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There is a reason that “doth protest too much” — originally attributed to Hamlet’s mother — has become a cliché.

Last night, speaking to reporters on his way into the golf club he owns in Palm Beach, Fla., President Trump proclaimed himself “the least racist person you will ever interview.” That’s right: Of all the world’s billions of people, Donald Trump sees himself as the one who is least affected by another person’s race.

The more than 40 years that Trump has spent as a public figure tells a different story, of course. He has shown himself to be obsessed with race for that entire time.