Then, out of nowhere, you say, "...and let me say this. I'm not a racist ..."
Wow.
Sometimes, denial may be an admission.
... Trump has repeatedly claimed he's "the least racist person." His history suggests otherwise.
If you ask President Donald Trump, he isn't racist. To the contrary, he's repeatedly said that he's "the least racist person that you've ever encountered."
Trump's actual record, however, tells a very different story.
On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks, from calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, to proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US, to suggesting a judge should recuse himself from a case solely because of the judge's Mexican heritage.
The trend has continued into his presidency. From stereotyping a Black reporter to pandering to white supremacists after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to making a joke about the Trail of Tears, Trump hasn't stopped with racist acts after his 2016 election.
Most recently, Trump has called the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the "Chinese virus" and "kung flu" " racist terms that tap into the kind of xenophobia that he latched onto during his 2016 presidential campaign; Trump's own adviser, Kellyanne Conway, previously called "kung flu" a "highly offensive" term. And Trump insinuated that Sen. Kamala Harris, who's Black, "doesn't meet the requirements" to run for vice president -- a repeat of the birther conspiracy theory that he perpetuated about former President Barack Obama.
This is nothing new for Trump. In fact, the very first time Trump appeared in the pages of the New York Times, back in the 1970s, was when the US Department of Justice sued him for racial discrimination. Since then, he has repeatedly appeared in newspaper pages across the world as he inspired more similar controversies. ...
