Nobody call Trump a white supremacist! Right now!!
Now why would anyone anywhere ever call Trump a white supremacist? I just can’t imagine, can you?
Donald Trump became a household name by “firing” people on national television; now, it seems his administration is trying to fire people they don’t even employ.
Earlier this week, while ESPN host Jemele Hill was interacting with her followers on Twitter, she called President Trump a “white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.”
Whereupon the world came to a crashing halt as everyone stared in amazement.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about Hill’s tweets during her daily briefing on Wednesday, and said they should be considered a “fireable offense.”
“I’m not sure if [Trump’s aware of the comments.] That is one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make and is a fireable offense by ESPN,” Sanders said.
When pressed about why influential African American figures such as Hill believe that Trump — who hires, promotes, and defends white supremacists — was a white supremacist, Sanders noted that Trump had met black people before.
“I’m not going to speak for that individual,” she said. “I know the president has met again with people like Senator Scott, who are highly respected leaders in the African American community. He’s committed to working with them to bring the country to work together. That’s where we need to be focused, not on outrageous statements like that one.”
He talks to them, too. Remember that early press conference? Where journalist April Ryan asked him if he’d talked to the Congressional Black Caucus and he interrupted her to demand that she arrange a meeting with them? You know, because she’s black and black people all know each other and it’s their job to arrange things for white people?
Just a day after the Senate unanimously passed a joint resolution condemning the acts violence and domestic terrorism by white supremacists and neo-Nazis over the weekend of August 11 in Charlottesville, Virginia, the House of Representatives unanimously passed it by a voice vote Tuesday evening.
Tonight the House passed my resolution condemning hate groups & the Charlottesville attack. POTUS should send a clear message & sign it ASAP
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) September 12, 2017
Has POTUS signed it? Funny story: no he has not.
Asked whether president will sign, WH spox says "No announcements at this time." https://t.co/Scf2yh14AW
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 12, 2017
The joint resolution was introduced last week by the Congressman who represents Charlottesville, Rep. Tom Garret (R-VA), and calls on Trump to “speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and White supremacy; and use all resources available to the President and the President’s Cabinet to address the growing prevalence of those hate groups in the United States.” Additionally, the measure calls on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to work with the Secretary of Homeland Security and other Federal agencies to “investigate thoroughly all acts of violence, intimidation, and domestic terrorism by White supremacists, White nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and associated groups.”
The White House’s hesitancy to come out in support of a joint resolution that explicitly condemns white supremacists and affiliated groups is notable in light of Trump’s comments immediately after the violence in Charlottesville, when he equated white supremacists with the people who gathered to protest them.
Well, you see, they’re very busy over there, working on getting a reporter fired for calling him a white supremacist.
I’m wondering if Ms. Sanders had a standard ESPN employment contract in front of her when she made that statement. Otherwise, how would she know?
Well, Trump knows things that other people don’t know. We know this because he told us so (and I’ll concede that, because he knows things that no one else knows, because they are not true). And, since she has access to Trump, she can just ask him. She don’t need no stinkin’ contract in front of her, when she’s got the very good brain of Donald J. Trump.
@iknlast Tru dat.