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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAllegations of racism have marked Trump's presidency and become key issue as election nears
In unguarded moments with senior aides, President Trump has maintained that Black Americans have mainly themselves to blame in their struggle for equality, hindered more by lack of initiative than societal impediments, according to current and former U.S. officials.
After phone calls with Jewish lawmakers, Trump has muttered that Jews are only in it for themselves and stick together in an ethnic allegiance that exceeds other loyalties, officials said.
Trumps private musings about Hispanics match the vitriol he has displayed in public, and his antipathy to Africa is so ingrained that when first lady Melania Trump planned a 2018 trip to that continent he railed that he could never understand why she would want to go there.
When challenged on these views by subordinates, Trump has invariably responded with indignation. He would say, No one loves Black people more than me,? a former senior White House official said. The protests rang hollow because if the president were truly guided by such sentiments he wouldnt need to say it, the official said. You let your actions speak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-race-record/2020/09/23/332b0b68-f10f-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
After phone calls with Jewish lawmakers, Trump has muttered that Jews are only in it for themselves and stick together in an ethnic allegiance that exceeds other loyalties, officials said.
Trumps private musings about Hispanics match the vitriol he has displayed in public, and his antipathy to Africa is so ingrained that when first lady Melania Trump planned a 2018 trip to that continent he railed that he could never understand why she would want to go there.
When challenged on these views by subordinates, Trump has invariably responded with indignation. He would say, No one loves Black people more than me,? a former senior White House official said. The protests rang hollow because if the president were truly guided by such sentiments he wouldnt need to say it, the official said. You let your actions speak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-race-record/2020/09/23/332b0b68-f10f-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
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Allegations of racism have marked Trump's presidency and become key issue as election nears (Original Post)
demmiblue
Sep 2020
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)1. Not "key" enough, imo. n/t
-Laelth
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)2. "Allegations"
Good God.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,766 posts)3. K&R