Can you give me three words to describe Donald Trump?

@Johnblackthorn Not in my lifetime. And I’ve been voting here for 40 years.

@bijouxbroussard yeah but you don't know what's coming, just imagine longing for the trump days.

@Johnblackthorn Our Constitution would have to be shredded for things to get worse.
I was a child during the last days of legal racial segregation. So we’d have to be going back to that for things to be worse. And Trump has divided us almost as much as we were back then.

@bijouxbroussard I've been trying to phrase this in a way that doesn't say "wow you're old" so I'm just going to say, sorry for implying your old, but obviously not that old.
I honestly thought that segregation was abandoned in the early 20s, and was now just a historical memory.
Edit
I've just been reading about it, I'm stunned that it was abolished until 1964 the year before I was born, that's a real eye opener.
For me anyway.

@Johnblackthorn No. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made racial segregation and discrimination in our country illegal across the board, but with “states rights” integration continued to be a battle in many of the Southern states. I grew up in California but even here many cities were still segregated. So yeah, I guess I am “old”. I was visiting relatives down South in the early 60s and wandered off, into a segregated Woolworth’s. The security guard picked me up and bodily tossed me out the door, onto the sidewalk. I was four years old.

@bijouxbroussard yes I did read that there were still a few states allowing "whites only" signs.
I'd never given it much thought having only seen them on tv in films where horses are the common form of transport and the few cars that there are look like model t fords, so my guess would be the 30s at the latest, strange that two world wars didn't change it though.

@Johnblackthorn During both world wars the [b]troops[/b] were segregated, too. The Korean conflict when my father served, was the first time our military was integrated. During WWII, German POWs brought here had more freedoms than black GIs. Consider [b]that[/b]. 🤔

@bijouxbroussard thanks for expanding on that, I was going ask about the war because I know black Americans fought with us, and I'm aware that some had to volunteer their services to the French because they couldn't join in the USA, I wasn't sure if that was because the USA hadn't joined in yet or because blacks weren't allowed to.
Wouldn't you think that they'd (or in reality we) would have dropped the segregation for the wars and then just abandoned it?
Now that we're talking about it, I do remember hearing about how American troops wouldn't share with blacks, I just assumed that was individuals being obnoxious not that it was acceptable behaviour to them.

@Johnblackthorn By that time blacks could join the military—in fact they were drafted, just like everyone else. They were just segregated, unable to serve alongside white troops. Fighting against Hitler, who basically had the same attitudes.
My grandfather served in WWI—“The Great War”, he called it, was gassed, came home on a segregated train and had to be careful because white men who couldn’t or didn’t serve were attacking returning black soldiers. Several were lynched in their uniforms.

So things would have to go back to those times before I could ever be nostalgic for the kind of hatred Trump has rekindled.

@bijouxbroussard thank you for sharing a part of you life with me, I had friends that referred to it as the great war or the kaisers war, we were truly awful people, hopefully you're right and none of us will take those steps backwards.