Was Donald Trump being racist when he called Mitch McConnell's wife, "Coco Chow"?

[supercutebutt]

Former President Donald Trump called current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao “Coco Chow” in a Friday Truth Social post. As of Saturday morning, it had more than 17,000 likes.

“He has a DEATH WISH,” said Trump of McConnell, a fellow Republican who represents Kentucky in the Senate. “Must immediately seek help and advise from his China loving wife, Coco Chow!”

Is this racist? VOTE!

Sounds racist. He needs to apologize to Elaine Chao.

Not racist. Trump gives cute nicknames. He compared her to a popular breakfast cereal for pets.

[BeenThereLovedIt]

the racism was a combo punch, the way he worded the first hit was 'china-loving wife', not 'china, loving wife'. The second hit was using 'coco' as a pet name, it's indirect, so by itself can't pass the racism test, and the same goes with 'china loving wife' where he could just argue a comma her or there would fix the error and then go on a rant about grammar nazis and woke culture.

Easy to dissect, impossible to convince a follower. I mean, how many broken laws and how many people does this guy gotta screw over before the remainder smell the sewage? He's been openly racist for decades, but the worst part is, that's not even in the top 10 of his worst traits.

[old-timer]

If you have to explain it, it's not racist. If you have to combine two supposedly border-line racist words (those infamous words "coco" and "chow") to make it "racist," then it's not. It seems clearly a taunt, but sometimes a taunt is just a taunt.

[BeenThereLovedIt]

@old-timer Either way, it's a drop in the well.

[ohsheeT]

It can be labeled as racist it could be labeled as rude it could be labeled as arrogant it can be labeled as he's a dick all he's doing is proving to everybody who he really truly is and he thinks that he is King and better than everybody else in this world and just because he says it he believes everybody should go along with it and for all the people that follow him and want to be just like him I hope you end up in the same place that he ends up because he has changed the world and made it at worst place to live because of his arrogancy is rudeness he could have said a million other things but he decided that he had to put somebody else down so that's what he did to me that's not a leader that is somebody that I do not want to represent me in any manner or fashion

[mandyfire98]

I mean, calling her coco chow when he knows her name isn't coco chow? It sounds pretty racist to me. He called her coco chow. He's making fun of her last name being Chinese. Which means he's making fun of her for being Chinese. That's racism isn't it? Isn't that text book example.

[supercutebutt]

I think you are right. I have no idea what the "coco" part means, though

[old-timer]

Why isn't it just a taunt? What makes it racist?

[old-timer]

Elaine Chao. How do you say "Chao?" How do you say "Chow?" I think they're pretty much the same, the taunt is in the spelling. As for "Coco," that's probably just alliteration to go with Chao/Chow. He's taunting her (and/or her husband) not on her race, but on her name. So it's not racism; you might, however, call it namism.

[misfittoy]

as a mixed Asian, i find all the political dysfunction with all parties hilarious. just waiting for someone to throw a wig or a chair at some point.

[loveslongnails]

I've come to believe that the Orange Man may only be racist in this sense: There's me, and there's everyone else. If you're NOT me, which of course you can't be because I'm the only one, then you are incompetent and below me, no matter what race or color you are. So, everyone sucks except me, including my kids but they suck a little bit less, except for my daughter, who's fucking hot!

[DJB72]

He's a bigot. Race, disability, religion, gender. It's all the same to him.

I'd love to be able to sit him down and explain to him in small words the importance of not being a racist, sexist, xenophobic, ablist fuckwit...

Maybe "words" aren't totally necessary to get through to him.

[Friendlybro79]

Nah words won't work.. He's too macho for words. Just take away his MacDonalds... He'll cry like a baby.

[DJB72]

You missed the quote marks. You can say a lot without speaking...

