Reality TV star turned 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump is fast becoming a favorite with America’s white supremacists and hate groups. Trump’s claim that Mexican immigrants are “rapists” and criminals lost him his jobs at NBC and Univision, but it earned him the support of neo-Nazis and racist bloggers across the country, including a leader of the group allegedly cited by South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof as inspiration.
White supremacist blogger Andrew Anglin of the website The Daily Stormer posted his “official endorsement” of Trump for president on Sunday, noting that the former Apprentice star “is willing to say what most Americans think: it’s time to deport these people [Hispanic immigrants]. He is also willing to call them out as criminal rapists, murderers and drug dealers.” In another post, Anglin commends Trump for his refusal to “back down from factual statements about Mexican rapists”. Anglin did not respond to multiple interview requests, but was profiled by Vocativ in 2014.
Another of Trump’s supporters is Kyle Rogers, a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens, the hate group authorities say inspired Roof to murder nine at a historic black church in South Carolina earlier this month. Rogers was hocking Donald Trump 2016 tee-shirts to nearly 40,000 followers on Twitter last week. His account is no longer active. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Rogers has been an active member of South Carolina’s Republican Party for nearly a decade and held a position on the Dorcester County Republican’s Executive Committee.
Well there you go Trump, these are clearly your people.
While we're on the subject of white supremacists, guess who is coming out in defense of the Confederate battle flag?
Courtesy of MSN:
The Ku Klux Klan will hold a rally at the South Carolina State House next month to protest efforts to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds.
Any group can request to hold a rally at the State House as long as its grounds are available, said Brian Gaines, a spokesman for the South Carolina Budget and Control Board.
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan requested the rally from 3 to 5 p.m. on July 18, Gaines said. The Klan is expecting 100 to 200 to attend, according to a copy of its state event form.
Calling itself the "Largest Klan in America," the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are based in Pelham, N.C., according to the group's website.
Well now that Trump recognizes his demographic he could probably raise a pretty tidy sum selling confederate battle flag t-shirts and KKK tote bags on his campaign website.
And if those items are manufactured in the same place as his clothing line well.....
Why don't they take off their hoods and show us who they really are?
ReplyDeleteWill there be cross burning? American flag burning? Incendiary racist comments?
I hope Mr. Trump flies down to be with his constituents.
Donald Trump-out KKKing the KKK!
DeleteAwwww, come on! He was only KKKidding!
DeleteNOT!
What a despicable KKKrazyKreepyKrawler!
Yes, I've always found it very "chicken" of the KKK members to hide behind their white sheets and hoods. If they are so proud of their beliefs, why don't they show their faces?
DeleteIt must have been very difficult for the white supremacists to decide who to indorse given the number of republican presidential aspirants who agree with Trump.
ReplyDeleteIf Donny Trump is the KKK poster boy for white America, I am renouncing my whiteness!
ReplyDeletemaybe he can become the grand dragon for KKK. That seems reasonable enough
ReplyDeleteThanks to the Klan for taking the initiative to clarify for all of us that all those other lame explanations and excuses for displaying the confederate flag are total bullshit.
ReplyDeleteMy loathing of this man knows no bounds.
ReplyDelete“[Trump’s remarks] show powerful racist undercurrents that are connected with very important sectors of the GOP and the Republican party,” he said. “Now many of its leaders try to distance themselves from that, but very often, as we’ve seen with Trump and many other right-wing leaders, we see that they often pop their head out and the GOP quickly wants to hide them and throw them under the carpet. Well they can’t do that anymore with Donald Trump running for president and it’s going to have a very important impact in showcasing the true colors of the Republican Party.”
ReplyDeletehttp://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/07/02/3676299/donald-trump-latino-vote/
In any other civilized country this idiot would be considered a colossal joke and an embarrassment to its citizens. How he can be considered by some as Presidential material boggles the mind.
ReplyDeleteWould a hood hold down his wild hair? Shouldn't he go for a military buzz cut, since he's so patriotic?
ReplyDeleteOtherwise he looks like the leftover clipping from my corgi after she' been shorn, glued onto his pate in the most ridiculous possible way. My corgi would hide under the bed if she looked like Trump.
This is a dumb question but why would you clip a corgi? I am getting a little boy Pembroke in about 2 wks but the breeder hasn't mentioned that. Just wondering, thanks.
DeleteLOL....most presidential candidates who know they won't win only are running to improve their brand or potential for making more money.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump is uniquely singular in being the only person I know of to totally destroy his brand by running for president.
His incompetency knows no bounds
He LoVes bankrupcy!!!!!
DeleteMaybe Trump should announce his VP early to help his campaign by choosing David Duke.
ReplyDeleteTrump/Palin 2016
DeleteYou must be a mind reader!
DeleteOh the delusional hubris. KKK members protesting on the steps of the state capitol - will they keep their hoods on? 'cause you know, they are just so proud of themselves?
ReplyDeleteThe Donald wanting to be President and destroying what is left of his "brand" in the process. Trumpy whatcha gonna do when you get tossed out of the primary and turn around and find out no, the networks are NOT going to reinstate your beauty pageants or your stupid Apprentice show. And your loosing investors pretty quickly. What is a bloviator to do when everyone gets bored and disgusted and quit watching them?
