Now, if I said that Trump was corrupt and childish and should be prosecuted, he’d insult me too (c’mon, hit me, big boy). It’s his self-serving way of lashing out, which is significant in itself. But the larger philosophical issue is with his ad hominem attack on these people as “racist.” What is a racist, and who can properly be called one?
Trump is hardly a reliable judge of human character. Nor can we place much weight on the angry comments made by a criminal defendant against his prosecutor. But let’s consider the idea that a Black person can be a racist.