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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Donald Trump A White Supremacist?
"Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes... Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else ... Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that's guy's lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks."
-Donald Trump
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Calista241
(5,586 posts)But he knows where his votes come from.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)His comment suggests the former are preternaturally bad with money and the latter are preternaturally good with it. It portrays the African American as Sambo and the Jew as Shylock.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)And i suspect Trump accusing a class of people of being "good with money" would to him be a major compliment. He seems to care more about money than anything else.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Pretty funny that people capable of being passionate white supremacists are more functional, whole people than this miswired fraction of a man.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)UltravioletDingo
(65 posts)But he doesn't appear to hate it either.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)H2O Man
(73,558 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)including an unrestrained, unexamined indulgence in his biases.
But imo he's literally incapable of focusing beyond himself to larger groups enough to develop a supremacist ideology. Or, as said, any ideology at all.
He does clearly prefer to be surrounded by white men, is clearly biased in their favor, and clearly sees them as at least somewhat superior to others. But that's not an ideology, and it's not a goal even for his party.
SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)His words and actions have supported and legitimized people and ideas that promote white supremacy.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Hairsplitting, I know, but there is a difference.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Some choose to also be bind besides deaf to trumps speeches I guess
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... opportunistic asshole coddling votes and "ratings". He would throw the White Supremacists under the bus in a heartbeat if it somehow looked to benefit him and give him a bump in the polls. He would throw ANYONE under that same bus for the same reason.
He's a narcissistic, selfish, emotionally stunted coward. His deep insecurities about being a failure at just about everything he's ever tried to do can only be pushed aside if he can feed his fantasies about how people love him. And he doesn't know what "love" is because he's personally incapable of that emotion. The cheering of a crowd of white supremacists is, in his mind, "love". So he supports them for the cheers. If PETA members came out in droves and cheered him, he'd support them too.
I don't think he's loyal to the United States, his staff, his business partners, Russia, Putin, Bannon, republicans, republican policy, or even the 1%. He's loyal to himself and his perceived image. Period. No deeper psychological analysis is needed.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)lame54
(35,292 posts)Nothing Supreme about him
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)He's one of the biggest arguments against white supremacy that I've just about ever seen.