During an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon on Wednesday night, Donald Trump said that a “certain segment” of the Muslim population are a “problem.”
Lemon mentioned a Trump’s failure to correct a man at a New Hampshire town hall who said that President Obama is a Muslim and that Muslims are a “problem in this country.” The real estate mogul said that if he would not have handled the situation any differently.
“He said Muslims are a problem, OK? That’s what he said, OK? Are they a problem? You tell me,” Trump said.
“Most Muslims — I know many — are great people,” he continued, prompting Lemon to ask if Trump thinks Muslims are a problem
“I think a certain segment are certainly a problem,” Trump responded. “Unless you want to be so politically correct where you want me to say, ‘Oh, absolutely not.'”
Lemon later asked Trump if he is homophobic.
“No,” Trump replied. “I think that I’m a very nice person. I love people, and I have to tell you, when you look at those polls, it’s across the board. You know who loves me? The Tea Party. The evangelicals. I’m leading with evangelicals — I love them, they love me. I’m Presbyterian, I’m Protestant, and they like me. You know why? Because they think I’m gonna do a great job for the country.”
The CNN host then asked Trump if he is racist.
“I just did a speech for the African-American Chamber of Commerce of South Carolina,” Trump said in response. “They just wrote the most beautiful letter I think I’ve received in a long time saying how unfairly I got treated by the press.”
Watch part of Lemon’s interview with Trump below:
H/t Mediaite
So if the topic turned to “Blacks” ? …might he say “I think a certain segment are certainly a problem,” … and the do the classic " but not you Don - you are one of the good ones"
The two of them combined don’t even make up a halfwit.
Any large group of people are going to have a few bad seeds. What’s the problem here again?
“I got a beautiful letter, I got a plaque, I got an award, I’m loved, I have fantastic polls, I’m rich. I’m number one, my pictures are in the papers, everyone loves me, I love everyone.”
If you met Trump at a party you’d walk away thinking “What a pompous, narcissistic asshole.”
Yet millions fawn over him and attend his rallies, hanging on every word. How can a sane person size him up as an arrogant asshole and others think he’s a swell guy? What do they see? What mental back flips are they doing to ignore the qualities so many peg as indications of troubling psychological issues? Trump is one seriously weird, troubled dude and Republicans love him.
“The real estate mogul said that if he would not have handled the situation any differently.”