Donald Trump Jr Claims Black Men Call Him 'Hero' All The Time

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At some level, Black individuals are going to get good and bored with white conservatives making us their taste of the week subject each election season. Many people are already there. Many people are already rolling our eyes into the again of our heads each time white Republicans attempt to present solidarity with the Black collective in essentially the most self-serving, superficial, condescending, manipulative, downright insulting, and, in fact, racist AF methods possible—all whereas leveling white nationalist propaganda towards Black Lives Matter, essential race idea, non-whitewashed Black historical past, variety, fairness, inclusion, and the Black vernacular-derived phrase “woke.”

Once they’re making an attempt to snag our votes, we’re out of the blue their finest pals, and in the event that they don’t even have Black pals to point out off—their imaginary Black pals must do.

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Throughout a latest episode of the right-wing podcast “Triggered,” Donald Trump Jr. took a web page out of his father’s “The Blacks Love Me” ebook and claimed that Black males randomly stroll as much as him and never solely categorical their admiration for him, however they declare him their “hero.”

“I journey all around the nation, I fly industrial,” Trump Jr. stated. “I’ve seen and witnessed, now greater than ever, the quantity of African-American males which have come as much as me, actually like, ‘Hey man, you’re my hero.’ I’m like, ‘What? Like, actually?’ I didn’t have that in my bingo card.”

Now, technically talking, we will’t show that Trump is mendacity, identical to we couldn’t technically show Marjorie Taylor Greene was all KK-Kap when she claimed an African American airline worker named “African American Muhammad” approached her to ship his regards to Trump senior.

For the document, we can also’t technically show an invisible, intangible pink giraffe named “Pink Giraffe Muntumbo” exists—however we will use our frequent sense.

Frequent sense ought to inform us that it’s extra seemingly MTG riffled by the Rolodex in her head trying to find each stereotypically Black identify she knew to bolster her lie than it’s that she truly bumped right into a Black man named Muhammad who launched himself as “African American Muhammad” simply in case she couldn’t see along with her personal eyes that he was African American—which she couldn’t as a result of that imaginary negro DID NOT EXIST!

Likewise, by frequent sense, we will decide that Trump Jr. oversold his already hard-to-believe Black good friend fiction by claiming Black males usually strategy him and name him their “hero,” even though he has carried out zero acts of heroics, particularly not within the Black group. Until you’re as delusional as a lot of the Trump household persistently proves themselves to be, it’s clear that Trump Jr. was unable to inform his tall story with out his raging white savior advanced giving him away.

Suffice it to say, the overwhelming response from non-MAGA cultists to Trump Jr’s Miss Millie impersonation was clear: We don’t imagine you, you want extra non-imaginary individuals!

It’s value stating that when Trump Jr. isn’t pretending Black males are dry-humping the bottom he walks on all over the place he goes, he’s buying and selling racist, anti-Black emails along with his equally racist and anti-Black pals, evaluating Michelle Obama to an NFL linebacker, and blaming DEI for airplanes falling aside despite the fact that pilots and flight engineers are at present round 92% white and male, based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Actually, it’s been a protracted couple of weeks for Caucasian conservatives who want they’d actual Black supporters and the precise Black people who find themselves struggling their white nonsense. We’ve had a Fox Information host declare the elder Trump’s ugly-ass $400 “Air Treasons” would entice Black voters as a result of “Black individuals love sneakers.” Final weekend, Trump repeated his racist claims that his mugshot and legal indictments have earned him avenue cred with Black individuals throughout an look on the Black Conservative Federation Gala in South Carolina, which, by all accounts, had a largely white viewers.

All these individuals do is show they don’t truly see Black individuals as individuals. We’re extra like political utilities to them. We’re the equal of seasonal apparel to be worn out after which discarded into the again corners of their closets till we’re in style once more.

All they do is show their bigotry and make issues up—together with the Black individuals who help them.