Analysis: The president chose to bestow the nation’s highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on Limbaugh, a man who has built a national brand on what critics have long said is a base of racism and division.
“The president has no interest in trying to unify the country and is putting the full force and effect of his office and his status behind an unapologetic effort to make America white again,” Phillips said. “He’s all in now, in this culture war, which is most reminiscent of the efforts to destroy Reconstruction after the Civil War."
Trump has decided, Suarez said, that the way to remain president is “not to go out of his way to win approval from people who have disapproved of him in the past, but make sure the people who approve of him stay on his side.” He added,"Rush Limbaugh has throughout his career said racially provocative, offensive things, things that aren't true. If this bothered the president he hasn't signaled it. He certainly wasn't showing it last night."
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best," Trump said in his first campaign speech."They're not sending you, they're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists, and some I assume are good people."
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