As presidents generally tend to do on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Donald Trump released an MLK Day statement via a video on Twitter. If you’ve been following some of Trump’s other statements from the first year of his presidency, you might think his…
As presidents generally tend to do on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Donald Trump released an MLK Day statement via a video on Twitter. If you’ve been following some of Trump’s other statements from the first year of his presidency, you might think his message in the MLK Day statement doesn’t exactly sound genuine coming from him.
Speaking about King’s oft-remembered dream, Trump said that „It is the dream of a world where people are judged by who they are, not how they look or where they come from.“ While this is indeed an admirable sentiment, it drips of insincerity coming from President Trump.
After all, this is the president who opened his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants „rapists,“ and then suggested a ban on all Muslims entering the U. S., which he has since attempted to implement after beginning his time in office. This is the president who said that a Mexican judge couldn’t judge a case about him fairly because of his ethnic background. This is the president who, only recently, said that Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries were „shithole countries,“ and then denied saying it, even though several congresspeople from both sides of the aisle claim that they heard him say it.
In short, neither Trump’s actions nor his words suggest that he truly believes anything that he said in his MLK Day speech.
More to come…
