I can honestly say I wish I were making this up. I kind of wish that all of 2016 and 2017 were made up but sadly this is our reality. If you are wondering what tonight’s late night show topic is going to be it’s the sound byte that Donald Trump just gave on slavery. As you know February is Black History Month so today Donald Trump paid a visit to D.C.’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Clearly he wasn’t prepared for what he was about to see. Trump made the trek on Wednesday with a group that included Alveda King, niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But here’s the quote that people are not going to stop talking about:
Alveda King noticed two moments on Tuesday when President Donald Trump seemed visibly moved during his tour … the first came when his gaze fell on a stone auction block from Hagerstown, Md., on which slaves would stand before being sold. King, part of a small delegation to tour the new Smithsonian with the president, overheard Trump say: “Boy, that is just not good. That is not good.”
Later, they came upon a set of shackles that were used to restrain children. “That is really bad,” King quoted the president as saying. “That is really bad.”
I have a couple questions. Has Donald Trump ever read a book or watched a television show? If you’ve done either there’s a good chance you would have learned about slavery. That’s his quote? Seriously? While Trump never has a way with words, could this signal he actually learned something today? I just can’t fathom that being the truth.
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