But he has never really believed that Trump will follow through on a lot of his scariest promises, seeing him instead as someone who said whatever was needed to win. That doesn’t mean I feel nothing, like it doesn’t affect me [and] my family.” His wife, he said, is Mexican-American, a navy grad, born in Key West, Florida.Nonetheless, in his chat with Eric Trump, Amer kept things very friendly. Here's What He Learned.“I just know we had a good, decent conversation, and I think that proves that we can talk to each other. “His exact words were: ‘come on, man, don’t believe everything you read, we’re not going to do that’,” Amer said. He added, “Come on man, you can’t believe everything that you read.”Amer quickly posted on Facebook: “Good news guys Muslims will not have to check in and get IDs. ©2020 Verizon Media. He said he wasn’t honestly sure, but added, “I just know we had a good, decent conversation, He continued, “We need to [be able to] talk about these things intelligently and work through the problems and find the solutions.” Not, Amer concluded, create “more chaos and more hate between us.” "Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapterWe made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote!Part of HuffPost Entertainment. Mo Amer and Eric Trump Amer was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, and came to America as an asylum-seeker after the first Gulf War and became a US citizen in 2009. His decision to purely serve his base in more than three years in power is facing its most acute test -- it's possible his failure to broaden his support will make a second term impossible.But the President is sticking to his task, in the apparent belief that his rhetoric is seen very differently outside the elite bubbles on the East Coast. Amer said that Eric told him nothing of the sort would happen. Representatives for president-elect Trump did not respond to a request for clarification on Eric Trump was on his way to their golf course, Turnberry, in Scotland, for a 24-hour visit; Amer was on his way to take part in In a very friendly 45-minute chat, they bonded over mutual appreciation for Dave Chappelle sketches – Amer has opened for Chappelle on stage – and Trump complained about the difficulties of having to travel with the secret service in tow.Trump asked Amer, as a comedian, to “take it easy, take it easy on us”. Fuck that.Amer took his seat and said something to Eric along the lines of, “You don’t even know how fantastic this is for me. And now, here he was sitting next to a Trump, a perfect breeding ground for future material.
When Eric heard that, he had a request: “Tell him to take it easy on [my dad].” To which Amer responded, “That’s not gonna happen. He is deliberately pitting white, conservative older Americans who subscribe to what they might call "traditional values" against the more diverse, more liberal younger sector of the country, which he shocked to the core by beating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.It's not the first time the President has come out in favor of preserving Confederate imagery -- he did so after the controversy over his racially charged comments on the Charlottesville protests several years ago, speaking up for supporters in the South who believe that such monuments are quintessential icons of Southern heritage.But three years on, Trump appears to be outpaced by the change erupting all around him, and the stakes of his strategy are becoming increasingly high.
But it doesn’t hurt to have a civil conversation with someone you rarely interact with.”“I see the whole thing [politics] as a game,” Amer said. According to Amer, Trump asked him to “take it easy” with the jokes about his family, while Amer responded that it was his job to comment on absurdities in the world around him.“He told me to take it easy on [the Trumps],” recalls Amer. He saw his assignment as a golden opportunity, both as a Muslim, an American and a comedian.“I put my bags up, I sat down, introduced myself as Mohammed,” Amer told the Guardian. “I think it was important for me to sit there and put aside my feelings about the situation and truly, truly be present in that moment and have a conversation,” he said. All rights reserved. “I was like, part of what we do as comedians, we observe the world and talk about its absurdities.”The conversation, however, returned inevitably to politics.
As polls show that he's badly trailing Democratic candidate Joe Biden ahead of November's election, the chances appear to be growing that the President is navigating toward political terrain that cannot provide a foundation for his reelection. Amer is an Arab-American man of Palestinian descent who was born in Kuwait and came to the U.S. as a refugee. We’re not doing that.’ That’s what he said. “I know it’s just chess pieces moving. Amer was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. “I hope [I did], on some level ... but do I think it happened? When Amer said Donald Trump “play[ed] the media like a fiddle,” Eric concurred. Trump's instincts are that the "forgotten Americans" who make up his base, and plenty more besides, are angry at and alienated by the current pace of change and the restrictions that have been imposed by governments on their activities during the pandemic. All rights reserved. “I’m like: are you Amer was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, and came to America as an asylum-seeker after the first Gulf War and became a US citizen in 2009. “He goes, ‘Come on, man you really think we’re going to do that? Trump’s father, US president-elect Donald Trump, has called for Mohammad “Mo” Amer, who is best-known for his work with comedy troupe “Amer immediately took a selfie with Trump, posting it to his social media accounts with the caption: “Sometimes God just sends you the material.”In a telephone interview with Quartz, Amer said he immediately introduced himself to Trump as a Muslim-American comedian and referenced rumors of a potential nationwide Muslim registry:I looked at him immediately and said ‘look man, FYI I’m not doing that shit.’ He’s like ‘what?’ I said, ‘I’m not going to get a Muslim ID number, bullshit I’m not doing it.“That’s not gonna happen,” Trump replied, according to Amer. “This whole thing was a game.
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