[priddseren]

No. Trump may be name calling, rude or whatever but not racist. A search on Google and other sites reveals no past use of the term coco to mean some sort of racial slur against any race let alone chinese looking people. The claim of racism is entirely fabricated, made up by left wing media because their narrative claims Trump is a racist but he inconveniently isn't a racist so they latch on to anything where they can make a claim. The only time this word coco appears linked to racism is over the last day as left wing media attempts to pretend it is racist. He was name calling, much like Joe Bribem Biden, Joe O'Biden, the barackalypse, Cocaine McConnell, DubYa. Dumpf. Name calling among the political class and of them is fairly normal and go back 100 years or more and it was worse.

[supercutebutt]

You defend Trump like he is your husband.

[Sixgunsound]

I don’t think anybody will ever give him points for being a polished speaker, but he does say a lot of things that chickenshits in politics or media don’t have the courage to. She has been abusing her husbands position for China’s gain for decades.

[supercutebutt]

Give examples

[TheBigWhistle]

"She has been abusing her husbands position for China’s gain for decades."

And yet Trump knowing this still specifically hired her to be Secretary of Transportation, a cabinet post. Why would he hire someone to be in his cabinet and be granted access to so much classified information who is claimed to be working for China's gain and had been "for decades". Doesn't Trump only hire the best people? Why would he do that? Can you explain what Trump was thinking here?

[Friendlybro79]

@TheBigWhistle Just to help out here's the link you're referring to. Trump can play both sides of an argument because so many of his supporters won't look into anything he says. He's always right so why bother. The libs eat babies so I can't trust them

https://nyti.ms/2gfMXKq

[normalice]

Obviously. However, to a guy like Trump racism is a useful tool more so than something he actually believes or cares about. Not that he isn't racist, but his racism is nothing compared to how racist he imagines his supporters to be.

[Summeroflove]

It was not racist. Bitch McConnell is a establishment and his wife is probably a spy. Nothing against Asians as a whole.


But the fact he had her in his cabinet and as transportation secretary is bullshit.

[supercutebutt]

So u r calling Trump a fool for choosing her?

[Summeroflove]

Excuse me. You asked a question and I gave you a answer. I am not going to sit here and argue with you. If you don't like my answer too bad. Don't ask a question you don't want the answer to

[Summeroflove]

Trump has done a lot of things I don't like But compared to Biden he is a million times better

[supercutebutt]

Better? Like denying the pandemic and denying climate change and sucking Putin's penis and starting an insurrection? LOL. You are funny. :)

Oh wow. "Better." Hahahahaha.

[old-timer]

Amen to the last part.

[BlacklightShade]

McConnell can't control the monster he created.

[OddBeMe]

Thing about racist jokes is it has to be funny. Silverman had this issue early on:
youtube.com/.../UgkxzY6ZIiooCDWLWuRMPBtIsNbzarO42MQ1

[RangerBlue22]

Liberals secretly love Trump more than conservatives do. It gives them someone to bitch about and to get the negative attention off the senile calamity disaster Biden is.

[supercutebutt]

Joe rocks!

[RangerBlue22]

Oh he’s so wonderful. I am so glad we now hace skyrocketing inflation and interest rates. Also so happy that our economy is on the brink of a disaster. But who cares about the economy right? Not that a bad economy harms EVERYBODY or anything.

Also I’m so glad he pulled out forced out to Afghanistan’s which got 13 servicemen killed, subjected the entire country to Taliban rule and subjected millions of women to oppression and sexual slavery. But that’s far away so who cares about it, right feminists? Also isn’t it a bit ironic that Putin decided to invade the Ukraine when Biden is in office but not Trump. Hmmm

But at least we don’t have that horrible Orange man saying mean things and tweeting anymore. Omg thank God for that.

[supercutebutt]

Rush Limbaugh always used to say that you don't blame or credit the current Prez for today's economy. That blame or credit goes to the Prez who preceeded him. OK?

Either BE CONSISTENT or stop your moaning, please!

[supercutebutt]

And you should know that Trump wanted to pull us out of Afghanistan, too. He made the deal. Pay attention! You sound positively dopey.

