Posted on 08/17/2017 6:13:40 PM PDT by Pinkbell
WASHINGTON — Kara Young, a biracial model who dated Donald J. Trump for two years before he married another model named Melania Knauss, remembers clearly bringing up her race with the real estate tycoon early in their relationship. As with so many issues, he steered the conversation to celebrity.
“I didn’t hide my race from Donald Trump. He knew,” Ms. Young said in a rare interview. “He would say, ‘You’re like Derek Jeter.’ And I would say, ‘Exactly.’”
“I never heard him say a disparaging comment towards any race of people,” she added.
The furor that Mr. Trump has created with his equivocation over the violence this weekend at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va., has refocused attention on the president’s complex relationship with matters of race. Long before he embarked on his improbable political career, he had courted racial controversy, calling for the death penalty for five black and Latino teens who were later shown to have been wrongly convicted of a rape in Central Park, settling a Justice Department suit that charged the family business with housing discrimination and falsely accusing the nation’s first black president of being born in Kenya. Beyond dating a biracial model, he made outsize efforts to hang out publicly with African-American celebrities: the boxing promoter Don King, the hip-hop impresarios Kanye West, Russell Simmons and Sean Combs, and celebrities as big as Muhammad Ali, James Brown and Michael Jackson.
But more than ever, the question is being asked: Is Mr. Trump personally racist?
The few African-Americans in his inner circle respond with an emphatic no....
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Smoking!
She would have been a fantastic 1st Lady as well...
That’s the most pro-Hillary thing I’ve ever read on FR.
There is something just so gloriously Trumpian about President Trump being puzzled by the concept of “mixed race” and then having a light bulb go off when Jeter’s name is mentioned.
He does have a peculiar charm.
I think he cares about wealth, celebrity and military rank above all else. You need to be pretty high on each of those scales for him to take you seriously.....or you need to be endorsed by someone high on those scales.
I also think he respects physical attractiveness in both women and men. He told a story in Rick Reilly’s golf book about a fight he had with a guy at a golf club, and he kept calling the guy “A big handsome bastard.” It occurred to me that he would have seen punching an ugly guy as beneath him.
Money changes everything....
I agree. My point was that he doesn’t seem to care about categories such as race and religion. I believe he evaluates people other than family based solely on their most recent interaction with him.
I agree with that.
And I think that explains how you do get these odd loyalties from time to time. Like Kellyanne Conway doesn’t really fit any of the molds, I listed. (I mean, she is attractive obviously, but she’s not Hope Hicks).
I dunno. Trump has already run his businesses by his own weird instincts and it’s generally served him well. It obviously worked in politics too.
Yes, he’s consistent. I think he’s genuinely puzzled at being accused of racism and all the other -isms and -phobias, because he doesn’t think in those categories. I also think that’s a good characteristic, but it leaves him way out of step and confused with people who do use group identities.
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