Obama Shows Trump How to be Presidential

[RASTAMEN]

‘Trump has had nothing to say about the [Kenya] election. He's spent this week on vacation, tweeting about a senator who criticized him and complaining, yet again, about the "fake news" of every reputable news source in the country.

His presidency has become an international embarrassment, partly because of the cloud of Russian collusion, but largely because of Trump himself and the choices he makes: the trigger-finger tweeting that makes him seem more pubescent than presidential, the colossal ego he puts before the good of the country, the rambling and incoherent verbiage that makes some suspect something's not quite right.
[…]
It's a sad and telling state of affairs when a former president has more influence on an important American ally than a sitting one. It's not just that Trump hasn't said anything about the Kenyan elections, it's that any statement he made would likely be met with a collective shrug. He's not just widely reviled and disliked here -- he's mocked.

Obama remains respected at home and abroad, his name met with smiles and nods from many Kenyans and Americans alike. Say the name "Trump" and you'll get snickering and eye rolls.’

Obama shows Trump how to be presidential (opinion) - CNN

Sad, indeed.

surprised anyone has the balls to use cnnas a reference.

Where do you get your news from??????

 

[RASTAMEN]

Meh..... the 2017 Economy belongs to Obama, Let's see how the Trump economy beginning in 2018 is doing.

Meh...the minute Trump was elected the economy took off, because business people knew jughead was gone!

Trump's propose tax cuts will tank the economy and cost the deficit 6 trillion dollars alone!

If you don't want your tax cut, I'll take it.

Come on! You don't think Rasta pays taxes, do you?

Good point.

C'mon, you don't really know anything about someone elses taxes do you?

 

[miketx]

Obama the racist--but MSM never called him out on it

I calling you out to provide links that proves Obama was a racist?????? Can ya do that......Dumb Billy?

I can but I won't. One of the douche lib games you play is that no matter what facts are supplied you simply lie more.

 

[harmonica]

Obama the racist--but MSM never called him out on it

I calling you out to provide links that proves Obama was a racist?????? Can ya do that......Dumb Billy?

this is the only time I will respond to your post if you use derogatory, unnecessary language
ok
''he [Obama ]knew that in order to become president one day, to be credibly black, he had to be married to a black woman.''
On Being Black, 'Woke,' And Dating White People | HuffPost

Obama went to Rev Wright's preaching for years:
''In a harsh condemnation of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama said Rev. Wright used "incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and blacks alike."

"The winds of Katrina blew the cover off America. The hurricane exposed the hypocrisy," Rev. Wright said, "protecting white folks' property took priority over saving black folks' lives."
Obama Shows Trump How to be Presidential

“Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me,
Jeremiah Wright Is Still Angry at Barack Obama

Rev. Wright Goes on Racial Tirade

Obama never condemned MBrown, ASterling, KScott--the black criminals that were justifiably shot in self defense
in fact, I've never seen any black condemn those black criminals
Obama sent the black AG to comfort a black criminal's family--not the white cop's family !!!

he took the side of the black man instead of the white cop by saying ''the police acted stupidly'''
he always backs up the blacks--and the black criminal
all bold mine

 

[miketx]

Obama the racist--but MSM never called him out on it

I calling you out to provide links that proves Obama was a racist?????? Can ya do that......Dumb Billy?

this is the only time I will respond to your post if you use derogatory, unnecessary language
ok
''he [Obama ]knew that in order to become president one day, to be credibly black, he had to be married to a black woman.''
On Being Black, 'Woke,' And Dating White People | HuffPost

Obama went to Rev Wright's preaching for years:
''In a harsh condemnation of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama said Rev. Wright used "incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and blacks alike."
"The winds of Katrina blew the cover off America. The hurricane exposed the hypocrisy," Rev. Wright said, "protecting white folks' property took priority over saving black folks' lives."
Obama Shows Trump How to be Presidential

“Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me,
Jeremiah Wright Is Still Angry at Barack Obama

Rev. Wright Goes on Racial Tirade

Obama never condemned MBrown, ASterling, KScott--the black criminals that were justifiably shot in self defense
in fact, I've never seen any black condemn those black criminals
Obama sent the black AG to comfort a black criminal's family--not the white cop's family !!!

he took the side of the black man instead of the white cop by saying ''the police acted stupidly'''
he always backs up the blacks--and the black criminal

Multiple denials will soon appear.

 

[RASTAMEN]

Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2017
Trump has repeatedly claimed he's "the least racist person." The record suggests otherwise.
Updated by German Lopez@germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com Aug 17, 2017, 9:10am EDT

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President Donald Trump at a press conference.
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President Donald Trump has a standard response for questions about whether he’s racist: He’ll tell you that no, in fact, he’s "the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered."

But Trump’s record tells a very different story.

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks — from calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists to proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US to suggesting that a judge should recuse himself from a case solely because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.

The trend has continued into his presidency. From stereotyping a black reporter to pandering to white supremacists after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump hasn’t stopped with the racist acts even after his election.

In fact, the very first time Trump appeared in the pages of the New York Times, back in the 1970s, was when the US Department of Justice sued him for racial discrimination. Since then, he has repeatedly appeared in newspaper pages across the world as he inspired more similar controversies.

This long history is important. It would be one thing if Trump simply misspoke one or two times. But when you take all of Trump’s actions and comments together, a clear pattern emerges — one that suggests that bigotry is not just political opportunism on Trump’s part but a real element of Trump’s personality, character, and career.

Trump has a long history of racist controversies
Here’s a breakdown of Trump’s history, taken largely from Dara Lind’s list for Vox and an op-ed by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times:

• 1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.
• 1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump's Castle, accused another of Trump's businesses of discrimination. "When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor," Brown said. "It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back."
• 1988: In a commencement speech at Lehigh University, Trump spent much of his speech accusing countries like Japan of "stripping the United States of economic dignity." This matches much of his current rhetoric on China.
• 1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the "Central Park Five" — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, "BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!" The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent seven to 13 years in prison, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October said he still believes they’re guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.
• 1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control." Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that "the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true."
• 1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.
• 2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a "record of criminal activity [that] is well documented."
• 2004: In season two of The Apprentice, Trump fired Kevin Allen, a black contestant, for being overeducated. "You're an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything," Trump said on the show. "At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’"
• 2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He said he "wasn't particularly happy" with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering "an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world."
• 2010: Just a few years ago, there was a huge national controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque" — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it "insensitive," and offered to buy out one of the investors in the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Muslims, "Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff."
• 2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first black president — was not born in the US. He even sent investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama's birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a "carnival barker."
• 2011: While Trump suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump claimed, "I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?"

For many people, none of these incidents, individually, would be totally damning: One of these alone might suggest that Trump is simply a bad speaker and perhaps racially insensitive (not "politically correct," as he would put it), but not overtly racist.


But when you put all these events together, a clear pattern emerges. At the very least, Trump has a history of playing into people’s racism to bolster himself — and that likely says something about him too.

And of course, there’s everything that’s happened through and since his presidential campaign.
Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2017

 

[Faun]

Obama the racist--but MSM never called him out on it

I calling you out to provide links that proves Obama was a racist?????? Can ya do that......Dumb Billy?

this is the only time I will respond to your post if you use derogatory, unnecessary language
ok
''he [Obama ]knew that in order to become president one day, to be credibly black, he had to be married to a black woman.''
On Being Black, 'Woke,' And Dating White People | HuffPost

Obama went to Rev Wright's preaching for years:
''In a harsh condemnation of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama said Rev. Wright used "incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and blacks alike."

"The winds of Katrina blew the cover off America. The hurricane exposed the hypocrisy," Rev. Wright said, "protecting white folks' property took priority over saving black folks' lives."
Obama Shows Trump How to be Presidential

“Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me,
Jeremiah Wright Is Still Angry at Barack Obama

Rev. Wright Goes on Racial Tirade

Obama never condemned MBrown, ASterling, KScott--the black criminals that were justifiably shot in self defense
in fact, I've never seen any black condemn those black criminals
Obama sent the black AG to comfort a black criminal's family--not the white cop's family !!!

he took the side of the black man instead of the white cop by saying ''the police acted stupidly'''
he always backs up the blacks--and the black criminal
all bold mine

So to prove Obama is racist ... you quote ....... someone else.

