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The housing secretary says the workers who wash dishes and park cars at Trump's luxury Florida resort 'love him.'By CAITLIN OPRYSKO
Updated: 02/07/2020 04:42 PM EST
Housing Secretary Ben Carson appeared to stray from prepared remarks as he introduced Donald Trump on Friday, declaring that the president "is not a racist" and pointing to how he treats the members and service workers at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The comments came at the beginning of a North Carolina event touting the administrations Opportunity Zone program, which aims to spur growth in underserved areas.
He's a man who is deeply driven by a sense of kindness and compassion, Carson began, looking down at his notes.
You know, talking to the people who drive the cars and park the cars at Mar-a-Lago, they love him the people who wash the dishes, because he's kind and compassionate, Carson said of the president.
He continued: When he bought Mar-a-Lago, he was the one who fought for Jews and blacks to be included in the clubs that were trying to exclude them. You know, people say he's a racist, he is not a racist.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/07/ben-carson-trump-racist-112051
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He's a man who is deeply driven by a sense of kindness and compassion, Give me a goddamned break.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)in the pyramids to rot for fucking ever
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Good job Ben. Don't believe a word of it!
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)was that it was his revenge against the same clubs for excluding HIM when he applied for membership pre-Mar-a-Lago.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)"Madness Under the Royal Palms", by Laurence Leamer, that states the same. The book is a snarky look at Palm Beach from its early days and traces Chump's arrival in PB through recent time. Highly recommend for a fun and easy read.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3526429-madness-under-the-royal-palms
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)sheshe2
(83,885 posts)When you have to pay a black man to come out and explain why a racist white man is not racist...you lost the argument.
Phoenix61
(17,018 posts)a kennedy
(29,706 posts)sheshe2
(83,885 posts)I bought hearts and am giving them to all that had none. I do that every year. I don't have money for many yet give what I can.
Perhaps laughing and ridiculing is not the best way to win friends and influence people. Kindness goes a long way.
I have six left.
Blue Owl
(50,491 posts)What is the meaning of that gesture tRump is constantly flashing every time he speaks -- the one where his tiny thumb and forefinger touch, and the rest of his stubby little fingers stick up to form a "W"?
Different Drummer
(7,642 posts)DD
Wounded Bear
(58,704 posts)struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)People who work for the world's prettiest man, who know how quick he is to strike back against any sign of perceived disloyalty, refuse to bad-mouth him to your sycophantic face, and you use that as "proof" they love him, and therefore he is not a racist? Is that it?
I've always hard about doctors practicing medicine on themselves, but it's an extra-bad idea when the doctor was a brain surgeon. Did you mishear and think you'd been told to "suture self"?
Hekate
(90,788 posts)llmart
(15,552 posts)who in Trump's circle has the emptiest head - Pence or Carson.
It might be a tie.