Trump seizes the opportunity to take credit for himself: "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. I provided office space for him and his Rainbow Coalition, for years, in the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street; Responded to his request for help in getting CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM passed and signed, when no other President would even try; Single handedly pushed and passed long term funding for Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), which Jesse loved, but also, which other Presidents would not do; Responded to Jesse’s support for Opportunity Zones, the single most successful economic development package yet approved for Black business men/women, and much more."
Trump closes by returning to praising Jackson: "Jesse was a force of nature like few others before him. He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment 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!"
Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand.... Trump folded that assertion in neatly. The reader will assume Trump has personal knowledge. But maybe he just says what he feels, without any need for support at all. And yet there is public information, notably Jackson's memorable criticism of Obama — "He talking down to black people."
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He was a sleazy dirtbag grifter.
Trump and Jackson (and Sharpton, for that matter ) were/are not that different.
A race-hustling shakedown artist.
But Donald can't very well say that, now can he?
Those upset Trump said mean things about Rob Reiner can now be upset Trump said nice things about Jesse Jackson.
See? Trump knows Obama is campaigning, too.
This may be one of those instances where Trump is simply being sincere
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
Jackson was going to cut Obama's nuts off, but someone else had beat him to it.
Jackson was a Chicago ethnic-bloc politician used to dealing with other ethnic-bloc pols: Irish, Polish, German, etc. Negotiating over the pie slices, without too much principled window dressing. This is also a New York thing, or was, before the white ethnics fled. So he and Trump could deal with each other.
The postmodern race hustlers don’t just want their slice. They want your slice, and they’ll try to lock you up for racism if you hold onto it too hard. CC, JSM
"Trump and Jackson (and Sharpton, for that matter ) were/are not that different."
I don't see it. All are salesman in the same way many successful people are, but at his core Trump is a builder. He made physical lasting things you can see and touch. In the modern economy, you can build invisible things, and he's doing that now too, but that's not most of his life.
Trump helped jackson. did Jackson ever help Trump?
I'm not in the mood for research on this - but I'll bet jackson called Trump a..... RACIST!.
In case I was too subtle in the previous thread: I first met Trump and ’almost met Jesse at the same event in ’88. A Beasts singularity… lol
Trump appreciates Good Game. Jackson was a racist grifter, but Trump appreciates a well played con.
He might have provided office space for Jackson's Rainbow Coalition because its business plan was to shake down deep pocket businesses for protection money in return for not being attacked as "racist."
Probably not the only protection money Trump had to pay to do business in New York.
Yep trump has always loved black folks - which is why all the charges of "raciss" have no staying power. Frankly, I think he loves black people too much, because his love is unrequited. Not sure what "criminal reform" accomplished except to make it harder to keep crooks in jail.
I guess it says something about the black folks image with white people that letting crooks out of jail is considered "pro-black".
talent recognizes talent.
Jackson was the masculine Obama, and that didn't work for the left.
Feminism demanded someone easier to sell to white females, and the left came up with the perfect empty suit, Obama.
Like Trump, Jackson was an entertainer, a showman. They also both had experience of an earlier era in urban politics -- the days of Koch and Giuliani in NYC and the Daleys in Chicago -- which was focused on getting things done, and not on virtue signaling. Often, they took the showmanship too far -- it had its uses and also gratified the ego in ways that were hard to resist -- but they both had their eyes on the prize more than today's politicians do.
Trump seizes the opportunity to take credit for himself
…if there’s still room in the discourse for this kind of bratty snark we can make some room to point out his detractors calling him a racist won’t give him credit so why not do it yourself. One could dismiss it as Trump simply expressing his connection to the deceased but why let an opportunity to get in a dig at him pass, right?
Jesse Jackson was no Martin Luther King, but, on the other hand, it can be argued that Martin Luther King was no Martin Luther King either. Jackson stacks up pretty good when you compare him to his contemporaries of that era. He's a lot better than Al Sharpton or Stokely Carmichael or Angela Davis. He didn't lead his followers off a cliff, and, apparently, some of inner circle made a few bucks......I can see why Obama wanted to keep some distance from him. That's on Jackson. I can see why Trump would want to highlight the distance between Jackson and Obama. That's politics.......I can't recall Jackson speaking out against Trump. That's about as good as Trump can hope for.
Praising with faint damns.
’He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand.’
Always be closing… :)
"Trump and Jackson (and Sharpton, for that matter ) were/are not that different." Trump and Jackson (and Sharpton, for that matter ) were/are not that different."🏆
This is very close. Trump is the white Don King.
