Reporter: Trump Thinks ‘White America’ Built Country

NewsBusters.org ^ | February 21, 2017 | Scott Whitlock

[Kaslin]

Of course, Donald Trump visiting the African American History Museum in Washington D.C. is a problem for journalists. April Ryan on Tuesday wondered what was the point of the President’s visit, considering he thinks that “white America” built the country. ABC reporter Cecilia Vega also demanded to know if Trump will show forgiveness to illegals. 

But first, Ryan of American Urban Radio, demanded, “What did the President gain from his tour today? You talked about where he visited, the exhibits that he visited. Did he also visit slavery?” Lest her point be unclear, she added, “The reason why I'm asking this is because when he was candidate Trump, he said things like, you know, ‘We made this country,’ meaning white America, not necessarily black.” 

White House Reporter: Trump Thinks ‘White America’ Built Country

[See NewsBusters for more.] Of course, Donald Trump visiting the African American History Museum in Washington D.C. is a problem for journalists. April Ryan on Tuesday wondered what was the “point” of the President’s visit, considering he thinks that “white America” built the country. ABC reporter Cecilia Vega also demanded to know if Trump will show forgiveness to illegals. But first, Ryan of American Urban Radio, demanded, “What did the President gain from his tour today? You talked about... the exhibits that he visited. Did he also visit slavery?” Lest her point be unclear, she added, “The reason why I'm asking this is because when he was candidate Trump, he said things like, you know, ‘We made this country,’ meaning white America, not necessarily black.”

A baffled Sean Spicer responded, “I don't know why you would say that. What do you mean?” Ryan doubled down, saying, “No, no, no. He said that. I heard him say that.” 

Clearly, the reporter has agenda. At Barack Obama’s last White House press conference, she fawned to the Democratic president: “Under your watch, people have said you expanded the rubber band of inclusion and with the election and the incoming administration, people are saying that rubber band has recoiled and is maybe even broken.” 

Earlier, ABC journalist Cecilia Vega demanded, “Is one of the goals here mass deportation?” Using Orwellian language, she followed-up: “Is the White House's message, to date, to undocumented people in this country whose only crime is being here illegally, don't worry?” 

A transcript of the two questions:

White House Press Briefing 02/21/17 2:10:26 p.m.

CECILIA VEGA: On immigration, on the DHS memo. Two parts, okay? Is one of the goals here mass deportation?

SPICER: No.

VEGA: Not at all?

SPICER: This isn’t — look — I think what we have to get back to is understanding a couple things. There’s the a law in place that says if you're in this country illegally, that we have an obligation to make sure that the people that are in our country are here legally. What the order sets out today is ensures that the million or so people that have been adjudicated already, that there’s a — that ICE prioritizes, creates a system of prioritization and makes sure that we walk through that system in a way that protects this country. This is consistent with everything the President has talked about, which is prioritizing the people who are here who represent a threat to public safety or have a criminal record. And all this does is lay out the exact procedures to make sure that that subgroup of people who pose a threat to our nation because of a conviction or violation of public safety or have a criminal record are adjudicated first and foremost. That's it, plain and simple.

VEGA: So, is then — a follow-up to that — is the White House's message, to date, to undocumented people in this country whose only crime is being here illegally, don't worry?

SPICER: No. The message — the message from this White House and from his DHS is that those people who are in this country and pose a threat to our public safety or have committed a crime will be the first to go and we will be aggressively making sure that that occurs. That is what the priority is.

VEGA: What about the others who aren't? They’re watching this very fearful right now.

SPICER: Look, Cecilia, the President has said multiple times that we've got to look at this issue on a very, very case — you know, holistic way. Number one priority when you look the a the scope of how many people are in the country illegally, the number one priority is making sure that people who pose a threat to this country are immediately dealt with and this is not a small group of people. We are talking close to 1 million people who have already been adjudicated and had their status processed through a formal, due process, you know, system. And so what we need to do now is to make sure that we focus the resources and efforts on those people going first and foremost. And the fact sheet and the information that we put out lays that out very, very clearly, you know, what happened is being done. But for so long, the people at ICE and CBP had their hands cuffed behind them and when they were going to deal with the mission of their job. The last administration had so many carve-outs for who could be and couldn't be adjudicated it made it very difficult for customs and enforcement people to enforce the laws of this country. But right now, what we've done is to make sure that they have the ability and guidance and resources to do what their mission is and that's it, plain and simple and the President is consistent with his priority of making sure that those people who pose a threat to this country are the first ones to go.

(....)

2:17:20 p.m.

APRIL RYAN: What did the President gain from his tour today? You talked about where he visited, the exhibits that he visited. Did he also visit slavery? And the reason why I'm asking this is because when he was candidate Trump, he said things like, you know, we made this country, meaning white America, not necessarily black. Did he gain anything —

SPICER: I don't know why you would say that. What do you mean?

RYAN: No, no, no. He said that. I heard him say that.

SPICER: But look, the answer to your question is — right — one of the first exhibits he visited was one of slavery exhibits and the director walked him through some very amazing stories and statistics about where slavery was prevalent not just in traditional southern colonies but through the country. So, they did have a very robust discussion about slavery early on in the tour and I think that it was a very eye opening and powerful tour for him.

[usconservative]

We did.

Suck it up, snowflakes. You've been sold a line of bullsh*t in the liberal education system.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Well, LOL.....white America did pretty much build America

And it’s really a slam dunk argument

[eddie willers]

I think all these liberals should give their houses to the Mexicans that spread pinestraw on their estates.

[DoughtyOne]

And here Obama thought Islam built it.

So many snowflakes, so little time.

[clamper1797]

That’s because white Americans did build the country ...

[Secret Agent Man]

We did. Slavery is but a small and transient part of our history that was on its way being phased out by the industrial revolution.

[Paladin2]

Jihadis and sub-Saharan Africa certainly did not contribute much to Western Culture.

[Gay State Conservative]

White Christians provided almost all of the inspiration...ideas...”intellect”.They also provided much of...if not most of...the physical labor as well.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yup.

Unless they’ve switched the meaning of white and black.

They do that with their words. We had better check.

[GraceG]

What is a “White American”???

I know of Americans of German, Polish, English, Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, Swiss, Romanian, French, Spainish, Italian, Yugoslavian, etc etc.... Descent...

But where is the country or continent of “White”?

[biggredd1]

Thomas Paine‏@Thomas1774Paine 49m49 minutes ago What, you thought you'd blab U.S. secrets to your fellow Libs in the media and not have to answer for it, Sen. McCain? Not on our watch.

[Vendome]

“We made this place” has nothing to do with race.

[rbg81]

The residents of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) were surprised how fast things when to crap once they chased all the Whites out. Same thing is happening in South Africa. It’s really a no-brainer.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Unless skyscrapers are made out of cotton, then, yeah, white people built America.

[blam]

Everyone involved knows the truth.

Why play these games?

No-one benefits.

[lysie]

Yup. Just ask Ben Cartwright and Lucas McCain. :-)

[Chgogal]

Get a clue, MSM! White men did build America. MSM, read up on Chicago's Great Fire and how WHITE MEN with in days of the tragedy got funding from around the world to Make Chicago Great Again! MSM is so damn arrogantly ignorant. They have no clue how to build wealth.

[QuigleyDU]

European culture with values and laws based on Christianity has stood as a breastwork against all forms totalitarianism, communism, and violent paganism for the last 15 decades. We just happen to be white.