Trump’s Not Worried About ‘Racist’ Label Because Everyone’s Called A Racist Now

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, July 30, 2019, as he travels to the 400th anniversary of Jamestown. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP... US President Donald Trump speaks to the media prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, July 30, 2019, as he travels to the 400th anniversary of Jamestown. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Everybody’s doing it.

President Trump is unmoved by claims that his recent tweets and rhetoric about congressmen and women of color are racist because “everybody’s called a racist now.”

During a recent interview with C-SPAN, President Trump argued the sting of being labeled a “racist” is now attenuated.

“I think the word has really gone down a long way because everybody’s called a racist now. Her own party called Nancy Pelosi a racist two weeks ago,” he said. “The word is so overused, it’s such a disgrace. I can tell you this, I’m the least racist person there is in the world, as far as I’m concerned.”

Trump also claimed that Democrats use the word when they’ve run out of things to criticize.

“They use it almost when they run out of things to criticize you — they say, ‘He’s a racist. He’s a racist.’ … But with me they have a hard time getting away with it, and they don’t get away with it,” he said.

Trump’s been hit as a racist for decades — from the infamous Central Park Five newspaper ad to calling Mexicans “rapists” during the 2016 campaign — but the cries of racism have sharpened in recent weeks as he’s lobbed insults at a group of congresswomen of color and told them to “go back” to their home countries. He’s also spent the last several days attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and calling Baltimore “filthy.”

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  1. The logic of a buffoon on full display…AGAIN.

  2. Trump also claimed that Democrats use the word when they’ve run out of things to criticize.

    “They use it almost when they run out of things to criticize you — they say, ‘He’s a racist.

    But you keep on inventing new things to criticize you over. You are a font of perfidies, odious remarks and unspeakable acts. This is what you do and are justly criticized for. A racist is who you are.

  3. Exactly. He and his father settled a housing case years before in which it was alleged they discriminated on the basis of race. And you know that attitude didn’t just jump out of thin air for him. His dear father, at a minimum, taught him bigotry. And while many in their generation had similar views, many of those in Trump’s generation outgrew racist views after WWII and especially after the civil rights movement. Trump, as we see repeatedly, has absolutely no ability to grow or learn. Once a racist, always a racist - and proud of it.

  4. Avatar for mattf mattf says:

    I can see how he gets confused, when you surround yourself with racists and people who won’t disagree with your racist ranting, then yes everyone you know is a racist.

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