Donald Trump shouts out Black friends at BHM White House event
Trump held a Black History Month program at the White House just one week after posting a video depicting the Obamas like monkeys, and his behavior belied any sense of unbiasedness. For example, he introduced the crowd to the only Black member of his cabinet, housing and urban development secretary Scott Turner, and the former tokenized HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson. Trump then trotted out his other “black friends” in the form of Fox News talking head and DOJ attorney Leo Terrell…
and Dr. Martin Luther King's anti-abortion activist niece, Alveda King. The idea of a royal family member licking Trump's boots during Black History Month is… quite something.
No “Black Friend” celebration would be complete without Black celebs, so Trump invoked the name of Mike Tyson, saying:
“Mike Tyson, boy, I'm telling you, Mike has been loyal to me. Every time they come out, they say, 'Trump is a racist' … Mike Tyson says, 'He's not a racist, he's my friend.'
“He's been there from the beginning, good times and bad. But Mike Tyson is a great guy, and he was so loyal. Always been loyal.”
Trump also gave a weirdly fetishized shoutout to his new #1 fan, Onika Tanya Maraj, aka Nicki Minaj, by commenting on her “such beautiful skin” and her fingernails.
“I said, Nikki, are they real? She said she didn't want to be in that, but she was so beautiful”
Be clear, there are not enough black celebrities, athletes or politicians to make black people in general forget about Trump's historically racist comments and behavior. Everything from his housing discrimination lawsuits to his full-page ad defaming the now-Exonerated Five, we all remember it.
