Late Thursday night, President Donald Trump posted a short video which included a horrifically racist image portraying former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes.
This was ugly and inexcusable, but not exactly a surprise. Trump has been a vile racist for his entire adult life and has said and promoted vile racism over his last 10 years in and out of the White House. This time, though, was different — not really because of the content, but because of the backlash from within his own party.
The video and its racism were denounced by a wide range of Republicans, including staunch Trump allies. As far as the GOP is concerned, the disgusting video seems to be the worst thing Trump has done since the 2021 insurrection.
If Obama had done this most of America would be calling for impeachment but since it’s a white old fart it seems that doesn’t apply to him…
“He grew up in different times.”
he grew up ??
Physically, yes. Mentally, no.
Practically every controversial thing trump has done would’ve gotten anyone else into scalding hot water. With him, it almost strengthens him. The absolute only way things could’ve been sensible is if “grab them by the pussy” would’ve ended his political career. I feel pretty confident it strengthened his popularity by a lot. Even women were defending him. Listening back to some older podcasts recently where they’re talking about that, it was bizarre how people explained that shit away. “It clearly was locker room talk, he just was saying women liked him” 🤮
People actually defended him on the “they’re sending their rapists and murderers” speech too, saying it was a lie that it was racist. If he had decades of being a normal human and never saying anything racist, I could kind of see a possibility he used bad language and didn’t mean it that way, however the context of Trump is he’s been known to be racist for decades and he literally did zero things to back off of those comments. He doubled down on the racism and almost always has…
I don’t know what the future holds, and the actual damage done is awful, but the precedents set may be actually worse.