Donald Trump: “Now She Wants To Be Known As Black.”
He was better off out of public view:
“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Later he said “she was Indian all the way” but then “became a Black person.”
So much more. Yes, he’d pardon the January 6 rioters. Immigrants are ‘taking Black jobs’.
Whether intended or not, Trump is doubling down on having enough racists in this country who will elect him. Because nothing he said today during a contentious interview with Black journalists will bring him even a single new supporter.
Starting to think it’s not gonna work.
Trump’s modus operandai: Throw everything that comes to mind against the wall and see what sticks.
More of this as desperation sets in.
So Kamala is just not Black enough…..where have I heard that line before?
W-what?
Nauseated in advance I watched most of it, would judge it as “First he stepped in it, and then proceeded to wipe his feet on the carpet.” Mad Love for the black journalists, they tore the old fool a variety of “New Ones” as we would say here, and then laughed at him. Even better was the frantic effort by his handlers to get him off the stage.
But here we are talking about Trump, which was the purpose behind it.
Don’t give this any oxygen. It’s an obvious attempt at driving a wedge between Democrats of various stripes, so instead of talking about moving forward we’re all talking about race. And instead of talking about Harris on our terms, we’re talking about her on his terms.
Don’t fall for it.
J.D. Vance addresses Trump race comments, , steps on a rake and calls reaction “hysterical” (which is on brand for Vance):
and he said it more than once:
Personally I think “hysterical” is a perfectly good word despite its etymology, and the word doesn’t deserve to be cancelled. There are no accurate or satisfactory synonyms. The etymology is distant enough that when I hear the word I think of a certain emotional state that is agitated and irrational, without relating it to male or female. But for many people these days word itself is triggering.
In any case, Vance didn’t use it according to my broad-minded definition – he used it in its misogynist sense.
“Upper middle class BIPOC people don’t have the REAL experience” is a pretty bad take, IMO.