In paying tribute to Monkees guitarist Peter Tork, President Trump said, “it seems only natural that African-Americans would refer to themselves as monkeys.”
Peter Tork, the guitarist of the beloved Monkees passed away Thursday at the age of 77.
The internet was inundated with tributes to Tork. President Trump was among those paying tribute to the Monkees guitarist.
Trump told a group of reporters that “America has lost a great musician. In my youth I was a fan of the Monkeys and especially of Peter because of the jokester he was.”
“While we’re at it,” the President added, “when there is so much outrage over whites appearing in blackface, it should be noted that the Monkeys were really African-Americans in whiteface.”
When asked where he got that idea, Trump said, “It was on several of the websites I follow. Besides that, it seems only natural that African-Americans would refer to themselves as monkeys..
When asked how he could explain the fact that after they stopped performing, they were still white, Trump replied, “They must have bought some cheap whiteface that didn’t rub off. Besides that, the stupid bastards couldn’t even spell monkeys right.”
At that point, Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney jerked the president away.
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