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Trump was reportedly surprised black lawmakers didn’t personally know fellow black person Ben Carson
President Donald Trump reportedly couldn’t avoid stereotyping black people during a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.
He had asked members of the Congressional Black Caucus in a March meeting, Vivian Salama reported for NBC News on Friday, if they personally knew Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who is black. He was surprised when none of the attendees did, two meeting attendees told Salama.
That wasn’t the end of it. In the same meeting, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus told Trump that welfare cuts would hurt her constituents, “not all of whom are black.” Trump then reportedly responded, “Really? Then what are they?”
Trump’s defenders are willfully ignoring the broader context of his "shithole" comments
Trump reportedly suggested that America should take more people from “countries like Norway.” This is his remark about African countries and Haiti in reverse, explicitly singling out predominantly white nations as favorable.
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So many times, the things Trump says come across to me, as satire. As bad as they are, they are also laugh out loud. It's like, who could be this stupid and this ridiculous? Sadly, the terrible answer is "our president".
Remember when he attacked an American born judge?
Central Park 5?
Puerto Rico?
What's next? Trump doesn't learn. So what's next?
President Donald Trump reportedly couldn’t avoid stereotyping black people during a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.
He had asked members of the Congressional Black Caucus in a March meeting, Vivian Salama reported for NBC News on Friday, if they personally knew Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who is black. He was surprised when none of the attendees did, two meeting attendees told Salama.
That wasn’t the end of it. In the same meeting, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus told Trump that welfare cuts would hurt her constituents, “not all of whom are black.” Trump then reportedly responded, “Really? Then what are they?”
Trump’s defenders are willfully ignoring the broader context of his "shithole" comments
Trump reportedly suggested that America should take more people from “countries like Norway.” This is his remark about African countries and Haiti in reverse, explicitly singling out predominantly white nations as favorable.
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So many times, the things Trump says come across to me, as satire. As bad as they are, they are also laugh out loud. It's like, who could be this stupid and this ridiculous? Sadly, the terrible answer is "our president".
Remember when he attacked an American born judge?
Central Park 5?
Puerto Rico?
What's next? Trump doesn't learn. So what's next?