Who's to blame about Trump calling that dead soldier's family?

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

That kid who was killed in Niger, well he had it coming - that's a fact everyone knows. Why should Trump have to call up the family? That's menial busy-work. I can't find the biblical quote right now, but I'm sure there's one about getting what you deserve - and for soldiers, that means YOU DIE in a foreign land making sure the oil companies get their profits this quarter.

Accept it and move on. There'll be no more phone calls from Mr. Trump only tweets.

[handmaiden]

Re: Who's to blame about Trump calling that dead soldier's family?

That kid who was killed in Niger, well he had it coming - that's a fact everyone knows. Why should Trump have to call up the family? That's menial busy-work. I can't find the biblical quote right now, but I'm sure there's one about getting what you deserve - and for soldiers, that means YOU DIE in a foreign land making sure the oil companies get their profits this quarter.

Accept it and move on. There'll be no more phone calls from Mr. Trump only tweets.

Notice that it was only the black family that complained? The families of the white soldiers were, no doubt, properly grateful for receiving our dear leader's time and attention. They probably had enough sense to realize what a privilege it was for their sons to die serving Donald J. Trump and his mission to MAGA by extending our influence to every nation in the world and increasing our wealth.

[Bjorn Jensen]

Re: Who's to blame about Trump calling that dead soldier's family?

Did I read this wrong, or there really is a country, in Africa, called Niger? What are the people who live there called? Nigers?

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Who's to blame about Trump calling that dead soldier's family?

Did I read this wrong, or there really is a country, in Africa, called Niger? What are the people who live there called? Nigers?

Yeah, but we have to call them "African-Africans."

[Titus Templeton]

Re: Who's to blame about Trump calling that dead soldier's family?

Yeah, but we have to call them "African-Africans."

Bit more respect please. According to scientists the Africans-Africans never mated with neanderthals and are the only pure humans.

[DolliMoans]

Re: Who's to blame about Trump calling that dead soldier's family?

My homeschool geography class teaches that Niger is a country and they're already from Africa; they're Niggerians.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Re: Who's to blame about Trump calling that dead soldier's family?

Looks like the mooselimbs (the "religion of peace") are at it again - and no doubt Barack HUSSEIN Obama started this, but of course the MSM is trying to blame Trump.

Every hyphenate "African-American" should be forced to choose one or the other, and then sent back to where they came from if they don't like MAGA.

The economy of Niger is based largely upon internal markets, subsistence agriculture, and the export of raw commodities: foodstuffs to neighbors and raw minerals to world markets. Niger, a landlocked West African nation that straddles the Sahel, has consistently been ranked on the bottom of the Human development index, with a relatively low GDP and per capital income. Economic activity centres on subsistence agriculture, animal husbandry, re-export trade, and export of uranium.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Niger

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The recent violent clashes between Boko Haram and the Nigerian army have displaced over 115,000 people from Nigeria into Niger. Refugees are concentrated in Diffa, a region suffering from food insecurity and which is currently experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. In response, the government of Niger has put forward a contingency plan of $40 million and requested the assistance of development partners to help cope with the immediate humanitarian needs up until March 2015. The World Bank Group which has established an Immediate Response Mechanism (IRM) that allows uncommitted resources (contingency funds) under projects in the existing portfolio to put together a Compact Response to help alleviate this economic burden.

With a poverty rate of 48.9% and a per capita income of $420, Niger is one of the world’s poorest nations. In 2015, it ranked 188th of 188 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index.

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http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/niger/overview