Posted on 01/14/2018 6:24:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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Email Address SUBMIT President Trump defended himself from claims that he is a racist after reportedly saying Haiti and some African nations are “shithole countries” last week.
“No. I’m not a racist. I’m the least racist person you will ever interview,” Trump said Sunday before eating dinner with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy at Mar-a-Lago, his club in Florida.
The subject of Trump’s views on race — specifically whether he is racist against black and brown people — have been called into question this week after his reported comments during an Oval Office meeting on immigration.
Trump also reportedly repeatedly questioned an intelligence officer of Korean descent about where she was from, not accepting New York or Manhattan for an answer, until she said her parents were from South Korea. He then reportedly asked another staffer why the “pretty Korean lady” wasn’t working on North Korea.
Those statements come months after Trump said there were good people on both sides of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the summer, one of which included the KKK and neo-Nazis.
Trump was dining with McCarthy to talk about a busy week in Congress, which must reach a spending deal by Jan. 19 or the government will run out of money and shut down.
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What Trump is a Culturalist. He believes, as I do, in the superiority of Western Culture. So do many blacks.
Yeah, the guy who spent Millions of Dollars buying and immediately desegregating a Country Club in Florida.
The Democrats create a false premise and then balk when someone defends themselves from their Slander.
Dr. Carson is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. During the primary, Mr. Trump made points about Dr. Carson’s religion (Seventh Day Advent) and about aspects of Dr. Carson’s biography.
I believe this was simply because Dr. Carson was an opponent, and Trump attacks opponents from whatever angle, not because Dr. Carson is black. I also believe Trump’s attacks on Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were ... “Just attack, whatever! ... not related to the Senators’ being of Cuban descent.
Oh please the libs and media, but i digress, have been trying to pin racist on Trump and all of us since the Won was a junior senator!
Yes, that’s true.
However, as the wife and mother of a group of people who have trouble communicating, I try to put the best interpretation on statement that seem awful, on the face.
Yeah I might have bought that before he announced that immigrants from Norway are more valuable than immigrants from shithole countries like Haiti.
Make an argument that makes sense or shut up.
Get out of here muck raker.
Make an argument that makes sense or shut up.
Research shows that the key feature in terms of the (economic, for the United States) “value” of an immigrant is education. Immigrants from Norway are better educated than immigrants from Haiti, in the aggregate, although we do get college-educated Haitians. Some of my best friends are Mexican and Salvadoran, but they don’t have the education of immigrants from Canada.
Thus, if you’re a benefit of the doubt person, you can understand a point that’s out there in general knowledge, even if Trump couldn’t quite get it out.
There’s also the difference between “Haiti is a bad place,” which it is, and “Haitians are bad people,” which some are and some aren’t, just like any other country.
TDS.
Why don’t YOU.
All we have heard from you is muck raking nonsense.
After all, the accusation HAS been made.
Just wondering.
I guess he could tell them that he doesn’t beat his wife either.
I choose to assume that someone’s inept statement on the spur of the moment is how they really feel.
I can abide a lot of things but a racist is not one of them.
Down with Trumpism, up true Republicans.
Present a leader 1/10th as good and we can talk.
Otherwise just shut up yourself. Trump is fine here. Let him tweak the left.
When you assume it shows how much of an ass you are.
This country doesn’t exist to accept the best. Its for the weakest people, whether Haitians or Bum Irish immigrants like our family, to thrive and do well against all odds. America isn’t for the college educated. Its for the downtrodden of countries that cant even speak the language. Its the city on a hill.
It’s Trump envy. Anoreth obviously wishes he was Trump.
It is not the first time Donald went down a road of this kind (look at the whole context not just a selective segment of it) and it unlikely will be the last.
“I choose to assume that someone’s inept statement on the spur of the moment is how they really feel.”
Not so
Over my long years on this earth I have blurted out things that I regret,and in no way did those comments reflect my true feelings.
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