In case you didn’t already know this, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is now and has always been a huge racist.
"Racism" is now a flat and meaningless word thanks to ppl like you. No power. pic.twitter.com/jVmJSteEzE
— . (@cinnamonearl) August 17, 2016
This is definitely not a new thing for The Donald. His racist controversies go back a VERY long time.
Here we go, let the timeline begin:
1973
Trump was sued by the United States Department of Justice for violating the Fair Housing Act. They found evidence that he refused to rent to Black people. As reported by Vox Explainers:
“The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.”
1980s
An employee at Trump Castle, Kip Brown, said:
“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”
1991
A former employee wrote a book about working with Donald Trump on his Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. Trump criticized his Black accountant, saying:
“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”
One can safely assume the following: Anybody who supports Donald J. Trump is a racist, bigoted, assaholic. pic.twitter.com/aztBQFWLrH
— Republicans R Evil (@CanProveIt) August 28, 2016
1992
That same casino was fined $200,000 for moving Black and female employees off the floor when Robert Libutti was in the casino to gamble.
2004
In Season Two of The Apprentice, Donald Trump fired “Kevin Allen, a Wharton Business School grad, Emory MBA and University of Chicago law graduate” for being too educated. He said:
“You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything. At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’”
2005
He publicly pitched a season of The Apprentice to pit a team of Black people with a team of white people. Of the proposal, Trump commented:
“Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”
Donald Trump's Bigotry is as much a commentary on his supporters' racism as it is on Trump. pic.twitter.com/QOmleqpmMR
— Franny?#GlovesOff (@PoliticalDoggy) August 29, 2016
2011
He was a big player in the movement to try and prove that President Barack Obama is not a citizen. He sent people to Hawaii to try and hunt down Obama’s birth certificate. He went even further and said that Obama lied about his education, and he was demanding to see the president’s school transcripts.
Fast-forward to his campaign, and he’s still a racist sack of orange Gatorade.
h/t Vox.com
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