Trump’s slam on judge’s heritage began months ago, when he called him ‘Spanish’
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Tuesday that his comments questioning whether a federal judge was biased because of his Mexican heritage have been “misconstrued” and that he didn’t mean to impugn the American justice system with his complaints or Mexican-Americans in general. But it seemed unlikely that Trump’s newest statement would blunt what has been a…
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Budda June 8th, 2016 at 09:06
Poor Donnie. He doesn’t know that much of the southern U.S. was Spanish first. Florida,Texas, California even Colorado and Kansas. So being “Spanish” could really mean being 12th generation American.
Mensa Member June 10th, 2016 at 10:27
Trump seems really old.
(And I’m no spring chicken, myself.)
My grandfather’s generation spoke about race like Trump does. And they are all long-dead. His generation was best parodied by the Archie Bunker character.
I remember his calling Mexicans or even Mexican-Americans “Spanish.”
I think it was his attempt to not use the term “Spic” since we often scolded him when he used derogatory names.
Mensa Member June 10th, 2016 at 10:31
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Trump seems really old.
(And I’m no spring chicken, myself.)
My grandfather’s generation spoke about race like Trump does. And they are all long-dead. His generation was best parodied by the Archie Bunker character.
I remember his calling Mexicans or even Mexican-Americans “Spanish.”
I think it was his attempt to not use the Spi-word for Mexicans since we often scolded him about his racism.