Rick Wilson

He is not a Republican.

He's an authoritarian statist, and he took the branding of the old Republican Party and the old conservative movement.

He took the logos and the flags and the office building, but he didn't take the values of conservatism.

Let's not be subtle about this.

Donald Trump is not exactly a guy brimming with racial understanding.

And he's a guy from Queens in a time and a place where the things he said about black people in the past when he was – I let the Jews count the money.

I don't want those blacks in my counting rooms at the casinos.

It's a double whammy of racism.

But he's a guy who also doesn't believe –

that the country should be about anything but him.

He looks at himself and says, I'm more important than Martin Luther King was to this country.

He may be more consequential in the end, which is a bad thing, but the lessons of King...

should not fall to the selfishness of Trump.

But he cannot relinquish the spotlight.

He can never let it go.

He can never wake up and say, oh, no, I'm not going to put myself in the middle of this.

I'm going to honor one of the greatest civil rights and political leaders in our country's history.

No, it's always got to be about him.

I am all in favor of people making money.

God knows.