Trump says ‘the race card’ is ‘the only thing they have’ now
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Trump – President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s ‘not unhappy’ with the result of a political war over his recent comments that Democrats were quick to brand as racist, but he’s not ‘relishing’ the dispute with four women of color, either.
In a brief phone call a few hours before he’d speak to a rally crowd in North Carolina, Trump told DailyMail.com that his game of mental jiu-jitsu with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was ‘one of the all-time classics’ and accused Democrats of playing the ‘race card’ against him.
‘Look, they played the race card on Nancy Pelosi.’ he said. ‘She then – it’s one of the all-time classics, they played it on Nancy Pelosi! And I came to her defense.’
He added: ‘She then, a week later, played it on me! It was rather amazing.’
Asked if he planned that sequence of events and the one that followed yesterday, which ended with the passage of a resolution condemning him, he paused.
‘Well, let’s put it this way,’ Trump he’d said. ‘I’m not unhappy.’
The president also slapped at a quartet of newly elected lawmakers on the Democratic Party’s left fringe.
As he left the White House, the president denied that he was taking pleasure in the fight that united Democrats against him, however. The party passed a resolution in the House rebuking ‘racist’ comments he made with the support of four Republicans.
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‘I’m not relishing the fight. I’m enjoying it because I have to get the word out to the American people. And you have to enjoy what you do. I enjoy what I do. It’s not a question of relishing. They’re wrong, they’re absolutely wrong,’ he said. ‘That’s not where our country wants to be. We’re not going to go, and we’re not going to be a socialist country.’
He insisted he was ‘winning’ and that Democrats are ‘making a big mistake’ embracing the far-left legislators.
‘I do think I’m winning the political fight. I think I’m winning it by a lot,’ he said. ‘I think that they are not espousing the views of our country, the four congresswomen.’
The president accused them of making ‘unthinkable’ remarks that he’d never get away with.
‘They’re going so far left, they’re going to fall off a cliff,’ he said of the Democratic Party. ‘But who knows, that’s up to them.’
Without naming the congresswomen collectively known as ‘the squad,’ he scoffed at the idea that they have the moral high ground in the battle that has gripped the nation’s attention since he tweeted Sunday that they should ‘go back where they came from.’
The president has come under intense fire as he has crossed swords with the four – Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib – because three of them were born in the United States.
He glided past that facet of the controversy on Wednesday, questioning whether their hands were clean.
