ChJoe wrote:
Again, from the time Trump decided to run, what are his racist acts/comments/etc?
well joe, in order to have room for such a list, we first must filter it to group or subject.
This is short only looking at two categories..
https://gen.medium.com/trump-keeps-saying-racist-things-heres-the-ever-growing-list-of-examples-21774f6749a4On Black people
August 2016: Trump told Black voters: “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?” His claim was untrue on many levels, not least of which was that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for young Black people at that time was only 19.2%.
October 2016: Trump often acts like majority Black cities in the United States are war zones. “Our inner cities are a disaster,” Trump said. “You get shot walking to the store. They have no education, they have no jobs.”
August 2018: Trump routinely deploys the racist trope that Black men are less intelligent. “LeBron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon,” he tweeted. “He made LeBron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!”
July 2019: After Elijah Cummings criticized the conditions of immigrant detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump called the Maryland congressman’s district a “disgusting, rat, and rodent infested mess” and “far worse and more dangerous” than the detention centers. The district is majority Black and includes a large swath of Baltimore.
October 2019: Trump called the impeachment inquiry against him a “lynching,” comparing the constitutionally sanctioned process to the extrajudicial murders of Black Americans following the Civil War. According to the NAACP, there were 4,743 recorded lynchings between 1882 and 1968. Roughly three-quarters of the victims were African American, with lynchings used as a weapon to terrorize the Black community.
May 2020: Trump took to Twitter to express his displeasure with the anti-racism protests around the country following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans. “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way,” he wrote. “Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” The phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” has a racist history, being used before by a white police chief in response to civil unrest and a segregationist politician. Twitter placed a warning on the tweet, saying it “violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.”
June 2020: Trump called anti-racism protesters “looters, thugs” and “others forms of Lowlife & Scum” on Twitter. Later that month, at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he called demonstrators in the city “thugs,” even though police reports said protests in the city had in in fact been peaceful.
On Asian people
March 2020: As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the country, Trump insisted on calling the disease “the Chinese virus,” playing right into old racist tropes.
May 2020: At a press briefing, CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang asked Trump why he continued to falsely claim the U.S. was doing testing for the coronavirus at higher rates than other countries. She asked: “Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives?” In return, Trump deflected the question before telling Jiang, who is Chinese-American: “They’re losing their lives everywhere in the world, and maybe that’s a question you should ask China. Don’t ask me, ask China that question, OK?” When Jiang pressed him on is response, Trump said he would give the same answer to “anybody that asks a nasty question.” He then abruptly ended the briefing.
June 2020: Trump called Covid-19 the “kung flu” at his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally.