Michael Steele

The birther conspiracy, the Muslim ban, shithole countries.

All of that?

Fake?

I could go on.

So could you.

But none of those Republican members of Congress who sent out a tweet today had enough courage to say what this three-time Trump voter told C-SPAN.

I mean, I'm looking at this awful picture of the Obamas.

And I just want to apologize to everybody in the country for supporting this rotten, rotten man.

And to note, the president left that racist post up for 12 hours.

But then he finally took it down.

Then the White House tried to claim that an unnamed staffer was responsible for the post.

Now, I don't know what's more insulting, that they thought we would believe that Trump didn't post it, or that they thought we would be comforted by a random staffer posting from the president's social media account at 11.44 p.m.

Even Fox News felt the need to press Trump's White House press secretary about the president's response to all of this.

Okay, she doesn't want to get ahead of the president.

Well, moments later, Trump had the opportunity to apologize.

And this is what he said.

No, I didn't make a mistake.

What mistake?

You didn't make a mistake.

The president also claimed he simply did not see the racist part of that video before it was posted in his name.