“Trump seizes the opportunity to take credit for himself”
Hee. At least Jackson was good for something.
I admire Althouse's willingness to air her dirty laundry. I would have burned that button in a ceremony celebrating the loss of naiveté.
As I posted on the earlier post...
MAZE
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Jesse Jackson and Trump, back before it became politically useful to call Trump a racist.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2023733884165255409?s=20
In the three Presidential elections 1980-1988 the Republicans won a total of 1440 electoral votes to the Democrats' 173. In three consecutive elections the Democrats total electoral votes was still almost 100 short of winning just one election. That's pretty amazing.
Garnering more inner city masculine black voters is one of many pillars needed for the returdlickins to win or push the midterms.
Always be closing, indeed.
Well Jesse is dead.. did you expect Trump to stomp on his grave???
"In the three Presidential elections 1980-1988 the Republicans won a total of 1440 electoral votes to the Democrats' 173."
Reagan was really popular. That's what "landslide" actually looks like. HW just rode his coattails for one election.
In 84, Reagan won 58.8% of the vote. FIFTY-EIGHT POINT EIGHT and took California and New York and Illinois etc etc. I don't know if we will ever see that again. (Trump has never even crossed 50%).
Trump helped jackson. did Jackson ever help Trump?
Yes he did. Check out their joint appearances at The Wall Street Project in the '90s or their ringside joshing at the Mike Tyson fight in '89.
Well during 1980-88, there was a total loss of confidence in the Dems. Several 80-20 issues: Cold War, crappy economy under Carter, the fall of cities, yes some racial stuff, taxes/spending, collapse of industry under Dem-affiliated unions, hippies vs hard hats, the ww2 generation voting like mofos; etc. Also while urban Dem machines were great at getting their local candidates elected, they didn’t care that much about who the President was.
None of these conditions are the same now, but maybe there are enough analogous ones to bring about a cascade loss of confidence in today’s Dems. But the cascade would also have to overcome new improved Dem fraud. CC, JSM
Hes entitled to his opinion i dissent on that question
AMDG said...
Trump and Jackson (and Sharpton, for that matter ) were/are not that different.
Trump built many large buildings and ran numerous large businesses operations.
Someone as limited as AMDG can’t even count as high as the number of employees Trump has successfully employed.
They elected a new population tbat looks at rats and criminality as normal
Peachy said...
Trump helped jackson. did Jackson ever help Trump?
I'm not in the mood for research on this - but I'll bet jackson called Trump a..... RACIST!.
He personally handed Trump awards for fighting racism.
Pritzker is a rathef large rat
Jesse Jackson was on of those who inherited the leadership of the Civil Rights movement, looked deep into the content of their character...and decided they'd best be judged by the color of their skin or they were in trouble.
Obama vs. Jackson. Obama had Jacksons son put in prison. Jackson faded away.
Jackson perfected the threat of boycott.
2016 Jesse Jackson.
Sure enough - According to One Jesse Jackson - Trump is a RACIST! again.
Jesse Jackson 2016:
Trump and his cabinet are "Racist, White supremacist! Islamophobe - and anti-Immigrant!" all the things!
I'm going to go the "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" route and just say, may he rest in peace.
Kevin said...
Those upset Trump said mean things about Rob Reiner can now be upset Trump said nice things about Jesse Jackson.
2/17/26, 9:57 AM
Thank you for smoking! I remember when Althouse declared during the Trump I administration that she was so "exhausted" from Trump and all the things he did and said that caused such chaos. She didn't want Trump back because she loves "boring", doncha know. But ever since election season 2024, she's reliably posted 3 or 4 or 5 Trump posts every day, and hardly a day passes when she doesn't have some gripe she can tie or connect to DJT. And it's all Trump's fault!!!
Our host takes the obligatory shot at the Bad Orange Man. Sort of like saying grace before dinner in a religious home.
Grace is more significant than the obligatory shot.
Trump is a very charitable person.
unlike every leftist alive - who are cheap uncharitable bastards.
I like that DJT added in Scoundrels to Lunatics.
Trump seizes the opportunity to take credit for himself
As I always say when bragging about myself: "Well, somebody's gotta do it."
You know who was a big supporter of Jesse Jackson--William F. Buckley Jr.
Trump isn't taking credit, it's part of the weave. If he wanted real credit, it would be for thinking Jackson was a piece of shit.
