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Watch Donald Trump "Celebrate" Black History Month

by Helena6925 Posted on February 1, 2017

Mother Jones

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February is Black History Month and Donald Trump is all over it:

Question: Is Trump really as ignorant and contemptible as he seems? Or is this deliberate on this part, a wink to his white base that he doesn’t take this stuff seriously and is only reciting his lines because he has to?

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Watch Donald Trump "Celebrate" Black History Month

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Trump on Black History Month: Frederick Douglass "Has Done an Amazing Job"

by SerenaN2477696 Posted on February 1, 2017

Mother Jones

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During a listening session at the White House to honor Black History Month on Wednesday, President Donald Trump praised Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, as “somebody who’s done an amazing job” and whose work is “being recognized more and more.”

The remarks immediately called into question whether the president knew who the abolitionist actually was:

Trump went on to use the listening session to give shout-outs to his own black surrogates, including Omarosa Manigualt, the former Celebrity Apprentice contestant who is now an adviser to the president. Despite once labeling her an untrustworthy liar, Trump on Wednesday said she was an “actually very nice person.”

The president also took the opportunity to bash CNN as “fake news” and plug Fox News, a network he says has “treated him very nice.”

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Trump on Black History Month: Frederick Douglass "Has Done an Amazing Job"

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