Nigel Farage: Trump racist attack 'genius'

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Nigel Farage has enthusiastically praised Donald Trump’s “go back” comments, directed at four congresswomen of colour.

The US president’s remarks were widely condemned as racist after he told Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, to return to the “broken and crime infested places from which they came”.

All of the Democrats, known as the Squad, are American citizens. Three of the four were born in the country.

Ms Omar, the fourth, arrived in the US as a child refugee.

The president described the women as people”who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world”.

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came?” he asked.

Despite the significant controversy generated by the remarks, Mr Farage said the comments were shrewd.

“I thought, ‘Dear, oh dear, oh dear’. You realise, 48 hours on, it was genius because what’s happened is the Democrats gather round the Squad, which allows him to say, ‘Oh look, the Squad are the centre of the Democratic Party’,” he said.

“He’s remarkably good at what he does,” Mr Farage added, in an interview with The Times.

“He does things his way. But he is a remarkably effective operator.”

Former Ukip leader Mr Farage has also found himself mired in race-related controversy at times in the past.

In May 2014, he was accused of a making a “racial slur” against Romanians after he suggested he would be concerned living next to a house of them.

Later that year, he used an interview with radio station LBC to defend a Ukip candidate who had used the word “ch**ky” to describe a Chinese person.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nigel-farage-says-trump-racist-222347874.html

 

[gabeoz 7,915]

Trash praises trash, how fitting 

[weed 78,890]

I thought it was him: and I was disappointed in him

[Didymus 34,380]

Strategy or not, it was a despicable thing to say and under no circumstances should people shrug their shoulders and be like "oh this is just Trump strategizing". Yeah, through racism

Ugh. Politics are deterioriating so fast. Not even behind the scenes but before our ****ing eyes.

[Hola Soraya 4,367]

The Brexshit Demon should take several seats. 

 

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So the fact the Dems have actual morals and protect the squad from racism means that Trump is genius? I mean I understand what he's trying to say. But Trump trying to make the squad the focal point of the Dem party by throwing racism at them is just stupid..

[AmericanxDream 2,049]

I mean, he's kinda right in the sense that Trump knows how to evoke a reaction out of the Left. Literally everything that he says is scrutinized to the extreme and at this point he obviously knows exactly what to say to get people to talk. He's the biggest troll and attention seeker that I've ever seen. 

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****ing disgusting. 

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

On top of being gross, he's also giving this man too much credit

Trump is not an evil genius, he's truly just a greedy, single minded racist fool who has a team of similarly single-minded people hell bent on seeing their interests realized no matter the cost. It's a symbiotic relationship for them to support him unilaterally because it gives them an excuse to utilize his base's hatred, bigotry, and ignorance to push through regressive, corporatist policy without having to worry about the perception of morality/ethics from the public.

[Xoxo Adriana 15,040]

he should ask himself, is that professionalism though? Something Trump lacks is professionalism, and instead acts like a 6 year old spoilt brat who cannot see unfortunate people and can only see $$$

as Gaga once said, "some people like to win races, others want to be president of the United States". Still relevant for as long as he is head of office and country.