The definitive list of Trump’s racism

The New York Times recently took a break from curating their definitive list of Trump’s lies to compile and present the definitive list of Trump’s countless racist comments and behaviors:

Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and ‘80s. More recently, his political rise was built on promulgating the lie that the nation’s first black president was born in Kenya. He then launched his campaign with a speech describing Mexicans as rapists.

The media often falls back on euphemisms when describing Trump’s comments about race: racially loaded, racially charged, racially tinged, racially sensitive. And Trump himself has claimed that he is “the least racist person.” But here’s the truth: Donald Trump is a racist. He talks about and treats people differently based on their race. He has done so for years, and he is still doing so.

Here, we have attempted to compile a definitive list of his racist comments – or at least the publicly known ones.

Meanwhile, I see people, and not necessarily Trump supporters, plugging the NYT article by adding prefixes such as, “This is hard to accept, but …” and I’m flummoxed. I see an old White man on national TV say there are some “very fine” Nazis and, no, I don’t find it at all difficult to accept he’s a flaming racist. Unless, of course, what makes it difficult for some people to believe it is that these comments come from the sitting President. But even that’s only a shock if you ignore the long racist history of White House occupants.

(via @NoahCRothman; retweeted by @Popehat)