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“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said while addressing the group’s annual convention.
What an utter waste of DNA. And that was only the start of all the racist shit he said.
I'm reminded of Jon Stewart the other day:
Two races in one person‽ If these people ever saw a Pizza Hut-Taco Bell, they’d lose their minds!
Das Racist already covered this issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIt2CdbBo_w
I don't know, is Trump a flaming sack of shit or a racist liar?
😱 Something can be two things at the same time??? Like a billionaire and a fraud??? Or a candidate and a felon???
A thought:
If Trump thinks that Kamala Harris should claim she's Indian because she has an Indian mother, then Barack Obama should claim he's white for the same reason.
Too bad no one in the press will bring that up to him.
Translation:
"Don't bother going out to vote for her, black people, she's not actually black."
If she wins, black Americans will have saved our asses AGAIN.
“I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the Black population of this country, I’ve done so much for the Black population of this country,” Trump said.
He's a parody of himself. If there wasn't a real threat behind his existence, I'd happily do nothing but laugh at the ridiculousness of his claims.
I like how he said there were "black jobs." I guarantee you that before someone asked him what black jobs were, he was thinking of things like doorman, shoe-shine boy, bellhop, maid...
…slave
Sorry. That’s politically incorrect. The appropriate term for the modern age is “convicted prisoner”
Does that mean Trump is half Black?
Funny you say that.
I was in a nasty argument with my mom last night about her use of the racist slur “illegals”. I told her that people can’t be illegal. She replied that shes not a racist and that they’re illegal because they broke the law. I shot back, “oh, so, since you got that speeding ticket, that makes you an illegal?” “No! They committed a felony!” So I said, “oh, so Trump is a 34 times illegal then?”
She said, “that’s different!”
“Why? Because he’s white? See, that’s why you’re racist.”
She screamed, “fuck you!” and hung up the phone.
Sorry, yo. Good job on keeping it real
She texted me later, saying I was following a “Marxist script”. I texted back, “oh, yeah? What script did Marx write that said brown people were ‘illegal’, but white people weren’t? Was it in the letter to Lincoln praising him for freeing the slaves, or in Das Kapital? Because I must have missed it. Why don’t you send me a copy of where you read that.”
She blocked me.
Being falsely convicted of a crime in central park...
He compared the 2021 insurrection to the protests in Minneapolis and other cities in 2020 following the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and to more recent protests at the Capitol last week by demonstrators opposed to the war in Gaza. Trump falsely claiming that no one was arrested in those other demonstrations and that only his supporters were targeted.
As Trump made the comparison, a man in the back of the room shouted out: “Sir, have you no shame?”
None. Literally none at all.
"Haven't you been paying attention? No, I have no shame. Nobody has less shame than I do, everyone is saying it."
That might be one superlative I'd actually believe if he said it.
“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said while addressing the group’s annual convention.
There's some other good stuff in there but that's the one that stood out to me as new.
"Now" she wants to be black. As if her father wasn't Jamaican.
I've heard people seriously saying that Jamaicans aren't black. Like what the hell?
“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said
"I didn't know about this thing, so it didn't happen until I knew about it" is a concept my child needs to learn about, not a presidential candidate....
He doesn't understand how sombody can be more than one thing. Because everyone around him is so one dimensional.
Indian mother and a black father and still American? How is this possible?! Its nearly as if she fell out of a coconut tree.
Who knew that health care could be so complicated? No one.
Not exactly a great strategy to win over black voters...
I can't believe there are Black and Latinos voting for this orange turd. And some of them are my ignorant immigrant family. Like, hello??
Ignorant racists with a poor understanding of government and history come in all colors.
The man has zero strategy beyond spewing bullshit and seeing what sticks.
I mean the guy launched his political career over racist conspiracies with Obama
Yes. Please keep being weird and racist. This is exactly how you demotivate all the normies from voting for you.
...do normies even vote for Trump?
Yes. There are a decent swath of votes who vote Republican but aren't tuned in super well. Studies show that only about 30% support trump directly. That leaves 15% to 20% of his voters who simply vote the party or vote based on "it's better for my wallet"
By running on racism and other distasteful platforms, it will chip into that normies pool, and they are likely to not turn out. Not all of the normies will see it or be affected by it, but if even 5% of the voting population chooses to not vote over voting for trump, it will be a disaster for trump and down ballot Republicans.
Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”
-- Donald Trump
I wonder if this is why he stopped donating to her campaigns...
I guess the good thing this indicates is that black people as a population have significant voting power if the Trump campaign tactic is to alienate Harris from black voters
Now we know why they gerrymander so hard, b/c otherwise their ghouls probably won’t even come close to being elected
Wow who could have seen this one coming? Trump used this platform they gave him to spread racist evil shit. What a PR disaster for them and a PR Boone for Trump.
I’m not sure this was quite the boon for Trump. He hasn’t faced anything but soft ball Fox News reporters for years, and just made headlines for pitching a fit after being interviewed by actual journalists
Good, Trump, just keep digging your own hole further!
This whole event was a shit show. Tech problems, no one could hear each other. And of course none of the journalists landed any gotcha moments because it's Trump and he has zero shame.
What's really amazing is that he doubled down on this.
Trump cannot admit he's wrong. That' such an attractive personality trait, isn't it...
The hilarious part of all this would be to see America actually elect this idiot. Say what you want about him but he's running to lead the most powerful country in the world.
The fact that he is even a contender says more about America than anything.
I stopped laughing at Trump a long time ago .... I now point my finger at the American population.
I have hope for the US because of Harris but if Trump wins it, the world will never look at the US with any bit of respect (if there ever was any left) ever again.
Gerrymandering helps skew things in favor of Republicans
The Electoral College isn't technically a gerrymander, but functionally, it's the same.
I'm often reminded of the saying
Imagine how dumb the average person is and realise that half the population are more stupid than that
The hilarious part of all this would be to see America actually elect this idiot. Say what you want about him but he's running to lead the most powerful country in the world.
I disagree with your sick sense of humor.
Can we just collectively question Trump’s race? Idf if he is a tomato or an orange 🤷♂️