Donald Trump is a conservative rich white American.
And nothing wrong with that … just as there is nothing wrong with being a black and poor American.
Forbes estimated Trump’s net worth at $3.1 billion in March 2019.
And all we can say is – well done Donald; you are successful and you have the trappings to prove it. You have become all of the things white Americans – and black Americans too – aspire to be.
But there is a disparity here which many rich conservative Americans try to ignore … and those are shocking racial disparities.
The net worth of a typical white family, at $171,000, is almost ten times larger than that of a black family. Those figures come from 2016 and I’m sure they haven’t improved incredibly.
Gaps in wealth between black and white households are a product of differences in power and opportunity. And this goes back to the beginnings of American history.
Yet, racism towards black people in America has little to do with immigration or nationality.
It is made up of domestic alienation, dehumanisation and criminalisation.
These are the sophisticated narcissistic psychological weapons of hatred and control.
And it doesn’t stop with black people, Mexicans are targeted for being who they are.
This statement by Donald Trump right at the beginning of his election campaign just a few years ago is shocking: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.
“They’re sending people that have a lot of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
And when he said this, millions in America metaphorically applauded him, seeing him as a tough guy – after all he”d used the ‘rape’ word.
And nobody really understood what was going on in this statement, particularly when he mitigated it all by implying Mexicans only raped their own, in the moonlight, in the desert, in the shadow of his great wall.
Well, that’s alright then Donald.
Certainly Trump gives the impression of loving his great country but like many Americans he is a bit of an isolationist.
He is also a reality TV presenter with a beautiful wife and an acerbic and cutting wit. He is ambitious, energetic and determined … and these qualities – along with his mountains of money – took him to the heady climes of world politics.
Yet, he had no real experience to take over the helm of the world’s most powerful ‘ship’. But sometimes he steered it with aplomb. Other times though he steered it with abandon. Most of the times he steered it in the shallows of rhetoric and misinformation.
The siege at the US Capitol on January 6 has to be his great downfall in the eyes of worshipping Americans.
The US has a history of mob violence stoked by white politicians seeking support from rich white conservative Americans.
But what was a shock for them this time, was the fact that it was a white mob turning on white politicians, rather than people of colour.
And some of these white Americans died.
The traditional targets are undeniably African-Americans. Look at history – black people trying to vote, fighting to use buses, fighting for housing and schools. Fighting to stay alive as the poplar trees dripped with blood.
And what about native Americans trying to protect their hunting grounds.
So did Trump see this all this as he addressed the gathering mob who believed they had turned up to save America? “Let the weak get out. This is a time for strength,” he shouted.
And there can be no doubt that America’s culture of white mob violence goes hand in hand with its gun culture. There are hundreds of millions of privately owned firearms in the US and the bulk of them belong to white people. Some of them took their guns to what so many are trying to portray as a peaceful march on Capitol Hill.
So peaceful that five people died – one shot through the neck – and 120 have been arrested.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/race-and-gun-ownership
The Republican Party has backed Trump and his politics right up until the happenings on the afternoon of January 6,
And now people are starting to realise that he may have besmirched all that is normal in American democracy.
He has turned white against white.
Below we have compiled 11 questions about the man who, despite everything, will always be able to call himself President Donald Trump and we have given links to fact-check sites and some others to try and answer them fairly.
But the answers are actually more or less random, to avoid accusations of supporting our own argument. We used, generally, the first answers we came to. We only rejected those that appeared to be unedifying or illegal.
Questions and answers:
How many arrests over Capitol Hill
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55626148
Is Trump fit for office?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55611630
Why do people like Trump?
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-why-experts-are-split-over-trumps-mental-health
Does Trump tell lies?
https://www.factcheck.org/person/donald-trump/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Donald_Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/13/donald-trump-20000-false-or-misleading-claims
Is Trump mad?
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-why-experts-are-split-over-trumps-mental-health
Are his election claims true?
https://www.voanews.com/2020-usa-votes/ap-fact-check-trumps-claims-fake-georgia-votes-are-unfounded
Biden and Trump views on covid
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54248080
What is Trump’s record in business?
Has Trump filed for bankruptcy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_career_of_Donald_Trump
Trump and social media
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/can-social-media-companies-boot-trump-us-capitol-13934274
Is Trump dangerous?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37022435
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-danger-america-needs-to-go-former-us-diplomats-2021-1
Is Trump a Christian?
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/21/politics/trump-religion-gospel/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-42866176
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Ralph Boettcher
Because those Americans feel alienated and marginalized, vulnerable economically or culturally, that Trump champions their cause. His misrepresentations of facts and lies boxes them in further into a conspiracy mindset that repudiates correction. Its further strengthened by a end-of-the-world religious mindset where they are fighting prophesied foes of the end times, with pastors banging on about it endlessly and endorsing Trump as their last chance…its a pretty toxic mix.
Leonard Allen
Maybe it is that people have a difference of opinion. God exists. America is a generally good influence on the world. Classical liberalism (including freedom of speech where you hear both sides) is good. Truth exists and is able to be apprehended. Biology says there are two genders. Killing your own offspring does not make for the survival of your species/group. Men /women should be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin. These are a few of the reasons people voted for Trump.
Leonard Allen
From the right we just see him as bad mannered and acting either crazy like a fox or making injudicious comments. I think it is obvious that no other right of center person could have gotten elected in 2016, because of his unpredictability.
Ralph Boettcher
I’d say Trump was a bad leader. He rode in as the alternative candidate that was going to clean up the DC swamp instead of wallowing in it. NOBODY really wanted Hillary or more politicians like her so Trump looked pretty good at the time. Unfortunately he is a showman, not a good president. Some of his policies were solid but its not wrong to call him self-centered to a fault, with a withering contempt for others, and a shaky grasp of truth. Frankly we all saw it but were willing to overlook it in the light of the showman. Now its come back to bite us as his administration self-destructs.
really interesting insights, thank you. But so many people seem to believe that he is the most conspired-against man in the world – msm, social media, half the population of America, judges, politicians, world leaders, world pundits, election officials have all conspired against him … why do people think he is so badly treated when it is clear he doesn’t tell the truth and there is now blood on his hands?