{"id":27428,"date":"2018-01-16T01:10:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27428"},"modified":"2018-01-16T01:10:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:10:51","slug":"potus-keeps-telling-us-smart-rich-non-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27428","title":{"rendered":"POTUS keeps telling us how smart, rich, non-racist he is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Heroes don’t brag about their heroic acts.<\/p>\n

Geniuses don’t tell us how smart they are.<\/p>\n

Great athletes — the late, great Muhammad Ali notwithstanding — don’t crow about their athletic prowess.<\/p>\n

Wealthy folks don’t boast about their riches.<\/p>\n

And non-racists don’t need to tell us they aren’t racist.<\/p>\n

So … why does Donald John “Stable, Rich, Non-Racist Genius” Trump Sr. insist on reminding us of his myriad admirable qualities?<\/p>\n

The president stood alongside a fellow Republican this past weekend, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and told us that he is “not a racist. I am the least racist person you<\/em> have ever interviewed.” The response was directed, I presume, at a reporter who had asked Trump “Are you a racist?”<\/p>\n

I am baffled by this president’s insistence on reminding us of the things that need no reminder.<\/p>\n

The racist label has been given new prominence in the wake of Trump’s statement about immigrants coming here from “s**thole countries” that, by the way, happen to be populated by citizens with dark skin. This statement attributed to the president, of course, follows a distinct pattern of disparagement and disrespect of certain individuals and institutions.<\/p>\n

So, he tells us he is “not a racist.” Big … deal! His actions and his myriad utterances over many years suggest something quite different.<\/p>\n

He bellows about how rich he is. Then he refuses to release his tax returns, ignoring a custom followed by presidential nominees for the past 40 years. Those returns would tell us whether he is as rich as he claims to be.<\/p>\n

And his intelligence? Well, he keeps yapping about how he knows “the best words,” and how he attended the “best college,” where he was an academic star. Just wondering: Has anyone seen this guy’s college transcript?<\/p>\n

As CNN’s Chis Cillizza has noted, the president clearly is “overcompensating” for what appear to be some serious shortcomings.<\/p>\n

My own view is that someone who tells you he is the “best” at anything, he usually isn’t. If he has to remind us that he is “not a racist,” well, you know …<\/p>\n\n

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