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TRUMP BLACKS UP FOR FANCY DRESS PARTY

President blasted for ‘moronic and crass’ outfit

- By BRAD CHADWICK news@ sundayspor­t. co. uk

FEARS are growing for Donald Trump’s state of mind after he had to be restrained from attending a fancy dress party while BLACKED UP!

The American President was hosting the bash at his Trump Tower base in New York for 200 Republican Party donors.

But aides and Secret Service handlers were aghast when the President stepped out of his private quarters with full Black and White Minstrels Show- style blackface make- up.

Stunned

A source said: “There was stunned silence for a fraction of a second and then the Secret Service agents were around the President in a flash, before anyone could see properly.

“There were some bigwigs there from the Republican Party who got a quick glimpse of the President with his full Al Jolson get- up. They were open- mouthed.

“The President got agitated when his staff refused to let him join the party. He was hissing, ‘ I’m the goddamned President of the United States and I own this goddamned building, too’.

“The staff were trying to explain that this was 2017 and wearing blackface make- up was simply not acceptable.

“The President kept banging on about his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

“Then someone got the National Security Adviser, General H. R. McMaster on the phone and the general persuaded the President to go upstairs and remove the make- up.

“More than one person said they fear for Trump’s sanity.”

Last month he faced howls of criticism when he was slow to condemn far- right violence in Charlottes­ville, Virginia. MAKE UP: How Trump may have looked in offensive fancy dress

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