Basil Smikle: Trump Is Teaching People to Hate Muslims, But He’ll Take Money from Muslim Countries

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SMIKLE: “And, you know, I’m — it’s just amazing that, you know, this president really is the influencer-in-chief. He’s found a way to monetize everything. And that also should be taken into account when you consider something that I’ve been paying — you’re thinking about a lot, that when you look at Jared Kushner and the money that he got from the Saudis to be able to make the kind of investments he’s making in Albania, for example, you think about the plane from Qatar. MAGA and the Trump ecosystem has amplified Islamophobia on the ground. He’s teaching people to hate Muslims, to hate Muslim American immigrants. But he’ll take money from Muslim countries. So, the kind of division that he fosters is only meant really to kind of make himself wealthier, richer.”