Donald Trump visited the Black History Museum this morning in D.C. Too bad he didn’t make Steven Bannon, Steven Miller, and Jefferson Sessions tour the museum with him as well. I hope this was a first incremental step gesture by Trump to begin to reach out to all Americans and not just the white ones who make up a majority of his New Confederacy political coalition. People generally are pretty much ingrained in their beliefs at the age of seventy, so I’m not sure how sincere all this is, but at least it’s a perfunctory gesture from the person who’s supposed to be the president of all three hundred million Americans. But in closing I would warn, this is a man who between the ages of sixty-four thru sixty-nine spent five years of his life setting the groundwork for his presidential campaign by instigating the Birther Movement. So–if George Wallace were at the museum today, I’d say, the same thing, a nice perfunctory political gesture, but beyond that—I’m not sure what can be read into this.
If Trump got rid of Bannon, Miller, and Sessions then I’d maybe think there was something genuine in this. If he’s really serious abut reaching out to all Americans those three would be gone. This isn’t complex—get rid of those three. Actually, with the subtraction of Flynn and the addition of McMasters the Trump national security team is pretty solid. So…maybe if we’re lucky — Bannon, Miller, Spicer, and Conway will be gone before the summer. Sessions’ removal would be more problematic given he was confirmed by the Senate. But the removal of Bannon, Miller, Spicer, and the nutjob Conway would I think to some degree make more of America at least somewhat view Trump as an almost serious president rather than the freak show president we witnessed during the first month.
Then of course there was all this stupid bullshit which revved up his base before, during, and after his campaign.