The AP has put together a running series of comments from the White House on Tuesday morning where Sarah Huckabee Sanders upholds Donald Trump as America’s unrepentant ‘hole.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says President Donald Trump is “not going to apologize for trying to fix our immigration system,” as the fall-out continues from Trump’s reported use of a vulgarity to describe some African countries.
Sanders tells reporters that Trump “hasn’t said he didn’t use strong language” in the meeting with bipartisan in the heated immigration debate last week. He was said to have used “shithole” to describe some nations in Africa.
Admitting that he actually did say “shithole” is the logical next step for Trump. It would bring the White House around to the full Fox News position—the one that says African nations, Haiti, El Salvador, and roughly half the planet, really are made up of fetid swamps, crumbling huts, and people infected with AIDS. At which point Republicans who have remained silent to this point can embrace the “tough” language of Trump, Senators Cotton and Perdue can deny they ever denied Trump’s words, and the Fascism Watch can tick another minute toward putting a nice eagle at the end of the national mall.
But while we wait for that magic moment, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has the Best Argument Ever to convince you that none of this is racist.
Responding to Democrats’ assertions that Trump’s comments were “racist,” Sanders calls the claim “outrageous,” citing their previous embrace of Trump. She said: “Why did NBC give him a show for a decade on TV. Why did Chuck Schumer and all of his colleagues come and beg Donald Trump for money?”
Seriously. That’s Huckabee’s argument. Trump can’t be racist because: Someone gave him a TV show and he was rich.
And if there’s anything the last few months have proven, it’s that rich people in the media can’t possibly do anything wrong. Right, Harvey? Isn’t that so, Charlie? Hey, why don’t we get Matt to tell us what excellent decisions NBC makes about who gets a show?