FOX News contributor and former governor Mike Huckabee (Steven Ferdman/Getty)
In a sad attempt at conservative humour, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has managed to be racist, transphobic and anti-democratic with a single tweet.
Huckabee, 65, father of former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, came under fire for saying he would start identifying as Chinese to get freebies from American corporations.
“I’ve decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese,” he tweeted on Saturday (3 April). “Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my ‘values’ and I’ll probably get shoes from Nike and tickets to Major League Baseball games. Ain’t America great?”
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As the torrid process of Trump’s impeachment trial comes to a head, few betted on any conviction anyway. Foreign Editor David Pratt explains why the biggest loser stands to be America itself “There are two courts here: there is the United States Senate . and the court of public opinion.” These were the words of well-known US political analyst and Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh on Friday attempting to sum up the prevailing mood in America as Donald Trump’s impeachment trial reaches a crucial juncture.
International time differences are sometimes unkind to newspaper journalists, not least those in the UK with early deadlines following fast-moving stories in America – and Trump’s impeachment trial is one such instance.