"Trump’s highly racist and offensive late-night Truth Social post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes broke through the numbness barrier to register on the political Richter scale at a level few of his many previous insults ever achieved."
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"all while continuing his rampages against the Constitution, our allies, public health, and the security, safety, and economic vitality of our communities.
We have never seen in a president such a toxic mixture of petulance, pettiness, puerility, and perversity."
Jamelle Bouie asks what motivates Trump:
"The best way to understand the president’s motivations is to find him at his most unfiltered, which is to say, on social media, late at night. And Thursday night, Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account that depicted President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. …
What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism."
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Jamelle Bouie asks what motivates Trump:
"The best way to understand the president’s motivations is to find him at his most unfiltered, which is to say, on social media, late at night. And Thursday night, Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account that depicted President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. …
What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism."
"You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected. Racism, among other things, is a kind of chauvinism, a belief in one’s inherent superiority, based on nothing other than a meaningless accident of birth. It’s an ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy, that tells you that — no matter what you have or have not accomplished in your life — you’re still better than someone, some group."
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"You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected. Racism, among other things, is a kind of chauvinism, a belief in one’s inherent superiority, based on nothing other than a meaningless accident of birth. It’s an ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy, that tells you that — no matter what you have or have not accomplished in your life — you’re still better than someone, some group."
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism."
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"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism."
"Trump is not profound. He has been the same person this whole time. The question is why so many others have refused to see what he has never bothered to hide."
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"Trump’s highly racist and offensive late-night Truth Social post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes broke through the numbness barrier to register on the political Richter scale at a level few of his many previous insults ever achieved."
~ Robert Tait
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/trump-obama-video-racist
That rare climbdown and the attempts to pin the blame on an anonymous White House staffer are unlikely to prevent the episode from illuminating a topic that much of the media has seemed reluctant to confront head on; that Trump’s behavior, online and in public, has been growing more reckless and raises serious questions about his mental acuity and his fitness for office.
On social media, whisperings that Trump is displaying signs of cognitive decline have increased in recent weeks.
Jesus, white people would rather attribute starkly racist comments to "cognitive decline" than admit that the white supremacist they put in power is a fucking racist, huh?
Like, I'm not saying Trump's not in cognitive decline, I think it's patently obvious he is.
But it's just as obvious that he's a racist, and always has been, and it's very telling that of both of these facts, we're choosing to acknowledge the cognitive decline rather than the racism.
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That rare climbdown and the attempts to pin the blame on an anonymous White House staffer are unlikely to prevent the episode from illuminating a topic that much of the media has seemed reluctant to confront head on; that Trump’s behavior, online and in public, has been growing more reckless and raises serious questions about his mental acuity and his fitness for office.
On social media, whisperings that Trump is displaying signs of cognitive decline have increased in recent weeks.
Jesus, white people would rather attribute starkly racist comments to "cognitive decline" than admit that the white supremacist they put in power is a fucking racist, huh?
Like, I'm not saying Trump's not in cognitive decline, I think it's patently obvious he is.
But it's just as obvious that he's a racist, and always has been, and it's very telling that of both of these facts, we're choosing to acknowledge the cognitive decline rather than the racism.
@wdlindsy the other articles you linked to are much better, but yikes, Robert Tait, is this really how you're spinning it?
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That rare climbdown and the attempts to pin the blame on an anonymous White House staffer are unlikely to prevent the episode from illuminating a topic that much of the media has seemed reluctant to confront head on; that Trump’s behavior, online and in public, has been growing more reckless and raises serious questions about his mental acuity and his fitness for office.
On social media, whisperings that Trump is displaying signs of cognitive decline have increased in recent weeks.
Jesus, white people would rather attribute starkly racist comments to "cognitive decline" than admit that the white supremacist they put in power is a fucking racist, huh?
Like, I'm not saying Trump's not in cognitive decline, I think it's patently obvious he is.
But it's just as obvious that he's a racist, and always has been, and it's very telling that of both of these facts, we're choosing to acknowledge the cognitive decline rather than the racism.
@Tattie Given that Tait's article places front and center in its headline the words "Trump’s toxic, racist video" and that he goes on to speak of "Trump’s highly racist and offensive late-night Truth Social post," I'm going to take him at his word when he says there's "chatter" on social media about Trump's dementia. And that he's not in the least attributing the toxic racism to dementia, but pointing to conversations which say that that toxic racism gets untethered more & more due to dementia.
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@Tattie Given that Tait's article places front and center in its headline the words "Trump’s toxic, racist video" and that he goes on to speak of "Trump’s highly racist and offensive late-night Truth Social post," I'm going to take him at his word when he says there's "chatter" on social media about Trump's dementia. And that he's not in the least attributing the toxic racism to dementia, but pointing to conversations which say that that toxic racism gets untethered more & more due to dementia.
@wdlindsy look, I'm just wondering why, when arguably the most powerful person on earth does a racist thing, we're suddenly talking of his "cognitive decline" rather than staying on the racism.
Is it possible that talking about racism and power makes us white people a little bit uncomfortable?
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"Many tens of millions of Americans not only voted twice to put this man in the White House, but also continue to support him with great fervor, underscoring the motivating power of racism and the need to scapegoat others."
~ Steven Beschloss
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/can-america-ever-overcome-the-scourge
@wdlindsy In Germany, millions never regretted voting for Hitler until the 8th Air Force by day and the RAF by night blasted and burned their homes to ashes and rubble. Some not until they faced armed occupation by furious Russian soldiers who had literally walked all the way from Stalingrad to Berlin.
As for the Russian people, they didn't get to vote for or against Stalin at all.
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"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism."
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