CNN historian Douglas Brinkley accused President Donald Trump of being a “full-fledged bigot” this week and predicted that Democrats “will move to impeach him” if they take back Congress after the 2018 midterm elections.
Responding to Trump’s “dog” reference to former White House aide Omarosa, Brinkley said it is “horrific” how Trump is degrading the White House. He said he was reflecting on past presidents and could not think of a president “since at least since Andrew Johnson right after the Civil War, that is a full-fledged bigot.”
“And we have that with Donald Trump,” Brinkley told host Don Lemon. “There have been presidents that, you know, are slippery on the race issue that didn’t move the arc of justice forward, they took a step back. But Donald Trump has a career of just doing racially insensitive and hateful comments towards people.”
Brinkley added that “there is no way around the fact that Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist.”
“We have to realize he just doesn’t like Mexican-Americans. He doesn’t like anybody of color. He doesn’t like African-Americans. He doesn’t like the LGBT people. He doesn’t like Puerto Ricans and doesn’t consider them America,” he continued. “Countries around the world where if they’re not white, like Norway, he doesn’t really want you here if you are from Haiti or Nigeria or elsewhere.”
Brinkley predicted that if “Democrats get a hold” of Congress after November, “they very well will move to impeach him” and Trump will go down in history as “maybe even the worst president of all time.”
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