OMG Trump's Black History Month meeting

[DesertRat]

Side by side transcripts: Trump's today next to Obama's from last year.

Link to tweet

[C_U_L8R]

1. OMG I knew it was going to be bad.

But that statement is just a dogpile of nonsensical self-centered blither-blather.
Get Trump the fuck out of any position that requires thinking or honesty.
What a hateful person.

[DesertRat]

4. And as usual, it's all about him

Fake News, etc.

[Cha]

33. I can't read it.. did he mention how much he won the EC by and

that "millions voted illegality or he would have won the popular vote"?

[KittyWampus]

7. It's as insulting as the "All Lives Matter" bulls*t spewed on Holocaust Remembrance Day

[Phoenix61]

2. OMG, is right

He is a walking embarrassment to say the least.

[DesertRat]

5. HE HAS NO IDEA WHO FREDRICK DOUGLASS WAS

His comment on Douglass: "someone who has done a terrific job that is being recognized by more and more people"

[Cattledog]

3. Agitate, Agitate, Agitate. That's how we will bring tRump down.

[LisaM]

6. This from the guy who wants to demote Harriet Tubman to the $2 bill

(so, I suppose, kids can be arrested for trying to use it to pay for school lunches....)

There was one major skeptic, however: President-elect Donald Trump. Then in the throes of the primary election, Trump called the move “pure political correctness” and suggested moving Tubman to a lower denomination like the $2 bill.

“Andrew Jackson had a great history. I think it’s very rough when you take somebody off the bill,” Trump said last spring.

http://time.com/4593420/harriet-tubman-20-bill-donald-trump-design/

[KittyWampus]

8. Everything President Bannon does is a loud and clear clarion call to the white supremacists.

No more dog whistles.

Fucker.

[DesertRat]

9. Frederick Douglass coined the term "scorching irony."

Link to tweet

[PA Democrat]

11. Perfect comment on President Bannon

[Vinca]

16. Does he drink? He's got one of those boozy red noses.

[DesertRat]

17. It wouldn't surprise me

[Vinca]

18. Good lord. If you look "slob" up in the dictionary, here's the accompanying photo.

[DesertRat]

22. I know, right?

[PA Democrat]

10. Leave it to the malignant narcissist to make Black History Month about HIMSELF!!!!

What a jackass.

[DesertRat]

12. And the comments about Ben Carson?!

The black guy drove him around to places "I wasn't so familiar with".

[MrPurple]

26. That's complete bull$hit

Like Ben Carson was taking him to Compton for some chicken and waffles. What kind of rube do you have to be to visualize that scenario and think it happened? It would be a good SNL sketch, though.

[spiderpig]

13. Compare the first lines of both comments

You know without looking who delivered each statement.

Little Donald isn't fit to occupy the office that Barack Obama honored with his presence.

[DesertRat]

14. Exactly. Notice how trump never mentions slavery. nt

[PA Democrat]

29. Well, in Trump's world, he loves the idea of people being forced to work for free.

Just ask any of the contractors that worked on his properties that he stiffed.

[Vinca]

15. OMG - now I'm doubly depressed.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. So, just to recap/translate here:

Welcome to our "little breakfast." I didn't want to do this because it's pretty stupid but they say I have to so I'll skim a few notes and then I'll be getting back to my morning TV, okay? Alright.

The blacks love me because even though I am a very great man, I let Ben take me to some real shit holes and I was really uncomfortable you know? You know what I'm talking about, but now they love me. Ben loves me, so he is a good Negro. Just the best.

Martin Luther King Jr. is a big deal now because of the fake dishonest news press media saying I took his statue out of my office, and now I have to leave it there, can you believe that? With Lincoln and Jefferson and now we have to keep the statue too. Unbelievable.

So - I just found out now that we have this whole museum. Smithsonian is a long word, hard to remember but it's on the mall, and I have a list of names for you, this guy Fredrick Doug, . . Douglass . . . never heard of him right? but now you will because I said him in this speech. And then there's Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman. Okay? I'm probably going to have to do this again next year.

But enough about all those folks. Look at all these people here who love me. These are some good Negros folks. Who would have thought a black guy named Paris could love me so much, right? but he's been there at the CNN and I watch him every day but I don't watch the CNN because it's fake news, I mean, every day when I watch it they are just disgraceful towards me it's unbelievable, but Fox News has been pretty nice to me now that they got that Megan Kelly out of there. What was her problem? So thank you Fox wherever you guys are. This is probably your first time at the "little breakfast" too huh? I bet. Just wait. You guys are going to love this. We are really going to roll on these inner cities and crack some heads with the law enforcement. These people gotta learn. Right now they're terrible. I am going to fix that.

[Idoru]

20. Bravo

Well done!

[DesertRat]

21. Yes, exactly!

[PA Democrat]

24. You captured his "phoning-it-in" performance perfectly

Loved how he quickly read from a printed list the names off famous black Americans before moving on to talk about HIMSELF.

[Barack_America]

28. Oh wow. That was amazing.

Can you make it an OP?

[Maru Kitteh]

30. Of all the things I'm not proud of in my life,

this newly discovered and sick ability to channel DFT is near the top.

Thanks for your kind words.

I will look into making an OP in the morning

[Foo Fighter]

32. Definitely make it an OP.

Great job!

And if you're looking at making any changes, may I make a suggestion? if you could work in the phrase "he's a credit to his race. A real credit to his race." somewhere, that would be great. Maybe right at the end of your paragraph about Ben?

When I started reading the transcript of his speech, I was actually wondering how long it would be before I would encounter that odious phrase. I guess Trump was too preoccupied talking about himself to fit it in. An obvious oversight on his part.

[Blue_Tires]

23. Even George W. Bush's speech was light years ahead...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1187&pid=59799

[DesertRat]

27. trump makes W. sound like a scholar

[gratuitous]

25. Comb through Captain Combover's remarks

Read Trump's remarks as many times as you want, but you're not going to see a single word about anything a black person said, thought, or did.

[Foo Fighter]

31. I'm surprised that he didn't ask why we don't have a White History Month.

"Well, this is Black History Month, so this is our little breakfast, our little get together. Hey, do we have a White History Month? I don't know if we have one or not but if we don't, we should. We should have one. It would be great. Really great. White History Month. We should have one of those."

Leave it to Trump to make Black History Month all about him. His speech is so insulting that I don't even know where to start. He might as well have come out and said "Well, this is Black History Month so, to all my Nazi and KKK supporters out there, I really don't want to do this but I have an obligation to give a speech. I have to do this because I'm important. Really important. Love the Nazis and the KKK. They're doing a lot of great work. Really great work."

Also noteworthy in his completely reprensible speech was the failure to even MENTION the first black President. But hey, that's not important. What's important is that CNN sucks and Fox treats Trump nice. Very nice.

As for his statement that he's "proud to honor this heritage and will be honoring it more and more." Please don't. Stop while you're behind. You've done enough "honoring" of Black History Month to last a lifetime.