In case you're wondering why people think Donald Trump is a bigot...

...you should know that he's mooted the suggestion that Jews are committing antisemitic hate crimes in order to make him look bad.

That suggestion is so steeped in disturbing garbage that it boggles the mind. First, why on earth would he think that? Secondly, why should antisemitic hate crimes specifically make Donald Trump look bad? Could it be because of all of the haters and anti-Semites who have flocked so eagerly to his banner?

Of course, David Duke- the Klansman Trump discussed and then denied he'd ever heard of during the campaign- recently said something similar.  I wonder if Mr. Trump has never heard of him again.

But the most charitable possible reading of the President's bizarre, hateful statement is in some ways the most disturbing of all. Even if his slander of the Jewish people were true- which of course it is not- why does everything have to be about him?

The fact that the President of the United States is barely on speaking terms with reality is worrisome. The fact that our nation's haters and bigots are so solidly in his corner is also worrisome. The fact that he alternately refuses to repudiate them then repudiates them when the heat becomes too much to bear, and then refuses to repudiate them again is more worrisome still.  But perhaps the most worrisome thing of all is that even if none of that was the case, the only motivation President Trump can think of for people about whom he expresses a blatantly bigoted thought to act in such a fashion is to embarrass him.

Of course, on the positive side, the notorious antisemite he appointed as chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, is gone now...

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