Trump’s little white slip is showing again
by digby
Trump is mad a John Lewis, the moral conscience of American politics, for calling him an illegitimate president. So he lashed out on twitter, saying Lewis has never done anything in his career.
On Martin Luther King Day week-end.
Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to……— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2017
mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk – no action or results. Sad!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2017
Obviously Trump has no clue who John Lewis is or he’s the last person he would say is “all talk.” In fact, Trump saying that about anyone is insane, but to say it about a man who was beaten half to death fighting for civil rights is obscene.
But our new president doesn’t know that because he really doesn’t know much of anything. He is an imbecile.
Moreover he obviously attacked Lewis for his allegedly “crime infested” neighborhood because he’s black and we know he assumes that every black person in America except for Ben Carson and Omoarosa lives in a dystopian hellhole. That is racist.
John Lewis’s constituents have some words for Trump:
Politicians and pundits weighed in too:
Jason Carter, the 2014 Democratic candidate for governor who represented part of the 5th District in the state Senate, said Trump “clearly doesn’t know anything about the 5th District or Atlanta.”
“It exemplifies what’s great about this country,” Carter said in an interview. “The center of business, the center of innovation and the cradle of the civil rights movement and it’s incredibly successful right now. And it’s about the host a (NFL) playoff victory!”
And how about this?
On Thursday, the city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech and 10 of the metro area’s biggest corporations, including Home Depot and Delta Air Lines, announced plans to launch a technology incubator and venture fund that they hope will cement Atlanta as a tech powerhouse.
In particular, Midtown has emerged since the Great Recession as the Atlanta region’s technology boomtown. NCR in recent years announced it would relocate from Gwinnett County to a new headquarters at Technology Square.
The company then doubled down on that move last year when it announced its tech hub and second phase of development. The company will ultimately have more than 5,000 workers in Midtown.
Other prominent names that have built new innovation labs or made corporate expansions near Georgia Tech include Equifax, Southern Company, Panasonic, Sage Software and AT&T. Coca-Cola and Turner Broadcasting teamed up in late 2015 to back start ups that could bring potential innovations to both companies.
I’m sure Trump will take credit for that too, claiming that he personally turned Atlanta around.
He is an ignorant bigot. There’s no other explanation for why he would attack Congressman John Lewis in this specific way. Racists always reveal themselves in all their true ugliness when they’re angry.
Update: Read this from Joan Walsh on the meaning of Lewis’s comments.
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