Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer went on CNN Monday to explain that Donald Trump is really a civil rights pioneer:
I think it's really important to look at the totality of Donald Trump. In 1985 when he went and bought Mar-a-Lago and all the liberals down in Palm Beach County didn't let people join clubs and institutions because of color of their skin or the religion that they belonged to, it was Donald Trump that went out and bucked the establishment and fought to make sure that people no matter the color of their skin or their religion could join his clubs.
Wow, in 1985 Donald Trump was so forward-thinking as to say that the blacks (and the Jews) could pay giant piles of cash to join his clubs, and it was totally the most liberal elements of Palm Beach County that he had to fight like a tiger to make that happen.
Believe it or not, this is an ongoing talking point about Trump’s record on race. Donald Trump integrated his ridiculously expensive golf club. In 1985. Which means it’s not at all a problem that white supremacists are more excited about him than they have been about any other recent presidential candidate, and that Trump’s big black voter outreach effort was to say “what do you have to lose?”—even as his much more extensive white voter outreach showed exactly what black voters have to lose.
Watch the video (and marvel at Trump's civil rights trailblazing) below.