Let’s Hope There Is No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word

[Billy Jingo]

Let’s Hope There Is No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word

But if there is …


I hope there isn’t a tape of Donald Trump using the N-word in a manner that’s clearly meant to be offensive, bigoted, and derogatory.

We’ve now reached the stage where the existence of such a tape is not proven, but is more than theoretically possible. We have a recording of Trump campaign aides talking about the potential of such a tape in a manner that suggests they find it within the realm of possibility. And we now have Penn Jillette saying that he was in the room when Trump said—frequently—“racially insensitive things.” (Jillette won’t say exactly what he heard Trump say.)

Lastly, we have the bizarre spectacle of President Trump insisting that his former business partner, TV producer Mark Burnett, called him to say that no such tapes exist—while Burnett himself remains publicly silent.

The Trump presidency is oddly dependent on tapes. Trump’s entire existence is so strange and outside the norms of decent behavior that many of his foibles simply cannot be believed, absent hard evidence. Who would believe that Donald Trump would call reporters pretending to be a publicist in order to brag about himself? If you didn’t have the tapes, no one would. Who would believe that Trump would admit—almost to a total stranger, while wearing a microphone—to grabbing women by their genitals and forcing them to do whatever he wanted? Without the tapes, no one would. People have speculated for almost two years about a Russian pee tape that almost certainly doesn’t exist. And everyone will continue to view it as a fantasy. Unless it surfaces. At which point we will all shake our heads and say, “Actually, we should have known ...”

The other factor in why you need documentary materials is that the president, his advisers, and his supporters in the media use gaslighting as their primary means of defense. They make frictionless transitions from “no one ever met with Russians,” to “the meeting with Russians was about adoption,” to “of course they met with Russians about getting oppo on the Clintons and why do you have have a problem with that?”

Without tapes, or emails, or hard evidence, Trump World simply denies everything as a matter of course.

[Lady Marva]

Omarosa is selling her book...…...

[scott]

Without tapes, or emails, or hard evidence, Trump World simply denies everything as a matter of course.

Actually that's true for all administrations going back at least as far as Clinton.

[Gingersnap]

Actually that's true for all administrations going back at least as far as Clinton.

Way beyond that really.

[Tom Servo]

Even if he did use that word in a private conversation… why should that have any bearing on his ability to lead the nation?

[scott]

Even if he did use that word in a private conversation… why should that have any bearing on his ability to lead the nation?

Because the current crop thinks that perception is reality. "This has legs...Bush is toast!" They just think they need to spin things correctly.

[Novaheart]

Even if he did use that word in a private conversation… why should that have any bearing on his ability to lead the nation?

Because the objective is not equality. The goal is to keep everyone off balance.

[Lady Marva]

Even if he did use that word in a private conversation… why should that have any bearing on his ability to lead the nation?

Because the world is a different place from the time of Lyndon Johnson.