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Bill Prutt for Slate:
On Jan. 8, 2004, just more than 20 years ago, the first episode of The Apprentice aired. It was called âMeet the Billionaire,â and 18 million people watched. The episodes that followed climbed to roughly 20 million each week. A staggering 28 million viewers tuned in to watch the first season finale. The series won an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, and the Television Critics Association called it one of the best TV shows of the year, alongside The Sopranos and Arrested Development. The seriesâalongside its bawdy sibling, The Celebrity Apprenticeâappeared on NBC in coveted prime-time slots for more than a decade. The Apprentice was an instant success in another way too. It elevated Donald J. Trump from sleazy New York tabloid hustler to respectable household name. In the show, he appeared to demonstrate impeccable business instincts and unparalleled wealth, even though his businesses had barely survived multiple bankruptcies and faced yet another when he was cast. By carefully misleading viewers about Trumpâhis wealth, his stature, his character, and his intentâthe competition reality show set about an American fraud that would balloon beyond its creatorsâ wildest imaginations.
I should know. I was one of four producers involved in the first two seasons. During that time, I signed an expansive nondisclosure agreement that promised a fine of $5 million and even jail time if I were to ever divulge what actually happened. It expired this year. No one involved in The Apprenticeâfrom the production company or the network, to the cast and crewâwas involved in a con with malicious intent. It was a TV show, and it was made for entertainment. I still believe that. But we played fast and loose with the facts, particularly regarding Trump, and if you were one of the 28 million who tuned in, chances are you were conned. As Trump answers for another of his alleged deception schemes in New York and gears up to try to persuade Americans to elect him again, in part thanks to the myth we created, I can finally tell you what making Trump into what he is today looked like from my side. Most days were revealing. Some still haunt me, two decades later. [...]
Now, this is important. The Apprentice is a game show regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. In the 1950s, scandals arose when producers of quiz shows fed answers to likable, ratings-generating contestants while withholding those answers from unlikable but truly knowledgeable players. Any of us involved in The Apprentice swinging the outcome of prize money by telling Trump whom to fire is forbidden. [...]
Trump goes about knocking off every one of the contestants in the boardroom until only two remain. The finalists are Kwame Jackson, a Black broker from Goldman Sachs, and Bill Rancic, a white entrepreneur from Chicago who runs his own cigar business. Trump assigns them each a task devoted to one of his crown-jewel properties. Jackson will oversee a Jessica Simpson benefit concert at Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, while Rancic will oversee a celebrity golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Viewers need to believe that whatever Trump touches turns to gold. These properties that bear his name are supposed to glitter and gleam. All thanks to him.
Reality is another matter altogether. The lights in the casinoâs sign are out. Hong Kong investors actually own the placeâTrump merely lends his name. The carpet stinks, and the surroundings for Simpsonâs concert are ramshackle at best. We shoot around all that. Both Rancic and Jackson do a round-robin recruitment of former contestants, and Jackson makes the fateful decision to team up with the notorious Omarosa, among others, to help him carry out his final challenge. [...]
Trump will make his decision live on camera months later, so what we are about to film is the setup to that reveal. The race between Jackson and Rancic should seem close, and thatâs how weâll edit the footage. Since we donât know whoâll be chosen, it must appear close, even if itâs not.
We lay out the virtues and deficiencies of each finalist to Trump in a fair and balanced way, but sensing the moment at hand, Kepcher sort of comes out of herself. She expresses how she observed Jackson at the casino overcoming more obstacles than Rancic, particularly with the way he managed the troublesome Omarosa. Jackson, Kepcher maintains, handled the calamity with grace. âI think Kwame would be a great addition to the organization,â Kepcher says to Trump, who winces while his head bobs around in reaction to what he is hearing and clearly resisting. âWhy didnât he just fire her?â Trump asks, referring to Omarosa. Itâs a reasonable question. Given that this the first time weâve ever been in this situation, none of this is something we expected. âThatâs not his job,â Bienstock says to Trump. âThatâs yours.â Trumpâs head continues to bob. âI donât think he knew he had the ability to do that,â Kepcher says. Trump winces again.
âYeah,â he says to no one in particular, âbut, I mean, would America buy a nâ winning?â Kepcherâs pale skin goes bright red. I turn my gaze toward Trump. He continues to wince. He is serious, and he is adamant about not hiring Jackson. Bienstock does a half cough, half laugh, and swiftly changes the topic or throws to Ross for his assessment. What happens next I donât entirely recall. I am still processing what I have just heard. We all are. Only Bienstock knows well enough to keep the train moving. None of us thinks to walk out the door and never return. I still wish I had. (Bienstock and Kepcher didnât respond to requests for comment.) Afterward, we film the final meeting in the boardroom, where Jackson and Rancic are scrutinized by Trump, who, we already know, favors Rancic. Then we wrap production, pack up, and head home. There is no discussion about what Trump said in the boardroom, about how the damning evidence was caught on tape. Nothing happens.
We attend to our thesis that only the best and brightest deserve a job working for Donald Trump. Luckily, the winner, Bill Rancic, and his rival, Kwame Jackson, come off as capable and confident throughout the season. If for some reason they had not, we would have conveniently left their shortcomings on the cutting room floor. In actuality, both men did deserve to win. Without a doubt, the hardest decisions we faced in postproduction were how to edit together sequences involving Trump. We needed him to sound sharp, dignified, and clear on what he was looking for and not as if he was yelling at people. You see him today: When he reads from a teleprompter, he comes off as loud and stoic. Go to one of his rallies and heâs the off-the-cuff rambler rousing his followers into a frenzy. While filming, he struggled to convey even the most basic items. But as he became more comfortable with filming, Trump made raucous comments he found funny or amusingâsome of them misogynistic as well as racist. We cut those comments. Go to one of his rallies today and you can hear many of them.
If you listen carefully, especially to that first episode, you will notice clearly altered dialogue from Trump in both the task delivery and the boardroom. Trump was overwhelmed with remembering the contestantsâ names, the way they would ride the elevator back upstairs or down to the street, the mechanics of what he needed to convey. Bienstock instigated additional dialogue recording that came late in the edit phase. We set Trump up in the soundproof boardroom set and fed him lines he would read into a microphone with Bienstock on the phone, directing from L.A. And suddenly Trump knows the names of every one of the contestants and says them while the camera cuts to each of their faces. Wow, you think, how does he remember everyoneâs name? While on location, he could barely put a sentence together regarding how a task would work. Listen now, and he speaks directly to what needs to happen while the camera conveniently cuts away to the contestants, who are listening and nodding. He sounds articulate and concise through some editing sleight of hand.
Then comes the note from NBC about the fact that after Trump delivers the task assignment to the contestants, he disappears from the episode after the first act and doesnât show up again until the next-to-last. Thatâs too long for the (high-priced) star of the show to be absent. There is a convenient solution. At the top of the second act, right after the task has been assigned but right before the teams embark on their assignment, we insert a sequence with Trump, seated inside his gilded apartment, dispensing a carefully crafted bit of wisdom. He speaks to whatever the theme of each episode isâwhy someone gets fired or what would lead to a win. The net effect is not only that Trump appears once more in each episode but that he also now seems prophetic in how he just knows the way things will go right or wrong with each individual task. He comes off as all-seeing and all-knowing. We are led to believe that Donald Trump is a natural-born leader.
