On Wednesday February 15th 2017, President Trump was asked about rising anti-Semitism in the US:
QUESTION: Mr. President, since your election campaign and even after your victory, we’ve seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the United States. And I wonder what you say to those among the Jewish community in the States and in Israel and maybe around the world, who believe and feel that your administration is playing with xenophobia and maybe racist tones?
TRUMP: Well, I just want to say that we are, you know, very honoured by the victory that we had: 306 Electoral College votes. We were not supposed to crack 220. You know that, right? There was no way to 221 but then they said there’s no way to 270. And there’s tremendous enthusiasm out there. I will say that we are going to have peace in this country. We are going to stop crime in this country. We are going to do everything within our power to stop long simmering racism and every other thing that’s going on. Because a lot of bad things have been taking place over a long period of time. I think one of the reasons I won the election is because we have a very, very divided nation. Very divided and hopefully, I’ll be able to do something about that. And I – you know, something that was very important to me.
As far as people, Jewish people — so many friends, a daughter who happens to be here right now. A son-in-law, and three beautiful grandchildren. I think that you’re going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. I think a lot of good things are happening and you’re going to see a lot of love. You’re going to see a lot of love. Okay? Thank you.
The next day he was again asked what he is going to do about rising anti-Semitism: one report says there has been 48 bomb threats against Jewish centres over the past couple weeks.
TRUMP: So here’s the story, folks. Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person. In fact, we did very well relative to other people running as a Republican – [the reporter starts talking] quiet, quiet, quiet.
See, he lied about – he was gonna get up and ask a very straight, simple question, so you know, welcome to the world of the media. But let me just tell you something, that I hate the charge, I find it repulsive.
I hate even the question because people that know me and you heard the prime minister [of Israel], you heard Bentanyahu [Benjamin Netanyahu] yesterday, did you hear him, Bibi? He said, “I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time” and then he said, “Forget it.”
So you should take that instead of having to get up and ask a very insulting question like that.
– Abagond, 2017.
See also:
- anti-Black analogues:
- Jews
- The Trump Era
- Donald Trump
- “It’s not about racism”
- Trump’s Muslim ban
- Steve Bannon
- alt-right
- David Duke – whom Trump was slow to condemn
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Why is this important? Them Jews gave crazy money. They can more than swear it out. Come on. Time for some actual issues.
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Abagond…This fool was in North Charleston today at Boeing’s preview of their new Dreamliner — guess he needed a little stroking after that debacle of a press conference! And he got it! As I watched the display on the news, there were folk hanging off overpasses with their little red, “Make America Great Again” hats, along with their TRUMP signs and motorists blowing their horns in support. I’d intended to go to the base exchange to gas up my car (it’s cheaper than outside) and go to the commissary, but decided to stay the hell home so I wouldn’t be caught up in that madness.
The one thing the news kept saying is, “We don’t understand why the president insisted there be no media video of him on the tarmac, debarking from Air Force One! I’m sure it had to do with that comb-over blowing in the damned wind (he’s so vain!).{smmfh}
He had a teleprompter this time, so his speech was more on point (less taxes for American businesses so they keep jobs here instead of going overseas on the cheap, blah, blah, blah and a lot less reactive as nobody asked him sh*t about real “issues.”
I’m telling’ you, SC loves this d*ck!
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Trump said he loves South Carolina with pride. I bet he would never say he loves Illinois or California. Just keeping it real as f%#@
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This dude is an utter and complete idiot. 🤦🏾♀️
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Trash dove?
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@ Deb
Wow. That is a world I see only on television. I have not lived in a red county since my last summer job.
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I just love the fact that Trump is turning out just the way I thought he would. It will only get worse. The guy is not even original, there are several Trumpesque presidents all over the world.
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@Deb
Your post was everything!!
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@villagewriter
So very true. He hasn’t even gotten to what I imagined.
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@Deb
“I’m telling’ you, SC loves this d*ck!”
Yes! South Carolina, home of the Confederacy. SC instigator of the Civil War.
During the 1990s, I read about White Supremacist groups trying to sell SC as a White Homeland to their members scattered throughout the USA. Their rationale was that SC with its harbor and seaports could serve as a starting point for a new Confederacy.
It seems they learned nothing from the Civil War of the 1860s.
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He called himself the “least racist” and “least anti-Semitic” person. That counts as a tacit admission of being racist and anti-Semitic to at least some degree, right?
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Again, they have the Israel lobby, the banks, and, Hollywood. Why should black people involve themselves in battle of evil vs evil.
