“I have so many Black friends that if I were a racist, they wouldn’t be friends, they would know better than anybody, and fast,” Trump said. “They would not be with me for two minutes if they thought I was racist—and I’m not racist!”
“I have so many Black friends that if I were a racist, they wouldn’t be friends, they would know better than anybody, and fast,” Trump said. “They would not be with me for two minutes if they thought I was racist—and I’m not racist!”
Name One Time Trump Was Racist
(not current! only includes up to 2017)
1973: The Nixon Administration sued Trump for refusing to rent to black people
1980s: Trump’s casinos were accused of hiding black staff when Trump visited
1989: Trump took out a full page ad arguing for the death penalty for a group of black men (The ‘Central Park Five’), effectively putting a bounty on their heads and plaguing them with a lifetime of death threats. He was sued by the Justice Department for discrimination.
1991: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kinds of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day…I think that the [black] guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is.
1992: Trump’s casino was fined $200,000 for transferring black dealers off certain tables to appease racist patrons.
1993: Trump said Native American casinos shouldn’t be allowed because, “They don’t look like Indians to me.”
2000: Trump ran a series of attack ads against Native American casinos, alleging (with no proof) that they were guilty of crimes.
2004: Trump fired a black contestant from ‘The Apprentice” for being over-educated.
2010: Trump argued in favor of segregating Muslims in Lower Manhattan.
2011: Birtherism. Trump alleged that Obama was Kenyan based on nothing but skin color. He’s neither apologized, nor renounced that claim.
2015 (1): Trump called Mexican immigrants “rapists” who are “bringing crime and drugs” to the US.
2015 (2): Trump called for “a ban on all Muslims entering the US.”
2016(1): Trump called for a Mexican judge to recuse himself based on nothing other than his race. Paul Ryan said, “This was the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
2016 (2): Trump regularly retweeted material from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his campaign.
2016(3): Trump tweeted a picture alleging Hillary was Jewish or controlled by Jewish people.
2016(4): The Trump campaign adopted Nixon’s “Law and Order” rhetoric which was based in racial fear mongering.
2016(5): Trump told black voters, “What do you have to lose?”
2017(1): Trump asked a black reporter to set up a meeting with the black caucus simply because she was black.
2017(2): “…some very fine people on both sides”, said Trump of a violent Nazi rally.
That’s quite the list
It’s incomplete! It’s from 7 years ago!
Like the recent claim from a producer that he used the N-word on The Apprentice.
https://www.vox.com/politics/352672/apprentice-trump-slate-racial-slur
All of this should be copypasta-ed, memed, tooted, whispered, screamed, broadcast, magnified, disseminated, propogated, and maybe spread around a touch…
Instead…
No one who is planning to vote for him cares. It might make them vote harder.
But imagine Jordan Klepper’s Daily Show segments at Trump rallies if the tape ever came out! Worth it.
How is it no one has access to these tapes?
TBF, adding the stuff since then wouldn’t fit in Lemmy’s comment length limit.
Or most comment moderation policies
So update it, then?
I don’t have internet!
He was the one that started the Kenyan Obama thing?
No.
He re-invigorated and promoted and backed efforts to unearth documents, long-form birth certificates, chinese thermostats, bleach, dishwashers…
Btw random fact: it turned out that the reason his Long-Form birth certificate was looking photoshopped was printer error.
I saw that in a really awesome talk of a big data scientist who found the printer issue and gave a talk about his story and the journey to get it fixed. His name is David Kriesel if you wanna look him up, but the talk’s in German.
Here’s the link to the archive page of his CCC talk.
Direct link to video. And there is a link to English subtitles on that page as well
Damn thank you so much for finding the links and even a subtitled version :D
Thanks, it does sound like some bs he would do.