Trump Posts Videos With Black Celebs To Prove He's Not Racist

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Final week, President Donald Trump drew large backlash and allegations of racism after he — or anyone on the White Home workers, because the administration has claimed — posted to his Reality Social account a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The AI-generated clip — which appeared on the finish of a conspiracy video that advised that 2020 election voting machines had been rigged towards Trump (so, yeah, he’s nonetheless on that nonsense) — was so outrageous that even GOP Sen. Tim Scott took a break from making an attempt to faucet dance his means into the president’s coronary heart and declared that the submit was “probably the most racist factor I’ve seen out of this White Home.”

However worry not, Trump haters, Trump lovers and Black MAGAs who simply need their seat on the white nationalist desk (or not less than a job serving ice-cold glasses of Kool-Help), the president desires you to know he’s not racist, and to show it, he posted a video reel of all of the Black celebrities he has been photographed with through the years.

OK, initially, I simply need to level out that Trump was so determined to show his solidarity with the Black neighborhood that he didn’t even have the forethought to edit out his photograph with Sean “Diddy” Combs, as if that’s the type of affiliation one must put on the market after they’re already reportedly named within the redacted Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata greater than 3,000 occasions, and, in keeping with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), “greater than one million occasions” within the unredacted recordsdata.

The reel additionally included a photograph of Trump and Oprah Winfrey, who, simply final 12 months, Trump threatened with a federal investigation for her assist of his 2024 presidential opponent, former VP Kamala Harris. He’s additionally pictured with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and different folks on the opposite finish of the political spectrum, whom he wouldn’t douse along with his lip sweat in the event that they had been on fireplace.

This would possibly simply be among the most determined “however…however…however…I’ve Black pals” nonsense I’ve seen on this scale, and, as I wrote in December, after Trump randomly declared “Black folks love me” throughout a speech that was presupposed to concentrate on affordability, ” I really want this grand wizard of a president to cease pretending he hasn’t devoted his second time period to addressing white grievance, spreading hate speech towards Somalis and Haitians, barring Black South Africans from migrating right here whereas welcoming their white counterparts with open arms, making certain that his anti-DEI conflict relegates us to no matter he thinks “Black jobs” are, stiffing HBCUs on funding, sending the navy into our cities towards the need of residents and that of metropolis and state leaders, and mendacity about largely fictitious rises in crime to justify it.”

To not point out that his administration has spent its first 12 months and a few change in workplace purging Nationwide Parks and different government-controlled establishments of Black historical past displays on the president’s behest.

If we’re being sincere, posting an outline of the Obamas as apes is definitely one among Trump’s extra comparatively delicate acts of racism. The president is demonstrably a white nationalist who’s working a white nationalist regime. No quantity of photo-ops with Black celebrities will change that.