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packman

(16,296 posts) Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:53 AM Sep 2020

Joanne Rogers, Mr. Rogers' Widow, Has Some Not-So-Neighborly Words For Trump [View all]

Source: Huffington Post

Please don’t you be my neighbor

Everyone might be welcome in “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” but the late TV host’s widow won’t be singing the show’s famous theme song to President Donald Trump any time soon.

“I think he’s just a horrible person,” Joanne Rogers, 92, told The Daily Beast.

Joanne Rogers also offered up a few other descriptions for Trump that definitely would not be heard around the neighborhood, including “pathologically ill” and “mentally ill.”

Trump visited Fred Rogers’ hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania on Thursday

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mr-rogers-widow-donald-trump_n_5f51d4f1c5b62b3add3e677b

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Joanne Rogers, Mr. Rogers' Widow, Has Some Not-So-Neighborly Words For Trump [View all] packman Sep 2020 OP

Imagine being such a reprehensible person that even Mr. Rogers would have disliked you. TruthWarrior919 Sep 2020 #1

Wow world wide wally Sep 2020 #5

... sandensea Sep 2020 #6

DON'T you be my neighbor... CTyankee Sep 2020 #2

Suburbs to Drumph: "get the f**k out of our neighborhood" flibbitygiblets Sep 2020 #3

Next, Spongebob and Barney will give him the finger. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #4

Ashamed what this fascist has done to the United States of America. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #7

That is very powerful and sickening. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #8

Before they meet eternity, may they be shamed and shunned in this life. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #9

And what secret additives were in his cuisine, courtesy of the staff? CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #10

Don't think they ate. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #11

Could've been a seven-DNA dinner, instead of courses. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #12

LOL! Their just dessert. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #13

That's great! CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #16

Wasn't a competition, Captain. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #18

Dunbar was right. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #19

. geomon666 Sep 2020 #14

Everybody thinks Mr. Rogers was only analog. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #17

If you follow the link to the full article, it ends with saying T45 was 22 when Mr. R first aired catrose Sep 2020 #15

K&R ck4829 Sep 2020 #20