And the President is a fucking cunt....

Trump brushes off criticism: 'Everybody’s called a racist now'

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

President Donald Trump said Democrats have called him a racist so often they've diluted the meaning of the word.

“Everybody’s called a racist now,” Trump said in an interview with C-SPAN's Steve Scully that aired Tuesday.

“The word is so overused, it’s such a disgrace,” he continued. “I’m the least racist person there is in the world, as far as I’m concerned.”

Trump has been condemned by Democrats and some in his own party for saying four congresswomen of color should "go back" to their native countries and for calling a majority-black district in Baltimore "infested" with rodents.

In the interview, however, he brushed off that criticism, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was rebuked by members of her own party just a few weeks ago for tension with the same congresswomen, known colloquially as "the Squad." Any animosity between Pelosi and the freshman lawmakers was quickly set aside when Trump began his broadsides on the congresswomen.

Trump accused Democrats of falling back on the racist moniker as filler language. “They use it almost when they run out of things to criticize you — they say, ‘He’s a racist. He’s a racist.’ … But with me they have a hard time getting away with it, and they don’t get away with it.”

A new Quinnipiac poll out Tuesday, however, found that 51 percent of voters believed Trump to be a racist, a figure that jumped to 80 percent among black voters and 55 percent among Hispanic voters. Several polls conducted since Trump began criticizing the Democratic lawmakers — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar — have found that Americans viewed his language about them as racist.

A Fox News poll released last week found that 56 percent of voters considered the substance of his rhetoric toward the four women to be racist, while 57 percent said they didn’t think the president respected racial minorities.

And a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found that 58 percent of voters characterized chants at a Trump rally to “send her back,” referring to Omar, as racist as well. Trump first disavowed but later defended those chants.

Asked about the Quinnipiac poll by Sully, the president blamed his poor standing among black voters on “fake news,” arguing that “the press doesn’t put what I’ve accomplished for African Americans out.”

He claimed that criminal-justice legislation he signed into law last year had not been covered enough by the media, despite significant press coverage of the bipartisan achievement.