Trump's First 100 Days

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(02-20-2017, 03:37 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You are correct. It makes so much more sense to roll with "He did because Obama is Black!" You guys keep pushing that and I'll believe he did for political reasons, none of which had to do with skin color. But like I said: "Good luck trying to get a liberal not to call someone they disagree with a racist."

Well of course he did it for political reasons to some degree. That fact alone, per se, doesn't make it any less racist. Or, if it was more about the name as you imply, it doesn't make it any less islamophobic.
When a demagogue uses the racial or religious bias of a fan base to rally them up, that is racist/islamophobic behaviour, hence said demagogue is racist/islamophobic. Said demagogue can not excuse himself by saying "I'm not actually a racist, I just used the existing racial (or islamophobic) bias of my supporters to gain political profit. They are the racists, I just benefitted from that, hence my shirt is clean." That is not a reasonable point to make.