Donald Trump has once again made the death of an American public figure about himself. In response to the news that Reverend Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday, the president hopped onto Truth Social to remind everyone that he can’t be racist, because he was very nice to the famed Black activist.
“I knew him well, long before becoming President. He was a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and ‘street smarts,’” Trump wrote. “Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a Racist by the Scoundrels and Lunatics on the Radical Left, Democrats ALL, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way.”
Trump went on to highlight that he had provided office space for Jackson’s civil rights nonprofit Rainbow/PUSH at Trump Tower in New York City, and “responded to his request for help in getting CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM passed and signed, when no other President would even try.”
The president went on to accuse former President Barack Obama, the only Black president in American history, of showing insufficient gratitude towards Jackson. “He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgement or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand.”
“He loved his family greatly, and to them I send my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse will be missed,” Trump tacked on at the end of the lengthy post.
It’s not the first time Trump has made the death of a prominent figure about himself. In December, for example, Trump mocked director Rob Reiner as having been killed over his “Trump Derangement Syndrome” shortly after Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home.
“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Jackson bashed Trump on several occasions since Trump first became president a decade ago. He described Trump in 2018 as a “man of inherited wealth and privilege who seems to have no understanding of our situation.”
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