17 Times Donald Trump has condemned racism and white supremacy
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Given that 49% of Democrats think that Trump voters are racist and everyone from the news media to Democratic presidential contenders continues to claim that Trump said that white supremacists at Charlottesville were “very fine people,” despite the fact that he clearly said exactly the opposite , it is inevitable that some people will falsely accuse Donald Trump of being a racist. Additionally, since we live in a world where the liberal definition of “white supremacy” seems to be, “A white person who doesn’t vote Democrat,” the accusations of racism from the Left are just par for the course.
(Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)So, how does a man who took a picture in 1986 with Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks when he won an Ellis Island award that is supposed to, “embody the spirit of America in their celebration of patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood, and diversity,” clear his name? How does a man who has donated to (Al) Sharpton’s original organization , the National Youth Movement, cut the ribbon at the 2002 conventions of Sharpton’s current group, the National Action Network, and gave rent-free space to Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition counter the irrational allegations that he’s a white supremacist?
Sure, more than a million black Americans voted for Trump in 2016, he makes frequent efforts to appeal to black Americans (you could ask A$AP Rocky about that) and he takes great pride in having done a better job of helping black Americans than Obama did , but how can he somehow prove that he doesn’t support people and groups he has never supported in the first place? One simple way to do that would seem to be to disavow them and publicly say he doesn’t support their cause.
So, here are 17 times Donald Trump has condemned racism, hate, white supremacism, the Alt-Right, the KKK or David Duke.
1) “I am concerned about the rise of any group of hate. I don’t like it, any group of hate, whether its white supremacy, whether it’s any other kind of supremacy, whether its antifa… I am very concerned about it and I’ll do something about it.” – Business Insider , 8/7/2019
2) “The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul. We have asked the FBI to identify all further resources they need to investigate and disrupt hate crimes and domestic terrorism – whatever they need.” – National Review , 8/06/2019
3) “The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division,” Trump posted on Twitter Saturday morning. “We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!” – USA Today , 8/11/2018
4) “I want to applaud the many protestors in Boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate. Our country will soon come together as one!” – Trump Tweet , 8/19/2017
5) “We will reject bigotry and hatred and oppression in all its forms, and seek a new future built on our common culture and values as one American people.” – Washington Examiner , 6/16/2016
6) “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.” – Trump in his famous remarks about Charlottesville, 8/15/2017
7) “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” – NPR , 8/14/2017
8) “I don’t want to energize the (Alt-Right), and I disavow the group,” Trump told Baquet. “It’s not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why.” Asked point-blank about the conference featuring (Richard) Spencer, Trump again disavowed any support. “I disavow and condemn them,” Trump told Times reporters. He did chide them for continuing to ask about the topic though, telling one questioner: “Boy, you are really into [this issue].” – Politico , 11/22/2016
9) “I don’t like any group of hate. Hate groups are not for me. How many times do I have to reject? I’ve rejected David Duke. I’ve rejected the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan, from the time I’m five-years-old.” – The Washington Examiner , 3/6/2016
10) “I totally disavow the Ku Klux Klan. I totally disavow David Duke.” – The Hill , 3/3/2016
11) “David Duke is a bad person, who I disavowed on numerous occasions over the years, ” Trump said on MSNBC’s “ Morning Joe. ” “ I disavowed him. I disavowed the KKK, ” Trump added. “ Do you want me to do it again for the 12th time? I disavowed him in the past, I disavow him now.” – CNN , 3/3/2016
12) “David Duke and all was disavowed. I disavowed him on Friday. I disavowed them right after that because I thought if there was any question and you take a look at Twitter, almost immediately after on Twitter and Facebook, they were disavowed again. I disavow him every time I speak to somebody virtually and they just keep it going.” – ABC , 3/1/2016
13) “I disavowed David Duke a day before in a major press conference, and I’m saying to myself: How many times do I have to continue to disavow people…” – NBC , 2/29/2016
14) “ David Duke endorsed me? OK, alright. I disavow, OK?” – The Hill , 2/26/2016
15) “I don’t need (David Duke’s) endorsement; I certainly wouldn’t want his endorsement.” – Politico , 8/26/2015
16) “Well, you’ve got David Duke just joined (the Reform Party) – a bigot, a racist, a problem. I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party.” – NBC News , 2/24/2000
17) “I’ve had the chance to learn firsthand about the diversity of American culture, and it has left me with little appetite for those who hate or preach intolerance. One of our next president’s most important goals must be to induce a greater sense of tolerance for diversity.” – Donald Trump in his book, The America We Deserve , published 1/12/2000
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So, how does a man who took a picture in 1986 with Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks when he won an Ellis Island award that is supposed to, “embody the spirit of America in their celebration of patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood, and diversity,” clear his name? How does a man who has donated to (Al) Sharpton’s original organization, the National Youth Movement, cut the ribbon at the 2002 conventions of Sharpton’s current group, the National Action Network, and gave rent-free space to Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition counter the irrational allegations that he’s a white supremacist?