 

[Political Junky]

Obama the racist--but MSM never called him out on it

I calling you out to provide links that proves Obama was a racist?????? Can ya do that......Dumb Billy?

Of course he can't.

 

[harmonica]

Obama is just as racist as Trump -- refer to post # 88
Obama going to listen to Rev Wright for so many years, is just like someone going to a KKK meeting, or a Unite the Right meeting/etc
Rev Wright undeniably hates whites/Jews and preaches anti-white sermons....so someone going to hear him year after year after year, must follow him and agree with him....just as if you or I went to a KKK meeting year after year after year

 

[Political Junky]

Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2017
Trump has repeatedly claimed he's "the least racist person." The record suggests otherwise.
Updated by German Lopez@germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com Aug 17, 2017, 9:10am EDT

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President Donald Trump at a press conference.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has a standard response for questions about whether he’s racist: He’ll tell you that no, in fact, he’s "the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered."

But Trump’s record tells a very different story.

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks — from calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists to proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US to suggesting that a judge should recuse himself from a case solely because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.

The trend has continued into his presidency. From stereotyping a black reporter to pandering to white supremacists after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump hasn’t stopped with the racist acts even after his election.

In fact, the very first time Trump appeared in the pages of the New York Times, back in the 1970s, was when the US Department of Justice sued him for racial discrimination. Since then, he has repeatedly appeared in newspaper pages across the world as he inspired more similar controversies.

This long history is important. It would be one thing if Trump simply misspoke one or two times. But when you take all of Trump’s actions and comments together, a clear pattern emerges — one that suggests that bigotry is not just political opportunism on Trump’s part but a real element of Trump’s personality, character, and career.

Trump has a long history of racist controversies
Here’s a breakdown of Trump’s history, taken largely from Dara Lind’s list for Vox and an op-ed by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times:

• 1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.
• 1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump's Castle, accused another of Trump's businesses of discrimination. "When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor," Brown said. "It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back."
• 1988: In a commencement speech at Lehigh University, Trump spent much of his speech accusing countries like Japan of "stripping the United States of economic dignity." This matches much of his current rhetoric on China.
• 1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the "Central Park Five" — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, "BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!" The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent seven to 13 years in prison, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October said he still believes they’re guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.
• 1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control." Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that "the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true."
• 1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.
• 2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a "record of criminal activity [that] is well documented."
• 2004: In season two of The Apprentice, Trump fired Kevin Allen, a black contestant, for being overeducated. "You're an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything," Trump said on the show. "At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’"
• 2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He said he "wasn't particularly happy" with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering "an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world."
• 2010: Just a few years ago, there was a huge national controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque" — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it "insensitive," and offered to buy out one of the investors in the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Muslims, "Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff."
• 2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first black president — was not born in the US. He even sent investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama's birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a "carnival barker."
• 2011: While Trump suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump claimed, "I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?"

For many people, none of these incidents, individually, would be totally damning: One of these alone might suggest that Trump is simply a bad speaker and perhaps racially insensitive (not "politically correct," as he would put it), but not overtly racist.


But when you put all these events together, a clear pattern emerges. At the very least, Trump has a history of playing into people’s racism to bolster himself — and that likely says something about him too.

And of course, there’s everything that’s happened through and since his presidential campaign.
Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2017

That kinda "logic" makes sense to his half-witted following. Give them mixed messages and they choose the one they like.

 

[harmonica]

first met him in the 80s--but disown him in 2008--only after Wright's blatant racism was outed!!!
the Obamas knew he was a racist, but they kept seeing him, even appointing him to Obama's Religious Leadership Committee !!!!!!!!!

o I forgot, remember Michelle hates America--just like Wright!!!
"For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback,'''
bold mine

yes, all these quotes and facts I have given crosscheck each other......the Obamas are just like other blacks--like Wright who proves it by his own words--- who hate America and whites

 

[RASTAMEN]

first met him in the 80s--but disown him in 2008--only after Wright's blatant racism was outed!!!
the Obamas knew he was a racist, but they kept seeing him, even appointing him to Obama's Religious Leadership Committee !!!!!!!!!

o I forgot, remember Michelle hates America--just like Wright!!!
"For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback,'''
bold mine

yes, all these quotes and facts I have given crosscheck each other......the Obamas are just like other blacks--like Wright proves by his own words--- who hate America and whites

Whose more racist Trump or Obama??????

