Just days after calling Haiti and all of Africa âshithole countriesâ and saying he doesnât want people from there in America, how exactly did our very racist president spend Martin Luther King Day? According to the Washington Post, he did not attend a memorial event honoring the civil rights leader. Instead, Trump hung out at his golf club in Palm Beach. The Post notes that this is how Trump has spent every Monday in a three-day holiday weekend during his presidency.
I guess he didnât completely ignore MLK Day, though. The White House did the bare minimum by releasing Trumpâs weekly address acknowledging King, about two hours after he hit the (golf) club. âDr. Kingâs dream is our dream. It is the American Dream. Itâs the promise stitched into the fabric of our nation, etched into the hearts of our people and written into the soul of humankind,â Trump said with the gravitas of a naked mole rat, before adding, âIt is the dream of a world where people are judged by who they are, not how they look or where they come from.â Oh really...
Maybe Iâm being too hard on Old Man Trump. After all, I can only begin to imagine how exhausting it must be to have to explain to the media that youâre not a racist, and that everyone who heard you say something racist was very wrongâhe is not a racist and ipso facto couldnât have said something racist. Thatâs how racism works, right?
