George T. Conway III, a lawyer in New York, happens to be the husband of Kellyanne Conway, senior advisor to Trump. The conversations at the Conway dinner table must be very interesting, to say the least.
He wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post in which he reached the unavoidable conclusion that the president is a racist. He tried, he wrote, to give him the benefit of the doubt.
No, I thought, President Trump was boorish, dim-witted, inarticulate, incoherent, narcissistic and insensitive. He’s a pathetic bully but an equal-opportunity bully — in his uniquely crass and crude manner, he’ll attack anyone he thinks is critical of him. No matter how much I found him ultimately unfit, I still gave him the benefit of the doubt about being a racist. No matter how much I came to dislike him, I didn’t want to think that the president of the United States is a racial bigot.
But Sunday left no doubt. Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president. Trump could have used vile slurs, including the vilest of them all, and the intent and effect would have been no less clear. Telling four non-white members of Congress — American citizens all, three natural-born — to “go back” to the “countries” they “originally came from”? That’s racist to the core. It doesn’t matter what these representatives are for or against — and there’s plenty to criticize them for — it’s beyond the bounds of human decency. For anyone, not least a president.
What’s just as bad, though, is the virtual silence from Republican leaders and officeholders. They’re silent not because they agree with Trump. Surely they know better. They’re silent because, knowing that he’s incorrigible, they have inured themselves to his wild statements; because, knowing that he’s a fool, they don’t really take his words seriously and pretend that others shouldn’t, either; because, knowing how damaging Trump’s words are, the Republicans don’t want to give succor to their political enemies; because, knowing how vindictive, stubborn and obtusely self-destructive Trump is, they fear his wrath.
The Republican Party has lost its soul. Conway worries that the nation may lose not only its ideals but its soul with this “pathetic bully” in the White House.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
How you think these comments could be anything other then racist makes me think you don’t fully comprehend the word. I wonder what an example of racism would look like to you. I really mean that. It’s a lot more than saying the “n” word which I’m assuming you would think would be racist. But if you don’t think telling 4 non-white legislators (3 of whom were born here) to go back to their country, isn’t racist, you don’t understand the full meaning of the word. Maybe before answering this you could do some research and think about it.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:18 PM Diane Ravitch’s blog wrote:
> dianeravitch posted: “George T. Conway III, a lawyer in New York, happens > to be the husband of Kellyanne Conway, senior advisor to Trump. The > conversations at the Conway dinner table must be very interesting, to say > the least. He wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Po” >
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I worked overseas in both S. America and S-E Asia. I now live in a country that I don’t understand. Trump is hurling insults at members of Congress and the GOP is letting this slide? CNN International is broadcasting his hatred and racially offensive language to the world. He is diminishing the status of the US while the world is listening and watching.
He now tells these four Congresswomen on Twitter, “IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!”
Trump has no business telling Congressional members to ‘go back’ to the countries they came from. They are all US citizens. Ms Omar is a US citizen who was voted into Congress by her constituents. She is NOT an Al Qaeda sympathizer.
It is absolutely frightening to think that people support Trump when he is a racist White Supremacist who belittles people who aren’t loyal to him. How low can this country sink?
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Wait for Trump to attempt to walk his racist “go back” to the “countries” they “originally came from” comment and claim he was joking, or it was irony or the fault of the teleprompter device or some other lame excuse and then pretend he never said it like his infamous Access Hollywood tape about grabbing women by their ……. and then claiming it was only locker room talk.
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Gotta hand it to Trump. Goes lower & lower to distract…..think Epstein. Works Everytime. I just wonder how much criminal behavior Trump conducted with Epstein and manages to get everyone & media to ignore. Incredible!
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It’s possible that he is that calculating. He certainly has the low cunning, sometimes, of the con man. But the counterargument is this: such is his behavior ALL THE TIME, whatever is going on. This kind of nastiness is instinctive with him. It’s not about what’s happening in his shriveled walnut of a cortex. It’s brainstem-level stuff.
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LOL. Still he manages to avoid one scandal after another by finding some hot button issue that will get the media to limit coverage of whatever he wants to distract from. It’s unfortunate in my view that the media plays long without staying focused such as the latest sex assault accusation that just came and went.
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Agreed, Michael!!!
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You make an excellent point, Michael.
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The Republican Party lost its soul long ago, way before Trump.
The Democrats lost their soul when they sold it to corporations.
