Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter

Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by mschuster91 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:14PM (#17137186)

> It was his family name some time ago, so is this just the other sides' "Barack Hussein Obama" or is there more to it?

No, it's not the same thing. The Hussein thing is that the Alt-Right uses it to imply Obama being a Muslim (which he is not) and thus, by extension, a terrorist supporter/enabler.

The Drumpf thing, however, is nothing more than highlighting the family origin (which Trump actually even stated himself, per https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-drumpf/).

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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by V-2 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:28PM (#17137324)

Highlighting with what purpose? What political associations could possibly go with "Drumpf" that are absent from "Trump"?

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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by RightMillennial on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:44PM (#17137502)

I don't know about that. Whenever I've seen "Drumpf" used it seems to be trying to associate Trump with Nazis (because it's German) which is very similar to purposely using "Hussein" (which is Arabic) to associate Obama with Muslim extremists.

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