Even when we had been to consider Donald Trump’s declare that he didn’t see the vile image of Barack and Michelle Obama portrayed as jungle apes at the end of the video that was re-posted on his social media account last Thursday, he and his minions can’t evade accountability for his or her oafish, clear lying and juvenile, undignified habits, to not point out their obtuse and apparent prejudices in opposition to anybody who is just not a member of their tribe.
When the accusations of racism started to fly in response to the video, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in her usual sneering manner, called it “fake outrage.” She needed to backtrack when it turned out that a kind of whose outrage was something however faux was Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a Trump-supporting Black conservative. Scott mentioned posting the Obama picture was “probably the most racist factor” he had but seen come out of the White Home.
White Home staffers then switched ways and blamed an unnamed workers member for sending out the racist picture below the president’s title by “mistake.” On the similar time, the president, himself, refused to apologize for the picture and, as an alternative, praised the message that preceded the malicious defamation of the Obamas – that message being yet one more lunatic declare that American elections are rigged and the 2020 presidential vote depend was a fraud.
A brand new degree of craziness was achieved when Leavitt and different Trump defenders absurdly claimed that the picture was actually not what it gave the impression to be – the most recent in numerous depictions of Black individuals as monkeys and apes. Relatively, it confirmed the Obamas as characters from Disney’s “The Lion King,” they insisted.
The plain drawback with that cowl story is that there aren’t any apes in “The Lion King.”
Trump and his knuckleheaded enablers have confirmed once more that they lack integrity, generosity, humility and good style. Their juvenile antics are a humiliation. However actually, it’s a lot worse than that. In an interview with the Related Press, Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, lower to the rotten core of the issue in Trump’s White Home:
“They don’t inform the reality. If there wasn’t a local weather, a poisonous and racist local weather throughout the White Home, we wouldn’t see such a habits no matter who it’s coming from. … Right here we’re, within the 12 months 2026, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA of America, the a centesimal anniversary of the commemoration of Black historical past, and that is what comes out of the White Home on a Friday morning. It’s beneath all of us.”
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