Sometimes, words fail me. Trump shits his pants at the NABJ interview
Befuddled racist walks into a meeting and says stupid shit. I guess he wanted to take the spotlight off of the Shillbilly (vance)
I really want to get back into a groove of posting 4 or 5 times a week, mostly about music. I have a new Martin guitar that I want to post a full review of (I love it), but then the gods send a thunderbolt from the heavens and I can’t sit on my thumbs.
Today, I saw this from the Borowitz Report:
This made me wonder, did Trump pull the ripcord on the hapless Shillbilly?
So, off to the WaPo I go, and what I see is a write up of Trump being interviewed at the NABJ, or National Association of Black Journalists.
And if you think that was destined to go not well, well, you are correct. 100% correct.
It was a shit-show of biblical proportions.
“Trump says Harris ‘became a Black person’ as NABJ interview turns hostile, chaotic” (gifted link)
As you can imagine, it isn’t go well. Trump in a roomful of intelligent, articulate African-Americans, folks who are journalists, and really good at asking questions, and Trump without a teleprompter and handlers to smooth out the rough edges.
Delightful.
Donald Trump on Wednesday berated a Black reporter who pressed him about past offensive comments and accused his opponent, Vice President Harris, of downplaying Black heritage she routinely highlights as a sit-down meant to showcase Trump’s outreach to voters of color immediately turned hostile.
That is the lede, and it got even uglier almost immediately.
ABC News’ Rachel Scott began the Q&A session at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago by noting — among other comments — Trump’s insults toward Black prosecutors, his repeated false claims that America’s first Black president was born in Africa and his comments that four congresswomen who are racial minorities should “go back” to the places they came from.
“Why should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that?” Scott said.
“Well first of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner,” Trump said, calling the interview “disgraceful” and criticizing a “rude introduction.” He alleged he was invited under a “false pretense” because he had expected his opponent to be there as well and criticized the organizers for starting late.
“I love the Black population of this country, I’ve done so much for the Black population of this country,” he said.
I’m not sure I can even comment on that. Then he really opened the can of worms with this jaw dropping word salad…
“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Later he said “she was Indian all the way” but then “became a Black person.”
“I think somebody should look into that too,” he said, speaking over his questioner. He continued his frequent mispronunciations of Harris’s first name, which many have called disrespectful.
There is an old adage that the first step to get out of a hole is to stop digging. But Trump just can’t put the shovel down.
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