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maybe you might have thought that times have changed, as your friends have said, because during your last military posting in jacksonville, florida, i understand you had been accepted into a nearly all-white yacht club and it was a good experience, right? maybe that is yeah. i d be lying if i didn t say that gave me momentum. that happened shortly before i retired and moved back to charleston. charleston has always been i love my city and it s always been kind of an island in a red state. and i was in jacksonville which to me was the deep south. when i was approached about joining the florida yacht club, i said, oh, heck no, that s not going to happen. again, friends were saying, no, this is different. i applied, i got in. so i thought maybe i need to see this. i have 10 seconds left. how do you explain this to your children? i try not to push the
Become a member? again, you re talking i can t talk to people who voted against me because i don t know them. when i would go, i was a guest of friends of mine from growing up in charleston, friends of mine from med school and different people in the neighborhood. so as far as i knew, i was accepted and having a great time and enjoying my time with my friends. but, again, i knew the history of the club and it has a huge membership, and they can t represent the entire membership. maybe you might have thought that times have changed, as your friends have said, because during your last military posting in jacksonville, florida, i understand you had been accepted into a nearly all-white yacht club and it was a good experience, right? maybe that is yeah. i d be lying if i didn t say that gave me momentum. that happened shortly before i retired and moved back to charleston. charleston has always been i
That doesn t mean there weren t other factors contributing to a trump presidency ultimately. i would argue that white supremacy is an indispensable factor. which does not mean there weren t other factors there too. i think if you take that on, no, no, it s not a mistake we ve never had a president whose never held political office or never been had a military posting or anything at all. no experience with the within the public sphere at all. to just stand it off like that. i think trump is different. he s not marco rubio. he s not mitt romney. this is a very, very different thing. and i think 50 years from now, historians will ask themselves how this happened and the answer will be the reaction to barack obama s presidency. what was interesting, you share a moment. you were with president obama a few days before the election in 2016, and neither one of you believed donald trump was going to win. and then after the fact, you admitted you couldn t believe you thought that. yeah.
Supremacy is an indispensable fact. but i think, if you that i can that out, no, i don t think there is a mistake we never had a president who has never held a political office or never had a military posting or anything at all. no experience within the public sphere. to hand it off, i think trump is different. he s not mitt romney. this is a different thing. and i think 50 years from now historians will ask themselves how this actually happened. and i think the answer is going to be the reaction to barack obama s presidency. what was interesting is you share a moment you were with president obama a few days before the election in 2016. and neither one of you believed donald trump was going to win. and then after the fact, you admitted you couldn t believe you thought that. yeah. you know, it s funny, the reason i bring this up. i m disappointed in myself. how many african americans before 2008 would say to me he can t win. so it s interesting how this has