Category: Trump bigotry

Trump was wrong to attack LeBron James

LeBron James has been a great asset to America.  He’s not just a great basketball player, he devotes millions of dollars and his time to his hometown of Akron and elsewhere.  He gave a great interview to Don Lemon.  I recommend watching it here.

Trump couldn’t deal with it.  Trump used his charity to buy pictures of himself.  Trump went racist to appeal to his base by insulting the intelligence of James and Lemon.  (This is similar to his terrible baseless comments on Maxine Waters’ IQ.

Fortunately, a lot people defended James including Michael Jordan and the First Lady.

Some great tweets below!

 

Nielsen’s comments on Charlottesville are like Trump’s

No, both sides were not the same.  One side killed someone.

Trump administration lobbied Britain on behalf of a jailed right-wing activist

This guy’s supporters performed a Nazi salute.  I guess they’re “very fine people” to Trump.

Trump’s rhetoric empowers white supremacists

From this article: ““Clearly, the racist rhetoric throughout the presidential campaign and continuing into Trump’s administration has empowered white supremacist groups to be much more public,” says Michael German, who infiltrated neo-Nazi and militia groups as an FBI agent and is now a fellow at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice. “It’s very dangerous because these people who have a history of violence now feel they have state sanction to commit violence.””

Great article on too much Trump coverage

I totally agree.  Everyone has made up their mind on whether or not Trump is a liar and bigot so we don’t need to hear the same stuff over and over.  Let’s hear more about Democratic policies.  Trump uses the media because he knows how to get attention by saying outrageous stuff.

The lies and other stuff should still be documented, just not given as much TV time.

Trump’s racist attack on Maxine Waters

Trump’s comment was racist and based on nothing. I don’t see any Republican leaders objecting to it. They know their base has lots of racists in it who approve of Trump’s attacks.

He keeps doing it and no Republicans object to his racism.

Trump’s bigoted use of “Pocahontas”

I am skeptical of Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry.  It sounds like it can’t be proven or disproven.

However, Trump’s behavior is disgusting.  In addition to slurring Native Americans, he mocked the #MeToo movement.

Fact check

49% believe Trump is a racist

This is no surprise to me.  It’s been obvious – Central Park Five, birther movement, “very fine people”, etc.  And that’s just bigotry against African-Americans.

I assume most of the 47% who don’t think he’s a bigot are Trump supporters.  All Trump supporters are:

  1. bigots or
  2. willing to tolerate bigotry to get tax cuts, conservative justices or other agenda items

I think many of Trump’s white Christian supporters don’t understand bigotry because they never experienced it.  They just tune Trump’s racism out because it doesn’t apply to them.