Through the editorial nudge we provide him, Trump prevails. So much so that NBC asks for more time in the boardroom to appear at the end of all the remaining episodes. (NBC declined to comment for this article.) [... So, we scammed. We swindled. Nobody heard the racist and misogynistic comments or saw the alleged cheating, the bluffing, or his hair taking off in the wind. Those tapes, Iâve come to believe, will never be found.
No one lost their retirement fund or fell on hard times from watching The Apprentice. But Trump rose in stature to the point where he could finally eye a run for the White House, something he had intended to do all the way back in 1998. Along the way, he could now feed his appetite for defrauding the public with various shady practices. In 2005 thousands of students enrolled in what was called Trump University, hoping to gain insight from the Donald and his âhandpickedâ professors. Each paid as much as $35,000 to listen to some huckster trade on Trumpâs name. In a sworn affidavit, salesman Ronald Schnackenberg testified that Trump University was âfraudulent.â The scam swiftly went from online videoconferencing courses to live events held by high-pressure sales professionals whose only job was to persuade attendees to sign up for the course. The sales were for the course âtuitionâ and had nothing whatsoever to do with real estate investments. A class action suit was filed against Trump.
That same year, Trump was caught bragging to Access Hollywood co-host Billy Bush that he likes to grab married women âby the pussy,â adding, âWhen youâre a star, they let you do it.â He later tried to recruit porn actor Stormy Daniels for The Apprentice despite her profession and, according to Daniels, had sex with her right after his last son was born. (His alleged attempt to pay off Daniels is, of course, the subject of his recent trial.) In October 2016âa month before the electionâthe Access Hollywood tapes were released and written off as âlocker room banter.â Trump paid Daniels to keep silent about their alleged affair. He paid $25 million to settle the Trump University lawsuit and make it go away. He went on to become the first elected president to possess neither public service nor military experience. And although he lost the popular vote, Trump beat out Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College, winning in the Rust Belt by just 80,000 votes.
Trump has been called the âreality TV president,â and not just because of The Apprentice. The Situation Room, where top advisers gathered, became a place for photo-ops, a bigger, better boardroom. Trump swaggered and cajoled, just as he had on the show. Whom would he listen to? Whom would he fire? Stay tuned.ïżœïżœTrump even has his own spinoff, called the House of Representatives, where women hurl racist taunts and body-shame one another with impunity. The State of the Union is basically a cage fight. The demands of public office now include blowhard buffoonery.
Bill Pruitt wrote in Slate that Donald Trump used the N-word on the set of NBC's The Apprentice in 2004 when referring to a Black contestant (Kwame Jackson)'s chances of winning the competition by saying "would America buy a n***er winning?"
This is yet another example of Trump's long record of anti-Black racism that dates back to the 1970s.
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Andrew was entering his third month of unemployment when he sat down at his computer and opened the inbox of his LinkedIn account. Heâd received a response to a query heâd sent off four days after his friend-turned-manager walked him into a conference room swimming with sunlight, smelling of cologne and the faintest hint of perfume left behind by a group of attorneys whoâd recently vacated the space after a five-hour meeting.
âIâm sorry, man,â Colin Perkins had said. Andrewâs eyes glided to the glass conference table, landing on the silver tray holding a molehill of bagels. He imagined they must be stale by now, having been left there uncovered in the icy office air.
Someone had planted the pointed end of a white plastic knife in an open container of chive-and-jalapeño cream cheese. It brought to mind the moon landing; all that was missing was a tiny American flag. A laugh trudged up his throat, but he disguised it as a cough.
âI told you,â Colin continued, raking his hands over his manicured Afro, âthat the last to hire would be the first to go.â
A month earlier, seventeen women and two men had accused the CEO of the company of sexual misconduct. That news had plummeted the stock. The layoffs followed. Andrew had witnessed dozens of employees being escorted by security from the building like criminals. Now it was his turn.
Andrew nodded, placed a comforting hand on Danielâs shoulder, and squeezed. The crisp cotton of Danielâs shirt felt cool beneath his palm. âItâs okay, man, I understand. Donât sweat it.â
Heâd spent that first week revamping his rĂ©sumĂ©, calling friends and old colleagues, people who might know of a job opportunity at their own place of employment or elsewhere. Heâd never had a LinkedIn account, but took the time to set one up. To conserve the little bit of savings he had, Andrew dropped his gym membership and went back to drinking tap water instead of the bottled Evian he loved. He gave up Starbucks coffee and the expensive cabernet sauvignon he purchased by the case.
By week three, he was spending his days on the couch, dressed in boxer shorts and sweat socks. Heâd stopped opening the blinds and only went outside to empty the garbage. He whiled away the hours playing video games, and watching Netflix and Pornhub. Oftentimes, he went days without brushing his teeth.
When his mother called to check on him, Andrew lied, claiming he had several interviews lined up. When his father took the phone into another room to ask if he needed money, Andrew assured him that he was fine on the financial front, even though he wasnât. Heâd made up his mind to sell his Shelby Mustang before he took a dime from his parents. That was a big decision because he loved that car more than heâd ever loved any woman.
The day he opened the e-mail, the panic had just started to set in. He could feel it creeping along the back of his neck, like the soft scuttle of caterpillar legs.
From: OBF, INC.
To: Andrew Jamison
Dear Mr. Jamison,
We found your resume to be very interesting and believe that you would be the perfect addition to our dynamic team of Client Liaisons.
PAID TRAINING!
Affordable benefits for you, your spouse, and/or children after 90 days!
Opportunities to advance within!
Hourly, overtime, and tremendous bonus opportunities!
If you love helping others, then you will love working for OBF, INC.
OBF, INC. wants to talk to you now! To set up an interview TEXT OBF51893.
Liaison was just a fancy French word for customer service agent. Well, that was his skill set. Andrew was an expert at assisting people.
He texted the number and received an instant response that directed him to call a telephone number and enter his personal code: 1032.
An automated voice offered him two available interview dates. He was instructed to press 1 for the first date and 2 for the second. The mechanical voice told him that he would receive a call advising him where the interview would take place.
It all seemed very clandestine. Andrew was cynical, but his desperation outweighed his skepticism.
A day later, he received a call from a woman with a Southern drawl . . . Georgia, Alabama, Texas? He couldnât quite pinpoint where she hailed from, but listening to her speak conjured visions of sweet tea and fireflies. She asked for his full government name and the code heâd received via text message. There was a pause, two clicks, and then the syrupy voice asked if he had a pen available. He did. After sheâd rattled off the address, she wished him good luck. There were a few more clicks and then the line went dead.