Will Donald, Palin, Limbaugh all get in a room together and whine about how unfair it all is? Will we get to watch?
Maybe the Klan rally will go as well as that ludicrous Confederate flag demolition derby where the racists drove their pick up trucks into each other. We can hope anyway...
ReplyDeleteNext for Trump is professional golf. He just dragged the PGA into the mess. Add in he thinks golf should be a game only for elitists and he's really setting up an interesting world. Feudal Lords, lasses, wenches, slaves and serfs come to mind.
ReplyDeleteThose of us who grew up on the east coast know Trump well, he his not liked. But, in the midwest, where they love their reality show stars and google is a dirty word, they love the crook. What I firmly believe was a stunt backfired, bigtime. He finally went too far
ReplyDeleteTrump is gonna have his rump handed to him on a silver platter very soon.
ReplyDeleteAnon, @ 7:50: You just tripped a rhyming button as stupid as the subject:
DeleteLet's dump Trump on his rump with a great big whump, and watch him jump for the next big chump.
I am sure that as always he "has big plans".
I'd bet he likes peas in his guacamole too
ReplyDeleteLOL It's unnatural! Saw that on the news and laughed, the "Give Peas a Chance" movement never had a chance with Guac purists.
DeleteSomeone needs to add that Trump clothing tag to a white sheet with eye holes cut out and a pointy top!
ReplyDeleteFunny!
DeleteSeriously, I hope he stays in the race as long as possible, thus insuring another four years of a Democratic White House.
ReplyDeleteAnd yay for those Girl Scouts in Washington state that returned a $100,000.00 donation because the strings attached to it said it could not be used to benefit any transgender scouts. And yay for all the folks who then donated and more than doubled the contribution the girls had returned.
ReplyDeleteThe Don showing the Peace sign is insulting to me as a true hippie-era person!
ReplyDelete*Seriously*
Whether Trump or someone else, I have never understood the desire to own something sporting a celebrity name.
ReplyDeleteThank You, Donald Trump!
ReplyDelete...You see, what you just did with your straight talk was send more Latino voters to the polls than several registration rallies combined! Thank you for that. Here we are pounding the pavement to get American Latinos to the polls, while your tactic proves most effective. Remarks like yours will serve brilliantly to energize Latino voters and increase turnout on election day against you and any other candidate who runs on a platform of hateful rhetoric.
Do you know why that's such a big deal, Donald? Because Latinos are the largest, youngest and fastest-growing constituency in the United States of America. That's right! You are running for President in a country where the Latino population grew by over 49 percent from 2000-2012, while the rest of the country grew by 5.8 percent. What's more, we are the future. The median age of the average Latino is 27 years old, compared to 42 years old for white Americans. In case you need a translation, that means there are a whole lot of Americans who are Latino and have the right to vote. And, we're not going anywhere.
This is the America we are actually living in. I hope by now you understand that without the Latino vote, there is no chance of you ever winning this election. If you don't believe me, you could ask President Bush or you could even ask President Obama.
You, Mr. Trump, are living in an outdated fantasy of a bigoted America. Last week, America celebrated some amazing milestones -- marriage equality, universal healthcare, removing of the confederate flag -- making it clear in which direction the country is moving. That is why racist remarks that play to extremists won't change the tide, no matter how hard you try. They will only serve to rally more Latino voters to the polls. Your negativity and your poorly thought out speech ignited a fire in our community. Thank you, Mr. Trump!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/america-ferrera/thank-you-donald-trump_b_7709126.html
I see a clothing line tailored for those bigots! Fine wool suiting in red, with starry blue stripes. Pockets of a matching fabric where the bars cross. Starched white shirt with french cuffs. Cufflinks bearing kkklan symbols. Darker red silk tie and pocket square, again with kkklan symbol embroidered in gold on a corner.
ReplyDeleteDiscreet, elegant, overpriced.
A coordinating golf ensemble coming soon!
But, but, but, he never said the Mexicans in Mexico don't work, only the ones that come to the USA are criminals and rapists.
ReplyDeleteHe must be very proud of his new fan club, are the KKK now going to stick a dead cat on their heads to emulate their hero?
ReplyDeleteTrump's wife Melania hawks faux jewelry on QVC.
ReplyDeleteIt's listed as " Melania " on their website. The items run
from $ 15 to $ 30 dollars , so it's not even expensive faux jewelry. I wonder where the Trump jewelry is made
( ? China, ? Mexico ) and if QVC will continue to insult it's customers by
selling Trump junk.
Does she actually promote this crap herself? Or do they have someone else whose face moves with lips that meet? I only saw her speaking once, and it was like watching sausage casing bursting on a grill. She was calling for her son "Barrrrrrrun" to say "the hello to the peoples", the kid looked embarrassed, but he seemed well behaved and presentable.
DeleteAdd Serta Mattresses to the list withdrawing their support of Trump's named mattress line (Who knew?). So glad to see his true target audience supporting him. But I see Donald as a gift to the GOP. He's got enough money to buy his spot at the podium, and who's going to risk shutting him up among the other cowards on the clown car?
ReplyDeleteI would not be surprised if trumps closets are full of white sheets and hoods.
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