Trump Ruins Everybody’s Ramadan Dinner Plans

Trump detractors view everything through the prism that Trump is racist, sexist, Islamaphobic, homophobic, and a spray painted pumpkin head who struggles for coherent diction. There’s only strong evidence of the latter. Starting out an argument with heinous labels is a good way to win over non-critical thinkers. A woman could scream “rapist” at Johnny Weir and a crowd would converge to beat him with his own pearls. 

Trump canceled the White House’s two decade long tradition of celebrating an end of Ramadan Iftar dinner. A breaking of the fast for practicing Muslims. The Trump as Muslim hater headlines are ripe across the land. HuffPo called it “yet another slap in the face to Muslims everywhere”, though they reflexively equate etiquette slights to physical violence. Something picked up for $150,000 worth of art and gender studies classes. Expect Trump to take the criticism to heart. Maybe Tweet something about Muhammed’s shitty table manners with a GIF of somebody fucking a goat. He lives for this shit.

Since Muslims represent barely one-percent of the U.S. population, and probably even a smaller voting block than that at the polls, assume the big Iftar shindig was taken up largely for broader public relations symbolism. That’s not a good way to decide who gets free eats. Three percent of the nation self-selects as atheists and another four percent as agnostics and they don’t get jack shit for White House dinners. 

The opposite of ass kissing is not hate. It’s merely not ass kissing. Whatever Bush and Obama did by way of symbolic warm hugs and burqa no touches every June in the White House clearly didn’t do anything to appease the element of Islam that is trying to blow up babies and buildings. How many years would you host a big dinner for a chick who wouldn’t put out? Yes, it’s the exact same thing. Trump’s eating all the pre-purchased shawarma and giggling on the inside.

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