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.

[PapaBear3625]

The value that slaves created was mostly consumed by the lifestyles of the plantation owners. The remainder was destroyed in the devastation of the Civil War.

[PIF]

The residents of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) were surprised how fast things when returned to crap once they chased all the Whites out. Fixed

[pierrem15]

The white settlers brought their language, their laws, their political institutions and technologies (or invented new ones). They were also always a large majority of the country (and still are).

Slaves taken from Africa brought their backs.

Only a handful of Mexicans were present in the Southwest and California when they became part of the United States: the rest came for opportunities after the country was developed.

So, yeah, whites did build the country.

Suck it up.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Look right over you.

Tremble.

[Paladin2]

http://www.color-hex.com/color-palette/737

[HiTech RedNeck]

Haw!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Racism itself is wrong. No matter the hue of the person who practices it.

White racism yielded to black racism. But it was still racism. Not all changes that matter are reflected on the surface.

[HiTech RedNeck]

[Racism itself is wrong. No matter the hue of the person who practices it.

White racism yielded to black racism. But it was still racism. Not all changes that matter are reflected on the surface.]

And so, until “God-ism” prevails in a land — this land, to come back to our immediate concern — we are going to have a clash of “What race has the bragging rights?” BLM is one ugly form of that. The answer should be that God has the bragging rights, and whoever yields soonest to Him is the first one to win! No matter if that is the proverbial green Martian. (Or good Samaritan, etc.)

[CivilWarBrewing]

Without whites coming to America, we'd have the Trumpum Tower!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Without God creating the world and patiently addressing the needs and burdens of sinful souls... we’d nave no tower at all. Just the dung field of hell.

If by historical happenstance, white people happened to bring blessings, they should be humble and look at Who bestowed those blessings, and diligently seek to share His knowledge to every corner of the land, without caring what race hears it.

[SE Mom]

Always.

[Paladin2]

http://www.xrite.com/hue-test

[ichabod1]

Not so! They gave inspiration to our fledgling Marine Corps.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

These morons are trying to re-write history.

America wouldn’t exist without Whites - period.

Muslims, blacks, “hispanics” (choose your definition), and any other minority didn’t march in the snow to fight, build, and defend her like Whites did.

These clowns are now literally denying historical facts.

[wgmalabama]

I believe this is the best response. Define what white people. Irish being starved, chased off their land. Millions dead whole families disappeared to death and legal immigration. Polish, German, but black is not a nationality ... we have taken many legal immigrants who wanted to join the American experience and country. We will not take the illegal criminal parasites! It’s not fair or safe for the legal immigrants.

[HiTech RedNeck]

America wouldn’t exist without GOD - period. [Fixed it for you].

I believe white people were too lax in not being diligent to erase actual racist structures, and that from a moral and religious level. The legal level is clumsy, and can have a terrible aftermath.

The fervent Southern Baptist Convention — which is no slouch in many things and in fact embraces the church where I currently go — had a fly in its ointment for far, far too many years. Bowing down at that point to man rather than God, it said race based chattel slavery was a good thing. It wasn’t. The rationalization was that it brought Africans to hear the gospel. But this is what missionaries are for. The silver lining may ameliorate the dark cloud but we really don’t want the dark cloud. Anyhow, God personally rejoiced when it purged that item from its official records.

[The Toll]

Whose footprints are on the moon Sheniqua? Shut the **** up before you make me get really freakin white!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Who made the feet? Who made the moon? Who made the laws of physics? How about getting really freaking... DIVINE?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

God wouldn’t have been able to work with pagan cultures to create America.

You still deny the reality of the issue that libs are foaming out the mouth over.

You also deny the fact that Whites, before all other races actually fought, died, and eliminated slavery within their own nations.

[jmacusa]

Unfortunately it took a war to finally put an end to slavery.