Donald Trump: Blacks are ‘worse than just about ever’ because Obama ‘set a very low bar’

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

DAVID EDWARDS
02 AUG 2015 AT 11:48 ET

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted on Sunday that he would win that he would win the black vote because President Barack Obama had set a “poor standard,” which made things worse than “just about ever” for African-Americans.”

“He has set a very low bar and I think it’s a shame for the African-American people,” Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl. “And by the way, he has done nothing for African-Americans. You look at what’s going on, at their income levels, you look at what’s gone on with their youth.”

“I thought that the would be a great cheerleader for this country, I thought he would do a fabulous job for the African-American citizens of this country.”

“He has done nothing,” Trump insisted. “They are worse than just about ever, they have problems now in terms of unemployment numbers… Here you have a black president who has done very poorly for the African-Americans in this country.” The billionaire candidate concluded with a prediction: “I think I will win the black vote, I think I will win the Hispanic vote.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/donald-trump-blacks-are-worse-than-just-about-ever-because-obama-set-a-very-low-bar/

[Vinca]

1. At long last Trump has gotten around to insulting blacks.

I was afraid they might feel slighted. Women up next?

[sarge43]

2. He's already been there

A nursing mother disgusted him.

He's a piece of work.

[Alfalfa]

19. I don't feel that that was an insult to women in general

[Scuba]

67. Only those with breasts, eh?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

86. Of course you don't...

You also don't believe in systemic racism, and think that BLM is racist against whites.

[msanthrope]

31. Oh, no--been there, done that.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x654574

[candelista]

75. I don't see how he's insulting blacks.

He's saying that President Obama didn't do enough for them.

Disclaimer: I do not support Donald Trump.

[Vinca]

87. He said it would be a long time before there was another black president because of Obama.

Ever hear anyone say it will be a long time before there is another white president because of George W. Bush?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

89. How about insulting their intelligence, if nothing else.

[Kingofalldems]

103. Except you have defended him twice in this thread.

[candelista]

104. Just keep taking notes, your Highness.

Eventually, you will have a complete dossier on me and all my sayings.

[Kingofalldems]

105. So clever with the retorts.

Not fooled though.

[Kingofalldems]

106. I intend to respond every time a Democrat is attacked.

[candelista]

107. As King, you have a duty to protect your subjects.

I understand completely, your Majesty.

[Kingofalldems]

108. Nonsense personal insults will not stop me.

[olegramps]

98. Its not a moot point that Obama isn't running for president.

The attack on Obama is only a very thinly disguised racial dog whistle to the rabid Republican racists. It is an attempt to transfer the conservatives hatred of Obama to every Democratic candidate. I find that some on this board agree with his assertion that Obama hasn't done enough to support minorities unrealistic. One essential item that would have gone a long way to helping the working class is the infrastructure bill that has been defeated by the Republicans who were determined from the outset to destroy Obama.

[lamp_shade]

3. Expect another big surge in the polls.

[libdem4life]

4. Yes, there is in fact a political sewer.

Keep on keeping on. You still have a ways to go.

[Tommy2Tone]

5. Donald Trump the white media's darling.

He's leading the GOP polls for president. Every time he spouts his hatred his numbers go up. In the end I believe he will assure Jeb Bush is the nominee but for now the media loves this jerk.

[Alfalfa]

21. "White" media?

[Tommy2Tone]

41. Sorry Fox News

[Fred Sanders]

29. Wrong. Trump is not leading in the polls for anything other than the GOP primary clown crown.

Court Jesters existed long all these modern media Jesters.

(Response to edited comment)

[Tommy2Tone]

42. I said he was leading the GOP field

[sakabatou]

6. Keep digging that hole, Trump.

[heaven05]

7. what???????

just a clown. Just make sure you all keep an eye on the others, while they have their front man out here distracting everyone. He's a strategy and is supposed to be the joke he is. Keep us laughing while the others are sneaking around trying to find a way to sink the knives in our backs further, especially when it comes to POC and the dirt poor.

[AllFieldsRequired]

101. And the truth is Trump does not really fit the tea party agenda, not at the end of the day.

Trump is an asshole, unfit to wash cars let alone be president or own any business, and a criminal, but he isnt a tea party piece of shit either.


As in he doesnt get out of bed in the morning wondering how he can express his hatred for everybody, and I mean everybody, who is not exactly like him.

He doesnt have time to do that, he is working on how to steal from everybody including those who are exactly like him.

[lark]

8. Donald, setting new standards every day....

has much lower can he go? I just love how he's opened the door on the Repug id, and it's so totally ugly.

