The one salient point
Interviewer: John Lewis is lying in state in the US Capitol, how do you think history will remember John Lewis?
Trump: I don’t know. I really don’t know. I don’t know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration. He chose, uh – I never met John Lewis, actually, I don’t believe.
Interviewer: Do you find him impressive?
Trump: [pause with mouth open and disdainful “tsk” sound] Uhhh…I can’t say one way or the other. I find a lot of people impressive. I find many people not impressive – but – [shrug] no – but I didn’t uh – [hands come up in accordion gesture; meanwhile interviewer is asking “Do you find his story impressive?”] – he didn’t come to my inauguration. He didn’t come to my State of the Union speeches. [accordion gesture gets wider] And that’s OK. [pause] That’s his right. [pause] And, again, [more accordion gestures] nobody has done more [voice is an indignant whine now] for Black Americans than I have. [interviewer saying “I understand, I understand that”] He should have come. [still indignant whine] I think he made a big mistake.
That’s it. That’s this disgusting criminal pinhead’s response to the life and significance of John Lewis – He diDn’t coMe to MY inauGurAshun. That’s all that can find room in his horrible shrunken spite-riddled brain. No, he didn’t find John Lewis impressive; John Lewis didn’t come to his inauguration; he, Trump, has done more for Black Americans than anyone, obviously including John Lewis. Who, by the way, didn’t come to his inauguration.
This pampered soft greedy pig of a man who was at Fordham getting bone spurs deferments when John Lewis was getting his head split on the Edmund Pettus bridge has the fucking gall to say he’s done more for John Lewis’s cause than John Lewis ever did. This evil greedy lying pig of a man who systematically refused to rent apartments to Black Americans has the fucking gall to say he’s done more for Black Americans than John Lewis has.
It makes me angry.
Well, in one way, maybe he has. At least Black Americans didn’t have to live in his shitty buildings.
@Stewart That literally did make me laugh out loud, startling my poor cats.
This interview is a pure distillation of Trump’s personality. Stupid, ignorant, incurious, malignant and so utterly self-centered that nobody else exists except as a transactional object.
John Lewis didn’t come to my inauguration – clearly a bad guy. Who cares about the civil rights of black people anyway? 150K people dead? Eh. Dying is what these objects do. Doesn’t matter, look other countries have dead people too. Hey, look at this super-sciency chart. Don’t know what it means but we’re at the top, see. Don’t you dare contradict me. I know everything. Except how history will remember John Lewis.
Interviewer: How do you think history will remember John Lewis?
Trump: It’s a bad department store in London, Europe. A lotta people say they do great things with their Christmas tv ads, but I don’t really know them, they’ve never asked for a space in a Trump building, didn’t sell Trump clothing, but that’s OK, I’ve never shopped there. But they shoulda asked, I think they made a big mistake not asking. Sad.
@Claire
Apologies to the cats, but glad it gave you a laugh. If you saw the interview, that came almost right at the end and the interviewer made it really hard for him to weasel out of it, eventually getting an admission that Lewis devoted himself to a cause, instantly vitiated by pointing out that other people did, too. It’s hard to imagine trash more worthless than Trump.