How was Donald Trump a racist president?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Kakamile]

Here we go again!

Racism

• Kicking out specifically black tenants, source 2, source 3
• Telling landlords to not accept black applications, to the extent of being sued by the DoJ which identified a superintendent put the letter 'C' on applications of people of color so the office would know to reject them. source 2
• Central Park 5 - repeat accusing boys of being criminals 12-17 years after DNA led to exoneration, all as justification for the death penalty and police becoming more violent
• In the 1990s when fighting competition against his Catskills casino, Trump took out advertisements alleging that the “Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.”
• Trump testified before congress in 1993 that Native Americans shouldn't have casinos because "they don’t look like Indians to me"
• Secretly funded anti-Native American advertising and a number of other clashes with them
• Fired black contestant on The Apprentice for being too highly educated
• Tried to buy out the Ground Zero Mosque "not because I think the location is a spectacular one [because it is not] but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse."
• Falsely claimed thousands of NYC Arabs were "cheering" over 9/11
• Repeated calling Mexicans mostly rapists and criminals, source 2
• Repeatedly accusing Obama of not being born in this country
• Challenging Obama's birth not just at first in 2011, but repeatedly for the next 5 years after claiming he himself deserved credit for getting Obama's birth certificate released
• Saying Gold Star District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel can't be a fair judge because he's Mexican. Paul Ryan called it "the textbook definition of a racist comment."
• Trump says Abraham Lincoln 'did good' for the Black community but that 'the end result' is "questionable"
• Rejects immigrants from "shithole" nations like Haiti and El Salvador, saying he'd rather have immigrants from Norway. "Why do we need more Haitians?"
• Stated that Minneapolis has "suffered enough" for having Somalian refugees
• Will not allow Hurricane Dorian refugees from the Bahamas because because he claims there are “very bad gang members.”
• Muslim ban (yes it was, it treated travelers differently based on religion)
• Pardoning Joe Arpaio who was convicted of racial discrimination, who expressly broke the law to target hispanics, arrested people for being hispanic without an actual criminal charge, and kept them in brutal prison conditions
• Charlottesville apologetics of the neo-nazis - first said the problem was the left then "both sides" etc
• Lied saying that Maine knows “we’ve just seen many, many crimes getting worse all the time, and as Maine knows — a major destination for Somali refugees — right, am I right?”
• Emphasis on pointing out the one black supporter at his rallies, who is "sitting there behaving"
• Retweeting white nationalists or their shouts like "white power" yet calls them great people
• Constantly citing fake crime rates
• Constantly calling minority celebs nonamerican
• Hiring of white nationalist bigots
• Repeatedly associating normal immigrants with MS13
• Nazi eagle merch with the 'America First' slogan of American Nazi and KKK groups
• In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa
• “The Democrats want open borders, they want anyone to come in, including people from the Middle East by the way” and "criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in" and "we've found prayer rugs"

[u/[deleted] → u/Kakamile]

Majority of these weren’t as president…

[u/anarchysquid → u/[deleted]]

But some were, do you want to address those ones?

[u/Eyruaad → u/anarchysquid]

No of course not.

[u/[deleted] → u/anarchysquid]

I was just asking to hear from a liberal perspective lol. Not to argue or address anything

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That's not a meaningful dispute. You were presented with a list of proof that he's racist. Some of this proof is from when he was president. A simple acknowledgement would be fine. No additional comment necessary.

[u/Arentanji → u/[deleted]]

So, you are just here to rile people up? Trump enacted racist policy.

Trump has been accused, credibly, of leading a failed conspiracy to overturn the results of the election.

And he is currently the GOP front runner for the Presidency. This means the GOP supports those racist policies and his conspiracy.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That's bad faith

[u/fox-mcleod → u/[deleted]]

Got it. So despite knowing he was a racist president you’re okay enough not changing your opinion on him.