He walked into the lobby of the forty-story office building and was struck by the contemporary opulence of the space. Marble floors, potted palms that towered eight feet into the air, white leather sofas, and a slick-looking Louboutin-red reception desk.
Andrew presented his license to the security guard and was given a name tag, which he clipped to the lapel of his ash-gray jacket. He was told to go to the eighteenth floor.
While waiting for the elevator, he perused the list of companies listed on a plaque mounted to the wall. OBF, Inc. was nowhere to be found.
He smirked, shrugged his shoulders, and stepped into the elevator. On the eighteenth floor, smack outside of the elevator door, was a sheet of lined legal paper taped haphazardly to the wall. Scrawled on its face in black marker was: This Way to OBF, INC. Below that was an arrow.
He started down the hall. A man the color of cedar and as tall as an NBA player speed-walked past him, mumbling to himself. Andrew thought he looked dazed, as if heâd just received news that a loved one had passed away.
âGood morning,â Andrew murmured.
The man turned eyes as wide as saucers on Andrew. He opened his mouth and muttered something that Andrew wasnât sure heâd heard correctly. The elevator doors slid open just as Andrew leaned in and asked, âUhm, sorry, brother, but did you say run?â
The man leaped into the elevator, pressed his spine against the back wall, and fixed his eyes on the glass numbers above the closing doors.
Andrew stood blinking at his reflection in the chrome elevator doors. After a moment, he shrugged and continued down the hallway where he came upon a second handwritten sign directing him to turn left at the womenâs bathroom. He rounded a corner and found himself staring at eleven men seated in folding chairs. They all looked up from their iPhones and Androids. Andrew nodded and headed toward the pretty blonde seated behind a metal desk.
âGood morning,â she smiled. âName?â
âAndrew Jamison.â
âOkay, Mr. Jamison, please take a seat. Mrs. Americus will be with you shortly.â
He scrutinized his fellow applicants. They were all black men save for the one white guy with a man-bun who was called in as soon as Andrew sat down. Man-bun wasnât in there long. In less than five minutes, cheeks flushed and cursing under his breath, he stormed across the reception area and out of sight.
Andrew clenched his jaw and made eye contact with another man across the room from him. He imagined the unease in the manâs eyes mirrored his own uncertainty.
âAndrew Jamison, Mrs. Americus will see you now. Just through that door.â
The door opened to a large office filled with cubicles and desks, manned by women tapping away on typewriters or murmuring into the handsets ofâ
Andrew slowed his gait.
Are those rotary telephones and, wait, Royal typewriters?
As Andrew gawked, a large man with a mustache as thick has a shoe brush appeared before him. Andrew glanced up and then quickly shifted his gaze away from the brawny manâs left eyelid, which was weighed down with a sty the size of a dime.
âIn there,â the man huffed, aiming a chubby finger at a closed door not more than five feet from where they stood.
The office was as small as a janitorâs closet. And dark.
The lone window on the far left wall faced the shadowy back of a department store. Metal file cabinets lined the walls; some of the drawers were open, revealing manila folders bulging with papers. He could see, even in the muddy darkness of the room, a layer of dust atop the cabinets. Hanging on the walls were at least twenty framed photographs of people, all of whom were black.
The air was rife with the scent of cigarette smoke.
Andrew remembered people smoking at their desks when he went to visit his mother at her office job when he was young. Once, on a flight to Detroit with his grandmother, he stood at the back of the plane waiting to use the bathroom, and found himself engulfed in a cloud of smoke billowing from the cigarettes of three passengers.
He couldnât recall the exact year cities around the country began banning smoking in bars and restaurants, but he was supremely aware that smokers had to be at least four hundred feet away from the entrance of any building if they wanted to light up.
Yet here was this woman, puffing away like it was 1975. Andrew eyed the near-empty box of Winstons and then the woman. She was robustâa meat-and-potatoes sort of gal, with doughy cheeks and large blue eyes. Her sun-bleached blond hair fanned back from her faceâa style made famous by the eighties icon Farrah Fawcett. Her lips were slathered in tangerine-colored lipstick. The same color rung the filters of a dozen long-dead Winston butts heaped in the black ceramic ashtray. Andrew thought, If sheâs going for clown instead of glamour, well, bullâs-eye!
Ornate rings twinkled on seven of her ten fingers, the rose-gold chain she wore around her neck dribbled down her chest and disappeared into her cleavage. She looked to be in her midfifties.
âGood morning, Mr. Jamison. Please have a seat.â Her eyes remained glued to the sheet of paper clutched in her hands. Andrew assumed it was his rĂ©sumĂ©.
He sat down.
âYou graduated from Brown University?â
âY-yes, I did. I graduated summa cum laude in 1990.â
Her desk was cluttered with newspaper clippings; stacks of aging yellowed papers, and dated fashion magazines. Andrewâs eyebrows climbed. Was that Marcia from the seventies sitcom The Brady Bunch on the cover of that Glamour magazine?
Andrew chuckled to himself. This had to be an elaborate joke. Someone was putting him on. His eyes ranged around the office in search of a concealed camera.
âImpressive,â she said finally, looking him directly in the eye. âDo you have a wife?â
âS-sorry?â
âAre you married, Mr. Jamison?â
âNo, Iâm not.â
She searched his face. âAre you gay?â
Andrew bristled. âMrs. Americus, I donât think youâre legally allowed to ask me that question.â
She smirked.
âItâs a yes-or-no question, Mr. Jamison. I know itâs unusual, but believe me, for this position I would need to know.â
His rent was due tomorrow and then again in thirty more days. His savings were dwindling. âNo, Iâm not gay.â
âDo you have children?â
âOne daughter, sheâs twenty-two years old.â
âDo you have a good relationship with your daughter? With the mother?â
âYes.â
Mrs. Americus glanced at his rĂ©sumĂ©. âPerfect.â She reached for the dying cigarette and brought it to her lips. âAnd according to your application, youâve never been arrested. Is that true?â
âYes.â
âWell, we will be doing a background check.â
âUnderstood.â
âDo you have any bad habits? Do you use narcotics?â
âNo maâam.â
âAny . . . um . . . undesirable recreational activities?â
âUndesirable?â
âPorn? Well, not just porn. Kiddie porn.â
Andrewâs mouth fell open.
âNo judgment, Mr. Jamison. Again, I just need to know.â
âNo, I do not watch kiddie porn,â Andrew spat.
âGood!â she exclaimed, drumming her fingers on the desk. âLet me tell you the specifics of the job . . .â
Some of the faces behind the glass frames looked familiar. Again Andrew found himself squinting. Was that Omarosa? He pitched forward in his chair.
Mrs. Americus stopped talking and followed his gaze. âUm, yes,â she spouted. âThat is who you think it is. Sheâs been one of our best recruits.â
Andrew swallowed.
Mrs. Americus stubbed out her cigarette and laced her fingers under her chin. âSome of our liaisons work directly with government agencies. Thatâs a promotion of sorts. Of course, before you can be assigned to the big houseâI mean the White Houseâyouâd first have to prove yourself out in the field.â She giggled. âIn the field. You get it? Itâs a double entendre.â
Andrewâs mouth went dry.
