If Trump did what Buttigieg just did today, the media would be having a field day with it:
“It’s not rude to eat with my hands is it?” – @PeteButtigieg says as he grinds through a piece of fried chicken.
“No, no, go ahead, eat chicken with your hands,” Al Sharpton replies. pic.twitter.com/tDP3mpXNbA
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) April 29, 2019
I know, seems innocuous to those of us who don’t care about such things.
But I guarantee you if Trump ate fried chicken with Al Sharpton, in Harlem no less, and then asked if it was ok to eat it with his hands, the media would be all over Trump.
They would find some way of blaming it on Trump being racist or something and would call it an insult to Sharpton.
And this would be the photo that we’d all be seeing on the news, except it’d be Sharpton staring at Trump eating a piece of fried chicken:
But for the media’s favorite candidate, it’s no problem.
In case you’re wondering if it really went down as in the tweet above, it did. I verified it. You can find it just before the 8 minute mark here:
HAPPENING NOW: 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg lunches with Rev. Al Sharpton in Harlem. https://t.co/WTYa0okP29
— ABC News (@ABC) April 29, 2019