Better to just stand on the sidelines, get some popcorn and watch this one in 4k and I max.
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I live in South Carolina, and I can cosign that this state is backwards, full of people who love their king Trump.
And speaking of Trump, reading those answers, you can see the overflowing of Trumpism pouring out ending with it making it about being insulted. This man’s ego is as fragile as sugar-made glass.
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Hey Family, I apologize for the “radio silence,” but it’s been hectic for me here for a minute — in a good way for a change (sold my damned house)!
@abagond…“Wow. That is a world I see only on television. I have not lived in a red county since my last summer job.”
Brother, what blows my mind is, the more things change here (read “progress”), the more they stay the damned same!
During my 60 seasons, I’ve lived in several red states from SC, to AL, to TX. I moved back home to SC in 2014, instead of going to West Africa (remember that conversation Linda?) because 1) I was homesick and 2) not long after moving back, this bright young man convinced me I’d made the right decision, for the right reasons: (https://nyti.ms/2k4b1Pq)
However, in the almost three years I’ve been back, I realized 1) “home” wasn’t as sick for me as I was for it and 2) though I tried diligently to help and make a real difference, MY people weren’t ready to do much more than march and saw me as an outsider, seemingly to me — there to steal THEIR thunder.
Trump’s visit to Boeing, on the heels of the voteNOT to unionize, was an eerie reminder of another situation through which I grew up here in Charleston — the Charleston Hospital Workers Strike in 1969 (http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/charleston_hospital_workers_mo/civil_rights_unionism)
Though I was only 12 going on 13, I remember it as if it were yesterday — my mother taking off work from the Navy Base (now gone thanks to BRAC) and coming by our segregated, Black Catholic school to pick up my brother and me, to go downtown and support her friend, Miss Moultrie (who was a member of their Dreamer’s Social Club, which was kinda like something they do in the Caribbean where members all pay dues and at the end of the year, they split the pot or all go on vacation) in the strike.
She was adamant that we BE there to support and see Black folk taking agency in their own lives. As a matter of fact, Father Joyce, one of the white, Jesuit priests at our school, had no problem letting her take us out of school because he, himself, was also out there with the strikers along with Ralph Abernathy. It was during that time that I heard Coretta Scott King speak in person for the very first time — once at Mother Emmanuel AME (yes, that Mother Emmanuel) and again at Morris Brown AME (where my youngest aunt was a member), a block down the street from Morris St. Baptist where my mother and my family were members (my grandfather was Baptist and my grandmother was Methodist — the 15 kids split the difference).
While Boeing workers inside the terminal were cheering Trump on (http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2017/02/17/president-trump-touts-military-growth-and-american-manufacturing-in-north-charleston), there were protests against his visit as well (though they were corralled about 1.5 miles away in one of those “free speech zones” like the DNC did in the run-up to the Changeling’s selection: https://lets-be-clear.blogspot.com/2008/08/free-speech-zones.html
(http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2017/02/17/protesters-gather-in-north-charleston-ahead-of-trumps-arrival)
(http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2017/02/17/as-trump-flies-in-charleston-area-groups-rally-against-the-racism-and-corruption-they-see-in-the-new-administration)
But if you scan the crowds at both links, you’ll see WE are, for the most part absent. I ask myself, “Self, what exactly does that mean???”
To Brothawolf’s point, Self said, “Our people REALLY aren’t ready like they used to be, to fight Trump’s backward-assed folk!
It’s a sad, but true reality I think…
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@sharinair…Thanks, Sister! I can’t even BEGIN to tell you how much I abhor this reality-TV clown, his cabinet, and those who support him! I was in upstate NY where my husband is from for my mother-in-law’s birthday in April 2016 during the campaign sh*t-show. The Trumpinistas were out in full force, on every corner — and it was frightening! Trump came and gave a speech, so did John Kasich. They were havin’ none of him! They were head and shoulders FOR TRUMP!
Let me just interject for those who don’t know or have forgotten — I’m married to a society-identified white guy, who identifies himself as an Italian-American, the grandson of immigrants (we have great conversations about that sht, let me tell you — particularly when I talk about being the granddaughter of unwilling “immigrants” who really built this damned country!). The area, like many former northeastern, industrial areas like Pennsylvania, is hard-core Republican and dying. The Trumpinistas there see him as the capitalist Messiah who will bring jobs back (not happenin’). The young folk are leaving or have left with no plans to return; the factories and warehouses are decrepit and standing idle; the downtown areas are shadows of themselves. It’s a sad thing to see and probably even worse to live through — but I get it. Once the Naval Base & Shipyard left Charleston, it kinda felt the same. But our 40-year mayor (ain’t that some sht!) pivoted to tourism and Charleston made, and continues to make — a mint! Who wants to be in the snow and cold of upstate NY??? Not me, that’s for damned sure!
