“Mr. Trump will be joined by a coalition of 100 African American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the GOP frontrunner after a private meeting at Trump Tower.”
Doesn’t matter if these pastors attend or not.
Only that the event takes place-- then Trump can claim anything he likes afterward.
It will be broadcast on media that will accept it as fact-- and once planted, the idea will only grow.
Context no longer matters-- when soundbites are all that is required.
jw1
Donald’s got the shit kicker blues,
loving them has made him bananas…
I think it was Karl Rove of all people who said it best. Trump will insult people and say horrible things about them, but in person turns on the charm, or as he put it ‘Hail Fellow, well met’…
they should meet with him, listen to him tell them how wonderful he is, then, as a group, denounce him for the worthless shit he is.
Mr. Trump routinely uses overtly divisive and racist language on the campaign trail.
He admitted his supporters were justified for punching and kicking a Black protester who had attended a Trump rally with the intent to remind the crowd
that “Black Lives Matter.”
Trump followed this action by tweeting inaccurate statistics about crime prevalence rates in Black communities — insinuating that Black people are more violent than other groups.
.He routinely engages in the kind of rhetoric that brings out the worst sorts of white racist aggression, not only toward Black people, but also toward Mexican-Americans and Muslim-Americans, too.
Black people have been misused and abused by politicians long enough.
Surely we should be able to count on clergy persons not to give Trump
the appearance of legitimacy..
Trump re-tweeted fake statistics from a neo-Nazi’s site that calls itself Crime Bureau Statistics-- San Francisco, a made-up site. Another Trump pants-on-fire moment for his gullible (at best) or maybe just-plain-stupid followers to eat up.
I can only hope some are attending to tell the Donald off face to face. Otherwise, I don’t understand how any sane Black person could endorse this nut job.
Pastor Darrell Scott, who is organizing Monday’s meeting, admitted to the Daily Beast that his invitation to the other pastors did not mean that they were endorsing the GOP frontrunner.
“All of these guys are my friends and they know me,” Scott said. “I let them know I am endorsing but that doesn’t mean you are endorsing.”
I don’t know anything about this Pastor Scott–haven’t googled him yet–but for him to state he is endorsing The Don Trump gives me a good idea of what I’ll find.
I believe that we both know that the best chance the 0.001% have in maintaining a Stranglehold on the United States is to turn up the volume on the Republican Base, watch everything shift farther to the Right, keep FOX and Talk Radio rolling, keep the Chuck Todds of the MSM doing their thing and count on the 60% of the population which never votes to stay asleep.
When the dust clears in this strategy, what get reported and what is focused on is as if the United States is composed entirely of people closely resembling Mayberry, NC.
The problem is whether they endorse him or not he will claim they have bc he has a great relationship with the blacks.And we all know a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth in trump world.
I don’t think that was a press release. I think that was an order.
Well clearly these pastors are a bunch of talentless losers, eh Donald?
This has the air of mutual self-aggrandizement. Trump can now claim to be certified as non-racist, and the pastors can claim to be certified as the representatives of their sector. Death-spiral politics.
“I am not officially endorsing ANY candidate and when I do you will NOT
need to hear it from pulpitting courtjesters who suffer from
intellectual and spiritual myopia," Bishop Clarence McClendon, a Los
Angeles-based minister who had been invited to the meeting, said on
Facebook, the Daily Beast reported.
…
Welp, that pretty much sinks Trump’s comments on this “endorsement”. The ego of this man (Trump) is just off the charts. The bishop’s comment called to mind Trumo’s comment on his “religious” feelings. He said something like…“When I sip a little wine and take that little cracker” I feel cleansed." That’s not the exact quote but it has the flavor of what he said and at the time I thought it so superficial and that what he said was a profound misunderstanding of the Eucharist ritual. When I was a kid I was a believer but many decades later I am much more agnostic of not atheist but I still have deep respect for the act the ritual represents. Trump has a profound lack of understanding about his supposed religion as he does about so many other issues. Should he get elected our country will be in deeply serious trouble. What Trump could do to us would be far worse than if we had, say, lost WW2 or actually fallen off that economic cliff back in 2009 that Obama saved us from.
Trump will announce after the meeting the pastors have endorsed him. Any naysayers among the pastors will be repudiated as liars, Muslim Brotherhood malcontent, Black Lives Matters infiltrators or deluded souls that forgot just hours earlier they heartily signed in with the campaign. And the overall base Trump is appealing to will be left with the message “nice niggers” like Trump and bad ones are lying about what happened in the meeting. Trump can’t lose on this. His followers will believe what they’re told to believe. This isn’t about broadening his following in the black community, it’s about dragging in a few more whites otherwise marginally troubled by his overt racism. The pastors can protest this all they want, agreeing to meet him was their first mistake. Not foreseeing he’d twist it to his political advantage was naive.
Great Post.
How much money is he adding to their church baskets?
Once the Trump campaign falsely announced that these pastors would be endorsing him, every single one of these pastors should have refused to attend.
It’s an exorcism.