Trump’s Racism Is Not Blundering — It Is Tactically Deliberate
By William Rivers Pitt (Truthout)*
Donald Trump is a giant flapping racist and doesn’t give a single damn if that bothers you. Given this reality, it is important to note that when Trump dispensed with all pretense and held a one-man Sunday morning Klan rally on Twitter, it was not a blunder on his part.
When he dug his heels in on Monday morning and said the women of color he insulted were the ones who owed an apology, it was not an oops.
When asked pointedly by reporters on Monday if he was bothered that white nationalists have been celebrating his outburst, Trump replied, “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me. And all I’m saying, they want to leave, they can leave.” It was not a mis-statement.