Trump claims he's "the least racist in the world" despite repeated racist attacks

Donald Trump baderted that he was "the least racist person in the world", despite his recent racist comments targeting politicians of color and civil rights advocates.

Mr. Trump made this request Tuesday morning in front of the White House, before boarding Marine One.

The comment comes as the president faces the Democrats' criticism of the racist attacks of recent weeks, which began with attacks on four liberal politicians of color in the House of Representatives, known as the "london". ;squad".

Since these initial attacks – prompting representatives Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib to "go back" to where they were coming from – Mr. Trump criticized the head of civil rights and MP Elijah Cummings about the state of his district, which includes the city of Baltimore. Trump said Mr. Cummings' district in Baltimore – which is mostly black – is "rat infested".

More recently, Mr. Trump attacked Reverend Al Sharpton after the civil rights icon published a photo of him traveling to Baltimore. The president has called him "scammer, troublemaker, always looking for a score. .. hate whites and cops! "

Trump's comments were received on Tuesday as the president headed south to Jamestown, Virginia, where he delivered a speech on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first representative legislative badembly, also known as the House name Burgess. This legislative body was the first badembly of English settlers in the New World.

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Mr. Trump's speech in Jamestown was interrupted at one point by protesters who shouted "You can not fire us, Virginia is our home", in reference to the president's racist remarks. These songs were in turn drowned by supporters of the president chanting his name.

In his speech, Mr. Trump spoke about state rights and spoke about the "horrors of slavery".

"We remember every sacred soul that has suffered the horrors of slavery and the anguish of servitude," Mr. Trump said.

The president's previous attacks on "the group", Mr. Cummings, and Mr. Sharpton nonetheless served as a rallying point for his critics, who noted that Mr. Trump had not so much attacked white politicians for their urban plague and their poverty, among other problems.

And, despite Mr. Trump's contrary badertions, it seems like a majority of Americans believe that he is racist.

That's what reveals a new Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday, which found that 51% of Americans considered him racist, compared with 45% who did not believe him. This poll revealed that both parties are quite divided on the issue. 86% of Democrats are convinced that he is racist, compared to 8% of Republicans. Meanwhile, 91% of Republicans said that he was not racist and only 9% of Democrats said the same thing. Men were more likely to say that Mr. Trump was not racist, while a majority of women claimed that he was racist.

During his address to reporters before boarding Marine One, Mr. Trump stated that black state legislators in Virginia who were considering boycotting his appearance on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of their marriage, stated that they were "taking it" from their people ". He also claimed that African Americans "liked the work" that he did and were "happy like hell" with his recent attacks on Baltimore and Mr. Cummings. At the same time, this Quinnipiac survey found that 80% of black Americans think Mr. Trump is racist.