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Biden calls Trump America's first 'racist' POTUS, Internet lists Woodrow Wilson and 12 others who owned slaves

The internet has reacted strongly to this statement and argued that presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson were racist too
PUBLISHED JUL 23, 2020
(Getty images)
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Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, called President Donald Trump the country’s "first racist" to be elected to the White House. This statement was made during a virtual town hall, which was organized by the Service Employees International Union after a health care worker argued that Trump has shifted the onus of the coronavirus pandemic to the Asians and continues to hold them responsible. Biden mentioned how Trump constantly referenced to the pandemic as 'Chinese' virus.

"No sitting president has ever done this," Biden said. “Never, never, never. No Republican president has done. No Democratic president. We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has." He added, "And the way he pits people against one another is all designed to divide the country, divide people, not pull them together. Look what he’s doing now. He’s blaming everything on China. . . He’s using it as a wedge."

The internet has reacted strongly to this statement and argued that presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson were racist too. "Obviously, Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson were racist. So was Jefferson, so was Washington, and so was Lincoln. Trump is the first President, however, who ran on the promise of making the country more racist than it already was when he started," one user wrote.

"Not only does he have dementia, he is a flat idiot when it comes to history... Look up Woodrow Wilson... A Democrat," a person tweeted. "Have you forgotten Woodrow Wilson along with many others before Trump? Damn America is f**k for another 4 years no matter who wins this coming election," a user tweeted. "...Let me introduce you to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, etc. Twitter won't give me enough characters to list them all. For a complete list, ask your local school board to stop peddling lies to your kids," another tweeted.

"Hmmm...8 years as #VP you think @JoeBiden might have heard of Woodrow Wilson at some point during that, if not in his 36 years in the US Senate. Side note, wasn't #SleepyJoe best friends with KKK member Robert Byrd, AND say African Americans who don't vote for him 'ain't black'?" tweeted another.

Others argued that Trump is the first president to run a campaign based on racism. "Obviously many presidents, woodrow wilson and andrew jackson included, were terrible racists but trump is the first president to run an entire campaign based on racism when African Americans are actually constitutionally viewed as human beings," one wrote. "Many had slaves and Woodrow Wilson’s favorite movie was Birth of a Nation. Oh... I almost forgot: 'I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race' - Abraham Lincoln," another person wrote.

When Trump was asked about Biden's comment, he did not address it directly but instead said that he had "done more for black Americans than anybody with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln. Nobody has even been close."

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