She twisted around in the chair and pointed to a photograph of a pair of middle-aged women standing shoulder to shoulder, each holding a red MAGA baseball cap. âThose ladies are Diamond and Silk. Do you know them?â
Andrew shot out up from the chair. For a moment, he thought his knees would buckle. âWhat does OBF stand for?â
Mrs. Americus reached for the pack of cigarettes. âOBF stands for One Black Friend.â
âOne Black Friend?â
âYes. You see, in these troubling times, times where so many people are labeling white people as racist, we need black people to stand up for usâto have our backs, as your people are fond of saying. Sometimes, Mr. Jamison, a God-fearing, good white person may be accused of a crime or some other offense perpetrated against a person of color, and when the accused does not have a person of color in his circle, it looks bad. The public may see him . . . or her, as a racist simply because their circle is . . . white. Lily.
âAnd thatâs wrong. Not having black friends does not make a white person racist by default. Anyway,â she waved her hand, âthatâs where OBF comes in. We provide that one black friend. That one black friend introduces doubt, and more often than not, that doubt diminishes a large percentage of the negative impact our clients might face.â
Andrew just stared.
âOh, Mr. Jamison, donât look so shocked. This practice has been around for centuries.â She pointed to the far wall near the window. âYou see that guy there? He was actually the inspiration for this company.â
Andrew peered at the photograph. âWho is he?â
âJoe Oliver.â
âJoe Oliver?â
âYeah, Joe Oliver. You donât remember him? Joe Oliver, George Zimmermanâs one black friend.â Mrs. Americus raised a black ceramic coffee mug to her lips and sipped. The red decal on the side of the mug read: Black Tears.
Andrewâs stomach lurched, perspiration beading across his forehead. âThis is some kind of joke, right?â
âOh, I assure you this is not a joke and I am very serious. As serious as a heart attack. Is that how the saying goes? As serious as a heart attack?â
Andrew started toward the door.
âWait, Mr. Jamison. Look here.â She pointed at a photograph hanging above the row of filing cabinets. âThis is another one of our liaisons. Since heâs been working for us, heâs paid off his student loans and I understand that heâs just recently purchased a Cadillac.â
Andrew followed her index finger to the photo of a grinning black man holding a Blacks for Trump sign above his head like a trophy.
âShall we talk about salary?â
The lights flickered.
He thought, Maybe Iâm still asleep. Maybe this is a nightmare.
âAndrew? I can see youâre having a hard time processing all of this. But really, itâs not as uncommon as you might think. We live in America, this is a capitalist country, and we monetize everything. Everything.â
Andrew couldnât remember reaching for the doorknob, but suddenly he was stumbling through the reception area.
He fled down the corridor, rounded the first corner and then the next. A slight man the color of honeyed milk stepped from the elevator. He wore a yellow dress shirt with a red bow tie. His dark-blue khakis were flooded just enough to offer a wink of his orange-and-navy argyle socks.
Upon Andrewâs frantic approach, the startled stranger stepped swiftly out of his path. Andrew didnât make eye contact. He jabbed at the elevator button until the doors slid open.
Weeks later, Andrew was seated in a truck-stop diner with his fork poised over a plate of scrambled eggs and corned beef hash.
The mounted television was tuned to Fox News. The anchor reported that yet another young black man had been gunned down by a vigilante, another Good Samaritan, named Christopher Parks.
Christopher Parks was heading home from his job as a sanitation man when he spotted young Daniel Latham sitting in Starbucks, dozing over his law textbooks. Parks entered the establishment, woke Latham with a tap to his shoulder, and asked if he lived in the area. According to eyewitnesses, Latham replied that he did in fact live in the neighborhood. Parks demanded to see Lathamâs ID and was met with laughter. The law student gathered his belongings and stood to leaveârather menacingly, one eyewitness reported.
That was when Christopher Parks pulled his weapon and fired. The stunned Latham, still laughing, crumpled into his chair and pressed his hand over the whole in his heart. It wasnât until he saw the blood that the smile slipped from his lips and he began to cry.
The cops were called, but not an ambulance. Well, not immediately.
The police shackled Latham to the chair and took Parks to the police station for questioning. The woman behind the counter gave Parks a high five and a tall CaffĂš Mocha to go.
By the time an ambulance arrived, Daniel Latham was dead, having bled out all over his take-home final exam.
In the days that followed, it was revealed that Daniel Latham had several unpaid parking tickets and was thrice fined for not scooping his dogâs poop. Not only thatâhe was also a practicing Buddhist who supported a womanâs right to choose.
A search of Lathamâs apartment unearthed a well-worn copy of Alex Haleyâs The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which was on his nightstand alongside Jay-Zâs Decoded. This discovery was further evidence that Latham was no angel.
Laura Ingraham looked directly into the camera and told her viewers that Christopher Parks was a hero, a polite and well-spoken man who had been raised by his father after his mother died from breast cancer when he was just three years old. Yes, as a youth, Christopher had been suspended from school for fighting, and as a young man heâd beaten a girlfriend with a pipe. Later, when he was in his early thirties, heâd threatened to castrate his bossâa black man old enough to be his grandfather. All of that behavior, Laura Ingraham said, was directly connected to the trauma of losing a mother at such a tender age.
She paused, and in that moment her entire face pulsed with empathy. âThat said,â she continued, âAl Sharpton, along with the Black Lives Matter terrorist organization, have labeled Christopher Parks a racist and are calling for his arrest.â She shook her head and chuckled. âEarlier today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Christopherâs longtime best friend, Andrew Jamison . . .â
Andrew lowered his fork, reached for his shades, and slipped them onto his face.
âOBF, Inc., a short story by Bernice L. McFadden
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When US senator JD Vance, an Ohio Republican, was rolled out as former president Donald Trumpâs running mate last month, the move had several seeming aims. It was a nod to rich supporters like Vanceâs patron, Peter Thiel; a way to present the electorate with a more youthful face than Trumpâs; and a play for the working-class voters around whom Vance grew up, as he wrote about in his bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy.
All of this was almost immediately undermined when comments Vance made in a 2021 Fox News interview, claiming the country is being run by âchildless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that theyâve made,â came to light. There was, it quickly became clear, more where that came from.
Among other things, Vance has suggested that people in âviolentâ marriages shouldnât get divorced. In a 2021 interview, Vance criticized abortion exceptions for rape and incest, saying that the unborn fetuses in pregnancies resulting from these situation were seen as âinconvenient.â Vance has said that US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a âsociopathic attitude towards family,â claiming that the New York Democrat said it is âimmoral to have children because of climate change concerns.â (She did not say this.) Vance also suggested in a 2021 speech that adults who have children should get extra votes.
âWe have to go to war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country,â Vance told the Federalist in an interview in 2021.