Sure, more than a million black Americans voted for Trump in 2016, he makes frequent efforts to appeal to black Americans (you could ask A$AP Rocky about that) and he takes great pride in having done a better job of helping black Americans than Obama did, but how can he somehow prove that he doesn’t support people and groups he has never supported in the first place? One simple way to do that would seem to be to disavow them and publicly say he doesn’t support their cause.
So, here are 17 times Donald Trump has condemned racism, hate, white supremacism, the Alt-Right, the KKK or David Duke. https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/6718/17-times-donald-trump-has-condemned-racism-and-white-supremacy
All those who call Trump a white nationalist and or a racist are simply liars. All the evidence is against those making such baseless allegations.
Trump is the biggest liar out there.
True, trump will literally say anything to walk back his previous comments. I am not sure what's more stupid, that he does it or that people actually believe it.
Trump is a white nationalist, PERIOD. Christ even former neo-nazis say he is a white nationalist and they would certainly know one when they see one.
His middle initials should be CYA.
Trump is not and has never been and never will be a white nationalist. To call him one now is to deliberately bear false witness against him.
bwah ha ha
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Trump news - live: President endorses man who openly avows white nationalism, collects Nazi relics and called Sandy Hook 'a hoax'
It should be Cover Your Big Fat Stinky Ass when it comes to the 'president'
Now some/most of his supporters are saying he didn't really mean it now that the 'president' is looting Veterans' pension funds and the like to pay for the wall that isn't being built, and that we shouldn't take his word for any of the promises that he made to his rabid base.
Blaming Bill Clinton for the death of Epstein. Bill Clinton has nothing to gain from this. It's this 'president' who has much to gain from Epstein's death. I blame this 'president' for Epstein's death.
Oh, consider it done.
And that has to do with the topic of the seed how exactly?
But it is fine with you when he bear false witness claiming that the Clintons murdered Epstein. Typical.
And you know it's false how? There is a long list of people that have crossed the Clinton's or knew too much about their actions mysteriously dying. Right Vince? Right Seth?
The legendary Clinton’s death list is probably true.
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“The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul. We have asked the FBI to identify all further resources they need to investigate and disrupt hate crimes and domestic terrorism – whatever they need.” – National Review, 8/06/2019
Look at what it's done to this 'president'
More importantly, look how the hatred of just one man has effected the left. They are consumed by their hatred.
Without a doubt, you are exactly right about what you wrote above.
More like that’s what has happened with Trumps disloyal domestic opposition.
You do realize that those are his (Trump’s) own words that you are vainly trying to twist don’t you?
“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” – NPR, 8/14/2017
Sounds like you are describing this 'president to a T.
Actually that was a quote of him regarding his opinion of hate groups and bigots.
Nope, just his domestic opposition...
Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke:
Anyone can say stuff. With Trump we have behaviors: Birtherism, Muslim bans, attacking the transgendered, treating asylum seekers as criminals, separating children, ...
