Is President Donald Trump racist?  Lawrence O’Donnell suggested that when President Trump supports Nazis and the KKK, he’s simply pandering to his base.  “If you voted for him, you can do no wrong,” Lawrence said.  According to O’Donnell, this is our bald ape’s justification for talking about how both sides are equally culpable, and how the riots weren’t actually caused by white nationalists.

Naa.  Not for a second.  This isn’t something Trump is only doing for convenience.  He really believes in white supremacy.  We’ve seen his reaction to brown people all along.  Mexicans, Muslims, people from the Middle East, all of them are way, waaaaay too brown for our Donald.  It’s one of the very few things – besides money, I mean – that The Donald actually believes.  He’s already written about his regrets at having black people in his accountants.  Lazy, he said.  He only wanted observant Jews touching his money.

For me, Trump finally crossed a line this weekend.  “Both sides” my butt.  As many people have already said, this was a test for a President of the United States.  It was a really easy test, I’d have thought.  I mean, condemning Nazis?  Not usually a tough call, I’d have thought.  And yet, here we are.

Trump didn’t call the Nazis and KKK riots in Charlottesville terrorism.  Despite his hair-trigger about any violence by Muslims, Trump never decries any violence by white people.  In this case, Trump didn’t even damn mention the riots until days later, and then he defended ‘both sides’ (whatever he means by that).  Trump didn’t attend the Heather Heyer’s memorial.   No big surprise for a President who cancelled Ramadan celebrations for his White House.  For all Trump’s insistence on using the words “Islamic Terrorism”, Trump can’t even talk about the Holocaust and use the word ‘Jew’.  He clearly can’t talk about Nazis and the KKK and use the word ‘terrorist’.

Second non-surprise: Republicans continue to issues empty tweets vaguely condemning racism, without ever saying the name ‘Trump’.  Republicans are too timid to censure Trump.  It’s an empty gesture, but still something they can’t do.  Thankfully, Democrats wrote it for them.  Want to bet that all Republicans decide they can’t even sign that censure?

I shouldn’t complain.  I’m happy the architect of the ‘Birther’ movement didn’t show at Heather Heyer’s memorial.  If he spoke, I know he’d only talk about his own greatness.  Is Trump racist?  Yes.  When someone says racist things regularly, then he’s racist.