2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump: "Laziness is a trait in blacks. . . .it's not anything they can control."
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-thinks-black-people-are-lazyJohn ODonnell, 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.
Ive got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza black guys counting my money! ODonnells 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, Ive got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And its probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. Its not anything they can control.
Of course, Trump hasnt read ODonnells book, because Donald Trump doesn't read. But he did give an interview.
Trump told Playboy magazine that ODonnells memoir was probably true.
True Dough
(17,090 posts)And Donny Trump embodies it.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)and if they ever run across one they twist it so much that one could not find it
calimary
(80,693 posts)They don't care about facts, because the facts are often contrary to what they WANT to think or believe or stand by.
Saviolo
(3,268 posts)to the Great Obstinate Party!
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)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)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)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.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)... saying that he never read books.
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msongs
(67,193 posts)him saying this?
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)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.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)klook
(12,134 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Herman Cain....I bet they are Trump supporters.
Iggo
(47,486 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)nvme
(860 posts)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)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)That was decades ago, but he's still the same man.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)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.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)Not surprised one bit.
Efilroft Sul
(3,573 posts)I'm sure the Trumpenfuhrer meant to say blacks have a strong work ethic as a trait.