Vance and the Trump campaign have dismissed these remarks as taken out of context, but like many other comments related to women that Vance, Trump, and their allies have made, they do not exist in a vacuum. In fact, they almost perfectly echo the rhetoric of accused rapist and human trafficker Andrew Tate and members of the online misogynist community. (Tate, the most prominent and influential of a group of professional misogynist influencers, has denied the allegations against him.) And the Trump campaign is not just passively repeating the misogynistic talking points of the so-called manosphere, but actively engaging with it to court the votes of isolated young menâa group to which both Trump and Vance have a history of attempting to appeal.
Examples abound. Tate has, for instance, called women who donât want kids âmiserable stupid bitchesâ while telling the misogynistic Fresh and Fit podcast, in an episode now deleted from its YouTube channel, that âlife without children [...] is inane and itâs pointless.â He went on: âIf you sit here and genuinely think youâre going to work your ass off through your fertile years and by the age of 54, youâre not going to be suicidal, alone with a cat, then you are dumb.â
Trump, for his part, is reported to have repeatedly called Harris a âbitchâ in private and has called women âdumbâ as well as âcrazyâ and âlow IQâ on multiple occasions. (In the past month alone, Trump has called Harris âlow IQâ and âdumb as a rockâ at rallies and in social media posts.) Trump once referred to former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman as a âcrazed, crying lowlife.â He also called her a âdog.â
Tate has repeatedly compared women to dogs, telling Barstool Sportsâs Dave Portnoy in an interview in 2022, âYou canât be responsible for something that doesnât listen to you. You canât be responsible for a dog if it doesnât obey you, or a child if it doesnât obey you, or a woman that doesnât obey you.â (Portnoy, who is known for his own misogynistic views, responded to Vanceâs suggestion that childless adults should pay more in taxes on X: âThis is fucking idiotic.â)
âPresident Trump has empowered women throughout his career as a businessman and in politics, promoting women to senior roles in both his company and campaign,â Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign told WIRED, labeling the premise of this article âoutrageous.â
âIt's shocking to see rhetoric typically reserved for the annals of internet forums repeated by some of the most powerful politicians in America,â Nina Jankowicz, the former Biden administration disinformation czar, who is now CEO of the American Sunlight Project, tells WIRED. âWell beyond the presidential race, these sorts of attacks aim to denigrate women and their value as human beings, and aim to encourage women to stay out of politics and public life. They have no place in our politics.â
Of course, it should also be remembered that both Trump and Tate have been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct. Trump has been found in court to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll, and just last week Romanian authorities opened another investigation into Tate in relation to accusations of trafficking women as young as 15.
Trump and Tate appear to be aligned on another subject: porn.
Tate, who is facing allegations of sexually exploiting women by forcing them to make pornographic videos for financial gain, has long railed against what he sees as the evils of pornography.
âAs masculinity has plummeted, a whole bunch of men are simply not having sex anymore, and then they become addicted to porn, which is cucking, effectively,â Tate told Tucker Carlson in an interview last year. âTwo people are having sex and youâre just watching it.â
Should Trump succeed in retaking the White House in Novemberâs election, he could seek to criminalize porn, according to the 922-page Project 2025 document that outlines plans for a second Trump term. (While Trump has disavowed the document, it is the product of his allies and of former Trump administration officials. One of the reportâs authors, Russell Vought, told undercover journalists from the Centre for Climate Reporting in a meeting earlier this month that Trumpâs efforts to distance himself from Project 2025 were just âgraduate-level politics.â Vance also wrote a foreword to a since-postponed book written by Project 2025âs architect, Kevin Roberts.)
âTheir product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime,â Roberts, the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, writes of pornographers in the document. âPornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.â
The links between Trump, Vance, and figures like Tate and the virulently toxic incel community appear to be, at least in part, strategic.
As Trumpâs own campaign managers have outlined his strategy, âsecluded, MAGA-sympathetic voters who have proved difficult to engage,â as The Atlantic put it, are one of the campaignâs primary messaging targets.
To that end, a pro-Trump PAC has launched a $20 million campaign to reach young voters that was kicked off with Vanceâs appearance on the Full Send Podcast hosted by the Nelk Boys, a group of four men who have a huge following among young conservative males.
The Nelk Boys have in the past hosted Tate as well as Nico Kenn De Balinthazy, another far-right influencer better known as Sneako. De Balinthazy has fantasized about being allowed to hit women as men were 50 years ago. In one video uploaded to TikTok, he was caught on camera hitting a woman and responding that she had âbeen acting up all night.â
On their podcast, the Nelk Boys have repeatedly defended the misogynistic rhetoric espoused by both Tate and De Balinthazy.
Trump has been interviewed several times by the Nelk Boys, labeling their work âimportant,â and was recently pictured alongside Sneako at an MMA event.
Trump also was recently interviewed by streamer Adin Ross, an ally of Tateâs who infamously inadvertently tipped off authorities about Tateâs plans to flee Romania. He was also kicked off Twitch for showing "unmoderated hateful conduct" in a chat and hosting the white nationalist Nick Fuentes. During the interview, Ross gifted Trump with a gaudily-wrapped Tesla Cybertruck and a Rolex, which some experts say may have violated campaign finance rules.
Trumpâs misogynistic worldview has bled into other areas of conservative politics, too.
Even before Kamala Harris officially replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic Partyâs presidential nominee, the right was demonizing her as a âDEI hireâ âa phrase Tate has used to criticize women in the past.
Prominent right-wing media figures have similarly made numerous misogynistic comments in recent months. In April, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk blamed birth control for creating âvery angry and bitter young ladiesâ and falsely claimed that the medication âscrews up the female brain.â Alec Lace, a regular Fox Business contributor, appeared on the station last month and felt it was OK to call Harris the âoriginal Hawk Tuah girl, thatâs the way she got where she isâ before adding that she is a âDEI vice president.â And just last month, Fox News prime time host Jesse Watters claimed: âWhen a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.â
At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last month, the speaker list featured Dana White, who was caught on camera slapping his wife, and Hulk Hogan, who has been accused of physically abusing his wife. (Hogan filed a defamation suit over the claims but asked the court to dismiss it five months later.) It also included a number of conservative figures who have sought to blame the victims of sexual assault, such as David Sacks and Mark Robinson. The speakers also included Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida lawmaker who has been investigated but not charged by the Department of Justice for allegations of being part of a scheme to traffic a 17-year-old woman.
âWomen who know and work for President Trump personally, like myself, know he is encouraging and generous to the women around him,â says Leavitt, the Trump spokesperson. âMost importantly, President Trumpâs policies as president uplifted women across the country because they brought down the cost of living and made our communities safer.â
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"In any election, itâs hard to know whose word to trust. And in a polarized country, many Americans distrust any information that comes from the other side of the political divide. Thatâs why the criticism of Donald Trump by those who served with him in the White House and by members of his own party is so striking. Dozens of people who know him well, including the 91 listed here, have raised alarms about his character and fitness for office â his family and friends, world leaders and business associates, his fellow conservatives and his political appointees â even though they had nothing to gain from doing so. Some have even spoken out at the expense of their own careers or political interests.
