My Black Friends: Donald Trump Desperately Tries Not To Appear Racist At White House BHM Program, Fails
February is the time of year when Donald Trump tries to convince America that he’s not the steaming pile of racist that most reasonable people understand him to be. Ironically, even when trying his hardest, he just can’t stop being racist. It’s like he has an involuntary physical reaction to appearing earnest and forthright.
Trump recently held a Black History Month program at the White House, where his behavior belied any sense of unbiasedness. For example, he introduced the crowd to the only Black member of his cabinet, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, and the former tokenized HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson. Trump then trotted out his other “Black friends” in the form of Fox News talking head and DOJ lawyer Leo Terrell and Dr. Martin Luther King’s anti-abortion activist niece, Alveda King. The idea ofa King relative licking Trump’s boots during Black History Month is…quite something.
No “Black friend” celebration would be complete without Black celebs, so, Trump invoked the name of Mike Tyson saying:
“Mike Tyson, Boy, I tell you, Mike has been loyal to me. Whenever they come out, they say, ‘Trump’s a racist’ … Mike Tyson goes, ‘He’s not a racist, he’s my friend.’”
“He’s been there from the beginning, good times and bad. But Mike Tyson’s a great guy, and he was so loyal. Always been loyal.”
Trump also gave a weirdly fetishized shoutout to his new #1 fan, Onika Tanya Maraj, aka Nicki Minaj, by commenting on her “so beautiful skin” and her finger nails.
“I said, Nikki, are they real? She said she didn’t want to get into that, but she was so beautiful”
Be clear, there aren’t enough Black celebrities, athletes, or politicians to make Black folks at large forget about Trump’s historically racist comments and behaviors. Everything from his housing discrimination lawsuits, to his full page ad slandering the now-Exonerated Five, we remember it all and we’re more than glad to remind him and anyone else who forgets.
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