Your president, ladies and gentlemen

Your president, ladies and gentlemen

by digby



On Kanye and history:
'He has good taste,' the president said during his wide-ranging call-in Thursday morning to Fox & Friends. 'You know, I have known Kanye a little bit. And I get along with Kanye.'

Trump explained that he believed West was impressed with his record on black, Latino and even female unemployment, reminding the Fox & Friends co-hosts how he would tell African-American voters at rallies 'What do you have to lose?'

'He sees that stuff and he's smart,' Trump continued. 'And he says, "Trump is doing a much better job than the Democrats did,"' the president added.

The president was then asked if Republicans had done a bad job trying to court black voters.

'You know, I think it was just a custom, people don't realize, if you go back to the Civil War, it was the Republicans who really did the thing,' Trump said. 'Lincoln was a Republican.'

'Somehow it changed over the years and I will say, I really believe it's changing back,
' he added.

Offered without comment. Just a primal scream.