No, he really said this.

“I have so many Black friends that if I were a racist, they wouldn’t be friends, they would know better than anybody, and fast,” Trump said. “They would not be with me for two minutes if they thought I was racist—and I’m not racist!”

  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Name One Time Trump Was Racist

    (not current! only includes up to 2017)

    1973: The Nixon Administration sued Trump for refusing to rent to black people

    1980s: Trump’s casinos were accused of hiding black staff when Trump visited

    1989: Trump took out a full page ad arguing for the death penalty for a group of black men (The ‘Central Park Five’), effectively putting a bounty on their heads and plaguing them with a lifetime of death threats. He was sued by the Justice Department for discrimination.

    1991: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kinds of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day…I think that the [black] guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is.

    1992: Trump’s casino was fined $200,000 for transferring black dealers off certain tables to appease racist patrons.

    1993: Trump said Native American casinos shouldn’t be allowed because, “They don’t look like Indians to me.”

    2000: Trump ran a series of attack ads against Native American casinos, alleging (with no proof) that they were guilty of crimes.

    2004: Trump fired a black contestant from ‘The Apprentice” for being over-educated.

    2010: Trump argued in favor of segregating Muslims in Lower Manhattan.

    2011: Birtherism. Trump alleged that Obama was Kenyan based on nothing but skin color. He’s neither apologized, nor renounced that claim.

    2015 (1): Trump called Mexican immigrants “rapists” who are “bringing crime and drugs” to the US.

    2015 (2): Trump called for “a ban on all Muslims entering the US.”

    2016(1): Trump called for a Mexican judge to recuse himself based on nothing other than his race. Paul Ryan said, “This was the textbook definition of a racist comment.”

    2016 (2): Trump regularly retweeted material from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his campaign.

    2016(3): Trump tweeted a picture alleging Hillary was Jewish or controlled by Jewish people.

    2016(4): The Trump campaign adopted Nixon’s “Law and Order” rhetoric which was based in racial fear mongering.

    2016(5): Trump told black voters, “What do you have to lose?”

    2017(1): Trump asked a black reporter to set up a meeting with the black caucus simply because she was black.

    2017(2): “…some very fine people on both sides”, said Trump of a violent Nazi rally.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          5 months ago

          Like the recent claim from a producer that he used the N-word on The Apprentice.

          • Racist comments: Pruitt says that there is a tape of Trump using the n-word to describe Jackson, a Black Goldman Sachs banker, as the judges are discussing who should win the first season of The Apprentice.

          According to Pruitt, Carolyn Kepcher, one of Trump’s employees who advised him on the show, argued that Jackson did a strong job with the season’s final challenge, and he deserved to win.

          “Yeah,” Trump allegedly said, “but, I mean, would America buy a n— winning?”

          Pruitt says that Kepcher’s face reddened, but producers and those in the room simply glossed over the comment and continued with the taping. He adds that such statements were cut from the show and that he does not believe those tapes will ever come to light.

          https://www.vox.com/politics/352672/apprentice-trump-slate-racial-slur