# Did trump say this? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 15, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798 "2016-12-15T18:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/1 "2016-12-15T18:46:41Z")
So much weird, contradictory stuff has come out of that guy that I can’t keep track. Did he say something about, if he was coming up in the business world now, he would like to be black, because of the opportunities that that would provide? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/2 "2016-12-15T18:50:48Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > So much weird, contradictory stuff has come out of that guy that I can’t keep track. Did he say something about, if he was coming up in the business world now, he would like to be black, because of the opportunities that that would provide? From here: [http://wonkette.com/603200/watch-donald-trump-wishing-he-was-a-black-because-they-have-it-so-much-easier](http://wonkette.com/603200/watch-donald-trump-wishing-he-was-a-black-because-they-have-it-so-much-easier) [Quote=Flyover Jesus] “A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. And, I think, sometimes a black may think that they don’t really have the advantage or this or that but in actuality today, currently, it’s, uh, it’s a, it’s a great. I’ve said on occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today I would love to be a well-educated black because I really believe they do have an actual advantage today.” [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/3 "2016-12-15T18:53:28Z")
Think of all that cotton just waiting to be picked. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/4 "2016-12-15T19:06:08Z")
> [@](#): > > "I’ve said on occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today I would love to be a well-educated black because I really believe they do have an actual advantage today.” Granted, he wouldn’t be able to get a good job in one of his own companies. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/5 "2016-12-15T19:12:23Z")
I think we can all agree that we’d all be better off if Trump was a ‘well educated black’ as opposed to an ignorant orange. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/6 "2016-12-15T19:44:05Z")
He has no filters at all. I have got to stop reading these threads. I’ll have a stroke before he does. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/7 "2016-12-15T20:29:08Z")
Trump: [Wages are too high](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7E90tAfW4w) in America. And yet he is supposedly the champion of the white working class. It’s mind-boggling. Imagine if HRC said that wages were too high. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/8 "2016-12-15T20:30:40Z")
“Flyover Jesus” is a good name for him. It is said that Jesus had the same wisdom as a little child that he did as a grown man, and the same is true of Donald. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/9 "2016-12-15T20:37:35Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Trump: [Wages are too high](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7E90tAfW4w) in America. And yet he is supposedly the champion of the white working class. It’s mind-boggling. > > Imagine if HRC said that wages were too high. [Trump violates federal labor law, refuses to negotiate with his Vegas workers’ union](https://thinkprogress.org/trump-violates-federal-labor-law-refuses-to-negotiate-with-his-vegas-workers-union-44de410198e2) > [@](#): > > As Donald Trump makes his final pitch to U.S. voters — calling himself “financially brave” and promising “law and order, balanced with justice and fairness” — he faces new charges that he violated the federal labor rights of his own employees. > > The National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday night that Trump has been illegally refusing to bargain with the 500-odd employees at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. They officially unionized earlier this year. He gets to appoint the National Labor Relations Board. Guess that ruling will go bye-bye. And his pick for Labor Secretary hates employees in general. Wishes they were robots instead. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-say-this/774798/10 "2016-12-15T23:06:02Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Granted, he wouldn’t be able to get a good job in one of his own companies. Or be allowed to rent an apartment from himself.