I lived in New York City in Manhattan all my life. My views are a little different than if I lived in Iowa.
Donald Trump Interview with NBCs Meet the Press host Tim Russert October 24 1999.
As the mass media aligns with Donald Trump to unload on Sen. Ted Cruz over his rebuttal to the formers very own disparaging remarks about Iowans to the late Tim Russert in 1999 I want to expand on what Trumps New York Values mean to mea lifelong conservative resident from East Tennessee.
And I want to refresh everyones memory as to what Trumps values are.
embedhttps://youtu.be/KHAHKGP10yc/embedNote within the full transcript of the exchange Trump justified three times his New York Values legitimize his far left-wing position over the opposite ones which Gov. Andrew Cuomo informed conservatives they are not welcomed to live in New York state.
RUSSERT: Do you think gays should be allowed to be married?
TRUMP: Its something I havent given lots of thought to. I live in New York City there is a tremendous movement on to have and allow gay marriage. Its just something that is too premature for me to comment on.
RUSSERT: How about gays serving in the military?
TRUMP: It would not disturb me. I mean hey I lived in New York City and Manhattan all my life so my views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa perhaps…
RUSSERT: Partial birth abortion. Eliminating of abortion in the third trimester. Big issue in Washington. Would President Trump ban partial birth abortion?
TRUMP: Well look Im very pro-choice…and again it may be a little bit of a New York background because there is some different attitude in different parts of the country and you know I was raised in New York and grew up and work and everything else in New York City.
RUSSERT: But you would not ban it.
TRUMP: No…I am pro-choice in every respect as far as it goes but I just hate it.
I recall far too well where I was upon learning the World Trade Center had been hit. Dad and I watched the extensive live coverage at Ground Zero nearby where ABC CBS and NBC are based. The constant narrative was and remains the World Trade Center how the Twin Towers fellhow as many as 10000 were feared dead inside the two towers not to mention those who perished below beneath the debris all captured on film. And ever since September 11 2001 I have felt only one area of discontent at the response by the same media which continues to marginalize the lives lost aboard two other planes.
American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagon located outside Washington D.C. in Arlington County Virginia was a sure sign our federal installations inside the Beltway were not secured. But it is the fourthUnited Airlines Flight 93 which initially was steered by the hijackers to strike the nations capitalwhose passengers crashed it into a field near Shanksville Pennsylvania who should be celebrated as the most courageous of all to fall that day. Americas exceptionalism which their final dialogue no doubt embodied was alive and well as they understood they were about to die. They thus made the greatest possible sacrifice to save further lives. Yet their sacrifices are comparatively ignored due to a field uncultivated by concrete lacked the same glamour as the New York City skyline.
Did the ignored unsung heroes aboard United Airlines Flight 93 not reflect Trumps New York Values expressed before Russert in 1999? What might have happened had the pro-life conservatives aboard Flight 93 always clinging to their guns and religion who sacrificed all to save scores of unspoken lives found instead that those Al-Qaeda hijackers had taken box-cutters to a gunfight? Might they have been condemned by Gov. Cuomo as extreme conservatives unwelcomed in the state given he generalized all Republicans to be reflections of the gridlock going on in Washington?
embedhttps://youtu.be/gOgp6lHBhWo/embedWhat of current New York City mayor Comrade Bill De Blasio who concurred with Cuomo by arrogantly citing our people our people as if New York City were synonymous with Black Lives Matter?
embedhttps://youtu.be/dUOgvXvvdYs/embedIn fact Trump both donated and openly endorsed big league smart guy De Blasio on October 24 2013.
New York Values indeed.
embedhttps://youtu.be/NuXh287ekvM/embedIt so happens those extreme conservatives De Blasio described as proto-fascists supporting Donald Trump sold their soul to bask in his New York Values. In this instance De Blasio is certainly correct regarding Neo Nazi ties to Cuomo and Trumps New York Values. Not to mention his own.
Add now to the list that piece of work Rudy Giuliani who endorsed his friend using his greatest anti-Pace Picante Sauce Yankee supremacist rhetoric many Southerners (like myself) loathe as do Trumps Iowa morons: Its New York City. Were family. I can make fun of New York but you cant!"
Well God bless Texas because only steers and queers come from Texas Private Cowboy! New York Values live from... really Manhattan... ignore those ultra conservatives Upstate!
For 14 years Giuliani has ghoulishly fed off the opportunity the dead on 9/11 provided him as his means to rise to political notoriety. He should be ashamed for the manner in which he does.
Who died inside the Pentagon? Well of those 2996 who did throughout that morning 2763 were killed in New York City while the other 298 perished in parts unknown. Why does Donald Trump who insists Sen. Ted Cruz hates New York who wont give New York anything because he mocks those who died on September 11 2001 care given for the first time yesterday he visited the 9/11 Memorial?
New York Values indeed.
embedhttps://youtu.be/ApJHEo2z-tA/embedNew York Values to Southerners reflect the sniveling supremacy still driving the spoils of victory during the post Civil War period where during Reconstruction wealthy big city northerners exploited poor sharecroppers and farmers (roughly 1.4 percent of white Southerners in 1860 owned any slaves).
Southerners insult northerners with two old terms one of which is carpetbaggers. They were each viewed as outsiders as opportunists to what today is termed parachute candidatesor outsiders who run for public office in an area where he or she does not have deep community ties in the post Civil War era. But the best pejorative is really scallywag which describes people who behave badly.
Because New York City is the center of the universe a liberal Mecca where the media big banks and corporations all converge where the majority of New York power brokers are located and where the far left-wing political machine and dying Rockefeller Republicans still reside Iowa voters Trump labeled morons are not permitted by Giulianis logic to either criticize him nor to honor the victims inside the Pentagon and the greatest heroes of that terrible day aboard American Airlines Flight 99.
They did not reflect New York Values because they did not die at Ground Zero. And they never will.