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Then there is your moron on Blacks
August 2016: Trump told Black voters: “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?” His claim was untrue on many levels, not least of which was that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for young Black people at that time was only 19.2%.
August 2018: Trump routinely deploys the racist trope that Black men are less intelligent. “LeBron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon,” he tweeted. “He made LeBron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!”
July 2019: After Elijah Cummings criticized the conditions of immigrant detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump called the Maryland congressman’s district a “disgusting, rat, and rodent infested mess” and “far worse and more dangerous” than the detention centers. The district is majority Black and includes a large swath of Baltimore.
October 2019: Trump called the impeachment inquiry against him a “lynching,” comparing the constitutionally sanctioned process to the extrajudicial murders of Black Americans following the Civil War. According to the NAACP, there were 4,743 recorded lynchings between 1882 and 1968. Roughly three-quarters of the victims were African American, with lynchings used as a weapon to terrorize the Black community.
June 2020: Trump called anti-racism protesters “looters, thugs” and “others forms of Lowlife & Scum” on Twitter. Later that month, at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he called demonstrators in the city “thugs,” even though police reports said protests in the city had in in fact been peaceful.
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The inmates have taken over the asylum. 
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