Tavis Smiley: Trump And Tea Party Make Presidential Race The Ugliest, ‘Most Racist In History’
PBS Host Tavis Smiley appeared with Lawrence O’Donnell last night and the two took turns expressing outrage over Donald Trump‘s continued willingness to say anything to attack President Obama. O’Donnell repeatedly referred to Trump as a liar, while Smiley warned that Trump’s “race to the bottom” in rhetoric was a sad sign of what he expects to come in the election season.
O’Donnell concluded although a minority of Republicans enjoy Trump, like Rush Limbaugh and a caller to his show, “the hopelessness and absurdity of a run for President by NBC’s biggest embarrassment in the history of NBC could not be more obvious.” Smiley warned however this was much bigger than just Trump:
“I said over a year ago that this was going to be, this presidential race, Lawrence, was going to be the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this republic. . . . I saw it coming because it’s pretty clear given how the Tea Party has acted, given that Donald Trump is now playing to the worst in the Tea Party, that this would be possible.”
Smiley predicted they will “say anything in order to make sure [Obama] does not get reelected.” O’Donnell kept his prediction to focusing on Trump’s future though, declaring Trump will keep this up until NBC announces a new season of The Apprentice. And the fact that NBC continues to employ Trump is something O’Donnell found “outrageous.”
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