Donald Trump says he wants to ‘Make America Great Again.’Â However, his fiddling with the upcoming 2020 census proves he’s merely attempting to Make America WHITE Again!
Politics
Trump and his Republican “yes-men” have been pushing hard to add a citizenship question to the census in order to benefit themselves. Last month, the US Supreme Court voted to block the additional question from being added to the 2020 census, however, King Trump blatantly announced that he may ignore their ruling and do it anyway.
Proponents say the citizenship question would single-out the identity and whereabouts of undocumented immigrants, while critics claim the citizenship question would lead to an inaccurate count of people per district and would intimidate noncitizens into simply discarding the census and refusing to answer.
According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Trump’s repeated push to add a citizenship question to the upcoming 2020 census is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to “make America white again.” In fact, she went so far as to accuse Republicans of trying to suppress the vote and gerrymander districts so that “just their people vote and not the general population.”
“That’s why they’re fighting the census,” Pelosi said on Monday. “But this is about keeping — you know, Make America, you know his hat — Make America White Again. They want to make sure that people, certain people, are counted,” she added.
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, US attorney general and Trump flunkie William Barr announced on Monday that Trump will decide within the next day or so if he intends to overrule the court and proceed with the census question anyway. His words and Trump’s attempt to trample all over the constitution infuriated Speaker Pelosi.
“The Supreme Court did not rule in their favor because they said the administration did not give sufficient evidence as to why the census citizenship question should be there,” she said. “So they kicked the can, and then the administration said, ‘OK we won’t put it on there,’ and then the President injected himself into this.”
Census data is designed to decide how to allocate federal resources and draw congressional districts. By toying with a citizenship question, Donald Trump sees it as a way to weed out illegals while Republicans see it as a way to gerrymander and redraw districts to their advantage.
Could Pelosi be setting a trap for Trump? Could she be daring him to add the census citizenship question in direct defiance of the US Supreme Court? After all, an act of this magnitude by a sitting president would undeniably be grounds for impeachment.
Stay tuned…
Lordy, do we ever have a Colossal nightmare on our hands! A tiny little insecure Fake alpha man-child driven mostly by Fear, Ignorance and Hate occupies the White House and WE, the majority of the people, are held hostage in his twisted little world.
And here’s the part that really churns my stomach – that mucked-up man-child could actually get re-elected in 2020 IF the majority of American voters dismiss the possibility of that happening and treat it as such.
At least 100 million voters sat home (and did NOT vote) in 2016. How many voters will do it again in 2020?
We shall see.