Michael Steele

Folks, I don't know what to do.

I don't believe him.

Remember, Trump left that post up for 12 hours.

No one else even defended it as a harmless parody of the Lion King.

They knew, and so did he.

And look, it's all profoundly disheartening.

There's no doubt about that.

Not that Trump posted it, but that he thought he could post it in an America that would accept it.

Folks, that says everything about where this man thinks America is and what he thinks especially about Black men and women.

So yes, there is a lot I could say about Donald Trump.

But this moment is so much deeper than him.

And today I found myself thinking about my own childhood, growing up right here in Washington, D.C.

I found myself thinking about the time when my mom and dad couldn't take me to certain parts of this city, certain parks in this city, or shop at certain stores in this city.

And today, like so many Americans out there, Donald Trump brought that all back.

We got to relive it.

We got to relive that time.

It feels so foreign, but it's really real.

And so today, like many of the folks who grew up with me in this town and many folks around the country during that time, we're reliving it, my own childhood.

And that's being projected on me and countless other Americans by the sitting president of the United States.

Joining me now, Princeton University professor and MSNOW political analyst, Eddie Glaude, and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Janae Nelson.