RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Interviewer: “You said you hope there’s not systemic racism. Do you think there is?”] “I would like to think there is not. Yeah, I would like to think there is not such systemic racism. And it would be whatever I can do to make myself correct on that thought, I’d like to do it. Now, unfortunately, in the real world, there is some. But I would like to, whatever I could do to reduce that or get rid of it, I’d be very happy with…
Yeah, I’d like to think there is not but unfortunately, there probably is some. I would also say it’s very substantially less than it used to be.”
-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020