The four Democrat Congresswomen, and a few others, such as Ro Khanna, Elizabeth Warren, Mike Gravel, Barbara Lee, and Independent Bernie Sanders still stand for the Democrat Party of FDR, but Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the Clintons, Joe Biden, and all the other Wall Street-Corporate, neoliberal Dems have been corrupted at least since the 1990’s.
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Democratic, not Democrat Party. I hope this was a faux pas.
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Bingo!
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If this were a sane country, that tweet (and so much before) would be enough to bring about an immediate demand, from both houses of Congress, that the current occupant of the Whiter House be removed as insane and unfit.
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Pelosi: do your freaking job!
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He’s a White Supremacist. This is not new. The skin-head Aryan Nation types know that he’s their guy. Here, a few lowlights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
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He even talks the typical Nazi line about the “superior genetics” that he and others like him have. He calls this his “horse breeding” theory and applies it to the women he has “dated” and to the ones in his execrable beauty pageants. He’s a Nazi, and so, shockingly, is Miller.
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Lindsey Graham went full ballistic bat-manure sycophantic nuts.
From Slate: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham called four minority congresswomen “communists” and “anti-America” as he responded to President Donald Trump’s racist tweets about the group this weekend in an appearance on Fox & Friends on Monday.
“We all know that [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and this crowd are a bunch of communists,” Graham said. “They hate Israel, they hate our own country, they’re calling the guards along our border—the Border Patrol agents—concentration camp guards, they accuse people who support Israel of doing it for the Benjamins, they’re anti-Semitic, they’re anti-America.”
Graham sold what was left of his soul to Duce. This country is in deep trouble.
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From A Confederacy of Dunces:
“’What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?’
‘That sounds like a communiss to me.’
Mrs. Reilly’s worst fears were realized.”
Greatest. American. Novel. Ever.
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Comical. Novel.
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Agreed. A comic masterpiece.
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Though my picks would be The Grapes of Wrath and Moby Dick. There are many novels by Americans that I’ve finished and said to myself, “Well, that was perfect.” Slaughterhouse-Five. Rosemary’s Baby. And most recently, Emily Fridlund’s History of Wolves.
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And Rebecca Goldstein’s The Mind-Body Problem.
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I realized I left out “comical” in my first reply. Picking the greatest American novel is impossible. I will tackle Melville, finally, sometime this year. The thought of reading Moby Dick intimidates me, but I really enjoyed Bartleby and, to a lesser extent, Typee.. But if I had pick one book that had the greatest effect on me, it was Richard Wright’s Native Son. Two other authors I consider essential are Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis.
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Speaking to reporters Monday, Trump referenced Graham’s appearance on Fox, denied that his tweets were racist, and asserted, “If somebody has a problem with our country, if someone doesn’t want to be in our country, they should leave.” He added: “These are people that in my opinion hate our country.”
Republicans give him free rein: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/15/why-its-unsurprising-that-republicans-are-staying-quiet-after-trumps-go-back-tweet/?utm_term=.4c9c6d95ac0a
Republicans in Congress have allowed Trump’s racism to go almost entirely unchecked. On occasion, they throw out empty words chastising Trump for his racist attacks, but not once have they stood up to him with any concrete action. Now, most are too cowardly to even condemn him with words.
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this statement has been interestingly juxtaposed against his 2016 argument that Trump is a dangerous shyster
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Here, retired neuropsychologist David Glosser discusses his nephew, Stephen Miller, Propaganda Minister for the Trump misadministration and architect of the Muslim travel ban, the family separation policy, and other racist atrocities perpetrated by Trump and his thuggish henchmen: https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/stephen-millers-own-uncle-calls-bs-on-him?fbclid=IwAR3B4ykdk78g9FeSzA5OXiEmLj1LMdMko13Jfr7r-GbEsJBuTpwKtW1RqQ8
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One day I hope to see these two, Trump and Miller, standing in the dock at the International Criminal Court, charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping, child abuse, violation of people’s legal right to seek asylum, and other crimes against humanity.
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Oops. cx: I hope to see, one day, these two. . . . Ofc.
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Trump’s Racist Tirade and the reaction of the. media
The topic also hit close to home for some journalists, like Ana Cabrera, who shared her own experiences confronting racism as a Latina. And New York Times’columnist Thomas Friedman put things into perspective when he explained why every American should be disturbed by the president’s sentiment.
“He’s talking about us,” he said. “Every one of us at some point or virtually all of us can trace our roots back to what Trump has referred to as sh*thole countries.”
While President Trump could have been enjoying the continuation of a news cycle that, at the end of last week, was spotlighting infighting amongst Democrats, he shot himself in the foot and inserted himself back in the thick of things.
Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts pointedly asked the commander-in-chief during his availability on Monday whether it “concerns you that that tweet was seen as racist?” and followed that up by asking: “Does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist, and that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point?”
Shepard Smith eviscerated the president to lead off his show, characterizing his comments as a “misleading and xenophobic eruption of distraction and division.”
On MSNBC, Ali Velshi said this point of time in Trump’s presidency feels “different” than others, noting that “this feels like the president is really owning the idea that he’s saying things that attract white nationalists and racists.”
Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov called the president’s remarks “disgusting” while appearing on America’s Newsroomand likened it to “the next round of birtherism.” On Outnumbered, Fox Business host Kennedy implored the president to stop creating gaffes that his opponents can seize on, lamenting the failure on the part of the president when he acts like this.
CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter was visibly stunned when he read Trump’s comments during his show Sunday morning and pointed out that “his racism is becoming more obvious, more frightening.” The hosts of the network’s morning show, New Day, lambasted Fox News personalities for their light-hearted reaction to Trump’s attacks over the weekend noting how it just seems like “all fun and games” to them. And co-host John Berman questioned why so few Republican members of Congress have spoken up against the unacceptable behavior coming from the head of their party.
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You see, he does not THINK about the impact what he says, being a narcissist, he thinks what he THINKS is the truth. He will continue to broadcast who he really is–because it is BEHAVIOR which defines everyone. That is a truth that playwrights and psychologists know. In a play, the only way the audience knows what defines the characters is their dialogue… unlike a book or a media pundit’s analysis.
With the unintended consequence of this new era of technology, where social media (Twitter for example) allows people to put out their perspective, we have access to the mind of this unhinged, sad excuse for a human being…who made it clear, in his own words, that “When you’re a star, they let you do it” — the ‘it’ in this case is sexual predation on females.
What else do we need to know? Charles Blow nails it!
“There is no parallel. There can be no more discussion or debate about whether or not Trump is a racist. He is. There can be no more rhetorical juggling about not knowing what’s in his heart. We see what flows out of it.”
“We are watching a very dark chapter in this nation’s history unfold in real time. We are watching as a president returns naked racism to the White House. And we are watching as fellow citizens — possibly a third of them — reveal to us their open animus for us through their continued support of him. Trump is bringing the force of the American presidency to the rescue of white supremacy. And, self-identified Republicans absolutely love him for it. There is no parallel. There can be no more discussion or debate about whether or not Trump is a racist. He is. There can be no more rhetorical juggling about not knowing what’s in his heart. We see what flows out of it. White people and whiteness are the center of the Trump presidency. His primary concern is to defend, protect and promote it. All that threatens it must be attacked and assaulted.”
Read his whole op-ed piece. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/opinion/trump-twitter-racism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
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I have two adopted children, one from Peru and one from Guatemala. When my daughter was a sophomore in high school, one of the kids on her school bus yelled at her, “Go back to Mexico.” She turned to him and said, “I’m not from Mexico; I’m from Peru. But I’m sure you wouldn’t be able to find that on a map.” What that kid said to her was hurtful and racist, and it made her mad. I spoke with her about this, and we agreed that the other kid was just a lowlife, trashy racist with, as other folks say here in the South, “No raisin’.”
Shortly after my son graduated from high school, he worked for a time in a Hess gas station. Sometimes, when people didn’t like something, they would talk to the manager in a loud voice and refer to my son as “The Mexican” or say to my son, “Go back to Mexico” or “Go back to your own country.” And when they did, he would come home and tell me, and we would talk about this, and we knew what these folks were: they were lowlife, trashy racists.
When the President says it, it shows what he is, but in him, it’s even worse. He’s the President. Children are listening. The whole world is listening.
And we all know about the chump Trump and his knowledge of the world, of history, of maps.
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Bob,
Trump got his leanings from Daddy Trump, when Daddy and Son were busy 40 years ago kicking out black and Hispanic tenants, and spent many more hours and legal fees trying to prevent them from renting or buying into their apartment buildings for decades in NY City. I grew up not very far from where the Donald did.
The used hypodermic needle does not fall far from the drug user. Both father and son were addicted to hating people of color and working class people. And the sister, who was a judge, is a piece of work as well. She’s Trump in a dress and heels.
Why not just gather up every Trump and throw them into a stadium of matador-less bulls . . .
I’ll make the popcorn . . .
