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Related: About this forumRight wing trolls claiming trump isn't racist because he won an Ellis Island award
A claim circulating on social media misrepresents an award given to President Donald Trump in 1986. He was not honored for his work within the black community.
Instead, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor was given to Trump, who was a real estate developer at the time, for his contributions to the city of New York through his development projects, said Otto Coca, spokesman for the Ellis Island Honors Society. Thats the group that gives the award.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/phony-claim-about-trumps-ellis-island-award/
just sleazy and clever enough to get his pic snapped next to some real luminaries
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Right wing trolls claiming trump isn't racist because he won an Ellis Island award (Original Post)
magicguido
May 2020
OP
I don't know this particular award, but buying prestige like that is common.
Midnight Writer
May 2020
#2
Ran into a troll insisting; there is no way trump is a Racist because he took this pic
magicguido
May 2020
#3
Fiendish Thingy
(15,367 posts)1. My guess is he made a "donation" in order to receive the award. Nt
Midnight Writer
(21,547 posts)2. I don't know this particular award, but buying prestige like that is common.
Remember when Newt Gingrich was "selling" Good Citizen Awards and gave one to a brothel owner?
magicguido
(6,315 posts)3. Ran into a troll insisting; there is no way trump is a Racist because he took this pic