In the video attached to the tweet below, Bill Maher and Stephen A. Smith discuss how Donald J. Trump isn't really such a bad guy. Maher remarks "... And also had some genuine black friends. And black folks who like him. Because it's complicated. Life is complicated."
When one tries to tell us that evidence of friendship with black people proves that someone is not racist, one is very ignorant. The "some of his best freinds are colored" of Maher devolves into the "he likes sports, so he's not racist" of Smith. The latter responds to the host by stating
Trump and I werr friendly before he ran for President. He used to have me at boxing matches, particularly during the Tyson fights at Trump casinos. He would be at the Knicks game and stuff like that.
O.K., O.K. If you like sports, you can't be racist. Got it. Smith contined
And if we were being totally honest, all the brothers found him to be cool. They found him to be very cool. So he knew his sports, alright, says what he feels. He bucked the establishment, which we loved, and we gravitated to that.
Oh, he knew his sports, alright. In the early '80s, the United States FootballLeague had serious potential. Then when
Trump purchased the New Jersey Generals in 1984, it initially seemed like a typical vanity purchase by a wealthy businessman. He immediately made waves, signing Walker to a then-astronomical contract and filling sports pages with bold predictions.
But Trump had a problem: he didn’t actually want a spring
football team. He wanted what he’d been denied multiple times—an NFL franchise.
The NFL’s old-guard owners had repeatedly rejected his attempts to join their
exclusive club, and that rejection gnawed at him.
So Trump developed a different strategy. If he couldn’t join the NFL, maybe he could force them to let him in....
His plan was audacious and, in hindsight, catastrophically flawed. He would push the USFL to abandon its successful spring schedule and move to the fall, directly challenging the NFL. The collision would either force a merger (giving Trump his NFL team) or create enough chaos that the NFL would buy out USFL franchises (also giving Trump his NFL team).
Most of the owners, who wisely were loathe to go up directly against the powerful NFL, resisted. However
Trump was persuasive and relentless. He painted a vision of major network television deals and packed stadiums. He convinced enough owners that the league voted to move to fall starting in 1986.
It was a decision that would kill the league.
But, hey, he liked the sports and "bucked the establishment," so all is cool. Maher then remarks
And also of a cerrtain age, and there's like, a certain understanding that men- white men of that age, they're not- they're going to be a little grandpa. We don't say that anymore but was he really in his heart hateful? I don't think his motivation is "I don't like black people." His motivation is everybody must love me.
Well, yes, we all understand that Donald's concern never has been for others but for himself, and at the expense of others, which Trump views as proof that he is benefitting. Donald has a sort of perverse appeal, yet as this period's most common cliche has it, "two things can be true at once."
MUST SEE 🚨: Stephen A. Smith and Bill Maher disputed the notion that Trump is a "terrible racist."
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Smith: "If we’re being totally honest, all the brothers found him to be cool. They found him to be very cool. So, let’s be clear. Because he knew his sports, all right? He would… pic.twitter.com/kNCzLhTVNk
This is Donald J. Trump, raised in Queens, New York City, and heir to $413 million. He has bragged that he graduated first in his class at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and, though a lie, Trump did graduate from the prestigious Philadelphia institution. This was no Roscoe P. Coltrane of Hazzard County, Kentucky or soemone's uneducated grandpa. Not everyone gets to experience an exceedingly privileged, urban background and exhibit behavior excused as "grandpa."
Donald has done everything he could for several years now to convince us that he is a racist, short of declaring "I am a racist," a declaration which thus far has proven a bridge too far even for him. He did, however, channel the "blood poisoning" of Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf," when in an interview in December of 2023 he remarked of immigrants crossing our southern border
Nobody has any idea where these people are comming from. And we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and centters, islands we know they're terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a ver sad thing for our country. It's poisoning he blood of our country. It's so bad and people are coming in with disease, people are coming in with- with every posssible thing that you can have.
"Poisoning the blood of our country" is textbook racism, not even reducible to a "joke" the President claims to have made when he's called on something he has said. We learned years ago that "My New Order," a collection of speeches of the Third Reich's Strongman, was one of Trump's prize possessions. And more recently, when Haberman and Swan noted that the President compares himself to Mao,Stalin, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and, of course, Hitler.
Combine all of the above with the President restoring Confederate names to nine military bases and his Administration removing slavery exhibits from Indepence Hall in Philadelphia and other efforts to erase black history, and the pattern is clear. The signs are flashing red. It's not only their problem, but our problem also, that individuals such as Bill Maher and Stephen A. Smith are color blind.
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