The right-wing has now latched onto Donald Trump’s new bromance with rap artist Kanye West as proof that the president is hitting it off with the African American community.
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But, really, it’s shown how little he cares about that community at a substantive level.
The lovefest between Trump and Kanye doesn’t prove that the president cares about policies that advance the interests of the black community. Instead, it demonstrates – once again – that the president loves those who love him.
As the AM Joy panel pointed out on Saturday, if Trump really did care about reaching out to the African American community, he wouldn’t have been radio silent about James Shaw Jr., the black man who heroically saved lives during the recent Waffle House shooting in Tennessee.
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Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post hit it on the head:
If President Trump — because there is word apparently that President Trump wants to have Kanye West over because all you have to do is say something nice about the president and you get invited over. Here is what I would say. Mr. President, if you’re going to invite someone to dinner, someone black to dinner, at the White House, how about you invite James Shaw Jr., the Waffle House hero, a man who has shown more compassion, more humility, more … courage, also more empathy. This is a man who saved lives, set up a GoFundMe page for the benefit of the survivors and then the family of the slain, who is paying for the funerals of the slain. That man, James Shaw Jr., has shown more grit and courage … and Americanness than the President of the United States. I wish the president spent more time — he hasn’t even tweeted about him, hasn’t even talked about him. That’s what I think the president should be spending his time on. That’s who I think he should be having dinner with, not Kanye West who is in this bid for relevance.
Trump and Kanye are essentially the same person
At the end of the day, this is not about historically low black unemployment, a trend which began when Barack Obama was in the White House.
Instead, Trump is cheerleading for Kanye West – and vice versa – because they are essentially the same person.
The president and the rap musician both see themselves as gods and wonder why the rest of the world doesn’t share that opinion. In themselves, they see greatness, when the rest of us just see two men who crave admiration without doing anything to deserve it.
If either Donald Trump or Kanye West had the ability to look outside of themselves, they would see how foolish both of them look to the rest of us.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