Melania with her “Be Best” campaign . . . And Ivanka with her empowerment of mothers and women. These two women are diabolical. They are about as pure and maternal as Medusa and Malificent rolled into one.
This Trump culture is the decadence found in “Cabaret” all over again. Garish, gross, vulgar, overdone, hypocritical, debased, debauched, almost every “-ist” there is out there, deceitful, bloated, narcissistic, depraved, lascivious, prurient, wanton, fattened, sadistic, cruel, and just plain villifyingly evil.
We need a sensible, fair, orderly, and humane immigration policy in the United States, but Trump’s and the GOP’s approach is the wrong approach. It is outright criminal. This administration must all go to jail . . . .
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It seems pretty clear that he was severely damaged as a child. How much must he have been hurt for him to be, at 72, as needy as he is? It’s all so sad.
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Nothing can fill the gaping maw that was left in him–all that emptiness.
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He is a black hole of neediness.
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Perfect diagnosis, Bob. Jane Fonda said the same about him.
It’s like a vitamin deficiency that causes permanent damage.
Only he’s the POTUS. Bad combination for the masses; perfect combination for most of the ruling class.
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“Why not just gather up every Trump and throw them into a stadium of matador-less bulls . . .”
Sorry, I would not buy a ticket for that show. You know, he who runs faster than everyone else survives. I don’t want any survivors.
But I would buy a ticket if the Secret Service volunteered to line up the entire Trump family, all naked, in front of one of those large tree shredders and shoved them in one by one with Donald Trump forced to watch, naked in Puritan style stocks but positioned so all the debris coming out the other side of the shredder would drench his naked body. I’d even buy the popcorn and offer it free along with free hot dogs for everyone that showed up in the stadium to watch the shredding.
We could even call this show “The Shredding” and turn it into a reality TVshow staring Donald Trump because we’d never feed him to the shredder. Instead, we’d strip him of all of his wealth and property and take away his gold plated toilet seats and after the show was over, throw him out in the streets homeless.
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Diane, you refer to ME as colorful? Really?
I think Lloyd has more colors than a prism and a bold full of skittles combined. Boy, Lloyd That was some imagery. Sort of like Nightmare on Elm Street meets Spartacus.
Lloyd, don’t hold back. You are far too sensitive and reserved. Please tell us what you REALLY think. Don’t keep it in. Express yourself, sir.
🙂
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How does the imagery in Lloyd’s brain work?
Well, he was born into a family living in poverty. His dad was a womanizer that cheated on his mother often, a gambler, and an alcoholic.
Lloyd’s mother, who made sure Lloyd learned to read, was into the Bible and one religion after another.
Lloyd’s older brother Richard (14 years older), also an alcoholic and a cheating womanizer, spent fifteen years of his life in prison for a variety of crimes, had seven kids with two wives (many of Richard’s children are following in his footsteps but not all seven), and never escaped poverty. Lloyd’s brother once told him as Richard finished off a six-pack of beer while smoking one cigarette after another “that I’d rather be dead than go back in the slammer.”
To survive growing up in his dysfunction family, Lloyd ended up escaping into thousands of books (before the end of high school) that were mostly science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction.
Blame the books for Lloyd’s imagination that is sort of “like a Nightmare on Elm Street meets Spartacus”. Great and accurate description, by the way.
Lloyd is a former U.S. Marine who fought in Vietnam in 1966 and came home with a bad case of PTSD, that all these years later, the VA and the Vet Center is still helping him manage.
After earning a BA in journalism in 1973 with financial help through the GI Bill and more than one part-time job during the end of the Vietnam era when college students were into protesting the war he fought in, he ended up earning a teaching credential in 1975 through an urban residency in a district in schools with child poverty rates always above seventy percent, and to Lloyd, it felt like he was where he belonged.
The local community around those schools was ruled by dangerous street gangs and even the local police would not patrol those streets after dark.
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Lloyd Lofthouse: You are a survivor. Welcome to the crowd.
I used to practice my clarinet to escape. During the summers I’d ride my bike all over the city of Boise to get out of the house. We didn’t have any books and not enough gas to travel the 15 minutes to go to the library. I don’t think my parents knew there was a library in town or that books could be checked out.
I once had to do some research work at the library when I was in high school and my mother and I found it. She had no idea it was there. That was the only time I went inside.
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The elementary school I first went to was a few blocks from where we lived. It did not have a library, but the county had a library bus that came around regularly and our teachers took us out where we lined up. We went in one door and selected books as we went from one end of the bus to the other where we checked out our books and exited through another door.
