{"id":174933,"date":"2024-11-14T16:14:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/donald-trump-i-dont-think-he-is-racist-welsh-first-minister\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:14:05","slug":"donald-trump-i-dont-think-he-is-racist-welsh-first-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/donald-trump-i-dont-think-he-is-racist-welsh-first-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: I don’t think he is racist – Welsh first minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wales’ first minister has said she does not think the incoming US president Donald Trump is racist.<\/p>\n

During a BBC radio phone-in, Labour’s Eluned Morgan said: “There were a hell of a lot of black people and Latinos who voted for him in the election.”<\/p>\n

Her words contrast with those of Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who called Trump “racist”, “sexist” and a “homophobe” in an interview in May<\/a> and urged his party to “call him out”.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Radio 5 Live on Thursday<\/a>, Morgan said the UK had to “keep as good a relationship with the United States as we can”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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UK Labour Labour Foreign Secretary David Lammy previously called Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”, in 2018 when he was a backbench MP, but has dismissed those comments as “old news<\/a>“, insisting he would be able to find “common ground” with the president-elect.<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning’s phone-in Morgan was asked by presenter Nicky Campbell if Trump was a racist.<\/p>\n

“I shouldn’t think he is, to be honest,” she said.<\/p>\n

“There were a hell of a lot of black people and Latinos who voted for him in the election.”<\/p>\n

The first minister added that the American vote had to be respected: “We need a strong relationship with the United States irrespective of who leads the country.<\/p>\n

“It’s our biggest area in terms of inward investment,” she said.<\/p>\n

She said she was worried about the potential of additional tariffs, however. “It will hit our economy,” she warned.<\/p>\n

During his election campaign Trump pledged to impose a 20% tariff on all imports into the United States and a 60% tariff on Chinese imports.<\/p>\n

During Thursday’s programme, which marked Morgan’s first 100 days leading the Welsh government, the first minister also called for farmers to “calm down a bit<\/a>” over changes to inheritance tax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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