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The Ugliest American

7/16/2019

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     The above are Twitter postings of Donald Trump, the putative President of the United States.  His remarks target four American Congresswomen, three born in the United States, the other a naturalized citizen who came to this country as a refugee at age twelve.
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     Despite the fact that all four of these members of Congress are women of color, and despite Trump's use of a bombastic variation of a particularly nasty  classic racist dog whistle - Why don’t they go back (to) the...places from which they came -  it's probably futile to call him a racist.
       He's been called that too many times. And he doesn't care.      
       
 As he himself said yesterday regarding the public outrage over his tweets, “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me. A lot of people love it, by the way.”
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     This is true.
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As he himself said yesterday regarding the public outrage over his tweets, “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me. A lot of people love it, by the way.”lin,
        Andrew Ang,  
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​...Trump supporter and founder of the highly-trafficked neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer,
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...wrote yesterday:
     "Man, President Trump's Twitter account has been pure fire lately. This might be the funniest thing he's ever tweeted. This is the kind of WHITE NATIONALISM we elected him for. And we're obviously seeing it only because there's another election coming up. But I'll tell you, even knowing that, it still feels so good."

       And while Donald Trump says out of one side of his mouth that he doesn't care if he's a racist because a lot of people love it, out of the other side of his mouth he denies being one. "I don't have a racist bone in my body," he tweeted this morning.
        Trump's supporters - except for his legion of Neo-Nazi fans - likewise deny that he's a racist. And though there's been some condemnation of Trump's tweet among the Congressional Republican rank-and-file, The Republican  leadership denies that their leader is a racist.
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 Senate leader Mitch McConnell not only publicly proclaimed that Trump is not a racist, but he added that "Everyone outta calm down their rhetoric." 
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    (We must assume he meant everyone except Donald Trump). 
     Even members of the news media have been debating whether Trump and/or his tweets are racist per the definition:

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...or whether Trump and/or his tweets are actually something else.
        And so I say that if it can't be agreed upon whether Trump is a de facto racist, let's agree on something nobody can deny: that his remarks in that tweet the other day were ugly. They were ugly and they were factually wrong, whether from inexcusable ignorance or inexcusable lying. They are, in fact, far and away the ugliest remarks made by any American President in history not counting Donald Trump himself, who has disgorged from his mouth such a vast and putrid gusher of ugliness over the past three years that one can barely imagine how deep must be the cesspool of his soul.
     And if you would defend Donald Trump by the purported  booming economy and the record wealth being reaped on Wall Street by the super-rich under his presidency, remember that the economy of the pre-Civil War American South built on the backs of black slaves likewise generated great economic wealth and prosperity.
​      For a while.

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     And under Adolph Hitler, while Jews and other racially or otherwise undesirable populations within German society were being exterminated, the country prospered economically.
​       For a while.

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      So, my fellow Americans, call Donald Trump whatever you will, but just remember:
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References: 
https://www.apnews.com/9924c846abf84cfeabb76e6045190b42

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/white-supremacists-cheer-trump-racist-tweets-soh/index.html

https://fortune.com/2019/07/16/trump-defends-racist-tweets/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/politics/trump-tweet-house-vote.html


https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/republicans-defend-trump-racist-tweets/index.html
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