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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’m tempted to just plug my own song here.

But before that, let me give a word of explanation. People’s minds are way, way too narrow. White minds and “diversity” minds.

The PHILOSOPHY brought by a chiefly white people to the shores of the New World (which was broadly centered around bible belief with various differences in details) is what gave America its impressive start. That doesn’t mean that people of other races didn’t get on board with that too! A whole lot did. One very very notable Black figure was George Washington Carver.

But the bible itself, which was at the center of it all (and God in turn behind the bible), is color blind!

There are only two colors of souls. Unsaved and saved.

“Rednecks come in many colors / Yellow, red, tan, white, and black / But to a one they all stand proud and tall / They’re the strength of this country’s back / ... / By the loyal love of God above, the redneck ‘gits er done’.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c66P1mCVGio

[Nifster]

Yeah right sure....just like John Lewis heard someone call him the n word

[silverleaf]

An Inconvenient Truth ...

[VR-21]

I guess when one never studies history, one simply conjures up his own.

[Secret Agent Man]

See here is the problem we deal with in 2017.

The socialists pass off socialism that hates the country and hates the people that built the country, as being ‘patriotic’.

That is the veneer for their agenda at destroying the institutions and founders in order to dialectically change the country further socialist and godless.

Thry actively criminalize their enemies religious rights and political policies in 2017. Just like good commie bolsheviks.

[dowcaet]

The Democrats are just digging their political graves with their anti-white tirades. In 2008 the MSM was bragging how well Obama did with white voters, and were praising them for being open minded, but since white voters went for Trump by a large margin in the last election now they’re branded racists and bigots.

[heights]

Again this is all Trump’s lack of balls, if the Press is as he says ‘The Enemy of America”, then why is He allowing the SPLC into his home?

[dirtymac]

The reason the South lost the war was because there was no manufacturing of great extent. The South, do in part to cheap slave labor never bothered with mechanization. The North out produced the South in guns ammo, shoes, etc.

So slavery was their undoing. Not only was it wrong but it built in a complacency that was resistant to change and modernization. I guess the slaves got their revenge after all.

[OpusatFR]

“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”?”

I tried to explain the differences between ethnic groups to a black friend who kept insisting that all whites were exactly alike.

I think telling my German relatives they are exactly like Greeks would lead to a world of trouble and vice versa.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is the famous, famous Trump “CHARM OFFENSIVE.”

And anyhow it’s the USA’s house, not his private personal chattel.

If Trump gets spurned, then he gets stern. This has happened a number of times. But never let it be said that Trump didn’t extend the friendly hand first, that he opened the hostilities.

[Cheerio]

And here Obama thought Islam built it.

So many snowflakes, so little time.

Obama praises Muslim immigrants for helping build America, 1/1/25 12:00 AM (what kind of a date is that???

[Secret Agent Man]

It was going to end one way or another, just a matter of time. Their economy was never going to be able to survive competitively keeping slavery going.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The truth is, all us white people snuck in here illegally after it was already built by Muslims, Mexicans, and eskimos. We just got rid of all the igloos to cover our tracks.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've spent some time in the United Arab Emirates,specifically the region surrounding the city of Dubai.In a period of about 40 years (if not less) it went from a desert land populated by people whose best friends were usually camels.The evidence supporting this can be found on youtube.Then oil was discovered.That discovery,combined with leaders who wanted to build something grand,resulted in the city you see today...a truly amazing city to be sure.

The ideas...the "intellect"...needed to effect the transformation came almost exclusively from Americans,Europeans,Japanese and Koreans.The labor...the "sweat"...needed came almost exclusively from Indians,Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

[lgjhn23]

The insanity of liberalism raises it’s ugly head once again today.
These zombies are beyond help and need to be locked up to protect society.

[ColdOne]

No thinking about it...it is a fact. These people are trying to re-write our history. I am sick of it.

[alloysteel]

White America kinda did most of the heavy lifting, and certainly were at the forefront of innovation and marketing of the new technologies as they came available.

To be sure, innovation and invention are not the exclusive purview of only white people, as there have been ingenious persons of every race and background. And they are justly and properly rewarded.

For decades, the great engineers and architects of what came to be present-day America, and indeed of much of the advanced civilized world, were in large measure white males of reasonably prosperous backgrounds.

Prosperity, like poverty, is a LEARNED human skill set, and those in deep poverty rarely, if ever, rise above their beginnings, because strange as it may seem, they are COMFORTABLE in the poverty and ignorance, else many more of them would struggle to escape it. Those who have lived in relative prosperity, have absorbed the lesson that effort does get rewarded, and begin to be self-actualized successes in their own right.

[hoosiermama]

Time to take her to an Irish American or. Chinese American museum.
Oh wait. There are no such things. They consider themselves AMERICANS and song demand attention and acculades

[x]

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

It has nothing to do with anything Trump said.

Why are you and others playing her game?

[EnglishOnly]

News Flash: White people did build America, -and The British Empire, which mostly educated the World.