[Springslips]

44. Not really believing this but it does seem legit in an insane way. . .

That he's a democratic plant out to show how insane republicans are. Like a satire in real life; like he springed out of an Onion article!

[msrizzo]

69. Funny you should say that....

Last edited Mon Aug 3, 2015, 07:59 AM - Edit history (1)

I had to check the mast head twice to make sure I wasn't reading The Onion.

[ananda]

74. So low he could play limbo ..

.. under a dead toupee.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. As quoted in the OP, Trump's insulting Obama, not blacks

I doubt if blacks agree with him about Obama, but that's a different matter.

[elehhhhna]

16. the headline is b.s. also.

[msrizzo]

70. I kind of disagree a teeny little bit....

.....he's insulting blacks too because he is suggesting that all their problems are because Obama sucks rather than because of a little thing called institutional racism.

[candelista]

76. I don't think he "insulted" Obama.

He said Obama didn't do enough to help black people. I feel the same way. I voted for him in 2008 because I thought he would do great things for African Americans, and I have been disappointed.

Disclaimer: I am not a Trump supporter.

[pocoloco]

10. So much for hope and change!!

Gotta have jobs before you can have income levels!

[Politicalboi]

11. The Donald Tramp thinks too much

I think the Tramp is going to lose BIG!!!!!!

[Chakab]

12. He's actually right in a way. Obama and the Democrats have done very little

for black Americans during Obama's time in office, and "the first black president" championed several policies that were harmful to black Americans and had no qualms about attacking the black community to pander to other groups.

However, the Republicans are much, much worse for black people en masse and everybody else who isn't an oligarch.

[elehhhhna]

17. I agree.

[randr]

30. And the Trumps of the world are far better off

than they were at the end of the Bush era.

[Skittles]

38. strange how it is Bernie being held accountable

but not the folk who could have actually made some progress

[Chakab]

45. You know, the Bernie supporter victomology is starting to reach parity with that of Hillary

supporters.

[Skittles]

46. LOLOL

I am *NOT* a Bernista or a Hillarian or whatever the latest juvenile term being thrown around is - you might want to check your critical thinking skills......I am simply making an observation

[Hydra]

56. The revolution will not be televised

Message control is insane these days.

[steve2470]

39. Ok I'd like you to support your assertions

Specifically the ones about black Americans being harmed and being attacked. Thanks.

[Chakab]

43. If you notice, I put the first black president in quotes when I was talking about the black

community being attacked. That was a reference to Bill Clinton not Obama, and I shouldn't have to provide evidence.

The effects of the Clinton's policies (i.e. promotion of free trade, support for mandatory minimums and tough-on-crime laws that disproportionately impacted minorities, support for the repeal of financial regulations that set the banks free to prey on minority homeowners ect.) and race baiting (i.e. Sister Souljah, Ricky Ray Rector, Hillary's disgraceful '08 campaign) should be well-known to everybody who doesn't have their head in the sand.

[Fred Sanders]

49. Real "head In the sand folks" forget it is mainly what blacks think of the Clintons that counts in

any opinion of what black folk think of the Clintons.

White folks opinions of what black folks should think are noted, given due respect and mainly considered irrelevant.

[Chakab]

51. Last time I looked in the mirror, which was about five minutes ago, I was black.

Thanks for the laugh though.

RE the black opinion of the Clintons, people haven't forgotten that shitshow at the end of the '08 primaries. Her current position in the polls is due strictly to name recognition over the rest of the field.

[PosterChild]

61. +10 ! (Nm)

[Skittles]

64. oh, SNAP!

you rock, Chakab

[Skittles]

63. do you ever read what you write?

does it still make sense to you?

[Fred Sanders]

72. No profanities or a LOL?? That is an improvement! You want to write things other folks want to read.

The writing may be at a level that some folk just can not comprehend, and so they mock...it is a common thing among a certain level of folk.

Aren't folks a just bit skeptical of how others describe themselves in cyberspace in order to attempt to make a point they have not made at all - granted, almost everyone is truthful on the Internet?

LOL away!

[Skittles]

95. LOLOL

OMG you need help

over and OUT

[roamer65]

57. Obama hasn't been great, but Romney would have been downright horrible.

It's basically picking the lesser of two evils anymore.

[Scuba]

68. +1

[candelista]

77. +1.

[Jim__]

13. And who could possibly know better than Trump how the AfricanAmerican community is doing?

The man knows just about everything. Just ask him.

[lamp_shade]

14. If he's trying to back out of the race (some think he is) then he's

going about it all wrong. This is the kind of talk that "fires up the crazies".

[weknowvino2]

15. All The Rules Are Different When You Are Dealing With The

Mentally Ill.

Remember That!

