Dana Milbank knows that Trump is preparing to give a speech on the subject of race, but he has anticipated what he will say by summarizing what he has already said on the subject. His article has many links, which you can find if you google the article. The article contains many links to original sources, which you can find if you open the article. I hope it is not behind a paywall.
President Trump’s planned address to the nation on race, American Urban Radio’s April Ryan reports, is being written by none other than Stephen Miller, a Trump aide and aficionado of white nationalism.
This is bound to raise a fuhrer. What next? Paul Manafort drafting a presidential address on business ethics?
But Miller can stand down. Trump has already given his remarks on race — many times, in fact. Here they are, entirely in Trump’s own words, excerpted:
I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks. Oh, look at my African American over here. Look at him.
Nobody has ever done for the black community what President Trump has done. My Admin has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln. George [Floyd] is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that is happening for our country. A great day for him.
Diamond and Silk, you’re so, so great. Thank you, Kanye, thank you. Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.
Think of this: Blacks for Trump, Black Voices for Trump, African Americans for Trump. Call it whatever the hell you want. I have a group of African American guys and gals, by the way, that follow me around, and they think I pay them and I don’t.
A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. If I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage. Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations!
To the African American community, I say what the hell do you have to lose? You’re living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed. Last in crime, last in this, last in homeownership, last in the economy, lowest wages. Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education, they have no jobs.
Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, “Get that son of a bitch off the field right now”?
Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States? No human being would want to live there. A disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested).
So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came?
Why do we need more Haitians? Why are we having people from all these shithole countries come here? We should have more people from places like Norway.
An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud. His grandmother in Kenya said, “Oh, no, he was born in Kenya.” A lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate.
You ever see Maxine Waters? A low-IQ individual. LeBron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made LeBron look smart, which isn’t easy to do.
What has happened to the respect for authority, the fear of retribution by the courts, society and the police? Let our politicians give back our police department’s power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of “police brutality.” BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY AND BRING BACK OUR POLICE!
You also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park, from Robert E. Lee to another name. Robert E. Lee was a great general. They’re trying to take away our culture. A Great American Heritage.
I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here — a lynching. I am the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!

I hope that at all of those peaceful protests, there was also a strong message to get out and vote. Not much will change until we have different government players elected and sitting in office.
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An important story … Over 60 members of the University of Missouri football team and some others including the basketball head coach started their march starting at the iconic columns on campus.
They marched to the Courthouse and took a knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
And then went in and they all registered to vote!
This is not the first high profile protest and stance by University of Missouri students including a protest in 2015 on racism that resulted in the resignation of the university president – and 100% support by the football team when one of their star player came out prior to the NFL draft.
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There is only one rule to follow when Trump says or tweets something. The opposite is the truth.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
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Thanks for this. It is pretty comprehensive with a lot of links, and it is not behind a paywall.
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What they had done was send “testers”—meaning one white couple and one couple of color—to Trump Village, a very large, lower-middle-class housing project in Brooklyn. And of course the white people were treated great, and for the people of color there were no apartments. We subpoenaed all their documents. That’s how we found that a person’s application, if you were a person of color, had a big C on it.
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from “Trump’s Racism: An Oral History
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/
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Mr. Trump has a real knack for choosing places to deliver his remarks. Might I suggest that he deliver Propaganda Minister Stephen Goebbels Miller’s anti-racism speech in front of one of his wire cages full of Central American children?
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Oh come one, Bob, you know Trump won’t give his speech in a concentration camp where people are being abused, are sick, and some are starving and dying.
Trump will have a gold replica of the Iron Throne made, the one from the Game of Thrones TV series, and he’ll have it installed in the Lincoln Monument.
Trump will be sitting on that solid gold Iron Throne where Lincoln’s statue once sat. He will give his speech from there.
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Or how about he give Propaganda Minister Miller’s speech WITH Miller while standing in the dock at the International Court of Criminal Justice, charged with crimes against humanity?
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I’m aware of all of these quotes, but seeing them put together like this is so depressing. They reveal an individual (can’t describe the Idiot as a person) who is completely devoid and intentionally resistant to learn anything about history, humanity, and decency. And he’s the president of the wealthiest, most powerful, most diverse nation in the history of the world. What’s the exponential definition of depressing?
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I can’t get WaPo on my tablet, but this excerpt gives the gist, & I’ve heard all of it before.
