a comedian, I’ve dealt with a few comedians. They are the worst, I don’t even know why I entertain this but I have to say … Michael Che is so arrogant and so rude and disrespectful that I cannot even believe that someone … you’re like a D-list celebrity to me, whatever, that’s why I don’t even care that I’m saying his name. I’m not like blowing up Jay Z’s spot,” McSweeney explained on her “Improper Etiquette” podcast released Tuesday.
McSweeney’s female-focused streetwear brand, Married to the Mob, launched in 2004.
“Why are you on a dating app if you hate women? Literally, you’ve never met me and you’re texting me like I’m a stupid bi*ch … texting me and being mad rude. He kept just texting me, going, ?I’m fat. Does that turn you on?’ And I’m like, ?you’re fat? I think I’ve seen you and you’re not fat, OK.'”
She continued, “You’re trying to f–k with me? I don’t get it. You’re just a f–king dork wearing Air Force Ones [sneakers] at the end of the day. Like, cause you’re sitting up there writing your jokes on a little card, trying to figure out what the f–k. His Netflix special [“Michael Che Matters”] is actually funny … arrogance is ignorance to me. You don’t know me, you don’t know nothing about me, you don’t know we have mad friends in common and like, you’re gonna treat me like some stupid bi*ch? Like f–k you. I just can’t deal.”
But a series of text messages between the comic, 33, and McSweeney that start in September 2016 and end in early January 2017, reveal several odd exchanges that don’t appear to support McSweeney’s claims.
“Hey remember me,” she writes on November 27, 2016, which begins a conversation about Che living in Manhattan’s Hell Kitchen neighborhood.
“Lots of food options at least,” McSweeney writes.
“[I’m] fat,” Che replies.
“I’m laughing out loud. R u?” she asks.
On December 1, 2016, McSweeney texts Che, “What did u eat today?” but receives no reply. On December 19, she texts again, “What’s up?”
McSweeney texts again on December 29, “U hate me cus I’m white. Our conversations r everything to me btw. We have a lot of friends in common and if anyone of them saw this I would b so ashamed.”
On January 2, Che bluntly puts an end to the texting relationship.
“Do u ever want to meet up? Or r we just gonna text each other randomly until eternity? Well I did think it was odd u kept saying ur fat,” McSweeney writes.
Che replies, “I [don’t] wanna meet up. You text really strange declarations looking for a reaction, and I don’t wanna know what’s the real life equivalent of that.”
But despite McSweeney’s accusations, Che seems to be handling it with humor.
“For the record, I am proud of my curves,” he told us Wednesday.
http://pagesix.com/2017/01/11/snl-star-michael-che-blasted-for-his-dating-app-etiquette/
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