I'll admit that Trump is an asshole, but I will argue with anyone who claims that he is a racist.
Before he became POTUS, I didn't know how he dealt with his business or with politics. But I watched him regularly on The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice.
One of the participants in The Celebrity Apprentice was former NBA star Dennis Rodman. Useless at shooting but a great rebounder. Everyone knows Dennis is an awkward chap, full of tattoos and piercings, does not speak very well in public. If nobody speaks to him, he will simply remain quiet. I could not believe how kind Trump was to him, often giving him opportunities to speak, helping him very gently when he was stumbling, getting him to open up about his ideas etc. Even when Dennis was eventually fired, Trump was especially nice to him. He usually is quite nasty to the people he fires, just being his normal self I guess.
Dennis had established some sort of rapport with the NBA fan Kim of North Korea, I am not sure whether this was before or after The Celebrity Apprentice. But Dennis did visit Kim in North Korea. A few years later, when Trump became POTUS, he met up with Kim a couple of times (once in SG I think), the talks went very well, and the North Korean tension was resolved to a large extent.
What did Obama do about North Korea? Practically nothing. Biden we don't know yet, maybe it has calmed down because of Rodman and Trump.
I have other examples of Trump on the Celebrity Apprentice which I will post later.
Before he became POTUS, I didn't know how he dealt with his business or with politics. But I watched him regularly on The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice.
One of the participants in The Celebrity Apprentice was former NBA star Dennis Rodman. Useless at shooting but a great rebounder. Everyone knows Dennis is an awkward chap, full of tattoos and piercings, does not speak very well in public. If nobody speaks to him, he will simply remain quiet. I could not believe how kind Trump was to him, often giving him opportunities to speak, helping him very gently when he was stumbling, getting him to open up about his ideas etc. Even when Dennis was eventually fired, Trump was especially nice to him. He usually is quite nasty to the people he fires, just being his normal self I guess.
Dennis had established some sort of rapport with the NBA fan Kim of North Korea, I am not sure whether this was before or after The Celebrity Apprentice. But Dennis did visit Kim in North Korea. A few years later, when Trump became POTUS, he met up with Kim a couple of times (once in SG I think), the talks went very well, and the North Korean tension was resolved to a large extent.
What did Obama do about North Korea? Practically nothing. Biden we don't know yet, maybe it has calmed down because of Rodman and Trump.
I have other examples of Trump on the Celebrity Apprentice which I will post later.