Posted on 01/26/2023 7:28:25 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former transportation secretary Elaine Chao fired back at former President Trump for his racist remarks about her — insisting his attacks reveal “a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.”
Chao, 69 — who has been frequently been referred to by the former president as “Coco Chow” — issued the rare rebuke of the former president on Tuesday.
“When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name,” Chao, who was born in Taiwan, said in a statement to Politico. “Asian Americans have worked hard to change that experience for the next generation.
“He doesn’t seem to understand that, which says a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans,” she continued.
The missive comes after Trump taunted Chao on Monday with the racist nickname as he accused her and her husband, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, of being linked to President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
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She worked in George W. Bush's administration too, and everyone knows he liked to give nicknames to people. I wonder what George's nickname for Chao was. Chow Mein? Chow Chow, after the Chinese dog breed?
Is her skin as thick as Trumps? Asking for a friend.
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Politico that the former president’s criticism of Chao was related to her family’s potential financial conflicts, not race.
“People should stop feigning outrage and engaging in controversies that exist only in their heads,” Cheung said. “What’s actually concerning is her family’s deeply troubling ties to Communist China, which has undermined American economic and national security.”
“Chao is Hitler and worse than Watergate.”
You may have swerved into the real reason Putin invaded Ukraine. His feelings are still hurt because Bush’s nickname for him was Pooty Poot.
Not racist, but typical of a high-school kid.
Cat Chow
You don’t understand Asians. With this Trump has alienated many.
And he can’t afford to lose any.
Back in 2013 Coco Chao was a guest on a talk show in the PRC called ‘Voice”. Her comments on it, in Mandarin, could be construed by some as treasonous. An eye opener.
Trumps message is that chao is a traitor, just like
Coco Channel..,
“ Chanel stayed in France and was criticized during the war for collaborating with the Nazi-German occupiers and the Vichy puppet regime to boost her professional career.
“ In 2011, Hal Vaughan published a book about Chanel based on newly declassified documents, revealing that she had collaborated directly with the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst. One plan in late 1943 was for her to carry an SS peace overture to Churchill to end the war.[8]
Coco Chow is also a China collaborator - married to a U.S. Senator to influence.
Excellent nickname.
Maybe she could write a cookbook?
noun
“A word forming part of the names of many places in China, indicating either a prefecture or district of the second rank or the chief city of such a district: thus, Ning-hai-chow may mean either the district of Ning-hai or the city of Ning-hai. Sometimes spelled chao, chau, and choo.”
Coco Chow’s loyalties are to China and not the USA
In 2002, I worked with her for a few days in Dallas. She’s as mashed potatoes as her husband is.
China Mitch should resign.
Over sensitive people tend to always whine the most.
Chow chow is a southern type of relish, cabbage based and sold in southern grocery stores and usually located on the pickle aisle.
Chow chow is a southern type of relish, cabbage based and sold in southern grocery stores and usually located on the pickle aisle.
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