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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 11:51 AM Oct 2017

Is 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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Is Donald Trump A White Supremacist? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 OP
I don't think for one second Trump is actually a white supremacist. Calista241 Oct 2017 #1
Does this sound like a white supremacist ? DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 #3
Don't white supremacists have a special dislike for Jewish people? Calista241 Oct 2017 #5
He actually insulted both African Americans and Jews with that comment. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 #8
I don't think Trump spent 1/100th the amount of time thinking about that comment as we have. Calista241 Oct 2017 #11
Agree, Calista. It's all about him to a pathologic degree. Hortensis Oct 2017 #16
I have great genes, and all that stuff. ret5hd Oct 2017 #9
I don't think he's technically a white supremacist.... UltravioletDingo Oct 2017 #2
Without question bronxiteforever Oct 2017 #4
Yes. H2O Man Oct 2017 #6
I don't think he has given any thought to any ideology other than Narcissism Va Lefty Oct 2017 #7
Bingo, Va lefty!!! Rump's ruled by wants and needs, Hortensis Oct 2017 #14
You will be known by the company you keep. SaveOurDemocracy Oct 2017 #10
I don't know if he is a White Supremacist, but he is definitely a bigot HopeAgain Oct 2017 #12
Dude writing his speeches flashes it all the time lunasun Oct 2017 #13
No. He is a Trump Supremacist, and is an... Whiskeytide Oct 2017 #15
His daddy was a clucker and he's a f--ker. Historic NY Oct 2017 #17
Technically, he is an orange supremacist elehhhhna Oct 2017 #18
He's a world class racist but... lame54 Oct 2017 #19
I don't see how. Dr. Strange Oct 2017 #20
Is water wet? Gothmog Oct 2017 #21

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
3. Does this sound like a white supremacist ?
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 11:54 AM
Oct 2017
"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."

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
8. He actually insulted both African Americans and Jews with that comment.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:01 PM
Oct 2017

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)
11. I don't think Trump spent 1/100th the amount of time thinking about that comment as we have.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:05 PM
Oct 2017

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)
16. Agree, Calista. It's all about him to a pathologic degree.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:18 PM
Oct 2017

Pretty funny that people capable of being passionate white supremacists are more functional, whole people than this miswired fraction of a man.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. Bingo, Va lefty!!! Rump's ruled by wants and needs,
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:11 PM
Oct 2017

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)
10. You will be known by the company you keep.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:03 PM
Oct 2017

His words and actions have supported and legitimized people and ideas that promote white supremacy.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
12. I don't know if he is a White Supremacist, but he is definitely a bigot
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:06 PM
Oct 2017

Hairsplitting, I know, but there is a difference.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
13. Dude writing his speeches flashes it all the time
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:06 PM
Oct 2017


Some choose to also be bind besides deaf to trumps speeches I guess

Whiskeytide

(4,461 posts)
15. No. He is a Trump Supremacist, and is an...
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:16 PM
Oct 2017

... 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.

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