No one knows if DJT in his heart of hearts is a racist per se. We know that he was raised in a racist era in a racist nbhd, & knows those moves by heart. As a teen he collected rents for his no-doubt racist slumlord dad. We [New Yorkers] know those experiences did not convert him to social activism: he wasted young adulthood on photo-ops w/dubious celebrities, hit his businessman stride as an anti-union opportunist w/questionable connections, graduated to multiple bankruptcies and fraud.
DJT meets anyone where they are– in person–, talks the way he needs to, to suit the purpose of the moment, stabs them in the back later if it suits an agenda. I suspect he is not precisely a racist as we think of it in common parlance. There’s him, & there’s everyone else, pawns on a chessboard. He uses his life experiences to convince whoever he’s addressing that he gets them.
It doesn’t matter if DJT is actually a racist. He perceives racism in his core voters, & uses it.
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It seems pretty clear that Trump doesn’t think of himself as a racist. He thinks of himself as a man of the world who is universally admired except by a few weirdos. And that’s the way it is with Trump: there are people on his side–good, normal, useful people–and there are the weirdos and “bad people.” He will admit a useful character who happens to be black into his circle of acquaintance–the fight promoter Don King, for example, or Kanye West or Diamond and Silk–and so, in his own mind, he is “the least racist person.” Yes, he believes that people’s qualities are determined by their genes. Yes, he believes that people from Northern European countries have “the best genes.” Yes, he believes that people from “s**thole countries” have bad genes. Yes, he believes in group characteristics of what he thinks of as different races (that blacks are lazy and dangerous, that Jews are good with money). And he has a lot of fear of black and brown people–poor refugees fleeing violence and hunger are an invading horde of rapists and murderers; young blacks in a park when a murder happened must be the murderers and should be executed, etc). A black couldn’t possibly have the qualifications to be president, so there must be something wrong there–he was born in Kenya. And at the same time Trump doesn’t think that any of that is being racist. LOL. Yes, TRUMP IS THAT STUPID. He is too stupid to have any idea what racism is. Imagine a fish so immersed in water that he doesn’t know what “water” is saying, “Who says I prefer being in water? That’s nonsense.” Well, that’s Donald Trump the racist. He’s that unreflective and stupid. This is the guy who thought we could send astronauts to the sun and that injecting disinfectant could be “like a cleaning” of the inside of the body. Why does this matter? Well, it matters because Trump acts on that long list of unexamined but strongly held racist beliefs. Miller, on the other hand, is not a stupid as Trump. He knows what he is–a white supremacist and fascist nationalist–and is fine with that, and he will say or do anything to advance his agenda as necessary in the short term. And to Miller, Trump is an instrument, a tool. And right now, in the short term, he needs Trump to be re-elected, and he will put any words in the stupid orange sock puppet’s mouth to make that happen.
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Is Trump “actually” a racist? Well, listen to what he himself says about his own beliefs. They are identical to the beliefs of the white supremacists who universally think of him as their guy. He’s a hero to the skinhead Aryan Nation types. Why? Well, clearly, obviously, Trump holds the same views that they do. But he’s less self-aware and even dumber than the typical skinhead is, which is really saying something because my child had gerbils smarter than the skinheads are.
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I don’t know, Bob. I grew up with a racist grandfather. He was also most likely a borderline personality, a bully capable of tremendous charm, turning on a dime to explosive anger, so those similarities. But Trump? I don’t think he believes… anything. He is a strangely hollow character. Everything is an act. And neither stupid nor smart. Cunning perhaps, like an animal.
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Well, he has very consistently expressed the views that I listed, over many, many decades. And these are racist views.
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But I do see your analysis. A lot of truth in it.
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Back during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, there were plenty of white, Southern politicians who similarly didn’t think of themselves as “racist,” as long as black people “knew their place,” as long as they didn’t “have to live next to them,” as long as their sisters “didn’t marry one.” How could they simultaneously hold such views? Well, because they had friendly interactions with black people who didn’t scare them, who kept their heads low and went to their own schools and churches. I used to know a lot of such people when I was a kid growing up in the South. They would say a friendly “hello” to such black people on the street or to such black people who took in their laundry or whatever, so they weren’t “racist.” They just. . . . [insert long list of racist beliefs and actions here, including lynchings]. Trump is that sort of racist–the really stupid, really unreflective type who doesn’t get what racism is.
