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    Default Trump: I'm a nationalist, but not a white nationalist

    Trump is a white nationalist?!!

    President Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his self-characterization as a "nationalist," rejecting claims that the word is code for "white nationalist" and adding that he meant he supported American economic interests over those of other countries.

    "I've never heard that theory about being a nationalist. I've heard them all," Trump responded to a reporter who asked if the word was code for white nationalist. "But I'm somebody that loves our country. When I say a nationalist, I don't like it when Germany is paying 1 percent of GDP for NATO, and we're paying 4.3 percent. I don't like that."

    Trump called himself a nationalist Monday night at a rally for Sen. Ted Cruz's reelection campaign in Houston. Trump's critics had long used the term to disparage the president as chauvinistic and parochial, but he's taken ownership of the word with pride.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...onalist-934498


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    He's more of a tangerine nationalist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DebraDoesDonald View Post
    He's more of a tangerine nationalist.
    Sock....sad you've had to resort to this, but no surprise

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    Default Why Donald Trump Declaring Himself A ‘Nationalist’ Is So Loaded

    The president, of all people, knows the dark connotations of this word.

    In one of the more jarring moments from President Donald Trump’s campaign rally Monday night, he proudly declared himself a nationalist.

    “It’s called a nationalist,” Trump said during his Houston rally when rebuking globalist foreign policy. “And I say, really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, OK? I’m a nationalist.”

    It’s clear he knows the word is loaded. In its mildest implication, Merriam-Webster defines it as a belief system “placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations.” But it’s been prominently used by white supremacists in recent years to emphasize that some countries or regions should be defined by a white racial identity ― a trend Trump is well aware of given the rise of news about the ideology during his presidency.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0d38b587cd44a


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    na·tion·al·ist
    /ˈnaSH(ə)nələst/
    noun
    noun: nationalist; plural noun: nationalists

    1.
    a person who advocates political independence for a country.
    "a Scottish nationalist"
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