Trump went to a school that’s all about Edith Wharton? That is so gay.
No, “you people” in a general context has nothing to do with race, thuggishness or any of the other characteristics you’d like to hang on it. It’s more or less the equivalent of saying “people of your ilk”. You can substitute that phrase and apply it to yourself if you’d like.
Ah, I wasn’t aware of that at all. At least that particular point of ignorance is cured.
Still, he’s a git 
Getting back for a moment to Trump’s “the blacks” comment, it looks like this terminology may be a quirk of his accent or way of speaking in general. Wiki says the following with regard to Trump’s allegedly not wanting to shake hands due to concern over germs:
Still, this terminology isn’t much different from someone saying “the Democrats” or “the reporters” or “the voters”. He just extends that way of speaking to black people as a group as well, probably because he isn’t attuned to political correctness and doesn’t allow other people to dictate how he phrases things.
Because every other group you’ve mentioned is a group with voluntary membership, making it more appropriate to refer to them as a monolithic group. “blacks” is not a group with voluntary membership, meaning it’s somewhere between stunningly impolite and outright racist to assume they share tendencies beyond superficial skin color.
The same would apply to “the old” (which would be somewhere between impolite and outright ageist) or “the whites”, but not to Trump’s use of “the enemies”.
In this particular context, it’s not even necessarily a political correctness issue, unless we’re using that to mean “politeness” now. If it’s a verbal tic, it’s an unfortunate one.
I do know that The Donald’s use of “the Blacks” is definitely perceived as a slight amongst the AA women I work with and did not pass by unnoticed by them.
I’m not offended by “the blacks”. I’m just amused that he would say something so tone deaf and bone-headed. You can practically hear the laugh track playing in the background when you imagine him saying it, a la a Norman Lear sitcom.
If you’re going to claim to have good relationships with a group of people, it would probably be smart to refer to them in a way that doesn’t mark you as a total outsider. Seems like a people-savvy executive would know this.
Trump is incredibly tone deaf in general. When Hawaii finally released Obama’s original birth certificate, he said he felt honored by himself and is proud of himself, and said it like he was receiving an award. The guy doesn’t get that that level of self-masturbation is actually comical.
I don’t for a moment think he actually thinks he accomplished anything, BTW, and more than I believe he’s actually a birther, or that his people found anything.
My Grandfather in Law was a Brigadier General. My uncle in law graduated from the Air Force Academy (IIRC). My father in law went to West Point (which he didn’t want to do), nearly flunked out, went to the Coast Guard Academy, did flunk out.
While there may not be an official legacy system in the military academy, apparently if you are the son of a Brigadier General, its pretty much an auto-in - even if you fight it tooth and nail - as long as Dad wants you in.
Hey, some of my best friends are blacks.
The Donald is a rich guy. He doesn’t have those issues, because everyone around him is, to one extent or another, dependent upon him. Sycophancy breeds a wildly inaccurate estimation of self-worth and regard. He doesn’t know what the people around him think, he doesn’t know if he’s offended anyone. He might care, maybe, but these circumstances develop assholitude like bonsai gardening develops smallness.
Some men start out assholes and achieve wealth, through the virtues of rapacity, cunning, and greed. In that instance, wealth merely accentuates the natural tendencies already extant. Others might start out more or less normal, but the effects noted above gradually, over time, produce an asshole. These people might, in a generous and forgiving light, be thought of as victims.
Fuck 'em anyway, but still…
You got that wrong. It’s “some of my best friends are the blacks.”
And is it just me but whenever he goes on like this, he sound remarkably like a toddler who is proud of the poopy he put in the potty? I don’t know what it is, but his speech patterns don’t even sound dumb as much as they sound preschoolish.
If you saw him in person, you’d probably want to laugh at him or pet him on the head. Except then you’d have to touch that growth.
The citizenship of which he has failed to establish.
Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.
Subtle UPennState trolling detected.
There is nothing growing on that head, or in it.
But I could be wrong. Maybe that thing is some kind of fungus. Or possibly like Alien, except it ate its way out of his head instead of his chest. Now it keeps him going as an animated meat puppet as part of a scheme to eventually take over the world!
“… and black people get into college like this.”
An editorial in the NYT points out that his pride over the birth certificate issues is “in contrast to normal days, when Trump is continually walking around in an existential funk, asking himself why he was ever born.”
Oh no. That’s not correct at all. I only like a couple of them.