[RangerBlue22]

Trump made the deal but why did Biden rush order it? He was told by his top military advisors it was a bad idea but he plowed through anyway. Why? He wanted the headline to be the “president who ended the long war in Afghanistan”. He got his headline alright. His approval ratings went off a cliff after that happened and for good reason

Also our economy is supposed to be rebounding since we are getting out the pandemic (and lots of leftists blamed trump for Covid). All Biden had to do was NOT get in the way. But instead he pushed through trillions of dollars on bullshit legislation and trillions of dollars in spending of money we do NOT have. That directly impacted inflation. He also imposed all sorts of onerous regulation on domestic oil drilling which shot up our fuel costs.

The democrats are going to get their assed kicked in the midterms. The house is definitely going back to the republicans and likely the senate too. Not that I actually wanted Biden to fuck up the economy just because I don’t like democrats. But when you tinker with all this insane trillions of dollars of unnecessary spending what of think would happen to our economy?

[supercutebutt]

Joe Cool didn't rush it. Actually it was pushed back like 3 months or something.

[supercutebutt]

Lol. The economy sucks under your lord & savior Trump.

[MiseriaCantareAFI]

Trump, who thought 4 black guys and a mexican raped a woman in central park when it was a white man who did it all along (scientific evidence, and the guy admitted it). That trump?

[Friendlybro79]

Yeah he's the greatest isn't he? I didn't know he did this. He's done so many incredibly idiotic things I can't remember them all lol

[MiseriaCantareAFI]

@Friendlybro79 Exactly

[Ill_made_Knight]

yeah, he too out a full page ad in the NY Times calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5.
When they were proved innocent he doubled down saying they had to be doing something wrong cos they were in the park at night...

[smilelots]

He is a ass no way around that and yes he should apologize to her and every one he offended with his words. im sure there are lot of people out there he need to do that for.

[Googlemyahoo]

I’m sure people have heard the tale of the boy who cried wolf.

These days lunatics cry racism so much its like the boy who cried wolf. Nobody cares anymore the word has been devalued, delegitimized.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Sounds racist. He needs to apologize to Elaine Chao.

[BigOleMatt]

So from the different articles I've come across he's far from racist but does give comments that appear to seem racist. He also puts in effort most of us wouldn't even think of because he has the ability to do so.

[supercutebutt]

He's the LEAST racist person. LOL.
www.youtube.com/watch

[TheBigWhistle]

So he's far from a racist but makes racist comments. Is that your final answer?

Also what effort is he putting in... effort at making racist comments?

[Friendlybro79]

I hope Trump gets 20 years in a federal pound you in the ass prison. He's so annoying.

[Agagagagaga]

And yet Liberals can’t stop talking about him.

🤷‍♂️

[Friendlybro79]

@Agagagagaga Yes that's what happens when someone annoys you.. Just the same the flip side will talk about Biden and liberals.

[msc545]

Trump is a racist who thinks being a racist is ok. He never apologizes for anything.

[Friendlybro79]

Yeah he's the quintessential bully. Making fun of people, their wives, their race, their disabilities. He's a monster and people are like yeah!!! That's my guy. He talks like me.. He's the best! Those same people are also the ones that are easily hypnotized. Ok I made that last one up. I can't prove that but if I say I heard it on the dark web than I prob could pass it as true..

[msc545]

@Friendlybro79 Actually, you may be right about that last part. You are most certainly right about the rest of it.

[jshm2]

Isn't Orange Donald trying to sue CNN for saying similar things about him?

[supercutebutt]

Probably

[genericname85]

i think we all know that trump isn't fluent in "political correctness", which in my opinion is not a language anyone really needs.

[supercutebutt]

I think we all know that trump is perfect in your eyes. :)

[genericname85]

I know that's what you believe for some reason and I have no good reason to try to convince you of the opposite, cause i don't give a shit ;)

[CA4444]

Very personal attacks

[supercutebutt]

Yeah, sounded mean.

[RolandCuthbert]

I have no idea. I am not Elaine Chao. Nor do I identify as Asian or Asian-American.

[krin_m]

Of course, how many more examples do we need?

Not that it matters these days anyway.

