People are fuming over Donald Trump's comments about John Lewis

If there's one factor Donald Trump has taught us since his presidential marketing campaign started, it is assume earlier than you tweet.

On Saturday morning, Trump's newest controversial social media actions got here within the type of two tweets concentrating on Civil Rights icon and U.S. Consultant for Georgia John Lewis, claiming the person is "all speak and no motion or outcomes."

The lashing out is available in response to Lewis telling NBC Information he doesn't see Trump as "a reliable president" in a clip launched on Friday and that he doesn't plan to attend Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.

Although Lewis spoke first, Trump claiming that the lively Civil Rights chief, who amongst many different notable contributions was a Freedom Rider, spoke at 1963's March on Washington and led the anti-segregation "Bloody Sunday" march in Alabama in 1965, is a "Unhappy!" man who ought to spend extra time taking motion relatively than "falsely complaining concerning the election outcomes" is, nicely, absurd.

In case Trump has forgotten, Lewis additionally just lately "took action" by collaborating in  the Democratic-led gun safety sit-in on the ground of the Home of Representatives in response to Home Speaker Paul Ryan's refusal to deliver up a number of gun management payments for a vote.

For sure, individuals are mighty displeased with the president-elect's discrediting messages (and their timing with Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday). And appalled Twitter customers have taken it upon themselves to spotlight and defend Lewis's a few years of activism and motion, whereas concurrently condemning Trump's lower than honorable conduct.