Trump's flirtation with the n-word cannot be ignored

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/08/trump-n-word-rally-dangerous/
https://archive.ph/88eYo

Trump’s flirtation with the n-word cannot be ignored
By Jonathan Capehart
October 8, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

We have long known that former president Donald Trump is the kind of racial arsonist who brings a gas can to an inferno. But not even I thought he would fool around with an accelerant like the n-word.

The incident happened two weeks ago at a rally in North Carolina for Rep. Ted Budd, the MAGA Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. I only heard about it thanks to a tweet from Brennan Murphy of the Recount that I happened upon last week. Surrounded by his adoring flock, Trump bellowed, “You know Putin mentioned the n-word. Do you know what the n-word is?”

Plenty of people shouted the answer they thought Trump was looking for — because there is only one answer. Hardly surprised by the response to his purposefully provocative question, Trump jumped in and said, “No, no, no, it’s the ‘nuclear’ word.”

Clever. He was talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine.

Link to tweet

[Ocelot II]

2. They're paid to be there. Probably hired on Craigslist.

[Solomon]

3. Too stupid to realize what he's doing with this n-word shit. He wants to say the word so bad its

killing him because he knows what a rise he would get from his base for doing so. So he does it tongue in cheek.

[sop]

6. He's knowingly playing around with these racist double entendre dog whistles, inciting his mob

to respond with the "correct" word at his command. In typical Trump fashion, he always lets the rabble do his dirty work while he claims innocence. Just ask all the January 6 insurrectionists doing time.

[SledDriver]

4. It's coming. He'll say it. His base will love it.

They'll see it as permission to use it.
There will be outrage at first.
Another round of "This time we got him!" and "Trump is going down!"

Then the media will normalise it.

Then it will be OK for those in his cult to use it and it will be everywhere.

[Captain Zero]

5. No he's encouraging and validating their use of it

To keep them in an emotional state rather than a rational state.

[Hotler]

7. I bet his ol' lady says it all the time.

[sop]

8. It arouses him.

"C'mon, baby...say the n-word...you know it turns me on..."

[UTUSN]

9. K&R