It's a Wee Bit Late For Trump To Now Say He Doesn't Want To Energize White Supremacists

Consider this exchange between President-Elect Donald Trump and New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet during Trump's interview with The Grey Lady:

BAQUET: As you describe it, you did do something really remarkable. You energized a lot of people in the country who really wanted change in Washington. But along with that — and this is going to create a tricky thing for you — you also energized presumably a smaller number of people who were evidenced at the alt-right convention in Washington this weekend. Who have a very …

TRUMP: I just saw that today.

BAQUET: So, I’d love to hear you talk about how you’re going to manage that group of people who actually may not be the larger group but who have an expectation for you and are angry about the country and its — along racial lines. My first question is, do you feel like you said things that energized them in particular, and how are you going to manage that?

TRUMP: I don’t think so, Dean. First of all, I don’t want to energize the group. I’m not looking to energize them. I don’t want to energize the group, and I disavow the group. They, again, I don’t know if it’s reporting or whatever. I don’t know where they were four years ago, and where they were for Romney and McCain and all of the other people that ran, so I just don’t know, I had nothing to compare it to.

But it’s not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why.

Let's call Trump's statement for what it is - complete and total horseshit, bullshit and any other excrement you can conjure in your mind.

Trump claims that he doesn't want to energize white supremacists (which is what the alt.Right really is), but that if he did he wants to find out why.

Give me a break.

Donald Trump deliberately energized white supremacists.

Donald Trump deliberately energized white supremacists when he proposed to build a wall along Mexico and deport all illegal immigrants.

Donald Trump deliberately energized white supremacists when he proposed "a complete and total ban" of Muslim immigration and travel to this country.

Donald Trump deliberately energized white supremacists when he refused to condemn David Duke after the former KKK Grand Wizard endorsed him.

Donald Trump deliberated energized white supremacists when he said that Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel was unfit to preside over the Trump University case because, notwithstanding his birth in Indiana, "he's a Mexican."

And now Donald Trump has deliberately energized white supremacists when he appointed Steve Bannon to be his White House Chief Strategist.

For Trump to now say that he doesn't want to energize white supremacists, well, that Trump Train left the station and the white supremacists got a first class seat.