Angry parents pull their kids from Boy Scouts after Trumps vindictive, creepy speech

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By Eric Boehlert | July 25, 2017

Trump trampled an American tradition by giving a creepy, ego-stroking speech to the Boy Scouts. Now angry parents are demanding an apology from the group — or else.

Boy Scouts parents are expressing their shock and disgust in the wake of Donald Trump’s rambling, weirdly incoherent and divisive speech Monday night at the group’s annual National Boy Scout Jamboree.

By tradition, U.S. presidents are invited to address the boyhood gathering. But obviously none have used that occasion to wallow in ego-stroking and score-settling the way Trump did.

During his unseemly 35-minute speech, Trump attacked former President Barack Obama (whom many Boy Scouts booed), mocked Hillary Clinton, and threatened to fire Human Services Secretary Tom Price if he doesn’t deliver votes for the Republican Party’s health care bill. He also railed against “fake news” and all the “dishonest people” in the media.

In response, the Boy Scouts of America released a bland statement about how it remains a “wholly non-partisan” organization. Not surprisingly, that slight response has done nothing to quell the massive blowback ..............