Downtown was several miles away but the library was on the same block as the movie theater and I could ride my bike there or walk. I visited that library often.
Then the high school I attended had a large library and I was a student aide in that library for most of my high school years.
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Correction:
” . . . bowl full of Skittles . . . . ”
I can’t stand my typing!
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Lloyd, my two biggest escapes from dysfunction were elementary school and the public library. I encourage you write as such, and I admire your resilience in a family you did not deserve, save for your mom who insisted that you learn to read.
You have been through so much, but broken bones only get stronger when they heal.
I too ended up teaching only severely economically disadvantaged students for 24 years before I become an assistant principal.
One of the few great things about American culture is that it has had very civilized styles in its public discourse (not any more thanks to this POTUS), but in this day and age, I am beginning to hypothesize that civility might not be how this country is going to reverse itself. I truly hope I’m wrong, but at the very least, colorful writing at its most severe is a million times more civilized than acute actions. But look at the French. Their actions in the past have made them who they are today.
Yes, I think your version of how to handle this administration trumps mine! But I would not mind a shredder . . . .
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My advice to the shredder operator: Wear a HazMat suit. What you are about to shred is toxic enough to destroy the entire human species.
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I know that the NYT has a paywall so I’m listing the racist things Trump has said or done. There are videos if you can click on the link and receive the NYT. Trump is one SICK hateful creature whom most Republicans adore.
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Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List, Updated
The media uses euphemisms. Here’s the truth: President Trump is a racist.
Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and ‘80s. More recently, his political rise was built on promulgating the lie that the nation’s first black president was born in Kenya. He then launched his campaign with a speech describing Mexicans as rapists.
The media often falls back on euphemisms when describing Trump’s comments about race: racially loaded, racially charged, racially tinged, racially sensitive. And Trump himself has claimed that he is “the least racist person.” But here’s the truth: Donald Trump is a racist. He talks about and treats people differently based on their race. He has done so for years, and he is still doing so.
Trump’s real-estate company tried to avoid renting apartments to African-Americans in the 1970s and gave preferential treatment to whites, according to the federal government.
Trump treated black employees at his casinos differently from whites, according to multiple sources. A former hotel executive said Trump criticized a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.”
In 1989, Trump took out ads in New York newspapers urging the death penalty for five black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he argued they were guilty as late as June 2019, more than 15 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.
He began his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”
He uses the gang MS-13 to disparage all immigrants. Among many other statements, he has suggested that Obama’s protection of the Dreamers — otherwise law-abiding immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — contributed to the spread of MS-13.
In December 2015, Trump called for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” including refusing to readmit Muslim-American citizens who were outside of the country at the time.
Trump said a federal judge hearing a case about Trump University was biased because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.
He uses the gang MS-13 to disparage all immigrants. Among many other statements, he has suggested that Obama’s protection of the Dreamers — otherwise law-abiding immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — contributed to the spread of MS-13.
In December 2015, Trump called for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” including refusing to readmit Muslim-American citizens who were outside of the country at the time.
Trump said a federal judge hearing a case about Trump University was biased because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.
He spent years suggesting that the nation’s first black president was born not in the United States but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.
Trump called Obama (who was editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review) “a terrible student, terrible.”
Trump frequently claimed that Obama did not work hard as president.
Trump falsely claimed that President Obama “issued a statement for Kwanzaa but failed to issue one for Christmas.”
Urban America As a Hellscape
He often casts heavily black American cities as dystopian war zones. In a 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump said, “Our inner cities, African Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.” Trump also said to black voters: “You’re living in poverty; your schools are no good; you have no jobs.”
He frequently offers false crime statistics to exaggerate urban crime, including about Oakland, Philadelphia and Ferguson, Mo.
He is quick to highlight crimes committed by dark-skinned people, sometimes exaggerating or lying about them (such as a claim about growing crime from “radical Islamic terror” in Britain). He is very slow to decry hate crimes committed by whites against dark-skinned people (such as the killing of an Indian man in Kansas last year).
Minorities As Uppity,
Ungrateful and Unintelligent
He frequently criticizes prominent African-Americans for being unpatriotic, ungrateful and disrespectful.
He called Puerto Ricans who criticized his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria “politically motivated ingrates.”
He also has a pattern of criticizing African-Americans as unintelligent or racist.
In July 2019, Trump suggested that four minority Democratic congresswomen, all of whom are American citizens and three of whom were born in the United States, should “go back” to “the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Friendliness with Proud
Racists and White Nationalists
He has retweeted white nationalists without apology.
