“When someone shows you who he or she is, believe them the first time.”
–Dr. Maya Angelou
In March 2011, Donald Trump said on The View, “I want him to show his birth certificate. There’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.”
Donald Trump has been spreading racist conspiracy theories about Barack and Michelle Obama for years. Melania Trump helped her husband by also spreading birth conspiracies about Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
Trump and his father were sued by the federal government for housing discrimination in the 1970s, so racism, it seems, is more than a political tool for Donald Trump. For Trump, racism is a deeply ingrained belief system in his life.
Donald Trump has made it very clear during his time in national politics that he believes white men are superior to women, black and brown people, Asian people, and persons with disabilities.
The only shocking part of Trump’s Truth Social video post, which portrays himself as the king of the jungle and includes two seconds of the Obamas being depicted as monkeys, is the condemnation and criticism coming from Republicans.
The same people who in many cases voted for Donald Trump because he told them they were superior, and now they see that they inherently, if not explicitly, supported racism, and now that it is attached to them, some want nothing to do with it.
