Punishable by prison time. President obama compared that to legalized racism and said kenyas approach to gay rights is flatout wrong. When you start treating people differently not because of any harm theyre doing anybody, but because theyre different thats the path whereby freedoms begin to erode. And bad things happen. And when a government gets in the habit of treating people differently those habits can spread. In ethiopia, that is where the president is heading next. Jim, it was widely expected that president obama would go there, if you will. He would address this. And we knew it was going to be controversial. What do you make of the words that he chose . Well poppy, youre right. White house officials were warning us all week long that if the president were asked about this issue of gay rights and how gay rights are respected here in africa, particularly in kenya, that he was not going to hold back and he did not hold back earlier today. And i think he used probably the starkest
here from the head political reporter at the des moines register, jennifer jacobs. let me read it to you. des moines register s henry hawn. trump staff polite. trump silent when he saw me. it does look like the des moines register does have a reporter there in the room. i want to listen in to donald trump s remarks for a little bit. they have to respect that message. it s a big message. you see that. when the economist has me at 28 28%, that s 28% and we have 16 people. so we have 28% out of 16 people. somebody said well 28 is well when you have 16 people running and one of those people is at 28%, that s a very good poll. that s a great magazine and a very respected one. so when you re at 28 and you see that and with all of those people running, that s a big