Michael Moore stands in front of Trump Tower. (Credit: Facebook)
Michael Moore, one of the left’s favorite documentary filmmakers, stood outside Trump Tower in New York City in protest of Donald Trump’s rhetoric about national security and radical Islamists and brandished the sign: “We are all Muslim.”
Moore also took to his Facebook page to issue a scathing tirade against Trump, who’s maintained a stubborn lead in the Republican polls for president, despite the resistance of mainstream media, noted Democrats and even Republican establishment politicos.
Moore opened his post with a “Dear Donald Trump” salutation, after which he went into an account of their 1998 joint appearance on a talk show.
“Just before going on, I was pulled aside by a producer from the show who said that you were ‘nervous’ about being on the set with me,” Moore wrote. “She said you didn’t want to be ‘ripped apart’ and you wanted to be reassured I wouldn’t ‘go after you.’ ‘Does he think I’m going to tackle him and put him in a choke hold?’ I asked, bewildered. ‘No,’ the producer replied. ‘He just seems all jittery about you.’”
Moore then goes on to say he told the producer Trump had no reason “to be scared,” he wrote.
And he then moved on from the story to speak directly to Trump: “You and I went on to do the show. Nothing untoward happened between us. I didn’t pull on your hair, didn’t put gum on your seat. ‘What a wuss,’ was all I remember thinking, as I left the set.”
After painting Trump as cowardly, and a “fraidy-cat,” Moore segued into Trump’s call to shut borders to Muslims until intelligence officials can fully vet those seeking entrance to the country.
“And now, here we are in 2015, and like many other angry white guys, you are frightened by a bogeyman who is out to get you,” he wrote. “That bogeyman in your mind are all Muslims. Not just the ones who have killed, but ALL MUSLIMS.”
Moore called such rhetoric and views un-American.
“Fortunately, Donald, you and your supporters no longer look like what America actually is today,” Moore wrote. “We are not a country of angry white guys. Here’s a statistic that is going to make your hair spin. Eighty-one percent of the electorate who will pick the president next year are either female, people of color, or young people between the ages of 18 and 35. In other words, not you. And not the people who want you leading their country.”
Moore went on: “So, in desperation and insanity, you call for a ban on all Muslims entering this country. I was raised to believe that we are all each other’s brother and sister, regardless of race, creed or color. That means if you want to ban Muslims, you are first going to have to ban me. And everyone else. We are all Muslim. Just as we are all Mexican, we are all Catholic, and Jewish and white and black and every shade in between.”
Moore said, “We are all children of God (or nature or whatever you believe in), part of the human family, and nothing you say or do can change that fact one iota. If you don’t like living by these American rules, then you need to go to the time-out room in any one of your Towers, sit there and think about what you’ve said.”
His conclusions?
“Leave the rest of us alone so we can elect a real president who is both compassionate and strong, at least strong enough not be to all whiny and scared of some guy in a ballcap from Michigan sitting next to him on a talk show couch,” Moore wrote. “You’re not so tough, Donny, and I’m glad I got to see the real you up close and personal all those years ago. We are all Muslim. Deal with it.”
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