The Washington Post received an early preview of Michael Cohen's book set to come out this Tuesday. The book entitled Disloyal: A Memoir reinforces everything we've heard and know about Donald J Trump these last four years. While many of the books quotes and anecdotes revolve around the time before Trumps presidency, it still offers further proof of the depravity of the man and his general disdain for all human beings not named Trump.
Perhaps the biggest new story out of the book is that in 2015 Trump hired a black actor to play the part of Obama so he could personally berate (the actor) in a fake Oval Office setting - with it all video taped for his repeated viewing pleasure. Beside the obvious racism of a powerful white man belittling a black man, one has to ask...does any normal human being do this?
Other examples of Trumps racism from the book simply add to the litany of previous remarks from the President such as Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists or the Charlottesville nazis were fine people. From a web article by CNN's Erica Orden :
Ranting about Obama after he won office in 2008, Trump said, "Tell me one country run by a black person that isn't a sh*thole...They are all complete f*cking toilets," according to Cohen. After Nelson Mandela died, Trump allegedly said of South Africa that "Mandela f*cked the whole country up. Now it's a sh*thole. F*ck Mandela. He was no leader."
And this is what he said about the Latino community according to CNN:
In the wake of Trump's presidential kickoff announcement in 2015, in which he called Mexicans criminals and rapists, he dismissed concerns that he had alienated Latinos. "Plus, I will never get the Hispanic vote," Trump allegedly told Cohen. "Like the blacks, they're too stupid to vote for Trump. They're not my people." (Trump won 28% of the Latino vote in 2016.)
Again if you're a Latino, setting aside that he's locked kids up in cages and separated families and refuses to implement DACA given a court order, how could you ever vote for this man who has utter contempt for you because your skin is brown?
Now other than the rather bizarre story of the fake Obama actor and the racist ramblings on black and brown colored people perhaps the most damning quote from the book is the one directed at evangelicals. According to Cohen the president told him:
Speaking to Cohen after Trump gathered religious leaders at Trump Tower in the lead up to the 2012 presidential race, an encounter during which they asked to "lay hands" on him, Trump asked Cohen, according to the book: "Can you believe that bullsh*t?...Can you believe people believe that bullsh*t?"
Now its one thing to bang adult film actresses and cheat on your wife and be divorced three times....but all that can be ignored as personal indulgences. And besides all Trump has to do is repent in the eyes of Jesus for his personal sins. And he is appointing good Christian value judges. But if evangelicals actually read and believe this quote, much like the president calling military service men and women losers and suckers...it might strike a cord as to the president using them as props...that Trump is ultimately a phoney. Perhaps we'll see a few percentage point decline in his support from this group in 60 days. One can only hope.
There are other quotes throughout the book about Trumps love for Putin, Russian interference in 2016, and a rather crude sexual reference to Cohen's 15- year old daughter that I won't repeat here. Suffice to say between the military losers controversy and Cohen's book, Trump is in for another rough week. Sometimes there is justice in this world.