According to a New York Times article published at the end of 2017,  during a June meeting over the amount of visas given to certain countries, an angry Trump claimed that 15,000 Haitians who had recently entered the U.S. “all have AIDS” and that the 40,000 Nigerian visitors would never “go back to their huts” in Africa.

The White House strongly denied that Trump used the words “AIDS” and “huts”.

However just this week The Times reported:

President Trump on Thursday balked at an immigration deal that would include protections for people from Haiti and some nations in Africa, demanding to know at a White House meeting why he should accept immigrants from “shithole countries” rather than from places like Norway, according to people with direct knowledge of the conversation…When Mr. Trump heard that Haitians were among those who would benefit from the proposed deal, he asked whether they could be left out of the plan, asking, “Why do we want people from Haiti here?”

Shithole-gate has been condemned Worldwide, though Lion of the Blogosphere defended Trump’s alleged view of Haiti.

One reason Tump’s alleged comments were so disturbing was not just the racism, but the utter vulgarity.  Last year I scolded an underling for merely saying he had a “shitty” day, because that word, and all the imagery it evokes, is so crude and disgusting that I just can’t take it.  The other word I most hate is “asshole”, and for the leader of the World to combine the two most vulgar words in the English language into one (“shithole”), words that literally describe such a disgusting brown substance, and use it to describe folks from brownish black countries was like a punch to the gut to all peoples of colour.

Trump is either a fool or it’s worth it to him to spend this much of his own, and America’s, political capital to make the West white again.  At the very least he’s smart enough to know what so many liberal don’t: That by constantly baiting the left into calling him racist, the word loses all its power and whites will just get sick of all the “whining” from minorities.  They would be would be wise to not fall into his trap.

On the other hand, this comment threatens to destroy the dignity and prestige of the American presidency, so of course the Left can exploit this to show Trump’s “incompetence”.

Post updated Jan 13, 2018:

Lion of the Blogosphere writes:

Trump is not smart enough for this to be part of a 4D chess-master strategy so “conscious” is also the wrong word, he’s just talking like the construction workers he hung out with in the 1950s or early 1960s when he went to work with his father, because that’s who he is.But the point here is that the Overton window is being moved. Trump is the greatest president of my lifetime despite being a Mr. Magoo who can’t manage the White House.

People have some psychological need to think it’s one extreme or another.  I don’t think he needs to be a super genius  to know what he’s doing here, just an IQ of at least 120 combined with a good understanding of the white working class.  “Racists” probably average IQs 10 points below the white mean, so a “racist” president probably has an IQ around 10 points below the president mean of 130.  IQ 120 also seems consistent with Trump’s publicly observed cognitive performance.

But I’m glad Lion associated the word “conscious” with smart.  Commenter Race Realist argues that bacteria are intelligent because they display adaptive behavior which reminded me that adaptive behavior is not enough to be smart as we know it.  It must be goal directed adaptive behavior.

Great lecture by geneticist Steve Jones arguing evolution as we know it has essentially stopped in modern humans because of massive declines in natural selection, sexual selection, and genetic drift.

Declining natural selection

Today any fool can survive to reproductive age so natural selection is essentially over.

Declining sexual selection

In the past some surviving men would father orders of magnitude more babies than others, but today the range is much more restricted.

Declining genetic drift

Our population has become so big that it’s hard for any population to become genetically isolated enough to mutate a new morphology.

Although Oprah became America’s first multibillionaire black by having an uncanny ability to understand the psyche of white suburbia, there’s nothing better than being loved by your OWN people.   According to a brand new NPR poll, an impressive 64% of Americans like Oprah, and an astonishing 83% of black Americans do.

Oprah is so beloved by blacks not just because she’s an icon, but also the critical role she played electing Obama, the role she played reconstructing black neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina and the fact that she’s helped over 64,000 kids get an education, including 415 Morehouse men.  Historically black colleges are the most important institution black America has, and they hold a special place in black America’s heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN5HV79_8B8&t=4s

After a spellbinding speech at the Golden Globes, Oprah is all but being drafted to run against Trump in 2020, but could she win?  A recent poll by Rasmussen Reports found 48% of likely U.S. Voters would vote for Oprah while 38% would choose Trump, with 14% undecided.  Indeed back in 1999, Trump wanted to run on the same ticket as Oprah who he described as “brilliant”, “wonderful”, “very special” and “very exceptional”:

The bigger challenge for Oprah would be getting through a Democratic primary.  Some might think that if fellow billionaire TV star Donald Trump could plough through seventeen candidates in the Republican primary, Oprah should have little trouble dominating the Democratic field,  however Trump used his wealth and fame to oppose lobbyists and promise average Republicans exactly what they wanted like a crackdown on immigration.  Would Oprah want to oppose lobbyists and promise average Democrats exactly what they want?  Bernie Sanders, who I famously endorsed in 2016, is already doing that, so unless she wants to compete for his far-left turf, I’m not sure what niche she would exploit in the primaries.

Nonetheless, the sheer POWER of Oprah’s speech was such that the most impressive people in society are begging her to run.  Meryl Streep gushed:

She launched a rocket tonight. I want her to run for president. I don’t think she had any intention [of declaring]. But now she doesn’t have a choice.

And while many question whether a former daytime talk show host is qualified to run the most powerful country ever, Streep seems to feel that not only is the brilliant billionaire qualified, she’s MORE than qualified.

The sheer POWER of Oprah’s speech is such that she’s inspired the best actor of all time, along with her wildly popular sidekick Tom Hanks, to go on a media tour drafting Oprah for the White House:

So broad is Oprah’s appeal that she connects with everyone from ignorant couch potatoes to the very personification of high class: Meryl Streep.

According to wordpress statistics, when I founded this blog in 2014, about 9,773 unique visitors stopped by sometime during the year.  At the time I wasn’t famous, so the fact that nearly 10,000 people a year were already reading my blog was a huge thrill!

Then in 2015 the unthinkable happened. A mind blogging 140,844 people read my blog!  Well, I’ve peaked I thought.  It’s all downhill from here.

Then in 2016 a STRATOSPHERIC 334,202 people read my blog.

And in 2017, I’ve come dangerously close to the half million mark, with 406,170 readers.

I’d like to thank each and every one of you!

And a special thanks to all my great guest bloggers and prolific commenters, without whom this blog would be a much less interesting place!

Happy belated New Year!