The New York Times editorial board has made its case that Mr. Trump is unfit to lead. But the strongest case against him may come from his own people. For those Americans who are still tempted to return him to the presidency or to not vote in November, it is worth considering the assessment of Mr. Trump by those who have seen him up close.
Administration insiders:
He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead âŠâ
Bill Barr
He was extremely vulnerable to manipulation.â
Fiona Hill
⊠he was getting input from people who were calling him up, I donât know who ...â
Anthony Fauci
⊠undermined American democracy baselessly âŠâ
Thomas P. Bossert
He doesnât take responsibility for the bad news âŠâ
David Lapan
⊠says a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.â
Elaine Chao
⊠equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists âŠâ
Gary Cohn
His behavior had grown increasingly erratic and unnerving.â
Betsy DeVos
The F.B.I. is under attack by the president of the United States.â
Andrew McCabe
A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators.â
John Kelly
Sometimes itâs just better to steer clear of him.â
Anthony Scaramucci
⊠I do regard him as a threat to democracy âŠâ
Mark Esper
Trumpâs temperament wasnât rational âŠâ
Cassidy Hutchinson
⊠doesnât know the difference between the truth and a lie âŠâ
Dan Coats
⊠he tries to divide us.â
James Mattis
⊠loyalty was mostly a one-way street.â
Cliff Sims
⊠I think heâs a terrible human being.â
Mick Mulvaney
⊠caused direct harm âŠâ
Deborah Birx
⊠very little understanding of what it means to be in the military âŠâ
Richard Spencer
⊠the most reckless and deadly piece of information I have ever heard.â
Rick Bright
Literally everything Iâve tried to do on cutting drug costs, you have killed it.â
Alex Azar
⊠played to Trumpâs ego and insecurities with flattery.â
H.R. McMaster
⊠flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob.â
James Comey
The turnover suggested instability and disorganization to our adversaries âŠâ
Mike Pompeo
⊠renders coherent foreign policy almost unattainable.â
John Bolton
He is wholly unfit to be in office.â
Alyssa Farah Griffin
⊠a huge violation of your most important oath âŠâ
Marc Short
He has built up a DNA of defensiveness.â
Sean Spicer
You are using the military to create fear in the minds of the people âŠâ
Mark Milley
⊠Anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president âŠâ
Mike Pence
⊠not consistent with our national security objectives.â
Rex Tillerson
Trump relentlessly ⊠puts forth claims that simply are not true.â
Ty Cobb
The root of the problem is the presidentâs amorality âŠâ
Miles Taylor
Do you think Trump wants a guy to win after him?â
Steve Bannon
⊠Heâs saying some crazy shit.â
Don McGahn
⊠They are loyal to no one.â
Stephanie Grisham
The Trumps & Trump Inc.
You canât trust him.â
Maryanne Trump Barry
⊠a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully âŠâ
Michael Cohen
âI wanna do what I wanna doâ âŠÂ â
Fred Trump III
Trump does not have the temperament âŠâ
Kwame Jackson
He pushed me up against the wall âŠâ
Jill Harth
âŠactually a racist.â
Omarosa Manigault Newman
Honest work was never demanded of him âŠâ
Mary L. Trump
⊠the competition reality show set about an American fraud âŠâ
Bill Pruitt
⊠the hint of menace beneath the surface âŠâ
Gwenda Blair
Our job was to make him look legitimate âŠâ
Jonathon Braun
If you disagreed with Donald, he put you out of his inner circle.â
Randal Pinkett
Republican politicians
He is a coward.â
Dick Cheney
This man is a pathological liar.â
Ted Cruz
He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.â
Lindsey Graham
There is nothing âconservativeâ about Donald Trump.â
Adam Kinzinger
The cheapest S.O.B. Iâve ever met in my life.â
Chris Christie
Heâs not loyal.â
Justin Amash
He sought a coup by misleading people with lies.â
Arnold Schwarzenegger
⊠Power, revenge and retribution is his real motivation âŠâ
Denver Riggleman
Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior âŠâ
Jeff Flake
The healing of the Republican Party cannot begin with Trump as president âŠâ
Geoff Duncan
⊠taking advantage of the trust placed in him by his supporters âŠâ
John Boehner
He is a con artist.â
Marco Rubio
⊠a weakening of our shared American values âŠâ
John Kasich
I think heâs toxic for the Republican Party and for the country.â
Larry Hogan
Heâs willing to significantly undermine them âŠâ
Bob Corker
There has never been a greater betrayal by a president âŠâ
Liz Cheney
⊠an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories âŠâ
Mitch McConnell
He should have immediately denounced the mob âŠâ
Kevin McCarthy
⊠the most expensive and least effective way to do border security âŠâ
Will Hurd
⊠not decency, not truth, not character, not integrity âŠâ
Bill Weld
He tried to violently overthrow our government.â
Joe Walsh
⊠We shouldnât have listened to him.â
Nikki Haley
⊠bitterness, combativeness and self-interest.â
Charlie Baker
Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.â
Mitt Romney
⊠will spend the entire campaign whining about his legal troubles âŠâ
Chris Sununu
⊠requires the kind of character he just doesnât have.â
Paul Ryan
Conservative voices
He built a wall of lies âŠâ
Charlie Sykes
If someone says something nice about him, they are our friend âŠâ
Henry Kissinger
He wasnât motivated by what he didnât know.â
Hugh Hewitt
⊠corroded and corrupted American democracy âŠâ
J. Michael Luttig
This is not leadership our country needs.â
Bob Vander Plaats
⊠We need a new standard-bearer.â
Erick Erickson
Lying is Trumpâs toxic superpower.â
Rich Logis
⊠a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities âŠâ
George Will
Trump might be the greatest charlatan of them all.â
L. Brent Bozell III
World leaders
⊠I can't understand how Donald Trump can be on the side of Putin.â
Volodymyr Zelensky
A frightened dog barks louder.â
Kim Jong-un
⊠stands for a great division in the country.â
Olaf Scholz
⊠If there is a second time, it wonât be easy âŠâ
Justin Trudeau
I deeply regret that President Trump has not conceded defeat âŠâ
Angela Merkel
Where has our role model for democracy gone?â
Kazuyoshi Akaba
⊠clearly a threat.â
Christine Lagarde
⊠President Trump radiates insecurity.â
Kim Darroch
Heâs a show-off.â
Mauricio Macri
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Donald Trump's racism has been normalized by too many people. But this is not the sort of mindset America needs in a head of state.
Fred Trump III, Weird Donald's nephew, has a new book out which makes our already low opinion of Trump plummet even further.
