My mind is still staggering over the implications of this Tweet:
Our great African American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2015
Several thoughts occur to me all at once:
- Is that really from him? Can I trust that little blue check mark as confirmation? Could this actually be from someone who actual Americans have actually considered for president — a fact which continues to amaze me, but which is undeniably true? And they’re not that rare! I even met one of them once, a young man who said he liked The Donald’s “commonsense philosophy.”
- Boy, Richard Cohen really nailed it this morning when he said that the GOP needs Trump to run, to make the other candidates look good.
- Nice of him to call the president “great.” Or did he just mean, you know, “great for an African-American?”
- How is Barack Obama responsible for the actions of African-Americans when, according to Trump, he’s not one of them? He’s from Kenya, right?
- Finally — and this is the one that worries me — is this the new standard? Is this a rule now? Because if Obama is responsible for the behavior of all black people, that means the world is going to start looking to me… to do something about Donald Trump! I mean, not only am I white, but my first name is Donald! And Obama’s responsible for everybody named “Hussein,” right?
I can’t handle that kind of responsibility. How do I opt out?
By the way, this Tweet was brought to my attention by Bakari Sellers, who said, “Somebody is back to trying to be like George Wallace again.”
No, now see, that’s not fair — to George Wallace. He did a lot of bad stuff, but did he ever Tweet anything that dumb? No, he did not. Technically.
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Right about now, Trump is going, “Bakari Sellers? Bakari? Where’s HE from, with a name like that?”
The Donald is not concerned with the little people like this state legislator person you refer to.
BTWs, isn’t his current wife’s ten years almost up?
Anybody not already aware of D Trump’s character and judgement issues hasn’t been paying attention. It looks as though he may be seeking new depths.
Exactly! Trump has not the slightest noblesse oblige. rather, like Obama, he merely has his “ennoblement”.