Donald Trump’s ill-conceived look on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists (NABJ) Wednesday was nearly universally seen as an entire catastrophe by everybody who doesn’t lay awake at night time wishing they had been sporting Trump’s hind components as a noseguard. (I’m you, Tim Scott.)
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There are a whole lot of causes the scheduled Q&A session didn’t go effectively for anybody concerned. Clearly, it was foolhardy to even anticipate {that a} productive dialogue can be the results of an interview with somebody who, in just about each interview he has ever achieved, has confirmed that every one he does is repeat simply disprovable lies, insult everybody he doesn’t like and throw mood tantrums the second he will get hit with any query he doesn’t need to reply. However there may be one other obtrusive cause Trump’s NABJ look was doomed from the beginning:
Trump doesn’t really know something about Black individuals.
On Thursday, Trump doubled down on his false claims that presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris hid her Black id and solely ever recognized as Indian prior to now—and he had the Tang-flavored caucasity to take action underneath the guise of celebrating Harris for her love of her “Indian heritage.”
“Your heat, friendship, and love of your Indian Heritage are very a lot appreciated,” Trump posted to his Reality Social platform together with an previous picture of Harris together with her household.
It’s unclear if Trump is making an attempt to scrub up his NABJ efficiency—which he will surely be embarrassed by if he had been able to disgrace—or if he’s simply out right here proving he’s a 78-year-old manchild by persevering with to gaslight Harris, who responded to Trump’s authentic feedback concerning her racial id by calling it Trump’s “standard present” of “divisiveness.”
However it’s about extra than simply “divisiveness,” it’s a sign of why the division between Trump and “the Blacks” was already there.
Once more, Trump doesn’t know us.
Right here’s what I wrote about this beforehand:
He actually thought he’d run the identical speaking factors in entrance of NABJ’s viewers that he does in entrance of his MAGA cult audiences.
He thought it might go over effectively with Black individuals when he whitesplained that Kamala Harris isn’t actually Black, saying, “I didn’t know she was Black,” and that “she occurred to show Black” earlier than he requested, “Is she Indian or is she Black?” If Trump really knew Black individuals, he would have recognized how far out of his Caucasian lane he was by even questioning Harris’ Blackness in any respect.
Trump additionally thought calling Harris a “DEI” rent was going to go over as effectively with us because it does his caucasity-indoctrinated constituency of loud and proud racists as if Black individuals haven’t been clocking “DEI rent” as white individuals’s new model of the N-word.
He additionally didn’t know something in regards to the case of Sonya Massey, which Black media has lined extensively.
He thought it might go over effectively with Black individuals when he insisted that Jan. 6 convicts had been victims of “two programs of justice.”
He thought he might run that stale and ahistorical line about how he was “the very best president for the Black inhabitants since Abraham Lincoln,” proving he is aware of nothing about Lincoln outdoors of the truth that the slaves had been freed on his watch–and due to their very own dedication, not the sixteenth President’s.
After NABJ panelist Rachel Scott offended Trump by—*checks notes*—asking him in regards to the phrases that had come out of his personal mouth, Trump responded by whining about how “nasty” the query was after which he pivoted to what was basically a Miss Millie “I’ve all the time been good to you individuals” rant. Trump defaulted to that narrative as a result of he doesn’t know sufficient about Black individuals to grasp that white savior complexes aren’t actually a factor most of us discover engaging.
Trump was deeply offended by Scott asking him about his historical past of racial antagonism, however he wasn’t so offended that he didn’t take to social media the very subsequent day so he might proceed being racially antagonistic.
In the meantime, Trump’s give attention to Harris’ racial id is, apparently, actually changing into an issue for the GOP.
From ABC Information:
Trump allies within the Senate tried to focus much less on the previous president’s feedback at NABJ — when he known as Harris’ race into query — and as a substitute pivoted to what they consider are his coverage accomplishments in his first time period.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a detailed ally of the previous president’s, mentioned Trump can be higher served specializing in coverage.
Requested if it was acceptable for Trump to query Harris’ race, Graham replied: “No, I don’t assume so.”
“I’ve recognized the vice chairman for some time, she has all the time embraced her heritage proudly as she ought to,” Graham mentioned. “My drawback with Vice President Harris is the coverage selections she’s made. I believe she’s stay a consequential life, however on coverage the nation is on fireplace — the world is on fireplace and the nation is in decline. And I believe we want new management so in order that might be my method.”
Thoughts you, two years in the past Graham was out right here making it his Caucasian mission to advertise Herschel Walker as MAGA America’s nice Black hope who would Pied Piper Black kids into changing into Republican voters, so it’s not like he’s above enjoying id politics when it fits him, however no matter.
It’s not simply Trump. Racist and sexist assaults on Harris have gotten so uncontrolled within the MAGA world that Republican Home Speaker Mike Johnson felt compelled to convene a closed-door assembly final week to warn his fellow GOP legislators to cease being racist and sexist.
November is coming, y’all. Get out and vote!
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