Everyone is tweeting the Boy Scouts values after Trump turns jamboree into full-blown political rally
A Boy Scout is, apparently, trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
That's according to the Scout values that many are citing in contrast with President Trump's speech at Monday's Boy Scouts of America 2017 National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia. The president, who wasn't a Boy Scout, turned the event into one of his political rallies after he said he wasn't going to talk about politics.
He went from "who the hell wants to speak about politics when I'm in front of the Boy Scouts?" to taking on health care, winning the electoral college, draining the swamp, fake news, New York cocktail parties, and the sexual proclivities of old rich men for good measure.
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Trump himself started to cite Scout values after he reverted to rally mode and sounded like he was on the campaign trail.
"Boy Scout values are American values, and great Boy Scouts become great, great Americans. As the Scout Law says: 'A Scout is trustworthy, loyal' -- we could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that," he told the crowd.
The crowd finished the list of values for him.
Many took to Twitter to call out Trump for his noticeably anti-Boy Scout behavior, starting with the whole saying one thing and then doing another thing.
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As part of one devastating Twitter thread, one longtime Boy Scout called out Trump for making his national appearance about himself, politicizing the Scouts, and -- the kicker -- once borrowing $7 from his charity to pay his son's Boy Scout registration fee.
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Former White House photographer Pete Souza, who can always be counted on in such situations, got in on the Boy Scout-Trump shade with a photo of Barack Obama with a Cub Scout. The caption is too real: "I can assure you, POTUS was not telling this Cub Scout and the Boy Scouts who followed about his electoral college victory."
The Boy Scouts organization, for its part, said it invited Trump because he's the president, not because of his politics.
What it got was politics. And -- though those in attendance cheered and chanted -- a whole lot of anger from former Scouts.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
