Candace Owens said Barack Obama said "To be like Donald Trump is the American dream" and I said [to myself] "Oh, really.."'
DDG pointed to Snopes (ontopic: where did all the fact checkers go?).
www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-trump-american-dream/
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While some of these articles clarified Obama and Fischer’s meaning in their text, the headline claims presented were a mischaracterization of Obama and Fisher’s argument, which was a call for pragmatism in discussions of racial equality and progress. As one example of this pragmatic approach, Obama and Fischer suggested reframing the quest for racial equality as part of the American concept of equality of opportunity. The invocation of Donald Trump's name was not, as implied by headlines, used to provide an example of the “American Dream,” but rather an example of the “unfounded optimism of the average American” (i.e., the expectation that they or their children would become economically well-off someday) -- a concept Obama and Fischer suggested could be tapped into as a way to bring about more fruitful discussions of racial equality.
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I'm neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but I am grateful.