So Donald Trump held what he called a “little breakfast” in honor of Black History Month on Wednesday morning and it went about as well as you might have imagined.
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Surrounded by a dozen or so African American people, including Ben Carson and reality star Omarosa Manigault, the very first words out of Trump’s mouth had absolutely nothing to do Black History Month whatsoever.
“Well, the election, it came out really well,” he boasted. “Next time we’ll triple the number or quadruple it. We want to get it over 51, right? At least 51.”
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He then proceeded to ramble for approximately 12 minutes about how great Black people are and even managed to mention the names of few famous African Americans from history before going off on a tangent about fake news.
Now, let’s take a look at some of the quotes…
On Black History Month:
Well, this is Black History Month, so this is our little breakfast, our little get-together. Hi, Lynn, how are you? Just a few notes. During this month, we honor the tremendous history of African-Americans throughout our country. Throughout the world, if you really think about it, right?
On Ben Carson, who, so far, is the only Black person on Trump’s cabinet:
I want to thank Ben Carson, who’s gonna be heading up HUD. That’s a big job. That’s a job that’s not only housing, but it’s mind and spirit. Right, Ben? And you understand, nobody’s gonna be better than Ben.
On the Martin Luther King, Jr. bust in the White House:
You read all about Dr. Martin Luther King a week ago when somebody said I took the statue out of my office. It turned out that that was fake news. Fake news! The statue is cherished.
On the National Museum of African American History and Culture:
I am very proud now that we have a museum on the National Mall where people can learn about Reverend King, so many other things.
On Fredrick Douglass, the abolitionist who died in 1895:
Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I noticed.
On other important Civil Rights figures:
Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and millions more black Americans who made America what it is today. Big impact.
On the media:
I don’t watch CNN, so I don’t get to see you as much as I used to. I don’t like watching fake news. But Fox has treated me very nice. Wherever Fox is, thank you.
On all those impoverished Black neighborhoods in America:
We’re gonna need better schools and we need them soon. We need more jobs, we need better wages, a lot better wages. We’re gonna work very hard on the inner city. Ben is gonna be doing that, big league.
On his appeal to African-American voters:
If you remember, I wasn’t going to do well with the African-American community, and after they heard me speaking and talking about the inner city and lots of other things, we ended up getting—and I won’t go into details—but we ended up getting substantially more than other candidates who had run in the past years.
On reality star Omarosa Manigault:
Omarosa’s actually a very nice person. Nobody knows that. I don’t want to destroy her reputation, but she’s a very good person, and she’s been helpful right from the beginning of the campaign, and I appreciate it. I really do. Very special.
mhoffman953
So you classify this quote as awful and shocking: “We’re gonna need better schools and we need them soon. We need more jobs, we need better wages, a lot better wages. We’re gonna work very hard on the inner city. ” ??
You think it’s awful that the President wants better schools, jobs, and wages in the inner cities?
Horse Lips
So you pick the one thing that he said that’s not 100% ridiculous and praise him on it? I’ll wait until I hear how he’s going to achieve those goals before I make up my mind on it.
mhoffman953
@HorseLips I didn’t pick the quote, the author of this article picked that as one of the “10 shockingly awful quotes”. I’m glad we’re in agreement that the quote isn’t ridiculous and should’ve been excluded from the list.
There is this quote too which seems odd that the author would classify it as awful and shocking: “I am very proud now that we have a museum on the National Mall where people can learn about Reverend King”
How is being proud of there being a museum on the National Mall where people can learn about Dr. King shocking and awful? Should we not be proud of this?
CaliKyle
The quote is “awful and shocking” insofar that its appallingly ignorant. The term “inner city” connotes poverty and minority ghettos in American parlance. No “nice schools” are going to be built there nor would they do anything to substantially alter the trajectory or life experiences of the people who live there. No jobs will be coming to the inner cities either. Jobs only come after gentrification, by which point an area is no longer considered “inner city.” What the orange pig fails to comprehend is its exactly his brand of racism, willful ignorance, distortion, hate and greed that created and still maintains every inner city in the US.
Heywood Jablowme
The majority of African-Americans in 2017 live in suburbs.
“Inner city” is a term straight out of the 1970s (where Trump lives!). Among other problems, “inner city” obviously has no relevance to Trump’s native city. Manhattan is so gentrified that Harlem is actually becoming majority-white again after a century. The “inner” parts of Brooklyn and Queens are all gentrified and/or hipster. Washington DC is majority-white again too. Even in Chicago, which Trump loves to hate, the “inner” city is gentrified. In L.A., Watts is no longer majority black.
So he could give up the “Sanford & Son” era lingo, for a start.
mhoffman953
@HeywoodJablowme Where are you getting your facts for those statements? LOL
“Washington, DC is majority-white again too”. Wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Washington,_D.C.
Horse Lips
What a buffoon and an embarrassment.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Off topic (well sorta kinda not) but can’t post it in the relevant in the Queerty 2017 Award thread: the thumbnail you used for Frank Ocean is NOT the correct Black man. Doh!!!!!
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Well done. So you DO listen to feedback.
Blackceo
Jesus Christ does he even know what things Frederick Douglass did? I bet if someone asked his stupid ass he wouldn’t be able name anything except that Douglass was a Republican (old school Republican; not today’s kind of Republican). And he honestly may not even know that. :rolls eyes:
Heywood Jablowme
I bet he thinks Frederick Douglass is that black guy who invented peanut butter!
Kangol
“Big impact.” That’s putting it really, really simply!
not a clone
let me say this like the current leader of the USA… they choose big quotes. really big quotes. Made think me. change lives it did, name black people who are huge, done many things for black people. Be proud, vote me next time. ……
Damnn my head hurt
RIGay
I do not let this moron or his surrogates into my life. I do not read his tweets or the firestorms that erupt following them. I DVR the nightly news so that I can fast forward through any disgusting noise coming from the disgusting mouth of this disgusting man. I subscribe to my local news paper and I research and read issues and matters that impact my community and State.
Collectively, we have allowed ourselves to subscribe to the distraction that is this administration. We are being played. Please rewind the tape and let’s start back several months when the US Intelligence community released the report of the massive impact the Russians had on our government agencies and this most recent election.
What we have allowed ourselves to get distracted from was this: A hostile, foreign nation state had infiltrated our government agencies, possibly corrupted the leadership of a political party and most assuredly assisted the political campaign of of one candidate. When you have US Government officials knowingly assisting a foreign nation state with the detrimental impact to our constitutional democracy, that, folks, is what is known as treason. We have allowed all the bluster and noise from this current administration to detract us from that point, and we need to move back onto it. We MUST push for a full, bi-partisan investigation of the FBI, the RNC and the Donald Trump campaign, including all financial records.
Let’s start there. Again.
#ITMFA
Captain Obvious
True but you need to go back a lot further because this all started with and was made possible by the Bush family. At this point we the citizens are pretty much powerless and being monitored 24/7. You can easily be taken out and no one would know you died of anything but natural causes. They seem to have a thing for cancer lately.
At this point we just have to go through it or give up and leave this mess of a country.