The brand label that stokes Trump's fury: 'Racist, racist, racist.'

[RandySF]

Following a month in which he leveled racist attacks on four congresswomen of color, maligned majority-black Baltimore as a “rat and rodent infested mess” and saw his anti-immigrant rhetoric parroted in an alleged mass shooter’s statement, the risk for Trump is that the pejorative that has long dogged him becomes defining.

Being called a racist has infuriated Trump, gnawing at him in recent days as he lashes out — in tweets and in public comments — over the moniker, behavior his advisers and allies excuse as the natural reaction of anyone who does not consider himself a racist but is accused of being one.

“For them to throw out the race word again — racist, racist, racist,” Trump told reporters Friday as he departed the White House for a week-long vacation at his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J. “They call anybody a racist when they run out of cards.”

The president views the characterization largely through the lens of politics, said one close adviser, explaining that Trump feels the charges of racism are just another attempt to discredit him — not unlike, he believes, the more than a dozen women who have accused him of sexual misconduct or the Russia investigation.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-brand-label-that-stokes-trumps-fury-racist-racist-racist/2019/08/11/fd5573d2-bad9-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html

[Mc Mike]

1. We're not out of cards, it's just racism is the tRump card.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Calling Trump a RACIST is just.....

Desserts for his behavior and words. The contrived photo giving a thumbs up while Melania holds the baby whose parents died because of him? Come fucking on!

Just as Mitch McConnell is being dogged as Moscow Mitch, Trump's Bitch. His words and actions are catching up to him. He should be greeted with people dressed in Grim Reaper costumes wherever McConnell appears to remind him this is his last term as Senator from Kentucky. He is getting voted out of office.

[Me.]

3. What's He So Upset About

You'd think he'd be proud, he certainly has a history of it without regrets

[BigmanPigman]

7. I was thinking the same thing.

The Racist Rapist probably loves it but says he doesn't to seem more "normal" for a nanosecond.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

4. Being called a racist has infuriated Trump

Truth makes him angry.

[bdamomma]

12. well it's the truth

we need to keep on labeling him that. Him and his father ran out black people out of their apartments in NY or didn't want to rent out.

Scum father scum son.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Call it what it is

Nazi

[paleotn]

6. It's simple, really....

Look at the totality of his rhetoric. Search for themes. Patterns that tie it all together. The top theme that stands out in addition to slimy misogynist, is racist asshole. There's simply no other way of summarizing him. America finally elected the worst of us. The mob. The nightmare many of the founders dreaded more than anything else.

[NCLefty]

8. I hope so. If we can't make THAT stick to him, we won't be able to make anything stick to him.

Every bone in Donald Trump's body is racist. He tolerates black 'friends' and employees because he knows he needs a few token shields. That's it.

[MadDAsHell]

9. What we need is for more people to define "racist" the way we do.

Far too many people have way too conservative of a definition and don't count dog whistles, statistics, tweets that don't mention race, etc. as racist.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. The he needs to stop acting racist.

He's probably one of those dumbfucks who believes as long as he doesn't use the N word he's not a racist.

[KentuckyWoman]

11. Individual #1 is all about image

This is a human who manipulated Forbes into including him on the 400 list.

Redacted doesn't mind BEING a racist. He just doesn't want to be labeled as one.

[bdamomma]

13. Human???

not him. An empty shell. Hopefully that shell will crack.

[FakeNoose]

14. He really is a one trick pony now