Donald Trump reportedly considers the word “racist” as “high praise.” Michael Wolff, who is the President’s biographer, was the one to make the shocking revelations. The American journalist also shared exactly what Trump thinks about black people and the community as a whole.
“Clearly, he has some issue with Black people,” Wolff revealed on an episode of The Daily Beast podcast. The biographer went on to claim that the President thinks the world is a “better place” without black people.
Wolff shares how Trump thinks that the world is a better place to live in “without having to be aware of Black people, without Black people somehow in what he considers a zero-sum game with white people.”
Not only the biographer but several critics have attested to Trump being racist in the past. The President, on the other hand, denied the accusations every chance he got. During a 2018 interview, he was heard telling a reporter that he would be “the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”
Trump’s claims, though, seem to be at odds with his past actions. The 78-year-old’s companies were sued by the Department of Justice for allegedly discriminating against black renters.
2016: Obama “was born in the United States, period.”
Trump’s long embrace of ‘birtherism.’ https://t.co/amg7ydP29x pic.twitter.com/a4FkkOf59R
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 16, 2016
The President was also one of the biggest voices in the “birther” conspiracy theory involving Barack Obama. In 2o11, he even said he had “real doubts” about Obama possessing a US birth certificate. Trump even claimed he was planning on sending a team of private investigators to Hawaii to find out if Obama was born in the US.
He has even made controversial remarks about the Central Park Five case. A group of 5 black teenager was accused of r-ping a white woman in 1989. All 5 men were exonerated in 2002 and cleared of the crime. Trump has been vocal about how he believes that the group was responsible for ra-ing the woman.
One of his most controversial statements came during his 2016 Presidential campaign. The 78-year-old accused Mexico of sending “r-pists” and “criminals” into the United States through the borders.
FACT – Trump 𝗗𝗜𝗗 say, about Charlottesville, that there were “very fine people on both sides”.
Here’s the video of the press conference.
Trump lies like he breathes. pic.twitter.com/T9cg4sMp1U
— Leia (@TheSWPrincess) September 11, 2024
He has also stood by people in the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and gone one step further to praise them. He noted how the people who took part in the rally were all “very fine people.” The year after, Trump labelled African countries to be “s—holes” while conducting a meeting in the Oval Office regarding immigration.
Michael Wolff accuses Trump of thinking that black people are “profoundly different” than white people. “I mean the word racist now becomes in the Trump world a kind of high praise,” he shares on The Daily Beast podcast episode.
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