Former President Barack Obama laid out Donald Trump’s racist record on Sunday in a message to Black and Latino voters at a Kamala Harris campaign rally in Wisconsin.
″[If] you feel like your community is overlooked by politicians except during election time, I get how you feel,” Obama told the Milwaukee crowd.
“But why would you think the answer is to vote for someone who has a long history of demeaning and disregarding your community?”
Obama then referred to the Justice Department suing Trump’s family business in the ’70s for housing discrimination against Black renters before pointing to the GOP nominee recently mocking the heritage of Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo at a speech in the battleground state.
″[He’s someone] who can not apparently understand how an NBA superstar could be both Greek and Black, who suggests any Mexican crossing the border is a criminal and a rapist, who spreads ridiculous fantasies that Haitians are eating people’s pets,” Obama said.
He continued, “Who just this past week arranged from one of his supporters to tell jokes about Black people eating watermelon and Puerto Rico being an island of garbage, right there on stage at Madison Square Garden. Do you think that’s somebody who’s going to look out for you?”
Obama went on to address Muslim and Jewish Americans, asking why they would support someone who instituted a “so-called Muslim Ban” and sat down for “pleasantries with Holocaust deniers.”
He then spoke to people who have someone in their lives who wants to vote for Trump due to “cancel culture,” Harris’ position on transgender issues or their desire for America to have a “strong, tough leader.”
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“You might want to ask them, with respect and with love, what evidence do we have that Donald Trump actually got stuff done and since when exactly is Trump’s trademark behavior — the boasting and the bullying and the selfishness and the cruelty — since when is that a sign of strength?” he asked.
“That is not what real strength looks like, Milwaukee, it never has been.”