Trump is a very charitable person.
Only in your imagination.
But ever since election season 2024, she's reliably posted 3 or 4 or 5 Trump posts every day, and hardly a day passes when she doesn't have some gripe she can tie or connect to DJT. And it's all Trump's fault!!!
I don't see that. Lots of Trump posts because Trump is, well, sort of important these days. Many of them supportive, or at least grudgingly admiring, or humorous. A far cry from our resident nevertrumpers. You know who they are. Given that Althouse is a liberal at heart, what do you expect?
Speaking of NeverTrumpers--You know that Ronald Reagan is dead, DD? Trump is the best we got, by far, and all you do is bitch and moan.
"He's a lot better than Al Sharpton or Stokely Carmichael or Angela Davis."
When you're right, you're right.
Trump seizes the opportunity to take credit for himself:
Althouse is making fun of the left by mimicking their obvious reaction.
Trump, once again, tricks the left into exposing accomplishments to TDS who will click a negative headline to read the quote
Among the worst. Jesse Jackson used to work for the Jack Tar Hotel, which is located in Jesse Jackson’s hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. Jesse Jackson himself stated that before he left the kitchen with a tray full of customer’s food, he would SPIT into the food of the WHITE customers. (See the picture of the 2nd page of the article, where the red asterisk is drawn; There are 8 pages to the article, however we are just posting the first three) He stated that he did it “because it gave me psychological gratification“. He also said he did this to the WHITE FOLK that he HATED, and yet he ‘smilingly served it to them’. A second article we found stated : “Former Black Panther leader Jesse Jackson admitted in a November, 1969 “Life” magazine interview that when he worked as a waiter in a Greenville, South Carolina hotel he spat into the soups and salads of White customers. “[Spitting into the food] gave me a psychological gratification,” Jackson said. During his early years in the communist civil rights movement Jackson often repeated this story to audiences. In fact the New York “Times” in a July, 1972 article, said: “Jesse would spit into their soup or salad before he brought it to the table, and watch with enjoyment as Whites ate gobs of saliva as though it were, say, oil and vinegar dressing.”
https://unapologeticrepublican.com/internet-scrubs-jesse-jacksons-statement-about-spitting-in-white-peoples-food/
"In 84, Reagan won 58.8% of the vote. FIFTY-EIGHT POINT EIGHT and took California and New York and Illinois etc etc. I don't know if we will ever see that again. "
MAUA = Make America Unified Again.
Back when things were actually normal and boring, which the right has always been. The Left's nonstop resistance is what Althouse types were actually tired of. Their whole playbook was to make you think it was Trump's fault, and they have been running that play ever since, because it worked on enough people to give us a brain-dead President and millions of unvetted illegal immigrants and their fraud. Hopefully enough will notice they've been played for over a decade now.
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump posts a flurry of EPIC PHOTOS with the late Reverend Jesse Jackson, who just passed away
EVERYBODY knows there was an era where the civil rights leaders loved Trump when he was PEAK New York!
The “racism” BS only started when he ran for POTUS 🇺🇸
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2023833973286457485?s=20
boatbuilder said...
Speaking of NeverTrumpers--You know that Ronald Reagan is dead, DD? Trump is the best we got, by far, and all you do is bitch and moan.
Reagan signed amnesty and failed to cut spending and regulations.
Trump is objectively doing better.
The only state that never voted for Reagan was Minnesota.
Nuff said.
"Jesse Jackson himself stated that before he left the kitchen with a tray full of customer’s food, he would SPIT into the food of the WHITE customers."
Well, yeah, he was nobody you'd want around. But Al Sharpton fabricated a sexual assault, hoping to get rich by sending honest men to prison. Stokely claimed he used to rape black girls as practice for raping white girls (right Stoke. Raping for Justice). And Angela Davis conspired to murder a judge. So Dimestore MLK still manages to clear that low bar.
"He talking down to black people."
To be fair, Obama talked down to everybody.
Jesse had been retired awhile. He didn’t clean up on the BLM grift nor designate an effective successor for Rainbow/Push. Obama put him out of business.
There are plenty of reasons to criticize Jesse Jackson, but when all is said and done, he was a man in the arena. I'll give him that.
Let's also not forget that "Jesse Jetstream" (so dubbed by Mike Royko because Jackson would rush from "crisis" to "crisis") was good friends with the notorious Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan. Birds of a feather doncha know.
Aren't we supposed to wait a day?
I'm abiding by the old ways.
