Charlottesville…
Don’t look now, but Donald Trump is once again speaking about the Charlottesville white nationalist march from a month ago.
Current Events
After failing THREE TIMES to properly address the whites who staged the Charlottesville event, Trump tried to have it both ways. First, he delivered a lukewarm (and barely believable) statement against racism to the American public. Then, he offered a wink-and-a-nod message to the bigots who participated (most of whom helped him get elected) that all was OK. Trump’s straddling of the fence not only earned him the ire of most rational thinking people, but also a tongue lashing last week from Republican Sen. Tim Scott, the only African-American in the Senate.
Following that meeting, Trump proved that his word was simply not good enough by signing a congressional resolution condemning the Charlottesville march.
“I oppose hatred, bigotry, and racism in all forms,” Trump said in the odd contract. However, if you blinked, you might have missed that “The Donald” was STILL trying to have his cake and eat it too. He couldn’t just condemn racists and be done with it. He had to bring up the anti-fascist “Antifa” movement and compare them to white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK.
“I think especially in light of the advent of Antifa, if you look at what’s going on there, you know, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also,” Trump said. “A lot of people are saying — in fact, a lot of people have actually written — ‘Gee, Trump might have a point.’ I said, you got some very bad people on the other side also, which is true.”
The man simply can’t help himself.
Additionally, Trump FINALLY acknowledged and honored Heather Heyer, who was killed when a car driven by a racist demonstrator was purposely driven into a crowd of protesters. In each of his prior statements, Trump went to great lengths to defend the white nationalists, but failed to even speak of the woman who lost her life at the hands of bigots.
The joint resolution, which was sponsored by Democratic Virginia senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, was largely ceremonial. It condemned the events of Charlottesville as a “domestic terror attack” and urged Trump to “speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and White supremacy.”
Too bad he needed to sign a contract in order to prove he’s (supposedly) not in support of racism.
DJ:
The man simply can’t help himself. […]
Yep. That pretty much says it all about the guy.
And his signature on this resolution, in particular, isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.