[1monster]

18. Why does this blow hard get any air/print/bandwidth time?

I'm not sure if he has totally fallen into megalomania and believes his own bloated opinion of himself (and needs intervention ASAP) or if he is laughing at all of us by his caricature of a bloviating, hot air-filled cynical politician manipulating the lowest of low information voters and the basest of the base.

If the second option is true, then a for a great performance.

I have an uneasy feeling, though, that the first option is the truer one...

[BlackX-068]

20. President Obama Set The Bar For Black People?

WTF?!!! I love the job the president has done for America, but I don't ask him what channel to surf to. Or what car to buy. I purchased gas for $2.46 and that is helping my BLACK ASS OUT A LOT!!!!

[steve2470]

25. welcome to DU BlackX-068, try out the African American forum also

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1187

[BlackX-068]

26. Been here...

Member since: Thu Feb 19, 2009, 07:58 PM

Thanks! (*_*)

[steve2470]

28. ok, best wishes to you! nt

[BlackX-068]

37. No doubt!

Thanks!!!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

90. My white ass is also very grateful.

[truthisfreedom]

22. Garbled blargh

ugg glug garble

[hollowdweller]

23. He's going to win the primary. He's saying the right things for the grassroots.

[steve2470]

24. well, if he had any chance at the PoC vote, he just lost 99% of it

Tone deaf = Donald Trump, among many other adjectives.

[BeyondGeography]

27. Obtuse

He's not the GOP frontrunner for nothin'.

[pansypoo53219]

32. the GOP base is a mob. fun/cspan watchers.

[Agnosticsherbet]

33. Republicans control legislation, and we had 43 white Presidents.

Real action requires legislation and four six years of the last eight, Republicans controlled legislation, A simple legislative fix would have repaired the voting rights act, but Republicans refused to do anything.

The first two years, the government passe the ACA, and tried to fix a crippled economy.

And really, blaming the first black President for the actions of 43 white Presidents is something I expect from a racist shit stain like Trump.

[Springslips]

47. 42

Lincoln was ultimately a racist and he brought forth Emancipation for reasons of war strategy but doing that took real balls in the time he did. He risked his reelection ( not that that is an valid excuse, but relative to the other Presidents.) So we should leave him out. Might be pie-in-the-sky, had he not been shot perhaps reconstruction would not had been blundered and civil rights may have come sooner than it did. We can dream.

[Agnosticsherbet]

58. For whatever reason, he did the correct and necessary thing.

The Emancipation Proclimation only freed slaves in Southern, non border states. Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee, and West Virginia held slaves well into the civil war. Delaware and Kentucky did not abolish slavery until December of 1865.

It was the 13th and 14th ammendment that ended Slavery, though racism was an open and acceptable tradition until '64.

The Civil Rights act of 1964 was not the first Civil Rights axct, but it was the first one that was worth a damn.

[Springslips]

92. Correct.

I forgot it was only for military captured lands. Thanks for the reminder.

[Uben]

34. Trump is just a fool with one eye in the mirror

Nothing more. He deserves what he'll eventually get.....disappointment. Nobody likes a pompous ass. He'll just wind up the laughing stock of his peers.

[lunamagica]

35. Stay classy, Donald

[SummerSnow]

40. So youre' going to 'save the blacks' hu Donald?

stfu

[EEO]

48. And he just fired someone for making racist statements in 2007 and 2008...

Trump Fires Staffer for Making Racist Statements Similar to Those He Makes Daily

WASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari): The campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced today it fired an adviser named Sam Nunberg for making racist statements shockingly similar to those Trump makes every day. Nunberg was fired after it was discovered he made offensive Trump-like statements on social media in 2007 and 2008. Nunberg denied he ever stated them, much like Trump would in his position.

And...

Trump added, "I don't even think this guy was a part of my campaign, but a bunch of other people who say they work for me keep telling me was. So I fired him just to be sure. But I am nearly 100% positive he was not working for me, because racists don't work for me. I have enough racist sentiments for everyone."

CNN Story: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/trump-adviser-sam-nunberg-facebook-posts/

[Gregorian]

50. And to think Jon Stewart has only four more days.

His accent is so perfect.

[underpants]

52. Trump, please

This was posted by about the whitest guy you can imagine with the utmost respect..... not for Trump

[diabeticman]

53. This guy is purposely getting racist rawled up.

[LynneSin]

54. My money is on Asians or Native Americans that Trump will insult next

I mean Donald so far has insult Hispanics, LGBT, Women and now African-Americans.

He basically wants to make sure that he insults everyone but the Tea Part since in the end he wants to be the King of the Tea Party. HE controls them he gets serious control over the GOP.

