This Is Not Normal. And Silence Is Complicity.
It’s been a long week. I was exhausted and ready to keep my head down until I saw what Trump posted about the Obamas on his platform. The moment I saw it, I felt sick. What he shared was vile and disgusting, and the fact that it stayed up for 12 hours before being removed is a failure, not a footnote.
Here’s just part of the video (hit the play button):
Let me be absolutely clear. This is not normal. This is not humor. This is not a meme. This is deliberate degradation, and it demands a clear, direct, and unequivocal apology. Anyone pretending this is acceptable is either lying to you or has abandoned basic standards of decency.
Like she always does, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, defended Trump and the video by dismissing the backlash as “fake outrage” and describing the brief racist clip, as part of an “internet meme video.” That was her public explanation before the video was taken down and the White House later said it had been posted in error by a staff member. Those are the facts. The rest is spin.
We all know exactly who posted this. It went up shortly before midnight last night, and it came from Trump’s account. Now, after the backlash, he is claiming someone else posted the video. That is bullshit. And even if it were true, it exposes something just as disturbing: what kind of culture, what kind of racist environment exists inside the White House where anyone would think it is acceptable to post something like this on the account of the sitting president. That is not an excuse. It is an indictment.
I know every single one of my 7,500 subscribers feel the same anger and disgust I do. But too many Americans who will be voting in the midterms haven’t seen the video. They have no idea this even happened. And that’s dangerous.
Please share the video that Trump posted. Educate them on who Trump is and what is happening in plain sight, because ignoring this behavior only gives it permission to continue.
And while we’re all here, this is one of my favorite Oval Office portraits of the Obama family taken in 2011.
That’s it. Signing off, and wishing you an enjoyable Super Bowl weekend.
Mitch Jackson, Esq.
Update: Trump admits he posted it.
Yeah, that vid. disgusted me and made me feel ashamed to be an American. Unfortunately, that culture extends beyond the off-White House. 🤢
Even when I envied their financial fortune, I never the Obama family as anything but filled with love, integrity, and impeccable character. 💖
If we are to have another civil, let us just get it done and over-with; these twidiots will take away my republic over my dead body. 🖕
There is good news: ¡you have seven thousand, five hundred subscribers. ¡Hooray, Mitch!🥳
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” – President and General Ulysses Grant, 1875.😱