Trayon White, the Washington, D.C., lawmaker who believes the Jews control the weather, isn’t an anti-Semite. He’s just very, very stupid, or so says the Washington Post’s editorial board.
The paper doesn’t quite come out with a robust defense of the D.C. councilman. It does, however, soft-pedal the story, all while discussing White as if he’s an idiot-child who’s still learning and growing, and not a grown man with no excuses.
Let’s review the steps leading up to this moment. On March 16, as D.C. was hit by a snow flurry, the councilman posted a video to Facebook wherein he said the following: “Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation.”
He added, “And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”
The video was not made in jest. And as obvious questions about whether this man should hold higher office mounted, it was reported White had raided his constituent services budget to fund a Nation of Islam convention featuring notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.
Later, in an attempt to stave off well-deserved criticism for his Jewish weather conspiracy, White and his staff took a tour of the Holocaust Museum in the nation’s capital. It did not go well. He didn’t even complete the entire tour.
After that fiasco, White posted another video to Facebook vowing to fight his critics. He said, “We going to have problems, we going to have major problems, because people are going to start coming down to the Wilson Building standing up.”
He added, in reference to D.C.’s notoriously corrupt mayor, “They spent $40 million trying to take down [convicted felon] Marion Barry. This is nothing. I am built for this.”
This brings us to the Post’s editorial and its absurdly gentle scolding of White. The paper characterizes his tour of the Holocaust Museum as “clumsy” and “awkward,” which is a remarkably generous way to describe his halfhearted visit. The Post also tut-tuts his early bailing out of the tour, and his dubious reason for doing so, as “immature behavior.”
“That Mr. White initiated the visit is to his credit, and a pass should be given to questions asked in earnest good faith but out of ignorance,” the editorial board agreed.
Well, golly gee. Shucks, he’s just a naughty boy, you know?
This isn’t the worst of it. The most absurd line is when the board writes, “Many people were inclined to believe that D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. … spoke from ignorance, not malice, when he talked about Jewish financiers controlling the weather.”
White’s no anti-Semite, the Post argues, he’s just astonishingly ignorant.
Yet this does him no favors. Either way, he’s unfit for office. That the Post’s editorial board appears unwilling to say this in the face of all the evidence is bizarre.
