Not just a
headline. The top headline.
From the story:
President
Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers in the Oval Office when they floated
restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African
countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to briefed on the
meeting.
“Why are we
having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said,
according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti.
He then
suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from
countries like Norway, whose prime minister he had met the day before.
So, is Trump
a racist or not? If not that story, then he is just being Trump (his loyalists all say). Oh, I see, I see.
Then what about all this, um? Other history that shows Trump is a racist by any
standard:
Kip Brown (at a Nevada Trump casino) was
quoted
by The New Yorker:
“When Donald was married to Ivana and they came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black
people off the floor. They put us all in the back.”
In 1991, a book by John O’Donnell,
who had been president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City,
quoted Trump as criticizing a black accountant and saying: “Black guys counting my money! I hate
it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear
yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his
fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that.
It’s not anything they can control.”
Noteworthy: Trump eventually denied making those
comments. But in 1997 in a Playboy interview,
he conceded “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
The more-recent Trump record may be
more familiar:
Trump’s
suggestions that President Obama “was born in Kenya; his insinuations that
Obama was admitted to Ivy League schools only because of affirmative action.”
His denunciations
of Mexican immigrants coming here as: “… in many cases, criminals, drug
dealers, and rapists.”
His calls
for a temporary ban on all Muslims entering the United States.
His
dismissal of an American-born judge (born in Indiana of Mexican ancestry) as a
Mexican who cannot fairly hear his case fairly.
His reluctance
to distance himself from the Ku Klux Klan in a television interview; his
retweet of a graphic suggesting that 81 percent of white murder victims are
killed by blacks (the actual figure is about 15 percent); and so on.
Trump has
repeatedly and vehemently denied any racism, and he has deleted some offensive
tweets. The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi racist website that endorsed
Trump, saw that as going full-wink-wink-wink.
I conclude: So, he is not a racist, um? I see, I see
he says just like the blind man.
Finally, does any of this matter to anyone at all or
will we from now on accept this as the new “low standard for choosing our president.”
Boy, I hope not. Thanks for stopping by.
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