Brietbart senior editor-at-large Ben Shapiro suggested Monday that President Obama’s decision to revert Mt. McKinley to its Alaska Native name was because he “decided against his second choice, Mt. Trayvon.”
On Sunday, ahead of a historic visit to Alaska, President Obama announced he would be reverting Mt. McKinley to its Alaska Native name, Denali.
Perhaps we should just be grateful Obama didn’t decide to rename Mt. McKinley Mt. Trayvon.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 31, 2015
Shapiro later expanded on his idea:
Why did Obama choose to change the name now? Presumably because Obama has now solved all the world’s problems, and decided against his second choice, Mt. Trayvon. But more seriously, Obama likely opposes the legacy of President McKinley, given that McKinley led America to victory in the Spanish-American War and rejected inflation by sticking with the gold standard. By the end of McKinley’s tenure, the United States had taken military control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and annexed Hawaii.
Shapiro went on to write that President Obama has spent his terms undermining McKinley’s accomplishments by opening diplomatic ties with Cuba and attempting to give native Hawaiians the same sovereign status as Native Americans.
The reference to Mt. Trayvon was apparently one about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by a volunteer neighborhood watchman in 2012 in Florida. After the killing, Obama described the teen as someone who “could have been me 35 years ago,” a line that outraged conservatives.
Yeah, obviously that was his next choice…
What a bunch of morons. But smart, cater to a small but very nutty fringe…they love this stuff. And it sells.
How would Shapiro like this interpretation of this diss: “a Jew calls Obama a thug.”
More right wing humor. It’s never funny, and often racist. Never change GOP; you’re perfect just the way you are.
That’s right: the halcyon days. A time when America was Manifest Destiny personified. A time when all those brown people were forced to get with the American program or die in the process.
You know, the way things should be…
Ben Shapiro is a massive piece of shit. Pres. Obama mentioned Trayvon Martin once when he said, “if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon”. These racists then commenced to staging an epic temper tantrum so ridiculous you would think he said, “Black power! Kill whitey! Lynch Zimmerman!”
It’s beyond ridiculous that these assholes continue to defend Zimmerman, a man who recently called the president “an ignorant baboon” (but he’s not racist. no, never that!), a man who has now been accused of abusing two women, punching an old man, and assaulting a police officer, as well as a host of other petty crimes. Yet they’re still denigrating the memory of a dead kid whose only crime was being black and wanting to do something nice for his little brother. These people are truly sick.