After being dragged kicking and screaming, President Trump today explicitly condemned the racist and anti-Semitic organizations involved in the Charlottesville rally which claimed the life of a woman and two police officers on Saturday and declared racism to be evil.
But does he really mean it?
It is a question we must ask given Trump's own racism especially where it concerns his treatment of Judge Gonzalo Curiel a year ago. Trump repeatedly said that Curiel could not preside over the Trump University case because he was a Mexican. Curiel's parents were Mexican, but he was born and raised in Indiana. To this day, Trump has never expressed remorse or admitted wrongdoing in his behavior against Judge Curiel.
We must also raise the question for another reason. Consider this portion of Trump's statement:
We must love each other, show affection for each other, and unite
together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry, and violence. We must
rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as
Americans.
But what does Trump know of love? Trump proclaims his love when people do things that are to his benefit like when he said he loved Wikileaks in the final weeks of the election campaign. But when has Trump loved thy neighbor? Only seven hours before Trump told the country we must love and show affection for one another, he tweeted this about Merck Pharma CEO Ken Frazier after he resigned from the President's Manufacturing Council:
Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's
Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG
PRICES!
I am reasonably certain that Trump "loved" Frazier when he named him to the President's Manufacturing Council a week after taking office. But with President Trump, love, affection and loyalty are a one way street.
Although it was important for Trump to publicly call racism evil and condemn racist organizations, for the reasons mentioned above, I don't believe he meant a word of it.
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