Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Democrat Senator Allegedly Belongs To All-White Country Club?
Aired: 2021-06-22
Duration: 05:20


=== Double Standard At The Beach (05:09) ===

[00:00:00]  Okay, guys. So this is an interesting story.
[00:00:02]  Watch this video and listen to the questions.
[00:00:04]  This is a reporter questioning Rhode Island Senator Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse about his wife and their families having been members of an all-white, all-white private beach club for decades.
[00:00:18]  His response is pretty amazing, and I wonder if Republicans would get the same treatment.
[00:00:24]  Give it a watch. Let me know your thoughts, and I'll be back with some commentary.
[00:00:27]  Okay. A little close.
[00:00:30]  Okay, back in 2017, you had expressed concerns about the membership of the all-white Baileys Beach Club, said that you hoped it would become more diverse.
[00:00:38]  Now, your family's been members, your wife is one of the largest shareholders.
[00:00:42]  Has there been any traction in that?
[00:00:44]  Are there any minority members of the club now?
[00:00:46]  I think the people who are running the place are still working on that, and I'm sorry it hasn't happened yet.
[00:00:51]  Do you have concerns in 2021?
[00:00:53]  I mean, obviously, it's been four years.
[00:00:54]  You had remarks on the floor following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, saying, you know, hoping to root out systemic racism in the country.
[00:01:02]  Your thoughts on an elite, all-white, wealthy club again in this day and age.
[00:01:09]  You know, should these clubs continue to exist?
[00:01:12]  It's a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them.
[00:01:16]  And I think we just need to work our way through the issues.
[00:01:19]  Thank you. Okay, so it's a long tradition in Rhode Island to be racist and to be segregationist.
[00:01:26]  We just need to work through the issues.
[00:01:28]  He's known about the issues since 2017.
[00:01:31]  Like, it's not a new issue.
[00:01:32]  He's been aware of it.
[00:01:34]  And I assume he's still there.
[00:01:36]  I mean, has Sheldon Whitehouse resigned from his racist and segregationist beach club yet?
[00:01:43]  If not, why not?
[00:01:45]  Have the media even asked him that question?
[00:01:49]  Have the media called the club to see how those kinds of policies could stand in 2021?
[00:01:55]  Are there protests out in front of the club?
[00:01:59]  Where's the outrage?
[00:02:01]  Where's the outrage?
[00:02:02]  You see some Democrats responding to some of the tweets I've seen about it like, well, there may not be wealthy enough people of minority status in Rhode Island.
[00:02:12]  B.S. There's plenty.
[00:02:14]  It's just a segregationist club.
[00:02:16]  Let's stop pretending it.
[00:02:17]  But again, there's no outrage.
[00:02:20]  Imagine this was a Republican.
[00:02:22]  Imagine it was what they believed to be a Republican institution.
[00:02:25]  They'd be boycotting.
[00:02:27]  They'd be naming names.
[00:02:29]  They'd give you a list of the membership.
[00:02:31]  Right? They should just rename it Sheldon White Club.
[00:02:34]  Because that's what it is.
[00:02:36]  Okay? These things exist.
[00:02:38]  They shouldn't, but they still do.
[00:02:40]  But when it's a Democrat, it's rules for them and rules for us.
[00:02:44]  And there's a double standard to all of this.
[00:02:47]  He was asked about it originally in 2017.
[00:02:50]  And four years later, he's still working on it, guys.
[00:02:52]  He's really putting in an effort.
[00:02:54]  He hasn't resigned from a club that has segregationist policies or racist policies.
[00:02:58]  He's still a member because he likes the beach.
[00:03:02]  Why? You think a Republican could get away with not leaving that club?
[00:03:06]  Why hasn't Sheldon Whitehouse resigned from his white club?
[00:03:10]  I want to know.
[00:03:11]  And I think you should too.
[00:03:13]  Maybe we should write him.
[00:03:15]  Because the whole long-standing tradition Yeah, that's the problem, isn't it?
[00:03:20]  Isn't that the long-standard tradition we've heard is a problem with anything else that's even remotely similar?
[00:03:25]  Certainly if it involves a conservative or isn't protecting a Democrat senator?
[00:03:34]  I understand these kinds of plays has history, but that's a ridiculous response.
[00:03:39]  You're a sitting senator.
[00:03:41]  Your whole party does nothing but race bait and play that card day in and day out.
[00:03:47]  And you're to tell me that, well, you know, we're going to keep pushing membership to do something about it.
[00:03:52]  I'm going to still attend, of course, because I'm not going to give it up.
[00:03:56]  But it's a problem and we've got to do something about it.
[00:03:59]  I don't want to hear any more about this nonsense from the Democrats that have such a double standard.
[00:04:04]  It's liberal privilege at its finest.
[00:04:06]  I wish I would have known about this example when I was writing the book.
[00:04:09]  But again, if Sheldon Whitehouse was a Republican, this would be a major story.
[00:04:14]  They wouldn't be covering it up, okay?
[00:04:16]  Bailey's Beach Club...
[00:04:18]  Would be the front page of every place.
[00:04:21]  There'd be activists, protesters in front of the place for months.
[00:04:25]  They'd be taking pictures and naming names of all the members as they go in and out of their white-only rich person club.
[00:04:32]  Okay? I mean, my father did the opposite with Mar-a-Lago when he opened it up to everyone because those kinds of places existed in Palm Beach.
[00:04:40]  Okay? He did the opposite.
[00:04:42]  Like, way before it was ever woke or popular to do so because it was the right thing to do.
[00:04:47]  That's what my dad did.
[00:04:49]  Yet, they'll tar and feather him.
[00:04:50]  Imagine the shoes were reversed and this was Donald Trump.
[00:04:53]  They'd go nuts.

=== Back To Looking (00:26) ===

[00:04:54]  But because it's Sheldon Whitehouse, he'll get a pass and nothing will happen.
[00:04:59]  Welcome to the Democrat Party, right?
[00:05:01]  They'll use these kinds of situations to their advantage, and when it happens to them, what happened?
[00:05:06]  I don't know. I don't know.
[00:05:07]  Oh, I didn't realize there was a problem.
[00:05:09]  Well, we'll go back to looking at that for another four years.
[00:05:13]  Enough, Sheldon. Man up.
[00:05:15]  Do the right thing, Sheldon.
[00:05:17]  I have a feeling you won't, because you're not capable of that.