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]

Which is why I sing that... Rednecks come in many colors!

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

[Paladin2]

The Albinos did it...

[Kaslin]

I came, I saw, I conquered (Latin expression said by Julius Caesar regarding his military victories)

[Vision]

People tend to think that when you discover the land, create the country, fight and die for it, create companies, inventions, and general society and culture.

[tomkat]

Again this is all Trump’s lack of balls

I'd be willing to bet that FR isn't your favorite website.

[Vendome]

Just spouting off....

I’ve taken to telling people to prove their case instead of using one word epithets to make noise....

[Kaslin]

Very well said

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ultimately, please thank God for it. I was the most ignorant, dorkiest dork there could be about such matters. I sided with what we call liberals today. But these liberals are trying to do God without a God! It is a disaster!

[HiTech RedNeck]

The true answer is along the lines of “Let us all go and bow down at the temple of God.”

[lurk]

I was always taught Americans built America.

We need to track down skin color for every accomplishment we’ve had as a country?

[chajin]

Trump, he said things like, you know, ‘We made this country,’ meaning white America, not necessarily white, red, yellow, brown, green, blue, and black.”

Fixed it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Trump is very very close to a full revelation of God.

He’s been fairly nominal about faith until now. But when the power of God dawns on his soul, I think we’ll even see a new Trump, as great as the old Trump was. A saluter of God is one thing. A child of God is another.

[Paladin2]

The Black/White dichotomy certainly doesn’t cover the nuances of skin color. It’s NOT what we look like.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That would be a stupid thing.

What we need to get right is the equality of all races under God. The attempt to go strutting around as an uber race, overt or covert, punishes itself by other races making themselves dependent.

[savagesusie]

Absolutely. It was the Worldview of Western Civilization which grew from the Ancient Greek Masters to the philosophy of the Roman Stoics like Cicero, to the Christianity of the “Summa”, which branched into Lockean Philsophy and the Renaissance and Modern Science and the Constitution of the USA.

All of it only possible with a Classical Christian worldview of Indivdiualism and Free Will (only true Christian concepts), where Natural Law Theory (not tribal (non) “thinking” which is puerile, irrational ideology and dogma (irrational) only) made concepts like slavery, pederasty, homosexuality, incest, misogyny into “evil”-—all common behaviors in tribal, pagan, and irrational “faiths” like Kabbalah/Koran/Aztec/Inca minds.

We need to return to “true” education and giving the “tools” to “think critically” to our children who are denied education in today’s evil indoctrination factories. Only Classical Christian curricula teaches non-contradiction, Reality, and Objective Truth (God)—basis of our Individual Natural Rights. All else is programming into irrationality and stupidity (snowflakes/dehumanization where Reason is impossible) because Slavery is Freedom and Boys are Girls.

[hardspunned]

A tiny portion of non African Americans benifited from slavery. Nearly all non African Americans have been paying the price for slavery over the last 50 years.

[rdb3]

The Black/White dichotomy certainly doesn’t cover the nuances of skin color. It’s NOT what we look like.

Please elaborate.

[HarleyLady27]

Who came over on the Mayflower??? Muslims???

That’s what Hillary and Barky tells them...that’s why Barky said: ‘You didn’t build that’...and NO he nor his parents marched in the King parade in the 60’s...

Nor did Hillary come under ‘sniper fire’ in Bosnia; nor was she named after Sir Hillary...

Nor is Bill Clinton Chelsea’s REAL Father...

[BuffaloJack]

Well. We did build this country.
And now we don’t want a bunch of entitled miscreants screwing it up on us.

[Hugh the Scot]

Who does this idiot think built it?