Trump held a Black Historical past Month program on the White Home only one week after posting a video depicting the Obamas as apes, and his habits belied any sense of unbiasedness. For instance, he launched the gang to the one Black member of his cupboard, Housing and City Improvement Secretary Scott Turner, and the previous tokenized HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson. Trump then trotted out his different “Black mates” within the type of Fox Information speaking head and DOJ lawyer Leo Terrell…
and Dr. Martin Luther King’s anti-abortion activist niece, Alveda King. The concept of a King relative licking Trump’s boots throughout Black Historical past Month is…fairly one thing.
No “Black buddy” celebration could be full with out Black celebs, so Trump invoked the title of Mike Tyson, saying:
“Mike Tyson, Boy, I let you know, Mike has been loyal to me. At any time when they arrive out, they are saying, ‘Trump’s a racist’ … Mike Tyson goes, ‘He’s not a racist, he’s my buddy.’”
“He’s been there from the start, good occasions and unhealthy. However Mike Tyson’s an incredible man, and he was so loyal. All the time been loyal.”
Trump additionally gave a weirdly fetishized shoutout to his new #1 fan, Onika Tanya Maraj, aka Nicki Minaj, by commenting on her “so lovely pores and skin” and her fingernails.
“I stated, Nikki, are they actual? She stated she didn’t need to get into that, however she was so lovely”
Be clear, there aren’t sufficient Black celebrities, athletes, or politicians to make Black people at giant overlook about Trump’s traditionally racist feedback and behaviors. The whole lot from his housing discrimination lawsuits to his full-page advert slandering the now-Exonerated 5, we keep in mind all of it.
