Barack and Michelle Obama are not alone in deserving the apology that Donald Trump will not give.
The Obamas were the objects of his breathtakingly vile video post depicting them as apes — an insult to all decent Americans.
Once again, Trump disgraced the nation’s highest office. He implied that he takes us to be as vulgar and racist as he is. To be sure, there are many people like that, and he caters to their bigotry.
That’s not who we are, but it is who Trump is.
The government had to sue Trump and his father twice to make them obey the fair housing law and rent to Black tenants in New York. He promoted the lie that Obama was not born in the U.S. He defended Nazi thugs at Charlottesville, Virginia. He accused Haitians of eating dogs and cats in Ohio.
He rails against “shithole” countries — meaning Black ones like Somalia — and allows asylum applications only from white South Africans. He has erased references to slavery and racism from national parks and monuments and attempts to erase diversity everywhere else, where it’s not his business.
It’s hard to believe that Trump didn’t know what was in the video he says he passed to an aide to post on his social media. But even if he’s being truthful for once, his problem is that the video stayed up for 12 hours before the White House, complaining of “fake outrage,” read the room, heard the outrage from his fellow Republicans, and took it down.
It was encouraging to hear Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who’s Black, denounce the video as “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” Not the first — the most.
There should have been many more (we can’t hear you, Rick Scott, Ashley Moody, Ron DeSantis, James Uthmeier, Byron Donalds and others). By their silence, they tacitly admitted they would rather tolerate Trump’s gross indecency than lose support from a president who does not deserve theirs.
“Hundreds if not thousands of people responded to the clip with enthusiasm,” The Atlantic reported. Within 12 hours, a memecoin $APEBAMA was minted, with $4 million worth traded.
Source: Korea Times News
