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Trump's Lackeys Spent a Second-Straight Weekend Defending His Racist Tweets It was a new batch of racist tweets, to be clear.
L ast weekend, the president's lackeys spent Sunday on the television defending his racist tweets. This past weekend, the president's lackeys spent Sunday on the television defending his racist tweets. In fairness, they were different tweets each time: a week ago, it was Donald Trump's call for four congresswomen of color to go back to the countries they came from.
This time, it was an attack on Congressman Elijah Cummings, who represents parts of Baltimore, a majority-black city the President of the United States called a "disgusting, rat- and rodent-infested mess" where "no human being would want to live." The implication, of course, is that it's a place for vermin, not for people, which has the obvious effect of dehumanizing the people who very much do live there. It's racism. www.esquire.com/...
2020— I want a series of ads on his racism, his racism, & his racism
An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry
His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
Trump has assembled a long record of comment on issues involving
African Americans as well as Mexicans, Hispanics more broadly, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, women, and people with disabilities. His statements have been reflected in his behavior—from public acts (placing ads calling for the execution of five young black and Latino men accused of rape, who were later shown to be innocent) to private preferences (“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” a former employee of Trump’s Castle, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, told a writer for The New Yorker). Trump emerged as a political force owing to his full-throated embrace of “birtherism,” the false charge that the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, was not born in the United States. His presidential campaign was fueled by nativist sentiment directed at nonwhite immigrants, and he proposed barring Muslims from entering the country.
[Topic headings include:]
I. “You Don’t Want to Live With Them Either” — Racist Landlord
II. “Bring Back the Death Penalty”— Central Park 5
III. “They Don’t Look Like Indians to Me”— by Losing Casino owner
IV. “Our Very Vicious World” — Trump Vs POC Apprentice players
V. “He Doesn’t Have a Birth Certificate” — Birther Trump
BEN RHODES: It cannot be overstated that this is the creation story of Donald Trump becoming president of the United States. His whole brand is: I will say the things that the other guys won’t. Without birtherism there is no Trump presidency.
VI. “On Many Sides”— Charlottesville
VII. “Go Back to Their Huts”— Sh*thole Countries
TIMOTHY L. O’BRIEN: This is the same debate we have about whether or not he’s a liar. And I get the journalistic need to be really clear about how we use terms. You know, lying implies volition and knowledge. But I’m very comfortable saying I think he’s got a pathology around lying. And when it comes to race, I don’t think it’s merely using racial animosities or race-baiting as tools to promote his business. I think it’s a deep-seated reflection of what he thinks about how the world works.
KWAME JACKSON: America’s always trying to find this gotcha moment that shows Donald Trump is racist—you know, let’s find this one big thing. Let’s look for that one time when he burned a cross in someone’s yard so we can now finally say it. People refuse to see the bread crumbs that are already in front of you, leading you to grandma’s house.
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Obama, the Squad, Al Sharpton: all targets of Trump's racist attacks
Trump’s tirade against Elijah Cummings is the latest in a long history of targeting prominent political leaders of color
Trump’s tirade against Elijah Cummings extends his long history of racially targeting prominent political figures
Here are prominent political leaders of color that Trump has attacked in personal ways:
Al Sharpton...
The Squad...
Maxine Waters...
LeBron James & Don Lemon...
Andrew Gillum...
Barack Obama...
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Two true statements— Trump is a Racists & I am an Earthling.
Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2019
Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s “the least racist person.” His history suggests otherwise.
On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks, from calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists to proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US to suggesting a judge should recuse himself from a case solely because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.
The trend has continued into his presidency. From stereotyping a black reporter to pandering to white supremacists after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to cracking a joke about the Trail of Tears, Trump hasn’t stopped with the racist acts after his 2016 election.
Most recently, Trump tweeted that several black and brown members of Congress are “from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and that they should “go back” to those countries. The tweets, aimed at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), exemplify a common racist trope used against immigrants and minority groups who criticize US policies. Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, condemned Trump’s tweets as racist. www.vox.com/...
Republicans have always known Trump’s a racist, yet they do nothing to stop him & everything to promote him.
Paul Ryan: Trump made "textbook definition of a racist comment"
2016— House Speaker Paul Ryan delivered a harsh rebuke of the recent comments made by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump about an Indiana-born judge with Mexican heritage who is presiding over a lawsuit about Trump University. Ryan said he "disavows" Trump's comments and that they are "the textbook definition of a racist comment." Ryan, who recently endorsed Trump, said he still believes Trump is the better choice over presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. [Ital. mine] www.pbs.org/...
My headline has a joking tone, but I am serious about not letting Trump’s racism slide. Not in the present. Not as we write history and teach it to our children.
In plain text, through graphic novels, as a coloring book, whatever written media used:
Trump must go down as the most racist President in modern history.
We need Trump to go down as a failed 1 term racist President
— That his tricks only worked once—
That as a country, we won’t be fooled again.
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