Trump: I Don’t Like What Scalia Said About Affirmative Action

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday that he didn’t like what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in a hearing on affirmative action.

Scalia had said that affirmative action sent minority students to schools that were too academically challenging.

Trump condemned Scalia’s remarks during an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I thought it was very tough to the African-American community, actually,” Trump said. “I don’t like what he said. No, I don’t like what he said.”

“I heard him,” Trump continued, “I was like, ‘Let me read it again’ because I actually saw it in print, and I’m going — I read a lot of stuff — and I’m going, ‘Whoa!’ “

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  1. “I read a lot of stuff”

    “Which stuff?”

    “All of it… I read all of it.”

  2. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Remember Mood Rings?

    Trump has Mood Hair…never can tell what shade of orange it’ll be.

  3. Today it’s more of a dirty blond… either he ran out of henna or the damn spigots couldn’t flush all the oil out of it.

  4. I find Trump’s articulate, insightful analyses of the issues facing our society to be thought-provoking and enlightening.

  5. And his judgment, as always, is excellent. Much better than that Cruz fellow.

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