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@Afrofem…“Yes! South Carolina, home of the Confederacy. SC instigator of the Civil War.
During the 1990s, I read about White Supremacist groups trying to sell SC as a White Homeland to their members scattered throughout the USA. Their rationale was that SC with its harbor and seaports could serve as a starting point for a new Confederacy.
It seems they learned nothing from the Civil War of the 1860s.”
Hey, Sis! You ain’t said nothin’ but a word — well SEVERAL words!! It seems the White Supremacist groups got the memo far as I can see. With the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), the harbor and seaports of Charleston/North Charleston are definitely getting paid! And it ain’t the regular folk (mostly Black and low-income whites) of either city that are benefitting. There was a time when the base provided a comfortable, middle-class life for both of the afore-mentioned. Now, tourism is all they have — and those dollars are hardly equal. But developers, 40/20+-year mayors in Charleston & North Charleston respectively (and their cronies) along with new white folk moving in, are SURELY benefitting. A starting point for a new Confederacy? Looks like it to me, given the “Cheeto Bandito’s” landslide of support here, where the first shot of the Civil war was fired at Ft. Sumter.
But I have to disagree with you, they learned PLENTY from the Civil War of the 1860s. They’ve learned to, as they always did — squeeze out just enough from their former slaves in incremental amounts, pitting one against the other to keep the discord among them at a level THEY STILL manage. Sometimes I ask myself, “Self, when in the hayell are we gonna GET, that even as it LOOKS like they’re accepting/embracing us, they keep on making money OFF of us?? the answer always breaks my heart.
I’ve been, as Iyanla Vanzant said once — just letting my heart break for the last year or so. I’ve not been able to even blog about it (Walter Scott, the Emmanuel 9, gentrification, appropriation/misappropriation, etc.) but I’ve been keeping a diary — for one day. It’s the only way I can really see my way forward, to really let it go. It’s been hard, but like my grandmother used to say — it’s been a learnin’.
Thanks for lettin’ me disgorge Family — I’ve been full.
Peace…
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@Brothawolf…“This man’s ego is as fragile as sugar-made glass.”
Only a Dixie Crystal Sugar man could make that comparison!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@ Deb
“…they always did — squeeze out just enough from their former slaves in incremental amounts, pitting one against the other to keep the discord among them at a level THEY STILL manage. Sometimes I ask myself, “Self, when in the hayell are we gonna GET, that even as it LOOKS like they’re accepting/embracing us, they keep on making money OFF of us??”
I feel you on this. We both know the answer is they will keep sowing discord and extracting profit from Black folk as long as we let them get away with it.
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Blogger and cultural observer, Chauncey DeVega discussed the Trump contribution to the current spate of anti-Black and anti-Semitic hate crimes in a Salon article, To commemorate Black History Month, Trump administration decrees that white supremacists can’t be terrorists
In the article, DeVega cited a Reuters piece that stated:
DeVega goes on to write:
http://www.salon.com/2017/02/03/to-commemorate-black-history-month-trump-administration-decrees-that-white-supremacists-cant-be-terrorists/
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@Deb
That is just one reason Trump supporters are so ecstatic. Trump has literally unleashed them from all accountability (not that there was much in the past). The recent national threats against Jewish Community Centers is one result. Another is the incursion of so-called “White Lives Matter” (they can’t even come up with their own names) groups brandishing assault rifles under police protection in Black neighborhoods and seeking to intimidate Black activists and communities.
An “intimidation event” was held in Houston, TX this past August. According to the Houston Chronicle the organizers stated:
The Houston Chronicle described how the Black residents responded:
http://www.chron.com/houston/article/White-Lives-Matter-group-protests-outside-NAACP-9176142.php#photo-10809650
Now with the Trump administration focusing solely on Muslim terror suspects, White Supremacist hate groups can go on the anti-Black rampage they have dreamed of and planned for decades.
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@ Deb
Sorry, I got carried away.
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@nomad
Comment deleted for moderated language.
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@nomad
“Comment deleted for moderated language.”
There was no bad language in that. At least none that you haven’t allowed before. And I substituted a letter in the S-word so it would escape the censor. Apparently it didn’t work. Unless ‘hypocrite’ is the moderated word. If that’s so then you’ve really got problems. I called Chauncey a hypocrite. You’ve been called worse on your own blog.
