“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
—Dr. Maya Angelou
In March 2011, Donald Trump said on The View: “I want him to show his birth certificate. There’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.”
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Donald Trump has been spreading racist conspiracy theories about Barack and Michelle Obama for years. Melania Trump helped her husband by also spreading birth conspiracies about Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
Trump and his father were sued by the federal government for housing discrimination in the 1970s, so it appears that racism is more than a political tool for Donald Trump. For Trump, racism is a deeply ingrained belief system in his life.
Donald Trump has made it clear during his national political career that he believes white men are superior to women, black and brown people, Asians, and people with disabilities.
The only shocking part of Trump’s video post on Truth Social, which presents himself as king of the jungle and features two seconds describing the Obamas as monkeys, is the condemnation and criticism coming from Republicans.
The same people who, in many cases, voted for Donald Trump because he told them they were superior, and who now see that they inherently, if not explicitly, supported racism, and now that it is attached to them, some want nothing to do with it.