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Trump: I do not have a racist bone in my body

US President Donald Trump has insisted he is not a racist after his Twitter attacks on four US congresswomen were widely condemned as racist. Mr Trump had suggested the four women - all US citizens - "can leave" the US. Responding to the criticism, Mr Trump tweeted: "Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don't have a Racist bone in my body!" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49008454
An extraordinary remark from Donald Trump. I thought he only liked white, blue eyed people.  What was it he thought of Obama, not as a Democrat but as a person?  But to say US citizens can leave the US if they do not like it is questionable and return to the backward countries they came from?  I wonder what he will say about this in a few days.

Ivonne Holliday ● 2675d20 Comments

He's a spineless amoeba?

Michael Ixer ● 2675d

Ha ha ha ha!!!  Michael, that was brilliant!

Ivonne Holliday ● 2675d

Amoeba! I spat out my coffee!

Lucille Grant ● 2675d

Sorry, Lucille. I didn't mean to disturb your coffee drinking.

Michael Ixer ● 2675d

I think this US cartoon is spot on ...

Michael Ixer ● 2674d

France would be more than happy to retrieve their gift. What an axxe Trump is.

Lucille Grant ● 2674d

My other half thought it was apt too but managed to hold his coffee in.

Lucille Grant ● 2674d

Fantastic cartoon!!!I wonder if Donald Trump knows where the statue came from.... 

Ivonne Holliday ● 2674d

Very clever as usual...https://twitter.com/MattCartoonist/status/1151178783476654080/photo/1

Freddie Francis ● 2674d

I doubt he does, I can also remember George W saying the French don't have a word for entrepreneur ...

Michael Ixer ● 2674d

Deafening silence from the Trumpeteers. Perhaps even they think he has gone too far this time?

Jane Carter ● 2674d

Yes Jane. The thing is apart from the racist angle it was a stupid thing to say as three of the four women were born US citizens. As Hilary Clinton and many others, including a numbef of my US friends, have responded: yes, they do needs to fix the country they come from!

Michael Ixer ● 2674d

"Deafening silence from the Trumpeteers. Perhaps even they think he has gone too far this time?"Trump too far? There is no such concept for supporters.

David Ainsworth ● 2674d

One would hope that the Democrats will put someone up against him with a chance of winning. Danger is they won't and America will again get the president they deserve unfortunately the world gets one we dont deserve.Apart from 4, the Republicans in the Senate should also be ashamed of themselves.

Andy Pike ● 2674d

Quite agree, Andy. However the Trumpeteer trio on this forum remains silent. Amazing!

Jane Carter ● 2674d

One wonders how President Trump's far right religious supporters will react to this NBC archive footage of Trump and Epstein with a roomful of  young women? (Or should that be a golf resort full of them?) CNN are speculating there could be more such material but they may just be miffed that NBC found it - I'll bet the archive staff are working overtime now ...Still I suspect his supporters will know an innocent reason for this ... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tape-shows-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-discussing-women-1992-party-n1030686

Michael Ixer ● 2674d

Dnald Trump's grandfather, from Wikipedia:-"Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump; 14 March 1869 – 30 May 1918) was a German–American businessman and the patriarch of the Trump family. Born in Kallstadt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria (now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), he emigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and started working as a barber. Several years later, in 1891, he moved to the Northwest. He allegedly made his fortune by operating restaurants and brothels in Seattle and the mining town Monte Cristo, and brothels in the Klondike Gold Rush. He later returned to Kallstadt and married. Bavarian authorities accused him of emigrating when he was young to avoid fulfilling his military service, so he lost his Bavarian citizenship; he and his family returned to the United States.He worked as a barber and hotel manager, and began to acquire real estate in Queens. He was the father of Frederick Christ Trump and John G. Trump, and grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States."So the Trumps arrived after the majority of Black Americans did (although the Trumps came voluntarily).

David Ainsworth ● 2673d

Well that IS interesting because before you posted that I was going to post this:  We came across an interesting scenario in a high street where a black woman was arguing very loudly with a white woman with an eastern european accent and telling her to go back where she came from.Both I think immigrants -  one just more recent than another - and if we really look at our family trees I think you will find many more mixes than you ever imagined.  Just look at all those countries that our forebears visited often as part of the British Army and where they often had a 'local wife' as well as the wife back home in England.  The world has shrunk as communications have changed and places once so very distant are now on the internet and telephone as well as quicker to travel to and from now that you don't have to get the boat!

Philippa Bond ● 2673d

That's dreadful Philippa -  a black woman, who no doubt has come upon racism herself, practises it against another immigrant!I wonder how many of us when discovering our forebears find that we are not 100% English,Scottish or Welsh?

Lucille Grant ● 2673d

I think that because a lot of us speak English and have no other native tongue that we consider ourselves to be English - whilst definitely having Irish Scottish and Welsh relations as well as English in our family trees...  and then there's other parts of the UK eg Cornwall where they don't necessarily consider themselves English...

Philippa Bond ● 2673d