There is a lot I should be focused on this week on the immigration front. From the votes of more than 30 and 20 percent, respectively, of Latinos and Asians for the GOP in the recent election, to Donald Trump’s use of executive power to now deny asylum to all future migrants who enter the country illegally.
But instead, I find it more important to focus on the vexing issue of Trump’s continued assault on the Fourth Estate and reporters, especially African-American female reporters such as CNN’s Abby Phillip, Urban Radio’s April Ryan and PBS NewsHour’s Yamiche Alcindor.
If there is any doubt that Donald Trump is a racist, a misogynist and a dictator, just review the continued derogatory comments he makes to the Black and female reporters covering the White House and the press on a whole.
Unfortunately, these reporters are much too courteous to counter the big bad wolf, who acts like he is on the latest season of “The Apprentice” and not running the “Free World.”
This past week, I found myself thinking again aloud how I would have responded to El Trumpeto had I been on the White House press corps and at the receiving end of his insults. Here are some Caribbean responses that Sarah Sanders can translate for her boss:
Trump to April Ryan: “Sit down. I didn’t call on you.”
Me: “Excuse me, but who de backside you think yuh ah talk to jancro? You wife or pickney dem?”
Trump to ABC’s Cecilia Vega: “You’re not thinking. You never do.”
Me: “Ah who you a chat to blackheart man? Yuh mad?”
Trump to Abby Philips: “What a stupid question.”
Me: “Yeh, you would know, picky, picky head dunce bat.”
Trump to Yamiche Alcindor: “I don’t know why you say that. That is such a racist question.”
Me: “Fyah fuh dat waste man. No come to me wid them augument deh!”
Trump to CNN’s Jim Acosta: “You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN.”
Me: “Wha di bumbo claat yuh a chat bout?”
Trump to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: (wagging his finger and shouting) “Don’t do that!”
Me: “A wah di blouse and skirt duh yuh? Yu mussi mad!”
Now that, and not Jim Acosta, is what you call rude! No need to doctor that tape, Sarah Sanders, or issue a ban. I’m out!
The writer is CMO at Hard Beat Communications, Inc., which owns the brands NewsAmericasNow, CaribPRWire and InvestCaribbeanNow.
