US President Donald Trump’s disparaging and racist comments about other ethnic groups and religions underscore his ignorance and fear of the declining American empire, an African American journalist in Detroit says.
“Now that the United States is in decline during the 21 century, where you have countries in Asia and Africa that are fastly approaching the levels of the United States, Trump is lashing out, trying to stigmatize and stereotype people from different parts of the world,” said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire.
“This will not work; this is merely the cries of a dying system,” Azikiwe said in a phone interview with Press TV on Sunday.
According to an explosive report from the New York Times, Trump said during a meeting in June that people coming from Haiti “all have AIDS,” that recent Nigerian immigrants would never “go back to their huts” in Africa and that Afghanistan is a terrorist haven.
The report,…