[Friendlybro79]

He'd have to kill someone in the street... Oh wait he said that he could get away with that too... Nothing will work. You can't reason with imbeciles. They rather have a civil war. I do miss the days when I could debate someone and win some lose some and be like wow I learned something from someone with a different view point. Those days ended in 2016.

[Jennz6]

No, he says things all the time just to get attention maybe?

[supercutebutt]

Yeah maybe. Who can tell?

[Jennz6]

Not racist

[Lookingforthetruth]

Poor kids are just as smart as white kids ~ Joe Biden

[supercutebutt]

... except for @Lookingforthetruth. He's not as smart or more smart than anyone. :(

[Grubhub]

😆 an Asian would get with any white man. Even if he ain’t wealthy

[supercutebutt]

Show your stats.

[legalboxers]

you know nothing will happen to him right? Everyone will turn on everyone else and he will still look like their savior

[Anonymous]

Yeah but it's okay for people to be racist to Asians, but when people are racist to blacks all hell breaks loose.

[888theGreat]

She was a Secretary in his administraton. Please post the actual statement.

[Anonymous]

He has always been a racist.

[Anonymous]

I don't know... maybe

[supercutebutt]

Yeah. Maybe.

[hafinjun]

Either that or an asshole

[dustybiker]

Typical knee-jerk reaction from him.

[JSmuve]

Maybe Trump thinks that's her actual name.

[supercutebutt]

I doubt it.

[JSmuve]

You believe him to be smart enough to know people's names? Colour me shocked

[TroyDT2]

Pretty clearly a racist slur.

[supercutebutt]

I tend to agree.

[exitseven]

He is coo coo for cocoa puffs.

[hafinjun]

Could have just ended after the "coocoo"😉

[Jerre]

Not racist at all.

[supercutebutt]

What is Coco Chow?

[Anonymous]

Her last name is “Chao” dumbass.

[supercutebutt]

Excuse me?

[CuriousMufuxka]

More funny than racist!

[old-timer]

If you have to ask, then it is not racist.

[supercutebutt]

Nearly 60% of humans disagree with you.

[old-timer]

Which means either that 60% are wiser than me, or that they are not as wise as me.

If you have to ask whether a statement is racist, then the racism -- if it is racism -- is questionable. Do we really want to be accusing people (or people we don't like, Ms. supercutebutt) of racism when the racism is not clear in its words -- and even less clear when you Trump's actions, especially with respect to Elaine Chao -- who Trump -- with supposed animosity against Chinese -- appointed to his Cabinet. Nobody knows what Trump thinks but if you're going off on the words in a taunt that he tweets, you should, before ascribing it to racism, look at his actions as well. When racism becomes the presumption that has to be disproved, and not the other way around, you're not helping the situation.

[supercutebutt]

Meh. Trump is a filthy, treasonous, insurrectionist. Who cares about that clown? Not me. But you can go to Mar-a-Lago and pleasure him if you like. The heart wants what the heart wants. :)

[old-timer]

You forgot "racist."

[supercutebutt]

He only likes people with orange skin.

[joeldalton]

Wah wah wah racist blah blah.

[Friendlybro79]

Complete racist... I say just own your racism. These idiots are never done defending his poor behavior. Saying we can't stop talking about it yet they can't stop defending him lol. He's a racist and good chance you are too for defending him

[joeldalton]

@Friendlybro79 ok tard

[Friendlybro79]

My point here exactly..

[joeldalton]

@Friendlybro79 you have no point other than Orange Man Bad.

[Friendlybro79]

Have a good day Joe. Don't get so triggered man that's for the libs right?

[ZenJen444]

No it was funny af🤣

[supercutebutt]

What does it mean?

[supercutebutt]

If Trump called u "Coco ZenJen" your pumpkin head would explode in anger. Pumpkin guts and seeds would be everywhere.

[ZenJen444]

That might be your reaction if you're insecure and lack self control but not me. No

[ZenJen444]

I'd lmfaooooo. I think he's hilarious

[NatalieIshereO]

No he wasn't

[supercutebutt]

Please vote!

[NatalieIshereO]

Did...

[supercutebutt]

Sweet!

[twotone54]

Yeah