Trump condemns 'all types of racism'

[Beet]

“The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division,” Trump tweeted Saturday from rainy Bedminster, NJ, where he is vacationing. “We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-tweet-condemns-all-types-of-racism-a-year-after-charlottesville-violence-2018-08-11

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Took him a while.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

One, he's a lying jackwagon. If he wants to be taken seriously, rather than a terrifying joke, he can release his taxes.

Two, he and his band of criminal bigots have dug themselves a hole that is much too deep for him to tweet his way out of.

Three, especially with "your racism is just as bad as my racism, okay".

[Ashley Biden's Diary]

This is another bad on both sides statement. He'll never condemn the KKK types specifically, not because he agrees with them, but because they like him and that's all he cares about. Trump's opinion on anyone or anything is based on how much they like/respect him and nothing else. Pathetic really.

[Joe Biden 2024]

He didn't write that. Someone else did.

[Green Line]

And this is the day Trump became the President.  Bravo!

[Yank2133]

Such bad faith.

[Indy Texas]

How this went down....

"Sir, we need you to issue a statement condemning the anti-black and anti-Semitic racism that was on display at the Charlottesville march."

"Why? What about all the ANTI-WHITE racism from the left?!"

"Um...okay, how about if you just say you condemn all types of racism?"

[Beet]

How this went down....

"Sir, we need you to issue a statement condemning the anti-black and anti-Semitic racism that was on display at the Charlottesville march."

"Why? What about all the ANTI-WHITE racism from the left?!"

"Um...okay, how about if you just say you condemn all types of racism?"

So anti-white racism shouldn't be denounced?

[Ashley Biden's Diary]

How this went down....

"Sir, we need you to issue a statement condemning the anti-black and anti-Semitic racism that was on display at the Charlottesville march."

"Why? What about all the ANTI-WHITE racism from the left?!"

"Um...okay, how about if you just say you condemn all types of racism?"

So anti-white racism shouldn't be denounced?

Couldn't he use a different occasion?

[Landslide Lyndon]

How this went down....

"Sir, we need you to issue a statement condemning the anti-black and anti-Semitic racism that was on display at the Charlottesville march."

"Why? What about all the ANTI-WHITE racism from the left?!"

"Um...okay, how about if you just say you condemn all types of racism?"

So anti-white racism shouldn't be denounced?

Don't forget the War on Christmas.

[Beet]

How this went down....

"Sir, we need you to issue a statement condemning the anti-black and anti-Semitic racism that was on display at the Charlottesville march."

"Why? What about all the ANTI-WHITE racism from the left?!"

"Um...okay, how about if you just say you condemn all types of racism?"

So anti-white racism shouldn't be denounced?

Couldn't he use a different occasion?

Depends on whether a better target is denouncing hostility toward a specific group of people, or denouncing bigotry and prejudice on principle. Given that the former doesn't necessarily imply the latter, but the latter accomplishes the former, I'd say Trump made the better choice.

[Hammy]

So once again the guy who is emboldening white supremacists won't explicitly call them out after whining that Obama wouldn't use the words "Islamic terrorism"

[President Johnson]

How this went down....

"Sir, we need you to issue a statement condemning the anti-black and anti-Semitic racism that was on display at the Charlottesville march."

"Why? What about all the ANTI-WHITE racism from the left?!"

"Um...okay, how about if you just say you condemn all types of racism?"

So anti-white racism shouldn't be denounced?

Don't forget the War on Christmas.

We're going to say Merry Christmas again. And don't forget the war on the national anthem by these low IQ blacks.

[America Needs R'hllor]

This is another bad on both sides statement. He'll never condemn the KKK types specifically, not because he agrees with them, but because they like him and that's all he cares about. Trump's opinion on anyone or anything is based on how much they like/respect him and nothing else. Pathetic really.

Yeah, I think this is one of the most troubling things about him. Why can't Trump issue a single, specific, strong and unequivocal condemnation of the white supremacist, Charlottesville movement that rose recently? A condemnation not prompted by an interviewer's question, but a real and powerful one? This shouldn't be that hard, and yet Trump never did it.

[President Johnson]

This is another bad on both sides statement. He'll never condemn the KKK types specifically, not because he agrees with them, but because they like him and that's all he cares about. Trump's opinion on anyone or anything is based on how much they like/respect him and nothing else. Pathetic really.

Yeah, I think this is one of the most troubling things about him. Why can't Trump issue a single, specific, strong and unequivocal condemnation of the white supremacist, Charlottesville movement that rose recently? A condemnation not prompted by an interviewer's question, but a real and powerful one? This shouldn't be that hard, and yet Trump never did it.

For the same reason right-wing populists often don't do in Europe. They want their support, so they won't condemn these groups and figures. On the other hand, they don't want to offend the more mainstream conservatives. Trump likes anyone who with a MAGA bumper sticker, no matter of it's a literal nazi or a communist.

[Reaganfan]

This is another bad on both sides statement. He'll never condemn the KKK types specifically, not because he agrees with them, but because they like him and that's all he cares about. Trump's opinion on anyone or anything is based on how much they like/respect him and nothing else. Pathetic really.

Yeah and Barack Obama never went out to Chicago and said, "Quit killing each other, and pull up your pants and knock off the thug culture".

Pathetic really.

[Landslide Lyndon]

This is another bad on both sides statement. He'll never condemn the KKK types specifically, not because he agrees with them, but because they like him and that's all he cares about. Trump's opinion on anyone or anything is based on how much they like/respect him and nothing else. Pathetic really.

Yeah and Barack Obama never went out to Chicago and said, "Quit killing each other, and pull up your pants and knock off the thug culture".

Pathetic really.

Can someone translate this statement because I'm not fluent on deplorable.

[Rookie Yinzer]

How this went down....

"Sir, we need you to issue a statement condemning the anti-black and anti-Semitic racism that was on display at the Charlottesville march."

"Why? What about all the ANTI-WHITE racism from the left?!"

"Um...okay, how about if you just say you condemn all types of racism?"

So anti-white racism shouldn't be denounced?

He's supposed to denounce something that doesn't exist? K.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Stealing bromides from Corbyn now? Sad!

[JGibson]

This is a year late and a dollar short, Mr. 45.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

How this went down....

"Sir, we need you to issue a statement condemning the anti-black and anti-Semitic racism that was on display at the Charlottesville march."

"Why? What about all the ANTI-WHITE racism from the left?!"

"Um...okay, how about if you just say you condemn all types of racism?"

So anti-white racism shouldn't be denounced?

Couldn't he use a different occasion?

Depends on whether a better target is denouncing hostility toward a specific group of people, or denouncing bigotry and prejudice on principle. Given that the former doesn't necessarily imply the latter, but the latter accomplishes the former, I'd say Trump made the better choice.

Just like All Lives Matter, right?

[Blue3]

He didn't write that. Someone else did.

[Progressive Pessimist]

There should be an asterisk next to that statement.

*Excluding the racism that me and my administration partake in.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Note how nothing Trump does is ever good enough.