So, how does a man who took a picture in 1986 with Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks when he won an Ellis Island award that is supposed to, “embody the spirit of America in their celebration of patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood, and diversity,” clear his name? How does a man who has donated to (Al) Sharpton’s original organization, the National Youth Movement, cut the ribbon at the 2002 conventions of Sharpton’s current group, the National Action Network, and gave rent-free space to Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition counter the irrational allegations that he’s a white supremacist?
Sure, more than a million black Americans voted for Trump in 2016, he makes frequent efforts to appeal to black Americans (you could ask A$AP Rocky about that) and he takes great pride in having done a better job of helping black Americans than Obama did, but how can he somehow prove that he doesn’t support people and groups he has never supported in the first place? One simple way to do that would seem to be to disavow them and publicly say he doesn’t support their cause. https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/6718/17-times-donald-trump-has-condemned-racism-and-white-supremacy#c1135881
He doesn't do it continuously now.
And you know that how?
You misunderstand. I'm saying that the way a person clears himself of past sins is to change his behavior and stop committing those sins now, not by paying lip service to piety.
He has no behavior on this subject that needs changing now. He isn’t a racist. He hasn’t made racist comments, and going back some 40 years to 1980 or so there’s nothing he’s done as an independent, a democrat, or a Republican that is racist. Biden has said racist things in that time. Trump has no reason to apologize because some idiot likes a policy or two of his that are part of a broad political party platform.
If the 'He' is Trump, you're living in your own imagined world.
Since the subject is racism and the fact that he’s denounced it like 17 times it’s incumbent on you to prove actual racism or racist comments by him in the last 40 years or so.
Wish granted!!!!!
He took pictures with Epstein too and look how that turned out.
Vox? Lol!
How did it turn out? They haven’t talked in over 15 years when Epstein was abusing Trump employees at Mara Largo and Trump found out and expelled him from the club.
Read the story and report back with anything in it that is proven to be false.
Ready? Go.
No, that's not what happened. Nice try though.
Let me respond to some things in that story:
Agreeing not to discriminate is the opposite of racism. There's no logic in saying that he's guilty of racism just because he denies it. Simply accusing him of it is not proof. The idea that he might not want to rent to people who can't pay is perfectly understandable.
Even if true (dubious), that tells us the bosses might be racist. It doesn't tell us anything about Trump.
So, if anyone is ever critical of Japanese economic policy, they're racist? WTF? And just what is meant by "countries like Japan?" Talk like that makes Vox sound racist.
This again. The evidence is clear that the five committed violent crimes, just not all of the crimes they were accused of. Let's not pretend these were good boys. And there is nothing racist about demanding justice for a victim of rape and/or murder. Nothing.
Denied and impossible to confirm. Might even have been a joke.
So a big gambler (commonly called a "whale") was racist and they accommodated his weird preferences. Casinos do that all the time, but it's not an example of Trump's racism. It's an example of the gambler's racism. I hate to break this to the idealists out there, but in the real world, grownups do business with people they don't like or agree with all the time.
Yeah, well, he's not wrong. Some of the people who claim to be Indians are named Elizabeth Warren.
This is getting long, but you hopefully get the idea. You can look sideways at something someone does or says. You can assume racist motivations and then confirm your bias. One person out of thousands who know a man can make a wild accusation. None of that proves a guy is racist.
We also have decades of behavior, as outlined in the article, that are the opposite of what we should reasonably expect from an actual racist. You can't just dismiss that.
None of this is truly about getting at Trump's heart. It is a political strategy to defeat Trump, or any other Republican (they do it to them all). The Left simply accuses them of racism and will point to any behavior or words and claim it is proof, when it is not. They have no shame and level this accusation at anyone they want to defeat.
Why would he need to publically agree to such a thing in the first place?
I am keenly aware, but throwing your employees under the bus to make a buck? Doesn't exactly scream out, "I'm not a racist", does it? If was me, I would have asked the "whale" to find another casino to play in.
I will concede that you are close to the mark here. But, calling someone out as being a racist just because they accused someone else of being a racist is the equivalent of using the "I know you are but what am I" argument.
Probably not good boys, but they were found not guilty in the crime that trump accused them of and trump attacked them AFTER that claiming they ARE guilty of what he claimed. Why? Sorry, but that IS racist.
