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pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:20 PM Aug 2016

Trump: "Laziness is a trait in blacks. . . .it's not anything they can control."

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-thinks-black-people-are-lazy

John O’Donnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino and later wrote a memoir about his experience, said Trump blamed financial difficulties partly on African American accountants.

“I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza — black guys counting my money!” O’Donnell’s book quoted Trump as saying. “I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else. .?.?. Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

Of course, Trump hasn’t read O’Donnell’s book, because Donald Trump doesn't read.​ But he did give an interview.

Trump told Playboy magazine that O’Donnell’s memoir was “probably true.”
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Trump: "Laziness is a trait in blacks. . . .it's not anything they can control." (Original Post) pnwmom Aug 2016 OP
Stupidity is a trait in Republicans True Dough Aug 2016 #1
Stupidity is not the problem ......... they just do not like facts Angry Dragon Aug 2016 #4
With this bunch, it's usually WILLFUL stupidity. calimary Aug 2016 #14
Maybe we should change what GOP stands for Saviolo Aug 2016 #21
And bringing this up would just increase his turnout whatthehey Aug 2016 #2
Laziness can be the result of no hope. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #3
Donald Trump does not read... Runningdawg Aug 2016 #5
That would help explain his biographers... Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author ailsagirl Aug 2016 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2016 #11
amazing that author could remember so many words in an exact quote. is there a recording or video of msongs Aug 2016 #7
I doubt it. But the writer might have kept a daily journal. Many writers do. pnwmom Aug 2016 #9
i think it was written in 1991? Not much video or recording back then, just recollection. juxtaposed Aug 2016 #12
Laziness is a trait in Trump. It's not anything he's ever had to control. n/t Orsino Aug 2016 #10
Exactly my thought klook Aug 2016 #13
Ben Carson.... workinclasszero Aug 2016 #15
Jeezuss, what a fucking bigot. Iggo Aug 2016 #16
Dear Trump/GOP. . . DinahMoeHum Aug 2016 #17
I am saddened by posts like these! nvme Aug 2016 #18
It's drowned out by the racism in the country around it. He's just one voice. He's jtuck004 Aug 2016 #19
Actually, he WAS the person who wouldn't rent an apartment to people who were black. pnwmom Aug 2016 #22
thank you, pnwmom saidsimplesimon Aug 2016 #20
Wow, being bigoted towards blacks and Jews. sakabatou Aug 2016 #23
Most black families in America have 246 years of unpaid hard labor as part of their heritage. Efilroft Sul Aug 2016 #24
Stupidity is a trait in Trump. It really is; I believe that. It's not anything he can control. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #25
racist POS! napkinz Aug 2016 #26
This is the nice stuff trump says about blacks ... He's much much worse uponit7771 Aug 2016 #27

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
4. Stupidity is not the problem ......... they just do not like facts
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:30 PM
Aug 2016

and if they ever run across one they twist it so much that one could not find it

calimary

(80,693 posts)
14. With this bunch, it's usually WILLFUL stupidity.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:07 PM
Aug 2016

They don't care about facts, because the facts are often contrary to what they WANT to think or believe or stand by.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
2. And bringing this up would just increase his turnout
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:25 PM
Aug 2016

Anybody who would be put off by such garbage is already voting against him, because Trump's provided so many similar examples of his own. But to the racist base this will be further glorification of his consistency in "telling it like it is" and proof, to them, he's not just running to jack up his alt-right cred for future media ventures.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,846 posts)
3. Laziness can be the result of no hope.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:28 PM
Aug 2016

Whether it's real or imagined, people generally won't work as hard if they're convinced it will get them nowhere.

Runningdawg

(4,494 posts)
5. Donald Trump does not read...
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:31 PM
Aug 2016

Someone finally saw it the way I see it. Now don't get me wrong, I don't hold it against people who can't read. My mother couldn't read. Watching her struggle is like watching Trump use the teleprompter. They both used their hands and Trump uses his in the same way my mother might have if she were reading a sign in public. She points to the words in the air and sounds them out slowly, in a monotone.
But he MUST be able to read! He's a very successful business man! My mother was a CPA for a major bank, she was brilliant with money. She taught a Sunday school class by memorizing the words I wrote down for her. No one outside the family knew.
In a nut shell (no pun intended) Trump is illiterate.

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msongs

(67,193 posts)
7. amazing that author could remember so many words in an exact quote. is there a recording or video of
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:38 PM
Aug 2016

him saying this?

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
9. I doubt it. But the writer might have kept a daily journal. Many writers do.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:47 PM
Aug 2016

In any case, Trump didn't dispute the quote, when he was asked about it.

And he HAS said in a public speech to a largely Jewish audience that he's like them because they're negotiators -- another related stereotype.

nvme

(860 posts)
18. I am saddened by posts like these!
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:31 PM
Aug 2016

Because the lack the video sound byte that would damn Drumpf. I can so see that being the equivalent of Romney's 47% comment. Sadly even if he did get caught saying that, it would escape the media scrutiny or get drowned out by all the other horrific vile obscenities that spew from that turd.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
19. It's drowned out by the racism in the country around it. He's just one voice. He's
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:42 PM
Aug 2016

not the person that charges you more because you are black, won't serve you, or kills you because of the color of your skin.

He's a big loudmouth, but he couldn't be as harmful without all those eyes, and arms, and legs, and hands to help him.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
22. Actually, he WAS the person who wouldn't rent an apartment to people who were black.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:50 PM
Aug 2016

That was decades ago, but he's still the same man.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
20. thank you, pnwmom
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:47 PM
Aug 2016

Rump is the face of the GOP, may they both "reap what they sow". Those workers who have have suffered the financial ruin of a megalomaniac will find justice in his, and the GOP, total defeat.

Efilroft Sul

(3,573 posts)
24. Most black families in America have 246 years of unpaid hard labor as part of their heritage.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:58 PM
Aug 2016

I'm sure the Trumpenfuhrer meant to say blacks have a strong work ethic as a trait.

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