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If you didn’t criticize Obama and you’re now protesting Trump, like Chauncey De Vega, I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for ya.
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http://www.hillarybeattrump.org/
Now here’s a website capable of soothing the ailing sensitivities (or sensibilities) of Abagond, Shaw, Scrib and their endless motley crew of loyal Hillary supporters/campaigners.
It looks as if it was designed specifically for Blue Pill swallowers. lol
Bon Appetite!!
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@Afrofem…“Sorry, I got carried away.”
No apologies necessary, Sister — would that more of us got carried way like that!! I ‘preciate your sharing, Sis, I really do. Keeps my old behind learnin’!😊
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@nomad
“If you didn’t criticize Obama and you’re now protesting Trump, like Chauncey De Vega, I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for ya.”
I understand your criticism of DeVega. You know I have no love for Obama. I consider him a charlatan who led Black folk into a fetid swamp and left them there for the ‘gators to drag under.
I agree that Trump is merely continuing policies that other presidents of the past 25 years set in motion. Coddling White Supremacists, exploitative immigration policies, Black mass imprisonment and community disinvestment and endless wars abroad are all well established chapters in the American presidential playbook.
l think Trump’s policies demand special scrutiny. He and Bannon are taking existing rules and laws and pushing them to benefit his hardcore Alt-Right supporters.
Trump’s belligerence and pathology present a unique opportunity. If the bulk of the American people continue to push back on Trump’s policies, some of the unitary Executive overreach that has grown unchecked over the WJClinton, Bush II and Obama administrations can be whittled away. We are supposed to have three co-equal branches of government, not an executive branch gone wild and thinking it is above judicial oversight or legislative brakes.
Hypocrite or not, I think DeVega pointing out the connection between the Feds redefining terrorism to not include White Supremacist groups and the recent spate of anti-Jewish vandalism and threats is newsworthy.
The corporate media narrative is hand wringing and feigning ignorance about the cause of the upsurge of anti-Jewish vandalism and phone threats. They refuse to make obvious connections and contribute to a muddled media environment. That is what they do best, right?
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Indeed. You have a right. You were a staunch critic of Obama. Deb has a right. Those that didn’t criticize Obama also have a right. But I’m gonna call them hypocrites. They’re fine with being exploited by smooth talking Democrats. They just don’t want Republicans to do it. Selective outrage. Situational morality.
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@ villagewriter
Do you care to name names?
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Trump went to the African Museum i guess he learned Frederick Douglass is dead. LOL! I have to laugh after that trainwreck of a speech he gave on Black History where he sounded like a complete moron and didn’t knw what the hell he was talking about. I love seeing him look and sound foolish.
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@ Mary
“Learned” is kind of a strong word to use with Donald Trump. He seems to have an allergy to facts.
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@Abagond
Where do I start? They include:
Italy’s President Berlusconi
He was more a celebrity than a politician. Turned Italy’s media into some kind of fashion show for women. Slept with a minor, loved prostitutes and brothels. Lost power after the recession hit. Before that somebody broke his nose with a stone carving.
Zuma
Can actually read and talk better than Trump but is just as corrupt. A narcissist with a penchant for polygamy- he has a harem of wives. Uses his power to get jobs for his relatives and used government money to build himself a mansion. His political career hangs in the balance.
Idi Amin
Trump would totally channel Idi Amin if you guys did not have systems to hold him accountable. One time Idi Amin made four British diplomats carry him on his throne (imagine white diplomats lying prostate in front of Idi Amin). Was overthrown and died in exile in the middle east.
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan
Just appointed his wife as VP. Talk about nepotism. Oil wealth will keep him in power for the time being.
Putin
Loves to be adored by the press; probably in love with himself. He and trump can make a good couple. A master manipulator and hates the media.
Former President Victor Yanukovich
Loved Putin just as much as Trump and tried to censor the press. Did not finish his presidential term. Also an extremely wealthy man.
These guys show us where Donald Trump will end up.
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@villagewriter
You missed the gangster and his family that runs Equatorial Guinea. According to the Mirror:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/meet-teodoro-obiang-nguema-equatorial-8808273
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@ villagewriter
Thanks!
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“If you didn’t criticize Obama and you’re now protesting Trump, like Chauncey De Vega, I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for ya.”
In other words, probably more palatable to yon true believers, as formulated by Freedom Rider:
And nomad said: Amen.
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@nomad
True. The Dems are a treacherous bunch. They need to be primaried out and voted out with the Repubs in 2018.
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