â ïž Caution: Article quotes racist language used by Trump. â ïž
In a new book, Donald Trumpâs nephew recalls the future US president, at the start of his New York real estate career, surveying damage to a beloved car and furiously using the N-word. The shocking scene appears in All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C Trump III, which will be published in the US next Tuesday. The Guardian obtained a copy. ââNiggers,â I recall him saying disgustedly. âLook what the niggers did,ââ Fred Trump writes, describing his uncleâs racist outburst. In the midst of a tumultuous election, in which Trump faces Kamala Harris, the first woman of color to be vice-president, the book may prove explosive. Allegations of racism have followed Trump through his life in business and politics. Rumours persist that tape exists of Trump using the N-word during his time on The Apprentice, the hit NBC TV show that propelled him towards politics, though none have emerged. Omarosa Manigault Newman, a Black contestant, has said she has heard such a tape. Trump denies it. Since winning the Republican nomination for president in 2016, through four years in the White House and in his third presidential campaign, Trump has repeatedly used racist language and has faced accusations of race-baiting. He has vehemently denied all such accusations. [ ... ]
Trump III describes in detail a stunning moment he says happened in the early 1970s at the house of his grandparents, Donald Trumpâs parents, in Queens, New York. It was âjust a normal afternoon for pre-teen meâ, Trump III writes, but then his uncle arrived. âDonald was pissed,â Trump III writes. âBoy, was he pissed.â Trump says his uncle showed him his âcotillon white Cadillac Eldorado convertibleâ. In its retractable canvas top, âthere was a giant gash, at least two feet long [and] another, shorter gash next to itâ. ââNiggers,â I recall him saying disgustedly. âLook at what the niggers did.â ââI knew that was a bad word.ââ His uncle, Trump III writes, had not seen whoever damaged his car. Instead, he âsaw the damage, then went straight to the place where peopleâs minds sometimes go when they face a fresh affront. Across the racial divide.â
Grandpa Fred Sr. also had racism issues.
In 1973, Fred Trump Sr, Donald Trump and the Trump company were sued by the US justice department, alleging racial discrimination at New York housing developments. Fred Trump III writes: âThis was a painful period for the company and therefore for Donald ⊠all the publicity was bad publicity. The ârâ word â racist â was thrown around.â The Trumps counter-sued and the case was settled âwith no admission of guiltâ, as Donald Trump has said. Trump III also addresses his grandfatherâs apparent arrest at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927, which he says surprised the family when it was recently reported.
But wait, there's more!
Donald Trump thinks disabled people are a waste of flesh. In a separate article about Fred III's book, we hear how Uncle Donald told Fred III to let his disabled son die.
Donald Trump told his nephew he should let his disabled son die, then âmove down to Floridaâ, the nephew writes in a new book, calling the comment âappallingâ. âWait!â Fred C Trump III writes. âWhat did he just say? That my son doesnât recognise me? That I should just let him die? âDid he really just say that?â The shocking exchange is described in All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way, which will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy. [ ... ] On Wednesday morning, Time published an extract detailing Trumpâs callous remark about his disabled great-nephew. It came days after family members at the Republican national convention portrayed Trump as a âvery caring and lovingâ grandfather and family man. But Trump family history is complicated. [ ... ] In his own book, Fred Trump III describes a call to his uncle after the White House funeral of Robert Trump, the then presidentâs younger brother, in 2020. Fred Trump III says Donald Trump was then âthe only oneâ of the older Trumps still âcontributing consistentlyâ to Williamâs care. He contacted his uncle even though he âreally didnât look forward to these callsâ and âin many ways ⊠felt I was asking for money I should have originally received from my grandfatherâ â Fred Trump Sr, the New York construction magnate whose will prompted the family feud. Fred Trump III says he called Donald Trump after seeing him at Briarcliff, a family golf club in Westchester county, New York. He says he described his sonâs needs, increasing costs for his care, and âsome blowbackâ from Trumpâs siblings. âDonald took a second as if he was thinking about the whole situation,â Fred Trump III writes. ââI donât know,ââ he finally said, letting out a sigh. âHe doesnât recognise you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.ââ Fred Trump III writes: âWait! What did he just say? That my son doesnât recognise me? That I should just let him die? Did he really just say that? That I should let my son die ⊠so I could move down to Florida? Really?â Fred Trump III says he shouldnât have been surprised, since he had recently heard his uncle say something similar in an Oval Office meeting with doctors and advocates for disabled rights.
#donald trump#weird donald#trump is a racist#trump hates the disabled#fred trump iii#books#all in the family: the trumps and how we got this way#the trump family#election 2024#vote blue nomatter who
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For Josh Crockett's first Heritage Day chapel, he helps the audience's insomnia with a conversation between Bob Jones III and Stephen Jones.
Bob can't help himself, however, in repeating a typical Trump-talking-point insulting Kamala Harris's intelligence.
Stephen looks a little embarrassed. Josh adores it!
The Anti-Defamation League points out that these kinds of insults are typical among white male supremacists -- a kind of glue that binds them all together.
And Trump himself never fails to hurl some kind of insult at any woman who dares to act:
On Vice President Kamala Harris "She is slow and lethargic in answering even the easiest of questions." [October 13, 2024] "Lyin' Kamala, who is being exposed as a 'dummy' every time she does a show." [October 8, 2024] "Kamala is mentally impaired." [September 29, 2024] "Retarded." [September 29, 2024] "They put her in, and she somehow â a woman â somehow she's doing better than [President Joe Biden] did." [September 18, 2024] "She's a Marxist. Everybody knows she's a Marxist." [September 10, 2024] "I am much better looking than Kamala Harris." [August 17, 2024] "She was a bum three weeks ago. She was a bum. A failed vice president in a failed administration." [July 27, 2024] "She's so bad. She's so pathetic. She's so fu*king bad" [July 3, 2024] "I see the same basic level of competence as [President Joe Biden]. I would define her in a very similar matter that I define him" [July 9, 2024] "If [Biden] had picked someone even halfway competent they would have bounced him from office years ago, but they can't because she's gonna be their second choice" [July 9, 2024] "This monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night, by the way. I thought that wasn't even a contest last night. She was terrible. I don't think you could get worse. And totally unlikeable" [Oct. 8, 2020] "You know what, people don't like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. That would be an insult to our country." [Sept. 8, 2020] "Very, very nasty ⊠the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate." [Aug. 11, 2020] On 2024 presidential candidate and GOP nomination rival Nikki Haley "Nimbra doesn't have what it takes" [Jan. 19, 2024] "Birdbrain doesn't have the TALENT or TEMPERAMENT to do the job" [Sept. 29, 2023] On former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao "[GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell's] China loving wife, Coco Chao!" [Sept. 30, 2022] On "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin "That is one dumb woman. Sorry. I'm sorry, women, she's a dummy." [October 9, 2024] On Casey DeSantis, wife of 2024 presidential candidate and GOP nomination rival Ron DeSantis "I know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign" [Nov. 8, 2022] On House Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali) "She's turned on him like a dog. She's as crazy as a bed bug" [July 20, 2024] "We'll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco â how's her husband doing, anybody know?" [September 29, 2023] On Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "This is not even a smart person, other than she's got a good line of stuff. I mean, she goes out and she yaps." [Aug. 14, 2020] On the #MeToo movement "It is a very scary time for young men in America, where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of. ⊠Women are doing great." [Oct. 2, 2018] "You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women. If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you're dead. ⊠You've got to be strong. You've got to be aggressive. You've got to push back hard. You've got to deny anything that's said about you. Never admit." [Via Bob Woodward's Fear: Trump in the White House] On Omarosa Manigault Newman "A crazed, crying lowlife" and a "dog." [Aug. 14, 2018] On Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters "An extraordinarily low IQ person." [June 25, 2018] On Mika Brzezinski "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" [June 29, 2017] On Hillary Clinton "Such a nasty woman." [Oct. 19, 2016] "If she were a man, I don't think she'd get 5 percent of the vote." [April 26, 2016] "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?" [April 16, 2015]
The list goes on.
