After White House deletes racist video, Sullivan praises White House
Sen. Dan Sullivan found a way to praise President Donald Trump following the deletion of the racist video Friday.
“The post was offensive. I'm glad the White House took it down,” Sullivan posted on his government X/Twitter account Friday, hours after other Republicans—not Sullivan— had demanded that Trump take down his racist attack on former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
As part of a late-night ramage of lies Thursday and early Friday, Trump posted a video that included an image showing the Obamas as apes.
Sullivan’s praise for Trump is misplaced. He didn’t say a thing about what incidents like this reveal about what kind of a man Trump is.
Sullivan and his defenders will claim that Sullivan’s statement proves his “Choose Respect” campaign is not all vacuous posturing.
But waiting to thank the White House until after the Trump administration realized that Trump’s racist smear was a public relations disaster is hardly courageous. That’s when Sullivan and many other Republicans chimed in.
What’s really offensive is the racist behavior of Trump. And his refusal to apologize for his racist behavior.
Trump demands obedience from Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third, who will never criticize Trump. Saying a video is offensive after it has been removed by the offending party, as Sullivan did, is the easiest thing in the world.
Sullivan refuses to criticize Trump, who tried to blame unnamed underlings for his racist post and told reporters he had nothing to apologize for: “No, I didn’t make a mistake,” said Trump. He said he didn’t know it was in the video.
There was nothing on social media from Sen. Lisa Murkowski or Begich the Third calling out Trump’s latest racist display.
Murkowski has long since taken the full measure of Trump’s despicable character and we know what she thinks. But like Sullivan, Begich is a total Trump toadie.
All of this misses the real point, however. We have a racist in the White House and he controls the Republican Party, including the Alaska Republican Party.
Unlike Sullivan, Murkowski and Begich, Mary Peltola does not have government-funded social media accounts. She has private accounts, however, and she should be making her voice heard on these matters right away, though perhaps campaign experts are telling her to be quiet. If so, she needs to stop listening to them.
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Trump posted a video that contained this image on his social media website, but claimed it was not his fault and he did nothing wrong and he has nothing to apologize for. He claims that someone looked at it after he did and that person should have prevented Trump from posting. After the White House deleted the video, which was after it had turned into a public relations disaster for Trump, Dan Sullivan said he was glad the White House removed it.