President Donald Trump really didn’t get into the holiday spirit — when it came to Democrats at least — during a speech on the eve of the Fourth of July holiday, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Trump, at Thursday’s supposedly bipartisan “Salute to America” event starting the year-long celebrations of the 250 years since America’s founding, explicitly declared his utter contempt for those across the political aisle.
While complaining about Democrats not voting for his health care-gutting, food assistance-removing, so-called “big, beautiful bill,” Trump said: “They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know that?”
“I really do. I hate them,” Trump repeated. “I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country, if you want to know the truth.”
Critics on social media slammed Trump as a “small, hateful man” and described his comments were “truly fcking disgusting” and then some.