This is the Heritage on full display at Bob Jones University in 2024.
#Bob Jones University#Bob Jones III#Josh Crockett#Kamala Harris#Anti-Defamation League#Misogyny#Klandamentalism#Youtube
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âWhen he mispronounces her name, he does it as a slurâ: Omarosa Manigault Newman unpacks the harmful shortcomings of recurring nightmare Donald Trump
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Omarosa: Trump âdictatedâ doctorsâ letters about his medical history
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Omarosa: Trump âdictatedâ doctorsâ letters about his medical history
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Former Trump Staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman Endorses Kamala Harris For President - https://iconichipster.com/former-trump-staffer-omarosa-manigault-newman-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president/ ...
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Trump pushes ableist attacks on Harris by calling her "mentally impaired" and "mentally disabled"
Maegan Vazquez and Sabrina Rodriguez at WaPo:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harrisâs mental capacity Saturday, falsely claiming she was born âmentally impairedâ and comparing her actions to that of âa mentally disabled person.â The remarks prompted criticism from advocates for people with disabilities. Disparaging Harrisâs actions on border security as vice president, Trump told the crowd in Prairie du Chien, Wis., âKamala is mentally impaired. If a Republican did what she did, that Republican would be impeached and removed from office, and rightfully so, for high crimes and misdemeanors.â
He later suggested Harris âwas born that way,â prompting cheers in the crowd. âJoe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,â he said, elaborating on a claim backed by no evidence. He called Harris âa very dumb person,â and repeatedly mispronounced her first name, an action some supporters see as demeaning and racist. Bidenâs faltering debate performance prompted criticism about his mental acuity and his eventual decision to drop out.
The comments, which were part of what Trump acknowledged was âa dark speech,â drew swift criticism. Maria Town, CEO and president of the American Association of People with Disabilities, said in a statement to The Washington Post that Trumpâs comments âsay far more about him and his inaccurate, hateful biases against disabled people than it does about Vice President Harris, or any person with a disability.â âTrump holds the ableist, false belief that if a person has a disability, they are less human and less worthy of dignity,â she added. âThese perceptions are incorrect, and are harmful to people with disabilities.â The speech marked the latest escalation in personal attacks by Trump against Harris. The Republican has baselessly questioned her racial identity and amplified a vulgar joke about her performing a sex act.
The former president has a history of mocking people with disabilities. And he has repeatedly questioned the intelligence of Black women, such as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and several journalists, and referred to one of his former staffers, Omarosa Manigault Newman, as a dog. On the campaign trail in 2015, Trump mocked a reporter with a physical disability which limits the functioning of his joints. More recently, the former president has repeatedly taunted President Joe Biden for his stutter on the campaign trail. And earlier this year, he discussed the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for his vote against a Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. âJohn McCain for some reason couldnât get his arm up that day,â Trump said, doing an impression of McCain by giving a low thumbs down. The move was seen by critics as Trump mocking McCainâs disability â an injury sustained while a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
At indoctrination rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on Saturday, Donald Trump pushes ableist attacks on Kamala Harris by calling her "mentally impaired" and "mentally disabled".
See Also:
The Guardian: Trump leans into anti-immigrant rants and Harris barbs at Wisconsin rally
#Donald Trump#Kamala Harris#Ableism#Cognitive Decline#2024 Presidential Election#2024 Elections#Trump Rallies#Joe Biden#Disabilities
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Dear Women, Is This Who You Want Running Our Country?
Now there are plenty of reasons not to vote for Trump. One of the main ones is Project 2025, which is clear that they want to take away women's rights, put the LGBTQ community back in the closet and have an all out killing spree on black people with the laws that allow police officers all out access and no consequences.
If you can vote for this type of a man even after you know all of that, then what about what he has and continues to say about women? What kind of human being is he? Do you think he cares about women? If the way he speaks of women doesn't make you sick, then there is truly something wrong with you. SorryâŠnot sorry. I refuse to deal with a man who treats women like this and I sure as hell don't want a man like this to run our country.
If case you have forgotten what a truly sexist human being he is, let me refresh your memory with actual quotes from him. These are things you can't dispute, you can't hide what he said, you can't not hear them once you hear themâŠthis is what he said and how he feelsâŠloud and clear!
"If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?" [April 16, 2015
About Omarosa Manigault Newman:
"A crazed, crying lowlife" and a "dog."
[Aug. 14, 2018]
On Stormy Daniels
"Horseface" [Oct. 16, 2018]
"I never liked horseface. That wouldn't be the one. There is no one. We have a great First Lady."
[March 25, 2023]
Birdbrain doesn't have the TALENT or
THE TEMPERAMENT to do the job"
[Sept. 29, 2023]
On former Transportation Secretary Elaine ChaoGOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell's]
China loving wife, Coco Chao!"
[Sept. 30, 2022]
About Bette Midler:
"While @BetteMidler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct." [Oct. 28, 2012]
(Politically correct?âŠWait, I have to stop laughing before I can write more)
On Arianna Huffington
"Unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man â he made a good decision."
[Aug. 28, 2012]
On Rosie O'Donnell
"Can you imagine the parents of Kelli ... when she said, 'Mom, Dad, I just fell in love with a big, fat pig named Rosie?'"
[Dec. 29, 2006]
When asked what he thought of Lindsay Lohan.
What do you think of Lindsay Lohan? There's something there, right? But you have to like freckles. I've seen a close-up of her chest. And a lot of freckles. Are you into freckles? ... She's probably deeply troubled, and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women â deeply, deeply troubled â they're always the best in bed?"
[2004]
His thoughts on women in general:
"I saved your suburbs â women, suburban women, you're supposed to love Trump!"
[Oct. 18, 2020]
To a female reporter: "We could say, politically correct, that looks doesn't matter, but the look obviously matters. Like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful."
[2014]
And our all time favorite one from all the women who have ever been sexually harassed or assaultedâŠ
âI've got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful â I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
[2005]
So today my friends, and the wonderful women of this country I am asking you is this the type of man you want running this country?
Is this the role model you want your children looking up to? Is this the type of man you want your daughters to marry? I know that I want a man who respects women, who respects people with disabilities, and who respects human beings in general. We need a man that will bring our country together, not divide it. So I am asking you, all of you intelligent, beautiful, self respecting women, is this who you want running our country?
We all need to vote like our lives depend on it because it does, and remember only you can be the change you want to see.
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