Trump denies lots of things that he is later found to have lied about, (Stormy Daniels comes to mind). Joke or not, it's still not ok.
Well, that's what I get for reading your comment on my phone, then replying to it on the desktop...with no coffee. I covered this above.
Well reasoned out reply though, thanks for that.
Because he was accused. He could have refused, but he didn't. People agree to things all the time because it's more expedient than going to trial. From the most minor infraction to the most serious felony, people everyday accept relatively minor inconveniences and impositions on their reputations just to get it over with in a way that's palatable. If you've never been accused of anything, it can be hard to accept, but it is nevertheless true.
We don't even know that Trump had anything to do with that practice. He only owns the casino. He wasn't personally managing it himself.
Trump didn't accuse the boys of anything. The District Attorney did that. Trump took out ads complaining about the general trend of violent crime in the city and demanding punishment for the people who commit violent crimes. The ad didn't even mention the specific case of the Central Park Five. He never claimed to have investigated anything and he never said anything like "it was these guys and not somebody else."
What's more, he noted that people of all races were suffering from the increase in crime. In his famous ad at the time, he wrote,
No part of that is racist. All races are human beings of worth in that statement. He includes all races in victim status and names no races as perpetrators. In this statement, all races have families; all races enjoy outings in the park; and all races are suffering together. These aren't racist sentiments.
I think the guy is crass, rash, and immature, but I'm not convinced he is particularly racist.
Actually it is exactly what happened then. Why try to deny the facts now?
Were his lips moving? Because that's his tell.
Fair enough, but, he did continue to repeat his accusations of the central park 5 AFTER it was proven they were innocent.
Again, thanks for the rational debate, kinda rare around here.
And also nice to read that kind of a debate as well. And it is indeed very rare, unfortunately.
Riiiigggghhhhhhhtttttttt.
Thanks. I like to think most of us are here for healthy mental stimulation.
So us Al sharpton a racist and an anti Semite? He wrongly accused Jews of a crime they did not commit and has never apologized for. Sharpton is also a tax cheat yet the left idolizes him.
You assume that there are past sins on this issue that he has any need to clear now...
You have him confused with Obama.
You have proof to the contrary somewhere?
Agreed. Well done.
"David Duke is a bad person, who I disavowed on numerous occasions over the years," Trump said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
"I disavowed him. I disavowed the KKK," Trump added. "Do you want me to do it again for the 12th time? I disavowed him in the past, I disavow him now."
Trump can never say it often enough to satisfy the real [racists deleted]
"American Progressives", "Democrat Socialists" and those "Liberals" running for president, need the media to tell them what to think and say !
I only hope that now all references to conservatives as racists will now be removed as a sweeping generalization.
Was that before or after he claims he knew nothing about Duke or the KKK?
Both !
Indeed. Though sometimes it’s reversed and the MBFC approved media regurgitate their talking points verbatim.
'No Blame?' ABC News finds 36 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.
"President Donald Trump has repeatedly refused to accept any responsibility for inciting violence in American communities"
It ain't Trumps Fault. Only YOU, can prevent fires, or "Start" them, depending on what YOU prefer. !
Trump didn’t incite anyone to to anything. Everyone makes their own choices and is responsible for their own actions.
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The "Real" world as it stands right now, according to the media, is full of "Blame the other guy/Gal" folks.
It's still Snowing outside, with Safety Pin puddles one must "Step Over" !
So you believe that God is real and that He did it? I believe that you are placing the blame on the wrong side.
The seeded article was about Trump not being a racist, not your derail attempt.
I’m truly sorry for your loss. Anniversaries of sad events are hard for all of us. I can understand the feelings behind lashing out.
1) “I am concerned about the rise of any group of hate. I don’t like it, any group of hate, whether its white supremacy, whether it’s any other kind of supremacy, whether its antifa… I am very concerned about it and I’ll do something about it.” – Business Insider, 8/7/2019
2) “The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul. We have asked the FBI to identify all further resources they need to investigate and disrupt hate crimes and domestic terrorism – whatever they need.” – National Review, 8/06/2019