Nashville Council Member Bob Mendes: ‘Trump Is A Racist M***** F*****’

 

Nashville Metro Council Member Bob Mendes tweeted during Tuesday night’s presidential debate that U.S. President Donald Trump is “a racist m***** f*****.”

“Yes, I wrote the tweet,” Mendes told The Tennessee Star in an email Wednesday.

“Before Donald Trump was a candidate, he consistently made sexist and racist statements. He brought that same bad behavior to the White House, including his race-baiting statements about the unrest in Charlottesville a few years ago. It’s hard to believe that Trump could say or do worse. But that’s what happened on Tuesday night when the sitting President of the United States refused to denounce white supremacy and refused to acknowledge that he would honor the upcoming election results.”

Mendes went on to say that “Trump doesn’t respect America or Americans.”

The Star asked Mendes’ colleague, Metro Council member At-Large Steve Glover, to comment. Glover said he did not know about the tweet as of Wednesday evening.

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“You verified that he put that on Twitter? Really?” Glover asked.

“I have never said anything bad-mouthed about [Joe] Biden, and I won’t and I hope I am beyond that. He said Trump is a racist? He’s a this and he’s a that? Well, let me just say this. Bob is a taxer. He just cost the people of Nashville 34 to 37 percent additional property tax. So, he can call Trump whatever he wants to. When I am behind closed doors I can chew people out and do whatever. But publicly I don’t think we say those kinds of words or infer them.”

Former Nashville mayoral candidate Carol Swain, meanwhile, said “it is disgusting and disappointing when our elected officials resort to gutter language rather than rational discourse to express disagreement.”

“Bob Mendes has disrespected the office of the presidency and has shown the world his contempt for President Trump, a man who has done more for Black Americans than any other president elected during my lifetime,” Swain said.

“Mendes has proven his unfitness for higher office by posting such a vulgar and vile tweet.”

Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Scott Golden, meanwhile, told The Star in an email Wednesday that he hoped Mendes would quickly delete his post.

Mendes’ tweet was still up as of Wednesday night.

“One would think as Nashville businesses are being closed, workers being laid off, sponsoring and passing a 34 percent property tax raise, and the prospect of the city being taken over by the State for financial mismanagement, that Councilman Mendes would spend his evenings in a more productive way,” Golden said.

Staff for Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Nashville Mayor John Cooper did not immediately return requests for comment Wednesday.

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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Bob Mendes” by Bob Mendes. Background Photo “Tweet” by Bob Mendes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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38 Thoughts to “Nashville Council Member Bob Mendes: ‘Trump Is A Racist M***** F*****’”

  1. LC

    Thanks for pointing out some TRUTH, J….

  2. Clay

    I told my child growing up that people that talk that way show their lack of intelligence and limited vocabulary. People in authority should be better than that, nobody wants to hear their vile gutter trash talk. Nashville can do a lot better than this small man.

  3. That makes Mendez a race baiter.

  4. Well, I suppose that makes Mendez a race baiter.
    Little difference.

    1. No Agenda

      Not only a race baiter, but he did not listen to what the President said.

  5. Wolf Woman

    For some reason, progressive/socialists/marxists curse like drunken sailors. In the videos of the BLM/Antifa riots in Portland and other cities, the wildings repeat “bro” and the “F” word over and over and over again.

    1. Linda Primm

      Yes. I suppose that’s due to their limited intellect…😡

    2. No Agenda

      It is a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

  6. jj

    Mendes, your name-calling is typical of basement dweller “rambo’s who hide behind their keyboards & post disgusting comments. If you want to call President Trump a name that’s your choice, just leave off the foul language. Grow up “little man”.

  7. Mimi

    Why do we have lying FOOLS like this on the Metro Council? Anybody who repeats the Charlottesville LIE doesn’t deserve to represent anybody in Nashville.

  8. Bubba N.

    Also, here is a link to Council’s campaign finance disclosures. You can see how much money each candidate raised and where it was spent. Mendes has a $153k loan to his campaign from two years ago that has never been repaid. It may be his own money, but if not, I wonder who gave his campaign a loan that did not need to be repaid?

    https://davidsoncountytn.easyvotecampaignfinance.com/home/publicfilings

  9. John Reynolds

    The mayor and members of council know they will not be re-elected, and trying to keep the referendum off the ballot has sealed their fate. They are VERY dangerous now. Mendes’ childish, vulgar behavior is the least of the problems. Maybe Nashville will wake up now. Maybe not. But this is their last chance to survive as not-Detroit.

  10. Michelle Hutchinson

    So, this guy is a Nashville Council Member, on the board at Father Ryan AND also works for the law firm, Sherrard and Roe ??? Well now, this is GOOD to KNOW!!! What a JERK!!! I know he makes each and every person that he represents SO VERY PROUD. Such upstanding man …. Scraping the bottom of the barrel here folks!!!

  11. TJ

    As someone who works in legal for a large law firm one of the greatest threats to this country are self-righteous progressive left attorneys. They makeup 90% of the attorneys in the firms I have worked for. The snakes heads that will need to be dealt with accordingly to save the Republic.

    https://srvhlaw.com/attorneys/bob-mendes/

  12. Paul Hubbuch

    He also is on the Board of Directors at Father Ryan. He should be forced off that board as well.

    1. Ron Welch

      “…on the Board of Directors at Father Ryan” ?? Wow! “Teach Your Children Well” –CSNY

  13. Mary

    Voting has consequences. Mendes and his foul mouth is a consequence of voting.
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    Next time, Nashville, do better. At least, try something different.

  14. james b

    you can tell from the smile on that face he is knowing trump gets 4 more years. crawl back under your slimey rock.

    who was that famous revolutionary who said,first thing we di is kill all the lawyers./

    1. Bubba N.

      Well, Shakespeare is often cited but it was not original then, and it is not exactly what he wrote.

      But, Mendes is certainly one lawyer who all the traits: smug, vulgar, condescending, and hateful. The sad thing is—he received the most votes for council-at-large. Nashville needs to change that in his next election.

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