Something hit me when I heard Donald Trump utter his latest gutter comment about Ilan Omar, a Somali-American in Congress, dismissing her because her homeland, Somalia, to Trump, is “about the worst country in the world.”
I’ve never been to Somalia – and doubt that Trump has, either – so I can’t comment on its status among peer countries.
I can say, the insult – that a person can’t be of any value because of where they come from – isn’t just racist bigotry.
That’s bigoted toward everybody outside the 1 percent, from the perspective of untold wealth and privilege.
Donald Trump, keep in mind, is the failson of a man, Fred Trump, who made his millions by taking advantage of federally supported affordable-housing programs aimed toward getting World War II vets into starter homes in the 1940s and 1950s.
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To Donald Trump, that makes him a better to everybody reading this.
Basically, your daddy wasn’t smart enough to fleece the federal government to set me up with a $400 million inheritance, so, you know, so much for your damn luck.
This is the living, breathing definition of being born on third base and thinking you hit a slam-dunk touchdown.
Where I’m coming from on this: obviously, I’m not a brown-skinned person from a “sh*thole country”; I’m a White dude from a trailer park.
Lived the first three years of my life in a house without indoor plumbing.
Raise your hand if you ever used an outhouse.
My parents didn’t scam their way into being millionaires; my dad was an abusive prick, and my mom never could pick guys right – first it was the dad, with the physical and sexual abuse; then it was the long-term boyfriend, who at least wasn’t abusive, but was an obnoxious racist drunk; and then, finally, her second husband, who walked around his apartment, the one time my wife and I stayed the night with them on a family visit, wearing a midget porn T-shirt.
I sh*t you not.
That’s where I come from.
Forgive me my fantasy that I was sent home from the hospital with the wrong family.
Donald Trump and his ilk think they’re better than the rest of us because they had daddies who figured out how manipulate the system into being able to amass untold wealth and pass it down to their heirs.
It’s always been hilarious to me that the people that I grew up with in the trailer park vote for these shysters because they’ve let themselves be led to believe that it’s pointy-headed Democrats who look down their noses at them.
It doesn’t say much for Democrats that they haven’t been able to figure out that, you know, a lot of them do come across as being the preachy type.
Enough with the telling us how to better ourselves already, and, maybe, listen, just for once.
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But seriously, a guy like Trump, for example – his daddy put little Donnie on the family payroll at the age of 3, paying him $200,000 a year to manage properties, because doing so allowed Daddy Trump to avoid paying his fair share of taxes.
That guy – $200,000 salary at the age of 3 – knows a damn thing about what how tough you got it?
No wonder he isn’t lying when he stands up there in DC and tells you, straight face, that gas is under two dollars a gallon, that grocery prices are down, that the economy has never been better.
He’s never pumped his own gas, bought groceries at the grocery store – he’s never mowed his own grass, swept a floor, cleaned a toilet.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he has somebody on the payroll to wipe his ass for him.
People like that have no idea.
They think that people like us are their lessers because we do wipe our own asses, buy our own groceries, cook our own dinners.
Because we come from the “worst.”
He said that out loud about a Black woman because he thinks you’ll agree, because it’s about a Black woman.
Reality check: it’s also how he thinks about you.
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