Donald Trump’s biographer Michael Wolff offered a blunt read on how the president views the Black community, and why “racist” counts as “high praise” in MAGA world, The Daily Beast reported.
“Clearly, he has some issue with Black people,” Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast about President Trump. “The world is a better place to him without Black people, or without having to be aware of Black people, without Black people somehow in what he considers a zero sum game with white people.”
The Daily Beast recounted several instances in which Trump has served up “incendiary rhetoric” and exhibited “actions described by his critics as racist.” Trump has denied the accusations and in January 2018 told reporters, “No, no, I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed,” according to Politico.
Shortly before those remarks, The Washington Post had reported that Trump “grew frustrated with lawmakers” when “they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to several people briefed on the meeting.”
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