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Why Trump won: Former NYT labor reporter thinks boy mowing White House lawn sends a bad signal

As Twitchy reported Friday, an 11-year-old from Virginia who had volunteered to mow the White House lawn did exactly that this week, pushing a mower around the Rose Garden while the press took pictures.

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Frank also met President Trump and was invited to the Oval Office; to us, it was the feel-good story of the week. But we were warned …

https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/908035004457988112

We compiled quite a few tweets from critics, but it seems fitting that the New York Times’ former labor reporter should be given special consideration. He thought it was a great display of patriotism and the work ethic that made America great, right?

Yeah, no.

Oh … if only it were just one tweet. Buckle in.

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Greenhouse has written a lot about kids being hurt by machinery. It’s a good thing, then, that no parent in America would let a child under 21 operate something as dangerous as a push mower out in the back yard, let alone pay them an allowance rather than an hourly minimum wage.

Remember lawn darts? Those things were AWESOME.

Here … if you don’t believe child labor is dangerous, read this website about amputees who lost a limb to a lawnmower. Actually, don’t read it — just get rid of your lawnmower and put the time you save mowing into getting them banned. Hell, start a lobbying group called Everylawn for Mower Safety.

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Lisa, “dear”? Sounds pretty sexist and condescending. Where are the feminists?

Greenhouse doesn’t have an off switch, by the way, but that’s all we can take.

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https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/909104430380933120

https://twitter.com/TMIWITW/status/909120782298750976

https://twitter.com/Mellecon/status/909099994774491142

https://twitter.com/MarkMurrah/status/909149086057664514

https://twitter.com/molratty/status/909130155490254848

Ha!

Exit question: where does Kid Rock stand on the issue of kids mowing lawns? We have a feeling …

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