Washington Post: “Cohen writes that during the 2016 campaign, Trump was dismissive of minorities, describing them as ‘not my people.’ ‘I will never get the Hispanic vote,’ Cohen recounts Trump claiming. ‘Like the blacks, they’re too stupid to vote for Trump.’ Cohen describes Trump’s obsessive hatred of Obama, including claiming that the only reason the former president got into Columbia University and Harvard Law School was because of ‘fucking affirmative action.’ He also recounts Trump’s ‘low opinion of all black folks.’ claiming that Trump once said while ranting about Obama, ‘Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a shithole. They are all complete fucking toilets.’ After South African President Nelson Mandela died in 2013, Trump said he did not think Mandela ‘was a real leader — not the kind he respected,’ Cohen writes.”

“Instead, Cohen writes that Trump praised the country’s apartheid-era White rule, saying: ‘Mandela fucked the whole country up. Now it’s a shithole. Fuck Mandela. He was no leader.’ Cohen writes that before winning the presidency, Trump held a meeting at Trump Tower with prominent evangelical leaders, where they laid their hands on him in prayer. Afterward, Trump allegedly said: ‘Can you believe that bulls–t? Can you believe people believe that bullshit?’ ‘The cosmic joke was that Trump convinced a vast swathe of working-class white folks in the Midwest that he cared about their well-being,’ Cohen writes. ‘The truth was that he couldn’t care less.’ Cohen also depicts Trump as being crude toward women, including inadvertently commenting on Cohen’s then-15-year-old daughter as she finished up a tennis lesson: ‘Look at that piece of ass,’ Trump said, according to Cohen. ‘I would love some of that.'”