Saturday, February 7, 2026

About as ugly as you can get: Trump doubles down on his virulent racism

 
In Donald Trump's case, there is no cure for Obama Derangement Syndrome.  

Headline:  New York Times 2/6/2026

Erica L. Green, Isabella Kwai, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs report on the kind of lame, deflecting excuse an 8-year-old would give his parents:
The clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and was among a flurry of links posted by Mr. Trump late Thursday night. It was the latest in a pattern by Mr. Trump of promoting offensive imagery and slurs about Black Americans and others. 
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Friday, Mr. Trump said he only saw the beginning of the video. “I just looked at the first part, it was about voter fraud in some place, Georgia,” Mr. Trump said. “I didn’t see the whole thing.” 
He then tried to deflect blame, suggesting he had given the link to someone else to post. “I gave it to the people, generally they’d look at the whole thing but I guess somebody didn’t,” he told reporters. [emphasis added]

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