Alan Colmes: Trump’s ‘Unity’ May Only Unite Factions Of White Supremacists
Fox's Alan Colmes ripped Donald Trump’s claim to be a uniter: “Maybe he’ll unite the warring factions of the white supremacists,” but “he’s gotten where he’s gotten, by insulting people,” Colmes said. Fox host – and apparent Trump apologist – Heather Childers took offense.
The discussion was a response to Trump's press conference last night in which he began holding himself out as the presumptive Republican nominee. Colmes started by noting what Childers should have: that the so-called Trump steaks served at his press conference last night were not actually Trump steaks.
But then Colmes got to Trump’s call that “it’s time to unify.”
COLMES: How is he going to unite? By taking back the things he said about Latinos, Mexicans, women? Things he said about Bush, things he said about Romney? He’s now going to all of a sudden pivot and unite those people?
Maybe he’ll unite the warring factions of white supremacists, but I don’t think he’s going to unite people who he’s spent the last number of months, insulting. That’s how he’s gotten where he’s gotten, by insulting people.
Childers was obviously taken aback that anyone on Fox should speak so bluntly about Trump supporters.
She paused for a moment, perhaps nonplussed or perhaps to listen to a producer telling her she’d better counter this anti-Trump talk, pronto.
“Yeah, um, and I think you actually just insulted a lot of Trump followers by calling them white supremacists,” Childers replied.