1991, that was the same year Trump was busted pretending to be his own PR guy John Miller right?
Ah, the hilarity. The cracks of his ego were showing even back then...
Trump was also yet to have his 6 bankruptcies at the time with them following later in 1991, 3 in 1992, 2004 and 2009.
A lot has changed since Obama said that. But wait,
did he say that?You can probably guess what is about to happen.
Obama never actually said, "The American dream is to be Donald Trump".
What was actually said was taken from an essay he wrote as a graduate student at Harvard Law with the help of fellow classmate Robert Fisher, "Race and Rights Rhetoric".
In "Race and Rights Rhetoric," Obama and Fisher argued that the civil rights rhetoric of the 1960s although "a vehicle for black liberation has impeded, rather than facilitated achieving black empowerment."
When Obama and Fisher analysed the pitfalls of the American dream, both among the white majority and African Americans, they wrote:
Quote:Americans have a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American, I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will.
The paper argued that black Americans should "shift away from rights rhetoric and towards the language of opportunity." The way they saw it, "Precisely because America is a racist society we cannot realistically expect white America to make special concessions towards blacks over the long haul."
But sure Mech, if you're that insecure about Trump that you need to spin what Obama said, misquote him and totally change its meaning, then be my guest.
As usual, it says more about you than even the myth you're trying to spread.