And Trump today attacked another black reporter, Abby Phillip: “What a stupid question that is,” he says to her.pic.twitter.com/tqcw3NgFtt

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 9, 2018

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TRUMP: Creates fake university to scam students, pays $25 million fine for fraud

LEBRON: Creates top-notch public high school for low-income students, pays college tuition for every graduate

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 4, 2018

To expand on the point a little, Trump’s fake “university” (yes fake AND scare quotes because it’s just that fake) charged thousands of dollars for real estate tips you could learn from a pamphlet.

Wikipedia:

Trump University (also known as the Trump Wealth Institute and Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC) was an American for-profit education company that ran a real estate training program from 2005 until 2010. It was owned and operated by The Trump Organization. (A separate organization, Trump Institute, was

I’m seeing people say never mind what he tweets, focus on what he does – but what he says is what he does, and it’s far from mere fluff or distraction. His open shameless angry racism gives the green light to millions of other angry shameless racists, and they do things, from Charlottesville-type riots to not hiring or promoting or renting to people of Other Races to harassment and violence. The proud noisy ragey racism of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES encourages and incites racists everywhere. This shit matters.… Read the rest

Racist US president is at it again.

Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2018

James is a basketball player; Lemon is a CNN news anchor. Both are African-American. This is our president: a deeply stupid corrupt white man who likes to use his position to call influential black people stupid. (See: Maxine Waters, repeatedly.)

Funny thing: I had no clue who Don Lemon was until Trump was elected. Trump’s election prompted me to watch his show now and then, and I tell you what, he is the opposite of “dumb.” It’s because of … Read the rest

A few more details on Trump’s disgusting derailment yesterday.

Native American groups have long objected to President Trump’s use of the nickname “Pocahontas” to deride one of his political foes, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Well of course they have. A lot of goons are pretending to be unable to see anything racist about it, but that’s just the usual fraud. It’s racist first of all to use any name like that as a generic for All People In This Group I’m Insulting. People used to do that casually without giving it any thought, but those days are over.

It’s racist in that it reveals that Trump thinks one Native American can stand for all of them.

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John Norwood, general secretary of the Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes, says Trump's nickname for Warren "smacks of racism"; "The reference is using a historic American Indian figure as a derogatory insult and that’s insulting to all American Indians." https://t.co/O6H0g8BvJa

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 27, 2017

I just spoke with Russell Begaye, president of the Navajo Nation. He was in the room when this took place. He called President Trump's mention of Pocahontas “derogatory” and “disrespectful to Indian nations.” https://t.co/g1xB9qggnA

— julieturkewitz (@julieturkewitz) November 27, 2017

Prominent Native activist Faith Spotted Eagle tells me Trump's "Pocahontas" is an "emotional assault" that "carries as much weight as a physical assault."

"He can phrase it and twist it and distort it

Oh GOD.

President Trump used a White House event honoring Navajo veterans of World War II on Monday to utter a favorite Native American-related insult of a political opponent, deriding Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”

Standing in the Oval Office alongside three World War II Navajo code talkers, Mr. Trump made the unscripted comment after other officials praised the veterans’ history and contributions.

“You were here long before any of us were here,” Mr. Trump said as he turned to look at the code talkers. “Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.”

I wish someone would throw him, fully clothed, into a sewage tank.

Mr. Trump’s use

Trump has been giving a talk at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. In that talk – on camera, with reporters present – he called Senator Warren “Pocahontas” again.

I am so sick of this trashy, vulgar, nasty, schoolyard-bully man.

Trump calling Warren Pocahontas is racist. We kind of gloss over it at this point. But this is the president being racist.

— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 28, 2017

At NRA, Trump looks to 2020: "It may be Pocahontas." A derogatory, dismissive reference to Sen. Warren.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 28, 2017

Trump speculates about Dem contenders in 2020, refers to Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas…" reprising insult for MA Sen from campaign.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 28,