One of the newest petitions on the White House website is one that calls for naming the next major Navy ship the “USS The Deplorables” in honor of the voters who crushed Hillary Clinton’s hopes in the recent election.
The petition says that it’s ‘To honor those citizens who rose up to defend America and The Constitution from the globalists.’
It was created by a user known as ‘D.S.’ on December 4.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton infamously made a comment concerning the supporters of then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling some of them ‘deplorables’.
Clinton said in September at a New York City fundraiser: ‘To just be grossly generalist, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call “the basket of deplorables.”
‘Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up.’
Clinton said one day later: ‘Last night I was “grossly generalistic,” and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying “half” — that was wrong.’