Trump just made an appallingly racist tweet on Martin Luther King Day

Many people thought that President Trump’s abbreviated visitto the MLK Memorial in Washington DC was the full extent of his celebration of the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump’s begrudging ceremonial trip to the memorial was meant as an attempt to reconfigure his partisan, white nationalist-supporting image into a more inclusive symbol of America.

The president had a separate MLK Day celebration planned exclusively for his base — a group more open to bigotry than inclusion — and he played it out, as usual, on Twitter. It took the form of a message as far from the ideology of Dr. King as Trump’s privileged upbringing as the son of a wealthy real estate developer who gave him millions of dollars was from that of the social justice warrior born to a Baptist minister who gave him regular whippings into his teens.

Only someone who could refer to the neo-Nazis who marched with tiki torches to protest the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville as “very fine people” would have the audacity to send such a viciously xenophobic tweet on the holiday honoring the man who said that he dreamed of a day when people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The discrepancy between Trump’s tweet and the message of the man whose legacy is celebrated today was obvious to many of the president’s social media detractors, and they let their fury fly in the comments section after his post. Read more

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Trump just made an appallingly racist tweet on Martin Luther King Day

Many people thought that President Trump’s abbreviated visitto the MLK Memorial in Washington DC was the full extent of his celebration of the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump just made an appallingly racist tweet on Martin Luther King Day

Many people thought that President Trump’s abbreviated visitto the MLK Memorial in Washington DC was the full extent of his celebration of the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.