Jedediah Bila Quotes
I understand why people could look at things that Donald Trump says and be deeply offended by them and feel that he is not looking out for their best interests.
The View. Season 20, American Broadcasting Company, 2017.
First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, 1874-1944, invited Jessie DePriest the Black wife of a Congressman to tea at the White House. No Black woman had ever been there socially before. This was a typical Southern reaction. The Texas State legislature actually passed a resolution chastising the First Lady—the only such action in American history.
President Trump did not personally believe in the tenets of White Supremacism, but a significant part of his political base did. His public approval in his first year in office was the lowest in history since such were measured, and he was desparate to hold on the the support of his base. So, unlike most Republicans who castigated and condemned White Supremacism and other hate groups, and the alt-Right, Trump not only remained silent, but actually tried to create a moral equivelence between some of the White Supremacists and some of the Left Wingers who were protesting the White Supremicists. Trump insisted that he did not condone or encourage hate groups or white supramacy advocates, but most of the public did, and, most importantly, they thougth that he did and gave him public credit for that as in this quotation. See {645359}.
A. Jedediah Louisa Bila is an American television host and author. She is known for her time as a co-host on The View and as an anchor on the weekend edition of Fox & Friends. She has also written two books.
