Literally been in the public eye for 40+ years.
Only accused of being “racist” when he went against the left.
I’d love to see verifiable proof of him making racist comments. Calling Haiti a shit hole doesn’t qualify. Discussing crime commited by illegal immigrants doesn’t qualify.
I’m not partisan. I actually consider myself more libertarian than anything else. But the left is so far out there and lacking in common sense that my drive by mocking of people like bipolar and townsend likely give that impression.
You do realize the level of scrutiny of a president>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>reality TV star>>>>prominent real estate guy
But for evidence:
- Trump’s real-estate company tried to avoid renting apartments to African-Americans in the 1970s and gave preferential treatment to whites,
according to the federal government.
- Once said re a black accountant “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault,
because laziness is a trait in blacks.”
- argued for the death penalty of the Central Park five (5 black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in NYC) as late as 2016 when DNA evidence had already exonerated them
- In December 2015, Trump called for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,”
including refusing to readmit Muslim-American citizens who were outside of the country at the time.
- Trump said a federal judge hearing a case about Trump University was biased because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.
- In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa.
- At the White House on Jan. 11, Trump vulgarly called for less immigration from Haiti and Africa and more from Norway.
- He spent years suggesting that the nation’s first black president was born not in the United States but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.
- Trump called Obama (who was editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review) “a terrible student, terrible.”
- States re the former president "Obama has admitted that he spends his mornings watching @ESPN. Then he plays golf, fundraises & grants amnesty to illegals."
- Trump frequently claimed that Obama did not work hard as president.
- Trump falsely claimed that President Obama “issued a statement for Kwanzaa but failed to issue one for Christmas.”
- He has retweeted white nationalists without apology.
- He called some of those who marched alongside white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., last August “very fine people.”
- After David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed him, Trump was reluctant to disavow Duke even when asked directly on television.
- Trump endorsed and campaigned for Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who spoke positively about slavery and who called for an African-American Muslim member of Congress not to be seated because of his religion.
- Trump pardoned – and fulsomely praises – Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff sanctioned for racially profiling Latinos and for keeping immigrants in brutal prison conditions.
- In the 1990s, Trump took out advertisements alleging that the “Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.” At the time, he was fighting competition for his casino business.
- In a White House meeting with a Korean-American intelligence analyst briefing him on Pakistan, Trump wondered aloud why she was not working on North Korea policy.
- Trump once referred to a Hispanic Miss Universe as “Miss Housekeeping.”
This claim that people just say he's racist because he's conservative is incredibly disingenuous. He has a long and storied history of being racist and claiming otherwise makes you somewhat complicit. I get that people like some of the things he does and can separate that from actually respecting him as a human being. I can't say I respect that as the damn President, but I understand it. It's just not OK to ignore the truth staring you in the face because you don't want it to be true.