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I think there is ample evidence Barak is responsible for Trump, starting at the first white house correspondants dinner, concluded with https://youtu.be/Uy7mg6vBqUI?t=25

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Being roasted by Obama at the WH correspondent’s dinner might have caused Trump to run for the presidency. But surely you don’t believe Obama is to blame for the millions of voters who put Trump in office.

There is however, a body of research that points to an increase in anti-Black racism manifested itself in the form of white backlash to the election of a Black president—as the underlying reason for Trump’s ascendency. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/communication/faculty/krosnick/docs/2012/2012%20Voting%20and%20Racism.pdf

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Yeah I'm just saying that was Trumps origin story when everyone was laughing at him.

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