Blacks & Latinos, 'They're not my people'

[dalton99a]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/michael-cohen-book-trump-white-house/index.html

Blacks & Latinos, 'They're not my people'

If Putin is held in the highest regard in Trump's mind, Cohen writes, Trump's own voters rank among those in the lowest. Speaking to Cohen after Trump gathered religious leaders at Trump Tower in the lead up to the 2012 presidential race, an encounter during which they asked to "lay hands" on him, Trump asked Cohen, according to the book: "Can you believe that bullsh*t? ... Can you believe people believe that bullsh*t?"

In the wake of Trump's presidential kickoff announcement in 2015, in which he called Mexicans criminals and rapists, he dismissed concerns that he had alienated Latinos. "Plus, I will never get the Hispanic vote," Trump allegedly told Cohen. "Like the blacks, they're too stupid to vote for Trump. They're not my people." (Trump won 28% of the Latino vote in 2016.)

Trump's contempt, in Cohen's telling, extends broadly. Cohen characterizes Trump bluntly as racist, and says that while he never heard Trump use the "N-word," Trump used other offensive language.

Ranting about Obama after he won office in 2008, Trump said, "Tell me one country run by a black person that isn't a sh*thole ... They are all complete f*cking toilets," according to Cohen. After Nelson Mandela died, Trump allegedly said of South Africa that "Mandela f*cked the whole country up. Now it's a sh*thole. F*ck Mandela. He was no leader."

[zentrum]

1. All completely recognizable

[Catherine Vincent]

2. How dare that son of a bitch say that about Mandela

[Tanuki]

4. Just days after Mandela died, Trump tweeted that SA was "a crime ridden mess"

so I can easily believe Cohen's account of what he said privately.

Link to tweet

[oasis]

3. In less than 4 yrs., Trump managed to fuck up the USA, which was the #1

industrialized nation on the planet.