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George Wallace, who made “segregation forever” his mantra and stood in the door of the Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama to block the entrance by two black students similarly described himself as not being a racist, and he in fact had friendly relations with some black people, which was confirmation, to him, that he wasn’t a racist. He was the Trump-style racist. He believed in genetically determined “race.” He believed in maintaining white supremacy. He sought to keep black people out of schools and neighborhoods and public office. He thought it should be illegal for whites and blacks to marry (as did, btw, Harry Truman, who told a reporter that interracial marriage contradicted the Bible). And Wallace didn’t think these things made him a racist. Well, he didn’t get it. He was too dumb to have a clue what racism is and why it is so evil.
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“knew their place” was indeed the standard. I remember overhearing a conversation when I first moved to the South, never having encountered raw racism before in my life, about a black man who worked on a sugar cane farm, “He’s a good nigger, he knows his place.” I grew up a lot after hearing that conversation.
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I would go with my grandmother to church on Sunday, and after services, we would take a walk downtown. If a black man passed me on the sidewalk, even though I was only five years old, he would dip his head or tip his hat and say, “Mornin’, sir.” I’m not kidding. I was freaking five years old!!!! Looking back on this, I am absolutely horrified.
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Well, I can tell you exactly where “the places” of POC need to be: the board room, the United States Senate, the Executive Office Building, the offices of the heads of police departments and police unions. For a start.
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The Trump Organization did not rent to blacks.
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Well I thought that the dumbocrats wearing Kinte cloth scarves for a photo op was appallingly stupid and tone deaf, but once again tRUMP has blown past them at warp speed. He has scheduled his first campaign rally for Juneteenth (June 19th, the day the slaves were freed at the end of the civil war) and, if that were not enough, it will be in Tulsa, OK, the site of what is arguably the worst racial massacre in American history. Trump and the looters and sycophants in his cabinet are Americas version of the Ceaușescu regime.
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“Nicolae Ceausescu, Communist official who was leader of Romania from 1965 until he was overthrown and killed in a revolution in 1989. He instituted an extensive personality cult while in power and appointed his wife, Elena, and many members of his extended family to high posts in the government and party.” His wife was also “given” many awards for speeches and discoveries that were written or made by others who received no credit for their stolen work.
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He left out the one about not protecting the head when putting a person in custody into a car. (Which got applause by the police.) https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-police-nice-suspects/story?id=48914504
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“I love the uneducated”…
Thank you Diane and Dana for the primary source Trump racism redux. It leaves me wondering when Stephen Miller will be tasked with redoing the nation’s American History standards. Trump is now a clearly dangerous man and in a very short time had carved the US up along every possible line. A culture warrior with Putin’s imprimatur is attacking our democracy, threatening our security and dismantling our government. History will remember the enablers and collaborators.
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The trifecta cross section of racism, the pandemic, and the wanton stupidity of Republicans in the Ohio Assembly on display once again. Thankfully he’s on the opposite side of the state from me, but these abominations are everywhere.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-state-senator-coronavirus-offensive-question_n_5ee1e723c5b686515e93ae4f
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Reports other than Huffpo wrote that Sen. Huffman used the words, “colored population”. He’s a doctor who tried to get sponsors for a bill that would ban telemedicine as a way of receiving abortion medication. Huffman’s district is in the same general area as Jim Jordan’s (for those unfamiliar with Ohio..
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We are all “colored people” these days! 😹
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Greg-
More humane than Huffman’s white. He was elected to the Senate in 2018 from the Jim Crow era.
The NYT has a great headline, “How to tell if your grandparent has become an antifa agent.”
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Huffman voted yes on a bill to “prohibit forcing churches to perform gay weddings”. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Nino Vitale.
Ohio, unlike Mass. and New York, has no ban against conversion therapy in schools. The rationale for not having a ban can be found at the Massachusetts Catholic Conference site. (btw- vouchers force Ohio taxpayers to fund religious schools that may support cruel conversion therapy and that have been found to discriminate against gay people in employment.)
The Massachusetts House voted 147-8 and New York, 134-3, to pass their bans on conversion therapy. It’s easy for a progressive to be sanguine if his/her state’s population overwhelmingly ignores the clergy’s politicking. Alas, states of the electoral college that are important in electing Trump (and,that elect the state GOP) aren’t like Massachusetts and New York.
Huffman has 5 kids. One of his sons attends Notre Dame.
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Gen. Mark Milley said today it was a mistake for him to be seen walking with POTUS to a photo op at a church (commandeered for the purpose). It wasn’t Milley’s first time carrying water for the GOP (Wikipedia).
