I've never really thought of Trump as a racist per se.
My guess is that, as someone who clearly suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, he doesn't necessarily judge or consider people based on the color of their skin or even their station in life. Rather, he looks at any given person from the context of how that person can help him, somehow make him look better, and/or how can impress or gain immediate if temporary acceptance and adoration from that person.
This would certainly put him in positions now and then when he'll be enabling the worst behaviors of people, such as the standard, ignorant, mouth-breathing right wing racists. The best example of that might be the time he pretended not to know who David Duke was. He knew he had to remain in good favor with that constituency, so he just blurted out that ridiculous comment without considering how it might look to others.
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My guess is that, as someone who clearly suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, he doesn't necessarily judge or consider people based on the color of their skin or even their station in life. Rather, he looks at any given person from the context of how that person can help him, somehow make him look better, and/or how can impress or gain immediate if temporary acceptance and adoration from that person.
This would certainly put him in positions now and then when he'll be enabling the worst behaviors of people, such as the standard, ignorant, mouth-breathing right wing racists. The best example of that might be the time he pretended not to know who David Duke was. He knew he had to remain in good favor with that constituency, so he just blurted out that ridiculous comment without considering how it might look to others.
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