From Clay Jones on his political cartoon “Trump Sees Stars,” the Star of David, and how Donald Trump shared a tweet from a Neo-Nazi group
David Duke once ran for president (maybe twice), and even he can’t match Donald Trump’s record for bigoted statements made by a presidential candidate.
Trump has made derogatory comments toward women, veterans, and journalists, but his real gift is attacking race and religion. He attacked Ben Carson’s religion. He Implied Ted Cruz can’t be Methodist because no one of that religion comes from Cuba (Cruz was born in Canada and raised in Texas). He calls Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas.” He’s accused Mexican immigrants of being rapists and murderers. He says a judge can’t sit over his scam university trial because the judge is of Mexican descent. He wants a ban on Muslim immigrants. He’s voiced a racist Asian accent. He’s even mocked a New York Times reporter for being handicapped.
Over the weekend, Trump sent out a tweet attacking Hillary, and in that tweet was the Star Of David. Trump reversed course and retweeted the tweet with the star replaced by a circle and then tweeted that the original star was not the Star of David and could have been a sheriff’s badge.
Yeah. A sheriff badge though a tweet that originally came from a Neo-Nazi group. Trump and his surrogates insult all of us for believing we may be stupid enough to believe the “sheriff badge” explanation.
This isn’t one transgression in this area for Trump. He’s retweeted tweets from racists groups before. Maybe if Trump wants to stop sending out these tweets and defending them (he never apologizes), he should stop subscribing to racist websites.
He has to be subscribing to these hate groups. Where else is he finding such a smorgasbord of hatred? I read everything newsworthy, and I never see crap from Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, or skinheads unless they’re retweeted by Donald Trump.
I told a colleague over the weekend that I didn’t believe Trump is antisemitic. He’s just too stupid to realize stuff. What kind of stuff? Anything. His daughter converted to Judaism, so golly, how can the guy be racist? But then I thought about it and changed my mind.
The guy is aiming for this stuff if he’s subscribing to it. It’s in his news feed.
I really hate to compare anyone to Hitler. Usually you lose an argument as soon as you make that accusation. But dammit, it’s really hard not to if Trump won’t stop goose-stepping.
claytoonz.com/2016/07/05/trump-sees-stars
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