What Donald Trump ever a "white" supremacist?
Did he do more for minorities than Barack Obama?
Is Trump more Christian than any other P.O.T.U.S.?
Was Donald J. Trump ever a "racist"?
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@Mall
Is Trump more Christian than any other P.O.T.U.S.?
I think Obama understood Christianity better than any other modern president. I say this because he pointed out that the DoD wouldn't survive applying the sermon on the mount.
Of course then he killed a child with a robot delivered bomb.... so I think the message there was "I understand what a christian is supposed to be and I don't care"
Now Obama calling himself a christian, that isn't counted as a lie by the lying "fact checkers", no they reserve that word for the 30,000 times Trump said "nobody has ever seen anything like this before" or "greatest in history".
I think it's a real lie and a dirty one, but they all tell it.
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@Mall
In 1973, Trump and his company Trump Management were sued by the Department of Justice for housing discrimination against African-American renters; he settled the suit, entering into a consent decree to end the practices without admitting wrongdoing. The Justice Department sued again in 1978, claiming continued racial discrimination in violation of the consent decree, but that settlement agreement expired in 1982, ending the case.
Biden endorsed a KKK grand wizard vs not admitting wrong doing in a claim of discrimination mmmmmm
In his book Think Big, Trump goes on for six pages denouncing Christians as 'fools,' 'idiots,' and 'schmucks.
Social media users have been sharing content online that claims Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden eulogized Robert Byrd, asserting he was the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). This claim is partly false. Though various prominent politicians eulogized Byrd at his funeral, the senator was never the grand wizard of the KKK and he has acknowledged and apologized for his membership during his youth. Why are Trump voters genetic debris?
Klan – the basic unit of the Second Era KKK was known simply as a Klan. Its area of jurisdiction was a Klanton (from "canton") which was defined as "extend[ing] in all directions to a distance midway between the location of the Klan and the nearest Klan thereto" unless otherwise directed by the Grand Dragon or Imperial Wizard. The chief officer of a Klan was an Exalted Cyclops and the subordinate officers were known as the Twelve Terrors.[42]
So he was an Exalted Cyclops, forgive me for not knowing and not giving a shit about KKK ranking systems.
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@Mall
No, he was not. Ever.
The TV says Trump is a racist so he is. Ask anyone who watches TV.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Now Obama calling himself a christian, that isn't counted as a lie by the lying "fact checkers", no they reserve that word for the 30,000 times Trump said "nobody has ever seen anything like this before" or "greatest in history".
This honestly made me chukle. It's true though, nobody wants to actually base US politics on the words of Jesus. At most they want to ban abortion/LGBT based on some obscure old testament verses. They don't want to treat God's little ones as they would Jesus himself.
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@FLRW
the senator was never the grand wizard of the KKK and he has acknowledged and apologized for his membership during his youth
If david duke ran as a republican tomorrow and denounced his former life would you hold that against him? Or are the rules different for republicans?
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@Mall
He undoubtedly was and still is a racist.
And he does what he does, solely for votes and personal gain.
And he doesn't give fig about religious doctrine, but will accept votes from any old gullible numpty.
In short; he's an old school, white privileged, hypocritical narcissist.
Nonetheless, his stand up routines are fun to watch...From a distance.
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@zedvictor4
Did minorities vote for a "racist"?
According to exit polling in the 2020 Presidential Election in the United States, 87 percent of surveyed Black voters reported voting for former Vice President Joe Biden.
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@zedvictor4
You sound like a person that knows something we don’t.
What is it, Victor? Is Trump that good at acting? He seems genuine, I mean considering that he speaks without a filter.
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@IlDiavolo
@Mall
See the Man
Listen to the Man
Make your own judgements.
A two party, us and them State, where wealth rather than intellect decides, ends up with a choice between two old incompetent white men as the National figurehead.
And they will tell every minority group that they love them.
And the trouble with a two party us and them State, is that a huge proportion of the electorate never need to think about what it is they are voting for.
Just turn up and vote for the same colour as last time, and the time before that, and every time before that when their Mum and Dad turned up to vote.
Fortunately, there is still a big enough minority of thinking moderates, who are able to keep things in check.
And long may they do so.
So that the rest of the World can still enjoy the electoral Circus from afar.
So who do you think actually runs the USA?
