Trump Saw Staffers of Color at White House, Assumed They Were Waiters, Book Says

[douglas9]

IT WAS JANUARY of 2017, and a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump held a reception at the White House to meet with top congressional leaders. Hors d’oeuvres were on the menu. And the new president turned to a row of racially diverse Democratic staffers and asked them to retrieve the canapes, according to a new book.

“Why don’t you get” the food, Trump told staffers for Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and others, according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s new book, Confidence Man.

Then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus rushed to correct Trump’s remark, telling the then-president that he’d just addressed top congressional aides before going to find the actual White House waitstaff.

Trump’s remark to the staffers is just one example of Trump’s casual racism detailed in pages of Confidence Man reviewed by Rolling Stone. For example, later in that same meeting, Trump told Schumer and Pelosi that ballots cast by “illegals” were the only reason he’d lost the 2016 popular vote to Hillary Clinon, Haberman reports. After an awkward silence, Pelsoi interjected: “I don’t believe so, Mr. President.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/haberman-book-trump-white-house-meeting-staffers-waiters-1234601180/

[Dorian Gray]

1. SO not surprising.

[hlthe2b]

2. But, of course he did.

Boor does not begin to describe him... Historians rank a few Presidents below him at the very bottom of the list of the rankings of "great Presidents", (Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan) but honestly, I don't know how.

[underpants]

7. Add Harrison and you have what was considered the impenetrable bottom 4. Trump broke through

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?page=overall

[Retrograde]

19. I give Harrison a pass

for completing at most a month in office. He may have gone on to earn his spot at the bottom of the list, but as it was he barely had time to unpack before he got sick and died.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Those rankings had to have made before a lot was revealed about Trump.

The whole stolen classified documents scandal, for starters. I suspect that if they re-rank them in a year or two, he'll be at the bottom unanimously, or close to that.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Quite possible Trump knew exactly who they were and did this to humiliate them.

[Walleye]

10. I believe that is absolutely true. Insults, vengeance that's what he's all about

[Irish_Dem]

12. The aides worked for Schumer and Pelosi.

So it is a safe bet Trump did this on purpose.

He is petty and vindictive yes.

[Walleye]

13. He wants to punish everybody who didn't vote for him. That's a lot of people

Seems he loves the flag but he hates Americans

[Irish_Dem]

14. He loves nothing but himself.

All the rest of us are just make believe actors in a world where he is the star.

[claudette]

4. I believe that's from Maggie

Habermann’s book. From other excerpts I think she should be investigated for knowing that Dump took documents from the WH and didn’t report it. I wouldn’t ever buy her book to enrich her.

[chriscan64]

5. He did the same thing with some women.

Fiona Hill, a serious high-level expert on Russia, was asked to "get the coffee."

[underpants]

6. Yep. Remember that story.

I don’t remember if it was part of her testifying in Congress but yeah.

[Ray Bruns]

8. Headline: Trump is a racist, misogynistic, pig..

Captain Obvious strikes again.

[GoCubsGo]

9. I still can't believe this stupid, disgusting sack of shit wound up as President.

The sad thing is that none of this surprises me at all, and I know I'm not alone in that.

[Walleye]

11. The really sad thing is he still has enough support to make a run at being elected again

[Irish_Dem]

15. The American character is clearly revealed.

And it is not pretty.

[GoCubsGo]

17. I'm not so sure about that.

He's pretty much down to the QAnon crowd, and that's only around 15% of the total voters.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Who is surprised by this?

TFG is diehard racist