 

[harmonica]

first met him in the 80s--but disown him in 2008--only after Wright's blatant racism was outed!!!
the Obamas knew he was a racist, but they kept seeing him, even appointing him to Obama's Religious Leadership Committee !!!!!!!!!

o I forgot, remember Michelle hates America--just like Wright!!!
"For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback,'''
bold mine

yes, all these quotes and facts I have given crosscheck each other......the Obamas are just like other blacks--like Wright proves by his own words--- who hate America and whites

Whose more racist Trump or Obama??????

according to MSM/lefties/etc, they both are racist, if you are being fair and honest

 

[RASTAMEN]

first met him in the 80s--but disown him in 2008--only after Wright's blatant racism was outed!!!
the Obamas knew he was a racist, but they kept seeing him, even appointing him to Obama's Religious Leadership Committee !!!!!!!!!

o I forgot, remember Michelle hates America--just like Wright!!!
"For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback,'''
bold mine

yes, all these quotes and facts I have given crosscheck each other......the Obamas are just like other blacks--like Wright proves by his own words--- who hate America and whites

Whose more racist Trump or Obama??????

according to MSM/lefties/etc, they both are racist, if you are being fair and honest

Rasim gave way to the election of Trump.

 

[harmonica]

o yes....
blacks graduate at rates lower than the other races
less go to college!
plus they are only 12.7% of the population
----and Obama appointed 2 blacks in a row for AG !!??!!
there were no whites more qualified??!! ....or was Obama being racist?

 

[RASTAMEN]

o yes....
blacks graduate at rates lower than the other races
less go to college!
plus they are only 12.7% of the population
----and Obama appointed 2 blacks in a row for AG !!??!!
there were no whites more qualified??!! ....or was Obama being racist?

Let's take a break on appointing white AG's. Let's elect women, ASIAN's, Native American's, Blacks, Arabs, etc.

 

[Political Junky]

o yes....
blacks graduate at rates lower than the other races
less go to college!
plus they are only 12.7% of the population
----and Obama appointed 2 blacks in a row for AG !!??!!
there were no whites more qualified??!! ....or was Obama being racist?

But you hate college educated people, right?

 

[harmonica]

o yes....
blacks graduate at rates lower than the other races
less go to college!
plus they are only 12.7% of the population
----and Obama appointed 2 blacks in a row for AG !!??!!
there were no whites more qualified??!! ....or was Obama being racist?

But you hate college educated people, right?

of course..I'm the hater of many things and peoples--I'm white = hater/etc

 

[iceberg]

‘Trump has had nothing to say about the [Kenya] election. He's spent this week on vacation, tweeting about a senator who criticized him and complaining, yet again, about the "fake news" of every reputable news source in the country.

His presidency has become an international embarrassment, partly because of the cloud of Russian collusion, but largely because of Trump himself and the choices he makes: the trigger-finger tweeting that makes him seem more pubescent than presidential, the colossal ego he puts before the good of the country, the rambling and incoherent verbiage that makes some suspect something's not quite right.
[…]
It's a sad and telling state of affairs when a former president has more influence on an important American ally than a sitting one. It's not just that Trump hasn't said anything about the Kenyan elections, it's that any statement he made would likely be met with a collective shrug. He's not just widely reviled and disliked here -- he's mocked.

Obama remains respected at home and abroad, his name met with smiles and nods from many Kenyans and Americans alike. Say the name "Trump" and you'll get snickering and eye rolls.’

Obama shows Trump how to be presidential (opinion) - CNN

Sad, indeed.

surprised anyone has the balls to use cnnas a reference.

Where do you get your news from??????

not CNN.