Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, in memory of the civil rights icon. The Reverend Doctor King was remembered yesterday by the white supremacist who lives in the All-White House – Donald Trump and Mike Pence visited the MLK memorial statue in Washington. According to pool reports, Trump and Pence spent “approximately two minutes” at the memorial. So respectful, right? I don’t think Trump even craned his neck to look up at the actual statue. He doesn’t acknowledge the citizenship status of non-white people, why would even look at a STATUE of one of those non-white people?
The day before, Mike Pence appeared on Face the Nation, where he likened MLK’s words and legacy to Donald Trump’s need for the f–king wall. Pence said:
“One of my favorite quotes from Dr. King was, ‘Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.’ You think of how he changed America. He inspired us to change through the legislative process to become a more perfect union. That’s exactly what President Trump is calling on the Congress to do. Come to the table in a spirit of good faith. We’ll secure our border, we’ll reopen the government and we’ll move our nation forward as the president said yesterday to an even broader discussion about immigration reform in the months ahead.”
[From People]
The struggle to come up with a way to twist MLK Jr’s historical legacy into a message of support for Trump’s wall. My God.
And finally, if you can keep up with Rudy Giuliani’s many contradictory claims, lies and statements about the Moscow Project and Trump’s Russian dealings, I’ll give you a prize. Rudy is now “walking back” something he repeated several times over the past week, which is that Trump was (shock!) still doing business deals/negotiations with Russians up until Election Day 2016. But it’s all fine, you guys, or it would be fine if that were true but it’s not true but it is true and it’s fine. Got it?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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