He called some of those who marched alongside white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., last August “very fine people.”
After David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed him, Trump was reluctant to disavow Duke even when asked directly on television.
Trump hired Steve Bannon as his campaign head and later White House chief strategist. Under Bannon’s leadership, the website Breitbart made white nationalism a central theme. It featured a section, for example, on “black crime.”
Trump has endorsed or praised politicians who have made racist statements, defended the Confederacy or associated with white supremacists, including Roy Moore in Alabama.
Trump pardoned – and fulsomely praises – Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff sanctioned for racially profiling Latinos and for keeping immigrants in brutal prison conditions.
Denigrating Native Americans
In the 1990s, Trump took out advertisements alleging that the “Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.” At the time, he was fighting competition for his casino business.
In a 1993 radio interview, he suggested that Native Americans in Connecticut were faking their ancestry. “I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations.”
In a November 2017 meeting with Navajo veterans of World War II, Trump mocked Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”
In a Feb. 2019 tweet about Elizabeth Warren, Trump appeared to mock the Trail of Tears, a forced exodus that killed thousands of Native Americans.
Trump has trafficked in anti-Semitic caricatures, including the tweeting of a six-pointed star alongside a pile of cash. He has also been reluctant to condemn anti-Semitic attacks on journalists from his supporters, and he echoed neo-Nazi conspiracy theories by saying that Hillary Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.”
In a White House meeting with a Korean-American intelligence analyst briefing him on Pakistan, Trump wondered aloud why she was not working on North Korea policy.
Trump once referred to a Hispanic Miss Universe as “Miss Housekeeping.”
At a June 2016 campaign rally, Trump pointed to one attendee and said: “Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him.”
According to Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, Trump has privately made disparaging remarks about minority neighborhoods in Chicago, countries run by black people, an African-American contestant on “The Apprentice” and African-American voters.
Trump has nominated or appointed multiple people with a history of making racist comments.
Trump parroted a racist conspiracy theory about the alleged killing of white South African farmers.
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I’d like to know why all of Trump’s racist history wasn’t brought up when he was a candidate? The media is at fault for not giving the citizens enough information to vote intelligently. Of course, some people thrive on racism and hatred so knowing that he is a racist would not stop those people.
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He has no shame. He is literally shameless.
His narcissism shields him.
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I pretty much ignored Donald Trump until he won the GOP primary in 2016. I never watched his so-called reality show but I don’t’ watch any of those fake reality shows.
During the presidential debates, I fact-checked all of his lies, because everything that came out of his mouth was a lie.
During my fact-checking, I learned from reputable media sources about his racist history, his billion dollars in bankruptcies, his billion dollars worth of corporate welfare that he collected before the bankruptcies that stopped U.S. banks from loaning him money, his thousands of lawsuits and court cases (USA Today published that history and it is easily available through a Google search), his refusing to pay workers and business what he had agreed to pay them, his lie that the U.S. never makes anything anymore, his equally big lie that Hillary Clinton didn’t do anything as a Senator or during her entire life, et al.
Donald Trump’s putrid, corrupt, racist, serial lying, cheating everyone he can even his wives and mistresses history was there in 2016 before the election for anyone that wanted to find it as I did.
What the media failed to do was to repeatedly publish all that history, another story every day on the front pages like they do with his putrid parade of shock and confusion that never ends. The media has not failed to reveal the real Trump, but they have failed to repeatedly remind us of who he has always been.
Trump dominates the media and the media lets him do it. All of the reputable media should lead every day with another story reminding us of who Trump really is and his shock-and-confusion toxic crap should only appear on the back pages and or at the end of radio and TV news shows.
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I live on the other side of the country, and I knew about a lot of his racism the second he stepped off that escalator. Really, that speech was all anyone needed to know, and his conduct in the coming months sealed it. A lot of people refused to see, but it was sure there.
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Threatened Out West: I couldn’t stand Trump when he was a candidate. I never had the slightest question on whom to vote for.
I just figure that many people didn’t pick up how disastrous, ignorant and biased he was. Maybe I figure that many people didn’t know about him rather than they liked him. I’d like to think US citizens are better than that.
It’s highly disturbing to know that Fox is out there blaring daily about what a great person Trump is. Rupert Murdoch is evil and makes money from distorting news. Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Rush L are also evil.
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At a June 2016 campaign rally, Trump pointed to one attendee and said: “Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him.”
