Geezerly, Trump's political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built. 

But long before birtherism, Trump had made his worldview clear. 

He fought to keep blacks out of his buildings, according to the U.S. government; called for the death penalty for the eventually exonerated Central Park Five; and railed against “lazy” black employees. 

“Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” Trump was once quoted as saying. 

“The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”