[greatauntoftriplets]

78. My money's on the disabled.

[Sunlei]

55. I guess it really is Walker, Trump will punt those poll supporter republicans to.

They're both so similar when they speak about 'other then wealthy people', you can tell they have never really met or spoke to, befriended any regular people.

I think they're both 'afraid' to stop for lunch in a community like Ferguson full of what they call 'worse people'.

[LordshipLadyship]

59. award winning level of 'they actually said that?' and first prize goes to

Donald delusional.
His toupee has more sense than he does.

[davidpdx]

60. Keep flapping your mouth Donald

When you crash and burn there will be more people laughing at you than ever supported you.

[W T F]

62. But Black people love Trump, and if you don't believe me.....

Just ask Donald Trump, he'll tell you.

[trusty elf]

65. ......

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[ericson00]

66. Donald Trump is this year's George Wallace

if there's any 3rd party guy from a past election, this is the parallel. What he said tho is something I've heard some older whites say at times before Trump. I think the obsession about illegals and this show what Trump is about.

Its really sad. Trump was a reasonable guy in the early to mid-2000s. But I have to give it to him: his strategy and meteoric rise is sheer political genius. People thought he was bonkers about the birth certificate and that his family would stow him away to avoid embarrassment after Romney lost. Then again, politics is the last frontier when you have a ton of money; ask the Bushes, Romneys, etc.

[malthaussen]

71. I hate to invoke Godwin's Law...

... but Trump really does remind me a bit of Uncle Adolf. Say the most bigoted, outrageous things, constantly pile the hatred higher and higher, and mean every word of it. And watch the supremicists fall into line behind. Certain other windbags -- Chris Christie comes to mind -- also follow this formula, but Trump has a real talent for it.

-- Mal

[WhoWoodaKnew]

73. If Trump becomes president things will be much better for Trump and people like him.

[Blue_Tires]

80. Yep...Just another day when Trump talks outta his ass

and the media laps it up...Because if there's one thing the American public will never tire of, it's freakshows...

[blackspade]

81. he fact that the M$M treats this fool as a serious candidate....

underscores the problems with the 'free press' in this country.

Unreal.

[Kablooie]

82. The problem is that he really is the true voice of the Republican Party.

he is saying the things all the other candidates and voters really want to say but are afraid to.

This is who the conservatives really are and what they want the country to become.

[EndElectoral]

83. What about the "low bar" set by his predecessor - GW Bush?

Trump has said it'll be difficult for an African American president to be elected again because of Obama setting a "low bar". Does that mean it'll be difficult for a Caucasion president who set a "low bar."

The guy is a racist. Either he's saying this stuff for attention and is well aware it grabs headlines, or he's a bigoted vile piece of bile.

[samsingh]

84. and because his sons murdered a leopard - big cats and peta will vote for him too

stupid imbecile

[olddots]

85. we are witnessing something more than a clown bully

take this power struggle on the right serioisly .

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

88. Trump does know how the Federal government works, right? The 3 branches?

[brett_jv]

91. Yeah, he REALLY needs to set a better example ... Graduating Harvard ...

Oh, and becoming President of the United States ... just what kind of example does that set ... what is this man TEACHING other black folks by his actions?

Could it be that Donald Trump is a such a F***ING idiot that he doesn't even understand what the term 'setting the bar' means ... before he says it? Ya know, I think ... he just might be!

[City Lights]

93. What will The Trump do for African-Americans?

For that matter, what will he do for any American?

He blows a good wind, but there never seems to be much substance in what he says.

[d_legendary1]

94. Now all that's left for him to do is

say that burning crosses and white hoodies are American values that need to be brought back.

[czarjak]

96. Allow me to quote Rush from 2008...

"We need to draw that tent even tighter, stand firm on our conservative values." Sure fire way to win elections, please proceed.

[SmittynMo]

97. Because Obama ‘set a very low bar?

What? How does a president set the bar very low for a specific race? How does this bar apply to just the black community? What did he do to actually set it so low. This guy is so full of shit, he can't see straight. His eyes must be dark brown by now. And the stench?

The voters love him. The GOP hates him. Don't ya just love politics?

[yurbud]

99. Latinos, blacks...whose next on the wheel of scapegoat?

[dakdirty]

100. The attention that Donald is getting is actually no surprise...

There's a large bloc of voters out there who are really hate non-white, non-Christian, non-hetero people. Not just "don't identify with" or "have no association with", but hate, despise and generally do not even recognize the humanity of those people. But Donald's just a clown; he won't even win "Most Vile and Repugnant Billionaire in America", as there are at least 2 Koch brothers leading him in that race.

[muntrv]

102. Since when was The Donald concerned about African Americans?