Day 632: Trump calls on blacks to “honor” him with votes, then praises Robert E. Lee

Donald Trump was in Lebanon, Ohio, Friday and stated that black Americans should support Republicans and “honor [them]” with votes.

“…Trump had hailed African American unemployment numbers and asked black voters to “honor us” by voting Republican in November. “Get away from the Democrats,” he told them. “Think of it: We have the best numbers in history. . . . I think we’re going to get the African American vote, and it’s true.”

Ironically — and disgustingly — Trump had just finished praising Robert E. Lee — despite being in a state north of the Mason-Dixon line — the most famous Confederate general who led the fight for the South to secede from the U.S. in large part so they could continue to enslave black men, women and children.

The comments came during an anecdote about Ohio-born President Ulysses S. Grant’s alleged drinking problems. “So Robert E. Lee was a great general. And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia. He couldn’t beat Robert E. Lee,” Trump said. “Robert E. Lee was winning battle after battle after battle.”

Trump missed the cruelness of begging the ancestors of those that the Confederacy tried to enslave for generations more in one breath and praising a traitor who was one of the biggest cogs in that wheel in the next.

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