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October 3 - October 26, 2022
Lee, whose recent film Do the Right Thing portrayed the era’s block-by-block racial strife in his native Brooklyn, was in shock. “Well, I certainly don’t agree with that garbage that Donald Trump said, that if he could be reborn or reincarnated, he’d want to come back as an educated Black, because we start off . . .” his voice drifted off. “I didn’t believe he said that, that’s crazy.”
I'd like Trump to be educated at least.
“When Trump got elected, that’s what occurred to me: if Donald Trump had been born Black, he would have been Don King,” Sharpton said. “Because both of them—everything was transactional.”
The media writ large was unprepared to cover a political candidate who lied as freely as Trump did, on matters big and small. Even those of us who had covered Trump for years struggled with how to handle the gush of falsehoods that dotted his sentences.
It was difficult to discern whether Trump believed what he was saying about the election. (Despite insisting he was sincere about fraud concerns, he remained silent about reports that his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had registered to vote from a North Carolina address where he had never lived.)
