Al Jazeera gently points out mash notes to Trump’s speech from white supremacists.
White supremacists quickly took to social media to comment on the president’s comments, with many of them praising the characterisation of Americans as “dreamers”.
In a Twitter post, David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a racist organisation popular in the southern US for over a century after slavery ended in the 1860s, thanked the president.
https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/958534057159249921
Yes, some Americans Dream of a White Country.
During Trump’s electoral campaign in 2016, he came under fire for hesitancy to disavow Duke, who had pledged his support for the then Republican candidate.
In an interview with CNN, Trump had said of Duke and other white supremacists who endorsed him: “You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about.”
Correction: we wouldn’t want you running for political office while not knowing who David Duke is.
Mike Cernovich, a conspiracy theorist and far-right commentator, described Tuesday as “a good day for the good guys” in response to Trump’s address.
Cernovich is affiliated with the “alt-light”, a far-right, pro-Trump movement that avoids the open white supremacy of the alt-right and advocates civic nationalism.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/958538670251757568
Oh yes, there’s nothing like a puffy orange millionaire in a bad suit for projecting strength.
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4 responses to “Some people are happy”
‘ESPN-watching’? I’m not sure I understand the insult?
I’m guessing he’s referring to a few of the political commentators/POC/women talking sports heads that ESPN features, but who knows?
Especially one who continually claps for himself like a moron then grows so weary by the end of the speech that he reads it very slowly, pausing in the wrong place and putting inflections on the wrong words as if he doesn’t even understand what he’s reading.
Strength!
musubk, I’m assuming that Obama, being a black man, lacks the intelligence to watch the leading serious thinkers in political journalism on Fox and Friends, and true to form only watches a sports channel. Not like the stable genius – no, not Mr. Ed; the other stable genius – currently re-heating big-macs in the White House.