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Forget Trump’s Boy Scout speech. Let’s talk about Girl Scouts and STEM – By Sher Watts Spooner / July 30 2017
Many people across the country were appalled by Donald Trump’s rambling and boorish political speech to the Boy Scouts of America National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia.
The insecure braggart-in-chief found a way to work in:
- Insults to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Washington, and the news media.
- An incoherent anecdote hinting about a fellow real estate mogul’s sexual escapades aboard a yacht.
- A threat to fire a member of his Cabinet if the Affordable Care Act isn’t repealed.
- Indoctrination of the Boy Scouts and their families in the crowd into becoming worshipers at the Altar of Trump.
Many Scouting families and former Scouts took to Twitter and the BSA Facebook page to register outrage, threatening to stop donating to the organization and to take their sons out of Scouting. Many demanded that the BSA issue an apology and some kind of statement distancing the Boy Scouts from Trump’s inappropriate conduct. They were not satisfied with the BSA’s initial tepid response.
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