Vulgar remark removes all doubt: Trump is a racist
OK  can we finally stop beating around the bush and say outright that  President Donald Trump  is a white supremacist?
In a story first reported by The Washington Post and confirmed by NBC News   Trump  was speaking to lawmakers Thursday when  he  angrily slammed their desire to restore protections for refugees from Haiti  El Salvador and some African countries.
 Trump  was balking at an immigration deal that would include protections for people from Haiti and some nations in Africa. Instead  according to reports   Trump  expressed a preference for immigrants from places like Norway  whose prime minister he welcomed a day earlier â and which also happens to be one of the worldâs whitest countries.
After a night of broadcasters debating whether to quote Trumpâs vulgarity out loud or bleep it  on Friday morning  Trump  tweeted a denial that  he  had used such language at all  although Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin  an Illinois Democrat  and other witnesses confirmed the reported words.
âI have a wonderful relationship with Haitians â  Trump  tweeted. âProbably should record future meetings â unfortunately  no trust!â
 Trump himself  has helped spread poisonous stereotypes since the day  he  launched  his  presidential campaign by calling Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. without legal permission ârapistsâ and âmurderers â even though  he  allowed that âsome  I presume  are good people.â More than âsome â Mr. President.
Remember how ESPN anchor Jemele Hill fell into hot water in September for calling  Trump  a âwhite supremacistâ on air? I thought she sounded too extreme at that time  but now? Her time has come.
Yet the White House was slow to back away from  Trumpâs  reported remarks  according to some reports  because  Team Trump  figures the hostile edge to his âAmerica Firstâ policy plays well with  his  cherished base. Indeed   Trumpâs  hunger for applause from  his  base at rallies or on Fox News has led  him  to pander persistently to that far-right minority while thumbing  his  nose at the rest of us.
How can we forget  his  rise as a candidate after questioning the validity of President Barack Obamaâs birth certificate  branding Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals  calling for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and responding very slo-o-owly to disavow the support of the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke?
Since then   Trump âs polarizing politics have fed widespread doubts about  President Trumpâs mental fitness   even before  Michael Wolffâs  runaway best-seller âFire and Fury: Inside the Trump White Houseâ raised new questions. A January Quinnipiac University poll found a slim majority of American voters (53 percent to 44 percent) say he is intelligent  but 69 percent say heâs not level-headed and 57 percent say he is not fit to serve as president.
But  as  Trump  has shown  you donât have to be mentally ill to play on fears and promote white supremacy.
OK  can we finally stop beating around the bush and say outright that   [TGT] is a white supremacist?
In a story first reported by The Washington Post and confirmed by NBC News    [TGT] was speaking to lawmakers Thursday when  he  angrily slammed their desire to restore protections for refugees from Haiti  El Salvador and some African countries.
  [TGT] was balking at an immigration deal that would include protections for people from Haiti and some nations in Africa. Instead  according to reports    [TGT] expressed a preference for immigrants from places like Norway  whose prime minister he welcomed a day earlier â and which also happens to be one of the worldâs whitest countries.
After a night of broadcasters debating whether to quote Trumpâs vulgarity out loud or bleep it  on Friday morning   [TGT] tweeted a denial that  he  had used such language at all  although Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin  an Illinois Democrat  and other witnesses confirmed the reported words.
âI have a wonderful relationship with Haitians â   [TGT] tweeted. âProbably should record future meetings â unfortunately  no trust!â
  [TGT] has helped spread poisonous stereotypes since the day   [TGT]   launched   [TGT]   presidential campaign by calling Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. without legal permission ârapistsâ and âmurderers â even though   [TGT]   allowed that âsome  I presume  are good people.â More than âsome â Mr. President.
Remember how ESPN anchor Jemele Hill fell into hot water in September for calling   [TGT] a âwhite supremacistâ on air? I thought she sounded too extreme at that time  but now? Her time has come.
Yet the White House was slow to back away from  Trumpâs  reported remarks  according to some reports  because   [TGT] figures the hostile edge to  [TGT]  âAmerica Firstâ policy plays well with   [TGT]   cherished base. Indeed   Trumpâs  hunger for applause from  his  base at rallies or on Fox News has led  him  to pander persistently to that far-right minority while thumbing  his  nose at the rest of us.
How can we forget  his  rise as a candidate after questioning the validity of President Barack Obamaâs birth certificate  branding Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals  calling for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and responding very slo-o-owly to disavow the support of the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke?
Since then    [TGT]  âs polarizing politics have fed widespread doubts about  President Trumpâs mental fitness   even before  Michael Wolffâs  runaway best-seller âFire and Fury: Inside the  [TGT]  White Houseâ raised new questions. A January Quinnipiac University poll found a slim majority of American voters (53 percent to 44 percent) say he is intelligent  but 69 percent say heâs not level-headed and 57 percent say he is not fit to serve as president.
But  as  Trump  has shown  you donât have to be mentally ill to play on fears and promote white supremacy.