Trump Speech Comparing Himself To Nelson Mandela Goes Viral

Former President and 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally on the New England Sports activities Heart in Derry, New Hampshire, on October 23, 2023. | Supply: JOSEPH PREZIOSO / Getty

It’s troublesome to not assume that when white individuals and Republicans examine themselves to iconic Black civil rights leaders they’re not deliberately gaslighting Black individuals. That needs to be the case, proper? There may be simply no manner these individuals spend a lot time utilizing their platforms to disclaim systemic racism solely to show round and liken themselves to people who find themselves recognized for his or her fights in opposition to systemic racism until their intent is to get beneath Black individuals’s pores and skin figuratively and metaphorically. Between white conservatives continuously invoking their whitewashed model of Martin Luther King, evaluating themselves to Rosa Parks and co-opting the “two Americas” narrative—which they dismiss as important race concept “wokeness” at any time when Black individuals level it out—it’s simply plainly clear these persons are taking part in round in our faces whereas pretending it’s white Republicans who are actually beneath the Jim Crow gun.

Anyway, Donald Trump is out right here calling himself Nelson Mandela.

From CNN:

Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, sought to color himself as a sufferer of political persecution, telling a crowd of supporters at a Derry, New Hampshire, rally, “I don’t thoughts being Nelson Mandela, as a result of I’m doing it for a purpose.”

The comment from Trump, who has been indicted 4 instances and faces 91 felony prices throughout the circumstances, got here after he filed to seem on the presidential poll in New Hampshire.

The previous president’s self-comparison to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning anti-apartheid activist builds on his declare at an Iowa marketing campaign occasion final week that he can be “prepared to go to jail, if that’s what it takes for our nation to win and change into a democracy once more.”

To start with, let’s simply analyze this quote: “I don’t thoughts being Nelson Mandela, as a result of I’m doing it for a purpose.”

Yeah—Mandela went to jail for 27 years as a result of he led an armed resistance in opposition to the powers that be in apartheid South Africa. If Trump goes to jail, it will likely be as a result of he was discovered responsible of mishandling categorised paperwork or as a result of he’s lastly being held accountable for his mood tantrum-turned-alleged conspiracy to overturn the presidential race that he legally misplaced. Not solely is Trump laughably evaluating himself to a revolutionary who fought actual oppression (to not point out the identical model of white nationalism that MAGA represents), however he’s pretending to take action within the title of “democracy,” which he demonstrably tried to avoid so as to stay in energy after he was voted out.

Significantly, if Trump goes to check himself to anybody, it needs to be the individuals who put Mandela in jail, not the person himself.