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Donald Trump Isn't Bothered By Being Called Racist

"I think the word has really gone down a long way because everybody’s called a racist now," the President said during a C-SPAN interview.
Trump Isn’t Bothered By Being Called Racist
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By Breanna Edwards · Updated October 23, 2020

President Donald Trump isn’t too worried about all the people calling him racist, brushing off the allegations and saying that the word is “overused.”

“I think the word has really gone down a long way because everybody’s called a racist now,” Trump told CSPAN in an interview on Tuesday.

.@SteveScully: "When Congressman Elijah Cummings calls you a racist, your reaction is what?

President Trump: "I think the word has really gone down a long way, because everybody's called a racist now. Her own party called Nancy Pelosi a racist two weeks ago." pic.twitter.com/keXPup0ndL

— CSPAN (@cspan) July 30, 2019

Trump pointed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) being accused of being racist a few weeks ago by her own party as proof.

“The word is so overused. It’s such a disgrace,” he continued. “And I can tell you I’m the least racist person there is in the world, as far as I’m concerned.”

He further went on to say that people just use it as a criticism when they run out of things to say.

“But with me, they have a hard time getting away with it, and they don’t get away with it,” he added.

Trump’s critique of others using “racist” as criticism, and “overusing” the word is more than a bit intriguing, however, given that he has been known to accuse his own critics of being racist.

He has called Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the son of South Carolina sharecroppers, “racist” during a recent attack on the House Oversight Chairman himself, and the city of Baltimore, which Cummings represents.

There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know, that Elijah Cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district, and of Baltimore itself. Dems always play the race card when they are unable to win with facts. Shame!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019

If racist Elijah Cummings would focus more of his energy on helping the good people of his district, and Baltimore itself, perhaps progress could be made in fixing the mess that he has helped to create over many years of incompetent leadership. His radical “oversight” is a joke!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019

After his own racist attacks on the four Democratic congresswomen of color known as “The Squad,” during which he told them to “go back go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” he followed up by accusing The Squad of “racist hatred.”

If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

He has called Al Sharpton, who hasn’t escaped his Twitter fingers, a racist as well.

“Al Sharpton…now he’s a racist,” Trump claimed while touting what he’s done for Black Americans in the past two and a half years.

TRUMP: "I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world … Al Sharpton — now he is a racist. What I've done for African Americans in two and a half years — no president has been able to do anything like it."

(Abraham Lincoln could not be reached for comment.) pic.twitter.com/RFoLzG415y

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2019

Trump has continually cited things like criminal justice reform and low unemployment rates for African Americans as accomplishments of his that have helped the Black community.

“If President Obama did that it would have been great,” he told CSPAN. “When I do it people don’t want to talk about it.”

TOPICS:  Al Sharpton Donald Trump Elijah Cummings Racism racist the squad
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