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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Jokes About Secret Service Agents Masks: 'They're In Blackface'
By Nicole Lafond
March 11, 2019 7:49 am
During a private speech with Republican National Committee donors on Friday night at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump reportedly attempted to mock Democrats for the controversy surrounding Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and his racist yearbook photo, by joking that his Secret Service agents at the White House were in blackface, Axios reported.
Referring to his week alone holed up in the White House over the holidays while the government was shut down a month-long crisis of his own making Trump went on a familiar tangent about how Secret Service agents were his only company over the holidays. According to people who attended the speech who spoke to Axios, Trump spoke about how many agents were guarding the White House: Theyre in the trees, on the lawn.
Theyre in blackface, he said, making a cringe-worthy quip about the agents goggles and masks.
Sources told Axios they think Trump was attempting to knock Northam, whose governorship has recently come into question after a photo of him in blackface surfaced from a college yearbook. In a botched handling of the controversy, Northam initially apologized for the photo, only to later claim it wasnt him before admitting at a press conference that he wore blackface to dress up like Michael Jackson when he was in college.
The two sources who spoke to Axios shared the information based on their memory of the event because attendees were forced to place their cellphones in magnetized bags while at the clubhouse.
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Trump Jokes About Secret Service Agents Masks: 'They're In Blackface' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2019
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Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)1. Oaf. n/t
eShirl
(18,490 posts)2. latest shiny thing everyone's supposed to gab about
he loves throwing smoke bombs like this
spanone
(135,830 posts)3. He's got to keep his racist followers intact.
dalton99a
(81,468 posts)4. Stinking piece of shit
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)5. Who says shit like that? Only someone who ...
... genuinely doesn't understand or even care about the real world, and has absolutely no desire to learn anything about it.
He's a dick. He knows he's a dick. And he likes being a dick.
no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)6. Almost inviting someone to shoot his Secret Service detail.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)7. There simply are not enough
disgustingly foul words in my vocabulary to describe this individual or my feelings about him.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)8. A-hole gonna ahole
He never ceases to show his true self
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)9. got to pitch a pork chop to the alt right nutters occasionally
dlk
(11,561 posts)10. Spoken Like the True Racist He Is