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Donald Trump is facing accusations of racism for using his presidential rival Nikki Haley's birth name.
On Friday, the former president used his social media platform to address the legal name of his former ambassador to the United Nations, which the Associated Press described as “the latest example of a former president railing against race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals.” “.
If you were hoping the media would learn any lessons from the past several years, you are sure to be disappointed.
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“Nemrada”
Although Trump misspelled it as “Nimrada,” Haley's birth name is Nimrata Nikki Haley. The media resorted to this same game plan when Barack Obama was running for president, claiming that the use of his real middle name, Hussein, was “racist.” He also misspelled her name as “Nimbra”.
It didn't take long for the AP to point out that Trump is the son of immigrants, which the media believes is a strong point in their favor.
The Associated Press wrote:
Trump, himself the son, grandson and two-time husband of immigrants, called Haley “Nymbra” three times in the post and said she “doesn't have what it takes.”
The attack comes four days before the New Hampshire primary, in which Haley is trying to establish herself as the only viable alternative to Trump in the 2024 Republican Party nomination contest.
Trump's post was an escalation of recent attacks in which he referenced Haley's first name — though he misspelled it as “Nemrada” — and falsely asserted that she was ineligible for the presidency because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born in 1972.
The final reference is Trump's position that citizenship should not be merely a “birthright” — that is, one should not automatically become a citizen simply because one's parents were born on American soil.
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Is Trump really a racist?
Does Trump really use racist dog whistles? Or do many people automatically assume that's what he does?
According to the Associated Press, the attacks mirror Trump's rhetoric against President Barack Obama. Trump has spent years promoting the conspiracy theory that the country's first black president was born in Kenya and is not a “natural born” American citizen as required by the Constitution.
The report noted that “Haley rejected Trump's recent attacks as evidence that they threaten his attempt to obtain a third nomination in a row.”
Haley's best chance to be competitive may be in New Hampshire and then her home state of South Carolina, where she still lags in the polls.
With Trump leading by a large margin in the polls, does he really need to resort to racist tactics?
Again, is this really what's going on here?
Obviously the mainstream press will assume that's what he's doing regardless.
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