Trump Launches Racist Attack Against Nikki Haley After She Says America Isn't Racist

Nikki Haley made headlines this week when she claimed, falsely, that the United States has never been a racist country. Shortly after she made these statements, Donald Trump attacked her using a racist dog whistle statement that completely undermines Haley's claim. Trump is trying to blunt Haley's threat to his campaign, and he's doing it by reminding voters that she is the daughter of immigrants which plays on their racist feelings. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Republican presidential candidate, Nikki Haley made headlines this week when she proudly proclaimed that America has never been a racist country. Don't be silly, even that point in time where you were legally allowed to own certain human beings, you know, based on the color of their skin. And of course, we also had that very long period of American history where people of certain races weren't allowed to vote. And then of course we had separate but equal during segregation. But sure, aside from that, America's never been a racist country. And Nikki Haley was rewarded with her statement by Donald Trump launching a racist dog whistle attack against her trying to tap into the racism of the Republican base. Donald Trump got on, uh, truth Social and said this, anyone listening to Nikki Nimura Haley's whacked out speech last night would think that she won the Iowa Primary. She didn't.

And she couldn't even beat a very flawed Ron de Sanctimonious who's out of money and out of hope. Nikki came in a distant third. She said she would never run against me. He was a great president and she should have followed her own advice. Now she stuck with weak policies and a very strong MAGA base, and there's just nothing she can do. Now, you might be asking yourself, Faron, what part of that was actually racist? Well, it was the Nikki Nim Rada Haley part. 'cause see, he put Nim Rada in quotation marks, and that, of course is a bastardization version of her given name, which of course is mta Nikki Rhonda Waha, because Nikki Haley, as we all know, is the daughter of Indian immigrants to the United States. So Donald Trump, by not only misspelling her birth name, but reminding voters of her birth name is trying to imply to the overtly racist Republican base that Nikki Haley is not one of you.

Nikki Haley is something else. That's what Donald Trump is doing, that is in fact a racist dog whistle. And again, the irony here is that this came shortly after Nikki Haley proudly proclaimed that America has never been a racist country. And then the Republican front runner turns around, tries to use racism against her to blunt her polls. Yeah, Nikki Haley knows, I mean, she knows firsthand how racist America can be, how racist America still is, and of course, more importantly, how racist the MAGA base is. That's why Donald Trump did that. There's no other reason to say that if you're not trying to invoke some kind of feeling among the Republican base, that

Perhaps Nikki Haley is not really one of you. Nikki Haley has horrible policies. Nikki Haley has said horrendous things on the campaign trail. In my opinion, she's not a good person at all. But none of my disdain or dislike for Nikki Haley and her policies comes from her ethnicity. That has nothing to do with anything that doesn't bother me one bit. But for Republicans it does because they still hold those deeply racist beliefs and Donald Trump is trying to capitalize on that just like he did in 2016.