"De mortuis nihil nisi bonum,"
Researching the taboo, AI found a minority opinion :
"William Shakespeare: In Julius Caesar, Mark Antony famously subverts this idea, saying, "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones".
Charles Bukowski: Conversely, some modern writers have challenged the taboo. Bukowski once noted the hypocrisy of funerals, where people inflate a person's good qualities even if they were "odious" in life, suggesting it is better to have a bit of truth even at a burial."
Never mind. I guess all is fair game these days. These are the days... at times like these... omg... not that song again.
And BTW, that whole "Reverend" thing is complete BS. It used to be an adjective, as in, "The Reverend Bozo The Clown". Meaning, that we all revere our dear Bozo. Wherefore he is reverend. But blacks were too ignorant to grasp this peculiarity of the English language, and decided it must be an honorific title. Oh well.
Like Billy Graham, there will never be another Jesse. Society is too fractured for one Grfiter per race.
D.D. Driver said...
"Trump is the white Don King.”
Not Orange Don King?
well you have sharpton, deray, hank rogers (kendi) diversity not monopoly,
I have a very deep memory of seeing Jesse Jackson speak when he was running for President. Not because of Jackson, it was the behavior of the asshole 'progressives' surrounding me. The event was at a church in Rochester, NY. Jackson was late - about an hour. The crowd at the door of the church getting restless. Once the doors opened, the crowd surged, and my 5'/100 lb. small body was carried up the stairs of the church - without my feet touching the ground. At once point, I was struggling to breathe. THIS is why you'll never see me at a protest - I don't trust crowds and I sure as hell don't trust progressives!
Comments from the blog Second City Cop...
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The Reverend Jackson, although a dedicated race hustler, produced also a great deal of positive activism for social integration of Black people in the US. I, too, saw him speak when he ran for President. In the late '70s I went to Furman University in his hometown of Greenville, and one of his stump speech anecdotes was about its previously and not too un-recently segregated campus.
I saw him give his stump speech at Texas A&M, in a rather full auditorium, with attendance fully integrated without any restrictions at all. He chided us that since A&M had discovered we finally could have a Black quarterback for our Fighting Texas Aggie football team, the US certainly was ready for a Black President. Thunderous applause!
As an aside, at that speech I also saw 3 Secret Service agents adroitly and fairly covertly converge to surround a student who carried a suspiciously rolled up towel with him. No action other than that was taken, but if the towel had contained a weapon I suspect the candidate would have survived any attempt on his life. Jackson went through that candidacy with a constant threat of assassination, and at least publicly he ignored it.
He lived eighty four years. Enough said. Rest assuredly when Trump kicks the bucket, no leftist will say a kind word.
Well if there’s an R president in office when Trump passes, the left will say “if only President Jones were as kind and wise as the late Trump!” CC, JSM
To be fair, Obama talked down to everybody.
Still does.
“ Yep trump has always loved black folks - which is why all the charges of "raciss" have no staying power. Frankly, I think he loves black people too much, because his love is unrequited. Not sure what "criminal reform" accomplished except to make it harder to keep crooks in jail.”
What’s funny there is that Blacks love Trump’s properties. They both love a lot of bling. And a lot of the Blacks working for his Las Vegas hotel love him.
They may love his casinos but they don't vote for him. Last election 80-85 percent of blacks voted D. Just like always.
Jackson historically enjoyed a relationship with Obama that was occasionally marred by frustration but broadly characterized by support and respect—a far cry from Trump’s claims of intense dislike.
In 2008, while Obama was running for president, a hot mic caught the Civil Rights leader saying he wanted to “cut his nuts off” after the then-candidate made comments about absentee fathers in the African-American community.
Jackson later apologized for the remark, expressed pride in the Democratic leader’s campaign, and famously cried with joy at Obama’s 2008 election victory, acknowledging that Obama was running “the last lap” of the struggle for Black political empowerment.
Sadly, Trump used the death of Jesse Jackson to once again attack Obama, immediately after posting the stupid ape video. Hate always spews from the mind of the world's most famous solipsist.
boatbuilder said...
...I don't see that. Lots of Trump posts because Trump is, well, sort of important these days. Many of them supportive, or at least grudgingly admiring, or humorous. A far cry from our resident nevertrumpers. You know who they are. Given that Althouse is a liberal at heart, what do you expect?
2/17/26, 12:36 PM
You are right, I know. Love AA, but sometimes I just like to rattle the cage.
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