With the half dozen or so HBCU presidents stuffed into the Oval office surrounding President Trump it was quite the weird photo opp, an opp where Trump could finally prove that he was the President that would do more for black folks than any other…. However, already that claim is being shot down with the Moorehouse Pres saying that essentially Trump played them (read more about that here) and news coming out about how he may have disrespectfully addressed these fine Gentlemen!
BuzzFeed News reported
“You people are doing an amazing job,” four people in the room recalled Trump saying. Two of them said Trump repeated the complimentary refrain three times. They all said the comments raised eyebrows, and it was discussed afterward even as others just said it was Trump being Trump.
It was “very insensitive,” one of the college presidents said, but added that while the phrase irked him and his colleagues, it also struck him as “very Trump-ish.”
One college president from a Southern state said they heard the president make the “you people” comment but said that he was hardened to such sayings after growing up in the Jim Crow South.
“I’ve heard a lot worse than that, and I mean a lot worse,” the college president from the Southern state told BuzzFeed News. “I’m sure if you’re from the North or whatever you might be offended by something like that.”
“I was waiting on him to say something worse.”
Asked specifically about the “you people” comment, White House adviser Omarosa Manigault called the characterization of the meeting false, and said it was “the most ridiculous spin I have heard about this historic meeting where 69 HBCU president were invited to a meet and greet with the president of the United States.”
Trump “was praising the amazing work of HBCU presidents… he was laughing and shaking hands and meeting each of the presidents,” she wrote in an email.
A half dozen college presidents and HBCU advocates spoke to BuzzFeed News on the condition that their names be withheld because they feared reprisals from the White House.
What do you think about this language? Is it just Trump being Trump or is it terribly demeaning, disrespectful and a show of his true colors?
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