President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive.
The Republican president’s Thursday night post was deleted Friday and blamed on a staffer after widespread backlash, from civil rights leaders to veteran Republican senators, for its treatment of the nation’s first Black president and first lady. The deletion, a rare admission of a misstep by the White House, came hours after press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed “fake outrage” over the post. After calls for its removal for being racist -- including by Republicans -- the White House said a staffer had posted the video erroneously and it had been taken down.
A photo of the staffer has leaked:
And to those of you who hav only now realized that Our Klansman-in-Chief is a gutter racist and has been all of this life:
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Have you noticed that when a Trump post gets him in trouble it's invariably blamed on a staffer. He can never screw up himself.
In every case where he called someone stupid, he was providing an example
and object lesson. But he has the power to be abusive snot. We let him get
away with it.
Eck!
Some staffie isn’t rage-posting in the middle of the night. It was all him.
Funny how those double standards work. Folks like you and your fellows despise Trump, and post shit that shows him as all sorts of characters and depicts him in very insulting ways.
Yet you then use a different standards when he posts something that insults one of your heroes and depicts them in a bad way.
Neither is right, both are bad behavior...but at least use the same standards when judging. Your shit is as insulting and just as bad (and more prevalent) as this, which puts you in a foaming outrage. If you think the current outrage is bad then you should be ashamed of the crap you post about him and other political figures you disagree with.
Judge yourself by the same standards. If you think it is bad, then stop doing it yourself.
Else you are a hypocrite.
If you can’t discern the difference between an insult and racism, then here’s an example:
Insult: You are one stupid motherfucker, B.
Racist insult: You are one stupid cracker motherfucker, B.
Can you see the difference?
I can. My statement stands.
You seem to think that in this instance, just because the "victims" are black, that this is racism.
Odd how you see the connection between black people and monkeys though, innit?
Racism is in the eye of the beholder though.
You can make all the excuses you wish. If one is bad, so is the other.
You must be either incredibly willfully blind or terminally stupid to not know about the racism of equating monkeys and apes with Black people.
But I suspect you're just a disingenuous troll. And an asshole from the top of your head to the soles of your feet.
This is the same shit Fergus always does when he's getting his ass handed to him in the news cycle: he does something so fucked up that it pulls attention away from whatever other fucked up thing he was getting bad press about.
It's a one way ratchet to the worst behavior imaginable, but it does seem to work.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"And an asshole from the top of your head to the soles of your feet"
Only when judged by someone such as yourself who can't hold herself or her side to the same standards by which they judge others.
'tis sad, really that you can't see that.
I'll wear that label you gave me....proudly.
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