Mother Jones
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February is Black History Month and Donald Trump is all over it:
Here is the full clip. Decide for yourself if Trump knows that Douglass has been dead for over 100 years. I could go either way. pic.twitter.com/EQZUhI1Xrq
— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf)
Donald Trump’s remarks on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s role in black history are extraordinary. pic.twitter.com/FVxtzvbGse
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias)
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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