It didn’t even take 24 hours for Donald Trump to catch wind of Jay Z’s criticism and he’s already issued a response.
If you missed it, on last night’s inaugural episode of ‘The Van Jones Show,’ Jay spoke on Trump and likened him to a “superbug” when discussing the closed-door racism in America.
“There was a moment when Donald Sterling had been exposed as this racist on a private phone conversation that he was having and they took his team from him,” Jay-Z said, referring to remarks made in 2014 by the former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
“And it’s like, OK, that’s one way to do it. But another way would have been, let him have his team and then let’s talk about it together. … Maybe some penalties..Because once you do that, all the other closet racists just run back in the hole. You haven’t fixed anything. What you’ve done was spray perfume on a trash can,” he said.
Continuing the analogy, Jay explained that more spray attracts more bugs as you’re not actually dealing with the trash — in this case, racism.
“You don’t take the trash out. You keep spraying whatever over it to make it acceptable and then, you know, as those things grow, then you create a superbug. And then now we have Donald Trump, the superbug,” he said.
“Donald Trump is a human being, too,” he said, adding he was just being funny. “Somewhere along his lineage something happened to him … and he’s in pain and he’s expressing it in this sort of way.”
Donald got on Twitter and responded to Jay, citing a bunch of misleading information as per usual.
Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2018
Our economy is better than it has been in many decades. Businesses are coming back to America like never before. Chrysler, as an example, is leaving Mexico and coming back to the USA. Unemployment is nearing record lows. We are on the right track!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2018
It’s interesting that Donald didn’t come with that same energy when Eminem criticised him using way worse language…but we all know why.
Here are the facts:
Forget Jay-Z and focus on the spin. Black unemployment has been declining since 2010 at a steady rate, but less jobs were created in 2017 than the past 6 years.
And, at 6.8%, Black unemployment is nearly twice the rate of white people, at 3.7%.
Trump has done nothing.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) January 28, 2018