No.
I hope China buys the USA when it goes broke. I have a lot of Chinese friends.
I hope China buys the USA when it goes broke. I have a lot of Chinese friends.
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@FLRW
Sounds good, then we can nationalize their stuff. Communists can't complain about that right?
no.
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@Mall
The better question is, when was Trumpet not a racist? Ages 1 - 4.
Part 1..." 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 making a joke about the Trail of Tears, Trump hasn’t stopped with racist acts after his 2016 election.
Most recently, Trump has called the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu” — racist terms that tap into the kind of xenophobia that he latched onto during his 2016 presidential campaign; Trump’s own adviser, Kellyanne Conway, previously called “kung flu” a “highly offensive” term. And Trump insinuated that Sen. Kamala Harris, who’s Black, “doesn’t meet the requirements” to run for vice president — a repeat of the birther conspiracy theory that he perpetuated about former President Barack Obama.
This is nothing new for Trump. In fact, the very first time Trump appeared in the pages of the New York Times, back in the 1970s, was when the US Department of Justice sued him for racial discrimination. Since then, he has repeatedly appeared in newspaper pages across the world as he inspired more similar controversies.''
Part 2
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1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to Black tenants and lied to Black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to previous discrimination.
- 1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, accused another one of Trump’s businesses of discrimination. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Brown said. “It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”
- 1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four Black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the “Central Park Five” — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent seven to 13 years in prison, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October 2016 said he still believes they’re guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.
- 1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a Black accountant: “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.” Trump later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
- 1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred Black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.
- 1993: In congressional testimony, Trump said that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
- 2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a “record of criminal activity [that] is well documented.”
- 2004: In season two of The Apprentice, Trump fired Kevin Allen, a Black contestant, for being overeducated. “You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything,” Trump said on the show. “At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’”
- 2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He said he “wasn’t particularly happy” with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering “an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”
- 2010: In 2010, there was a huge national controversy over the “Ground Zero Mosque” — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it “insensitive,” and offered to buy out one of the investors in the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Muslims, “Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”
- 2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first Black president — was not born in the US. He claimed to send investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama’s birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a “carnival barker.” The research has found a strong correlation between birtherism, as the conspiracy theory is called, and racism. But Trump has reportedly continued pushing this conspiracy theory in private.
- 2011: While Trump suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump claimed, “I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?”
For many people, none of these incidents, individually, may be damning: One of these alone might suggest that Trump is simply a bad speaker and perhaps racially insensitive (“politically incorrect,” as he would put it), but not overtly racist.
But when you put all these events together, a clear pattern emerges. At the very least, Trump has a history of playing into people’s racism to bolster himself — and that likely says something about him, too.
And, of course, there’s everything that’s happened through and since his presidential campaign.
As a candidate and president, Trump has made many more racist comments "...
Racist 1: proud racist,
Racist 2: political racist { Trump } plays to racists overtly ---see all of the above etc---
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@ebuc
So did minorities vote for a known so called racist?
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@Mall
As I stated, most people just go with the flow and the bullshit, and never bother to give it a second thought.
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@Mall
So did minorities vote for a known so called racist?
My guess is some do. Circumstances altar cases.
I think FLWR may address that early in this thread.
Remmber, some people put their personal future ahead of this or that, inconvenience of appearance or other i.e. better ultra-conservative republican, who has to eat a little Jim Crow, than a democrat, or other similar type scenarios.
Rarely is all one way or the other when considering generalized set of circumstances on Earth and humanity.
Rarely is all one way or the other when considering generalized set of circumstances on Earth and humanity.
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@ebuc
What "racist" policies came out of the Trump administration?
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@zedvictor4
It's more like a what called the dollar bill . Runs the world really.
People think A.I. is taking over so that might be the next animal that people have invented that will run rampant, run amok, get out control like with the invention of currency.
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@zedvictor4
Did minorities vote for a known so called racist?
Do you say yes they did or maybe they were ignorant or did they vote for a non "racist"?
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@Mall
Yes they did.
They ignored the fact.
No they didn't.
And currency is a necessary tool that dictates social order.
And technological data sources certainly affect current thinking.
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@Mall
What "racist" policies came out of the Trump administration?
I dunno off hand. See post 22 with the Vox link, some of which I copied and posted