Eric Trump defended President Donald Trump by saying his father is the “least racist” person he knows. When questioned about allegations against his father being racist, Eric Trump said the only shade his father sees is green, which represents the economy. However, his response did not go over well on social media.
Donald Trump’s second son told “Fox & Friends” that his dad could not possibly be racist because he only “sees one color, green.” “That’s all he cares about. He cares about the economy. Right, he does not see race,” Eric Trump said. “He’s the least racist person I have ever met in my entire life. It is total nonsense.”
Why was Eric Trump defending his father? Eric Trump offered the defense during a discussion of last week’s White House meeting on immigration, when participants said his father described Haiti and some African nations as “shithole countries.” Trump denied using those words, but Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) who was present, contradicted him and said the president repeatedly used the racist insult.
Eric Trump went on to claim that African-American unemployment is the lowest it has ever been in the nation’s history and that “they”–presumably the media and Democrats–won’t give him any credit for that.
“They’ll go out and call him racist. It’s very sad, it’s a race to the bottom,” he said. “They stoop very, very low. The reason they do that is they don’t have their own message.”
Here are some reactions on social media to Eric Trump’s “least racist” comments.
Eric Trump admits he only knows racists. https://t.co/aXjrVbFyg3
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) January 17, 2018
Eric Trump says his dad is the least racist person that he’s met in his entire life.
This is a sad commentary on Eric Trump’s life.https://t.co/0vWqUjrEcm
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 17, 2018
Eric Trump said his dad is “the least racist person he’s ever met in his entire life.”
So, if you’ve met Eric Trump, you’re more racist than the guy who avoided renting to African Americans, called Mexicans rapists, and said immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS.”
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) January 17, 2018
Eric Trump knows a lot of racists. https://t.co/CyAdwTJCUh
— Duncan Smith (@DuncanSmithNBA) January 17, 2018
Eric Trump said his father isn’t racist, and he only sees one color: green. That’s BS, because when Black tenants were trying to move into Trump’s apartments in the 70’s, he didn’t want their “green”. He saw BLACK and he discriminated against them
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) January 17, 2018
The New York Times published a “definitive” list of “Donald Trump’s racism.” The list started with accusations from the 1970s against Trump and his father for discriminating against black renters in their apartment complexes and also featured the racially charged full-page ads he took out in 1989 that called for the death penalty for five men accused of raping a woman in Central Park. The men were later exonerated.
What did you think of Eric Trump’s comments defending his father as not being racist? Do you find the president’s actions to be racist? Let us know in the comments section.
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