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Trump, talking like the racist he is, in the course of trying to make the case that he is not a racist. It’s not surprising that Low IQ Individual 1 is this lacking in self-reflection. He’s a deeply damaged, deranged person.
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Attempting to explain, carefully, how IQ45 operates, the philosopher Jennifer Saul coined the term “racial figleaves.” His typical mode of operation, she says, is to try to utter the racist comment with JUST ENOUGH COVER that he can, however implausibly, claim that what he said wasn’t racist. Oh, I just meant that people who don’t love this country should get the heck out. But Trump knows–even his pea brain groks–that this “Go back to your country” stuff is a white supremacist cliche and that it serves as a dogwhistle to the racists in his base base.
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This behavior is totally unacceptable from a president.
This time he has no fig leaves.
His language is not a dog whistle.
It’s a fog horn.
Even the news outlets that strive to appear neutral are calling his language “racist.”
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Well said. He has outed himself quite clearly. And this is far, far, far from the first time.
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Trump doesn’t need a fig leaf. He has nothing to hide behind even the smallest fig leaf anyway.
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I don’t care for Biden but he is saying what the GOP should be saying.
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Joe Biden Tells ‘Flat Racist’ Trump He Should Go Home
Jamie Ross
Reporter
Updated 07.16.19 5:14AM ET /
Published 07.16.19 4:47AM ET
Joe Biden has issued an unequivocal condemnation of Donald Trump’s tweets about four congresswomen of color, saying the shocking statements were “flat racist” and that Trump himself should “go home.” The frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president said Monday evening that Trump’s tweets were a “racist attack” and criticized Republicans for staying silent on them. “Most Republicans won’t call the president’s tweets racist. It’s incredibly disappointing,” he said. “The way he spoke about four members of Congress, no matter what you think as a politician, he talks about going back to the awful countries that they’re from —Brooklyn, Michigan,” Biden said. “It’s a flat, racist attack.” Biden was speaking at a party hosted by former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack. The former vice president went on to say: “[Trump] should go home.”
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A tale of two Americas. But instead of Lincoln, we have the opposite, Trump.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/15/us/trump-tweets-two-americas-blake/index.html
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How about Pelosi’s role in all this? Trump actually referred to her in his comments. She spends more time and vitriol on these 4 women than Trump. She told AOC to be careful because her words would be used against her, then trashed the women in the NYT.
Nancy hates these women and views them as more of a threat to the status quo than Trump. There’s a meme making the rounds on fb Olof a picture of the women, and Pelosi on the phone, like BBQ Becky.
Pelosi is toxic and could care less about the people. The squad makes that obvious.
And btw, when did being “pro-America” come to mean loves Israel more than life itself? You’ll notice everyone that agreed with Trump referenced Israel. Replace Israel with Mexico, and watch everyone lose their minds. “Are you putting a foreign country on equal or higher footing than the USA?”
And when any RWNJs bitch about abortion or same-sex marriage, I’m going to tell them that if they don’t like the law of the land, they can leave. I believe abortion is 100% illegal in both El Salvador and Honduras. They might enjoy the warm weather and cheap prices.
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What about the country’s role in all this? We have a clear and present degenerate in the White House. Now what? Or rather, what are we? What have we become? And where do we go from here, these two Americas? This is way beyond politics as usual.
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Yes x 1,000. Trump and the GOP and corporate Democrats are symptoms of who we are . . . .
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Republicans born abroad who are white count as true Americans. It’s all those ‘others’ who need to go back somewhere if they speak against the GREAT Trump. [sarcasm]
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5% of Congress Was Born Abroad. Those Members Show What It Means to Be American.
Twenty-nine members of Congress were born abroad, many on U.S. military bases, but more than a dozen are immigrants with at least one foreign-born parent.
WASHINGTON — When President Trump suggested foreign-born Americans should “go back” to the countries they were born in if they do not like it here, he may not have realized that his entreaty could have been addressed to 5 percent of Congress.
In all, 29 members of the House and Senate were born abroad, about half of them to parents serving in the military or working overseas. They include a doctor born in Mexico (Representative Raul Ruiz, Democrat of California); a lawyer born in Japan (Senator Mazie K. Hirono, Democrat of Hawaii); a women’s rights advocate born in India (Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington); and a real estate developer born in an Army hospital in France (Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina).
Republicans like Mr. Meadows and Representative David Rouzer, also of North Carolina and born in an Army hospital in West Germany, have mostly stood by the president, who aimed his remarks at four progressive House Democratic women of color, only one of whom was born outside the United States.
