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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 07:37 AM Jul 2016

Trump Confirms His Racism By Turning Down Invitation To Speak At NAACP Convention

By Jason Easley on Tue, Jul 12th, 2016 at 7:22 pm

Donald Trump showed exactly who he really is by turning down an invitation to address the NAACP convention.


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JUST IN: Donald Trump has declined NAACP invitation to speak at their annual gathering next week -@CornellWBrooks to @WolfBlitzer

6:27 PM - 12 Jul 2016


Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan all addressed the NAACP convention. Bush addressed the NAACP both as a candidate in 2000 and as president in 2006.

If Donald Trump were serious about expanding the electorate for the Republican Party, he would address the NAACP, but Trump isn’t serious. Donald Trump thinks that he has enough angry white (most men) to win the White House in November.

Trump is a coward who is afraid that by addressing the NAACP, he will alienate his racist supporters who have been the backbone of his campaign. Trump can’t take a chance on angering the neo-Nazis and white supremacists so he won’t be talking to the NAACP.

Donald Trump is shrinking the Republican Party down to its whitest and most extreme roots. Trump is no Reagan because Reagan was man enough to stand in front of a crowd that he knew wasn’t going to be overly warm towards him, and talk to them. Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP convention in 2012 was a disaster, but again, at least Romney had the decency to show up.

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http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/12/trump-confirms-racism-turning-invitation-speak-naacp-convention.html
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Trump Confirms His Racism By Turning Down Invitation To Speak At NAACP Convention (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2016 OP
each week he looks more and more like a plant, designed to toss the election AntiBank Jul 2016 #1
Confirms his cowardice, at least. Orsino Jul 2016 #2
 

AntiBank

(1,339 posts)
1. each week he looks more and more like a plant, designed to toss the election
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 07:59 AM
Jul 2016

The idiot Rethugs are going down with his ship.

I cannot believe they are going to actually nominate him. The sneaky fuckers should be able to find a way out, one would think.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
2. Confirms his cowardice, at least.
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 09:06 AM
Jul 2016

He is not and never has been ready for crowds not pre- or self-selected to adore him. I somehow doubt he's even going to dare to face the Cleveland audience.

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