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Michael Tomasky is a clear-eyed observer of American politics. Here’s a good article that demonstrates presidential candidacies are not static, positions change. Democrats understand, as former Republican operative Stuart Stevens says, “[Biden] needs to motivate nonwhite turnout. They don’t need one Trump voter.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/02/joe-bidens-journey-left/
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Amid National Turmoil and Self-Examination, President Trump Delivers Solemn Remarks on Race in America
TRUMP (snorts Adderall and steps to the podium. There are so many Oklahomans present that to those in the back, he looks like a Cheeto stuffed into a plum. As the President begins to speak, a pigeon knocks over the teleprompter. People scramble to fix it, but Trump waves them off.)
These are dark, uh, not good, times for America. Our country has seen, in the past few weeks, lawlessness and anarchy. Looting. Fires by this group, Antifa. Very big group. They hate America. And some well-meaning protesters. Nobody supports protesters like Trump. So, people call me, they say, what we need now is healing. And I’ve thought about this. I’m a smart guy. I meant really smart. I had this uncle at MIT. And I thought, I don’t know, disinfectants. You might inject them, like a cleaning.
And like other presidents before me, in times of crisis, I have done what needed to be done. I inspected the bunker. I waved a Bible. And I’ve come here today to . . . uh, to speak of uniting our great country. Because that’s what I am, a uniter, not a divider. It’s time for us all back together. Back on track. And I want to let every American know, whatever the color of your skin, whatever Christian church you go to, that I’m listening. I hear you. And I will say whatever it is I need to say to win votes before November.
As Churchill said on Juneteenth, back during the Revolutionary War, “You gotta do what you gotta do.”
So, despite what you might read in the Fake News Media . . . I know. I know. Disgraceful. Despite what they say, there’s one man who can bring America together. Unite it. I’m like the only one. Because Donald Trump is the least racist man in America. I’m the least racist guy, and the blacks, the blacks love me. Where’s that black? Where’s my black? Great guy.
Some of my best friends are black people. Sure, you don’t want to live next to one of them, but that’s not racist. What’s racist about that? See what I mean? I can just hear what the lamestream media is going to say. But that’s not racist. That’s just how it is. Genes. Different genes. Look at Ivanka. Good genes. If I weren’t her father. . . .
So, when I said we needed to dominate the protesters and take back the streets and that the governors are all a bunch of pansies, uh, jerks, what I meant was, I fully support their efforts because I have a really soft spot in my heart for black people. All lives matter. Black lives. White lives. Yellow lives. China lives. Jew lives. OK? The life of that woman in Central Park. I’m the best friend the blacks ever had. Maybe Lincoln. Maybe he was almost as good for the blacks. And, as Stephen, uh Steve Miller, keeps reminding me, Coolidge. He likes this guy Coolidge. Something about important legislation to deal with this race thing. I don’t know. I don’t know.
But it’s important to me. Nobody cares about this like I do, that the blacks be represented. That’s why I filled my cabinet with Ben Carson. No, I didn’t ask anybody to put a C on the applications for positions in my administration. I just don’t see this whole race thing. Don’t see it.
I want you to know that I didn’t start this whole race thing. That was Obama. I inherited it. As President Truman said, the buck stops with the guy before me. And with China. Like you, I was just sick about the Jim Floyd thing, watching that. The kneeling on the neck. But let me remind you that it’s just a few bad apples. And something I noticed in the video, but the lame stream media didn’t see. Some people JUST saw the senseless killing. Terrible. Just terrible. But I saw something else. I saw police officers cooperating with one another.
And that’s where our hope lies. Cooperation. You people need to cooperate. I’m sure that George Flood is looking down here today and saying, cooperate with Trump. He’s done more for blacks than Coolidge, Obama, anybody. Gave them a great economy. Best economy ever. Thank you, Mr. President. One day, you’ll be on Mount Rushmore. And to the good people listening on both sides today, just remember that Tulsa has seen examples of just such cooperation in its history. Google Greenwood. Wink wink.
Thank you, and God Bless America.
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Although the Idiot’s planned rally in Tulsa a week from today is drawing widespread condemnation, I am quite happy that he’s doing so under Stephen Miller’s Rasputin-like guidance. It is educating Americans about the Tulsa Greenwood massacre in a way that has not been done in 100 years and is pointing out the hypocrisy of ignoring the pandemic in a way even his most vehement critics could not. The requiring of signing of waivers by his cult who will attend is just too ironically delicious: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-legal-disclaimer-coronavirus-rally_n_5ee2bbb6c5b665ef930b06e9
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I am thrilled that Trump is resuming his rallies, where his followers will jam closely together without masks. As Trump often days, “We’ll see what happens.”
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