Trump's First 100 Days

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(02-16-2017, 05:18 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Yet some will view this as an opportunity to paint trump a racist.

I'd agree, that is thin. The better way to paint him a racist still is the creation of the very racially inclined birther movement. Whenever Obama is called a Kenyan muslim, it's the direct consequence of Mr. Trumps efforts, and there's no reason I can see to call that consequence unintended. I do not like to throw the term around lightly, but that is a racist move.
Then there's follow-ups. Implying a judge is biased cause he has a Mexican name, that muslim wifes of US citizens might not be allowed to talk, not renting to black people in 1973 (yeah, others were racist at that time, too). Then there's not knowing David Duke, which makes the claim he doesn't know people far more believable - or the claim he doesn't know David Duke unbelievable - but one of those two things. He connects Mexican immigrants to crimes they bring to the country and makes up with a pic of him grinning in front of a taco bowl, because, well, that's how Mexicans roll. He chose the jewish star as symbol for corruption. Oh and there's Steve Bannon.

And from that on, things - all things - appear in a different light. Which is to be expected. And it's not liberal butthurt or being close-minded, but a very well argueable deduction. 
To counter that? He himself said he is the least racist person people have EVER SEEN. (Everyone else is more racist than him, then, which is an absurd claim and hence an absurd defense), and he has great connections to the black community. So there's that, the black friends.

A racist running for president could probably not behave any more racist without losing even anti-liberal non-racists like yourself. This was the outsider's perpective. Carry on.