President Trump declared himself to be the “least racist person” in the world while speaking to reporters outside the White House Tuesday morning.
The president has been fending off accusations of racism, most recently for attacking Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings over the weekend. Trump called him a “brutal bully” and “racist” while describing his majority-black district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” The president has repeatedly defended these claims and proceeded to attack Al Sharpton as well.
“I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world,” Trump stated. “When con-men, who I’ve known almost all my business life, because I had to deal with them unfortunately in New York, but I got along with them. Al Sharpton, now he’s a racist. He’s a racist. But when people — let me explain to you. What I’ve done for African-Americans in two and a half years, no president has been able to do anything like it. Unemployment at the lowest level in the history of our country for African Americans.”
Trump’s original criticism of Cummings came after a weekend segment on Fox News, which showed trash spewed across his district. The president’s attacks also came after Cummings, the House Oversight Committee chairman, gained authority to subpoena top White House aides for their personal communications.
The president recently faced similar allegations of being racist for telling four prominent progressive congresswomen who are not white to go back to their home country and called them “racist.”