“No, I don’t think it’s racist,” Mr. Rouzer said…
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ACLU
We just filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s new rule banning asylum protections for virtually all people crossing the southern border. The Trump administration is trying to unilaterally reverse our country’s legal and moral commitment to protect those fleeing danger.
The new rule prohibits anyone from applying for asylum if they have passed through another country and didn’t seek asylum there first. It’s patently unlawful under U.S. law as well as international human rights law – and it’s an unacceptable assault on our country’s values. The rule is supposed to go into effect today, and our team has been working around the clock to file this suit and stop it in its tracks.
The Trump administration has been tearing apart families and stoking fear and racism across the country for over two years now. Last weekend, the president reminded us of what fuels his anti-immigrant agenda when he told Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez – four women of color and new members of Congress – to “go back” to where they came from. This is racism, plain and simple.
But we’ve been fighting back at every turn. Together, we’ve reunited thousands of families torn apart by his cruel family separation policy, and we’re still in court fighting to reunite the rest. We won a ruling against Attorney General Barr’s attempt to jail asylum seekers without due process. We blocked Trump from using unauthorized funds to build his border wall. And just last weekend, we showed how powerful we can be when we came together, wielding the power of the Constitution to defend against the planned ICE raids. Thanks to you, thousands of people knew their rights.
You don’t need me to tell you that we won’t stop fighting for immigrants’ rights – or that we can win and will win with the help of our four million supporters like you.
Together we are powerful.
Keep fighting,
Lee Gelernt
Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
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“Support of Trump has actually risen among Republican voters in the wake of his racist tirade.” How does anyone justify this?
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Eric Trump Claims ‘95 Percent’ of Americans Support His Father
Audrey McNamara
Reporter
Published 07.17.19 11:27AM ET
President Trump’s son Eric Trump falsely claimed on Wednesday that 95 percent of Americans support his father. “My father is in there, and he’s fighting every single day. And he has to fight against the media. He has to fight against these lunatics,” Eric Trump said. “And guys, I’m telling you, 95 percent of this country is behind him in this message. I mean, people love this nation.” Public polling suggests otherwise. RealClearPolitics polling puts the president’s approval rating at 44.4 percent and his disapproval rating at 52 percent. His son’s comments come after Trump’s recent racist tweets telling four freshman congresswoman of color to “go home” to their countries. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the presidents racist attacks. Despite the public outrage and official condemnation from the House, support for the president has actually risen among Republican voters in the wake of his racist tirade.
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While Mueller concluded there was not sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to swing the 2016 election, Mueller also said he could not exonerate the president of obstruction of justice in the investigation. Trump is obstructing justice by refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents and testimony.
Multiple women have come forth to say that Trump attacked them. Trump has had numerous past and current actions that prove he is a White Supremacist racist. Trump refuses to release his tax returns. What exactly is he hiding?
The media moves from one horror to the next and nothing is done to hold him or his administration accountable. How much does Trump have to do before the House under Pelosi decides to impeach?
History must say that Trump was unfit to be president. Lack of impeachment, even if the Senate doesn’t confirm and oust him, is giving Trump ‘facts’ that exonerate him.
Our constitution demands that Don the Teflon Con be labeled as incompetent.
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Don the Con speaks out. Isn’t he just wonderful? Biggest tax reduction for the wealthy and corporations that is building a huge deficit and more $$ for the bloated military. The best job numbers when people’s salaries haven’t improved for decades and those are mainly low paying jobs that don’t pay enough to live decently. There definitely is ‘much much more’ and it all is making me ill.
IMPEACH the Swamp Monster.
Trump has told nearly 11,000 lies as president, but he throws a fit at the press when they don’t trust anything he says.
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The United States House of Representatives has just overwhelmingly voted to kill the Resolution on Impeachment, 332-95-1. This is perhaps the most ridiculous and time consuming project I have ever had to work on. Impeachment of your President, who has led the….
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….Greatest Economic BOOM in the history of our Country, the best job numbers, biggest tax reduction, rebuilt military and much more, is now OVER. This should never be allowed to happen to another President of the United States again!
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Representative Ilhan Omar is a US citizen who has lived in this country longer than Melania. Trump believes that only white people can truly be US citizens.
All four member Congress, Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, stand for popular causes. What is wrong with Medicare for ALL, student debt cancellation, tutition-free college, and the Green New Deal. All of these policies are popular with the public. It is Pelosi and Trump who have resisted them. Trump’s attacks have been vile. Both, however, appear to be threatened by the progressive movement.
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