Dems in white compared to KKK by Trump adviser

WASHINGTON — In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Trump asked Congress to “reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution.”

That plea evidently didn’t resonate with one senior adviser to his re-election campaign. Katrina Pierson, who also served as Trump’s national campaign spokeswoman in 2016, took to Twitter after the speech to compare Democratic congresswomen who wore white in tribute to the suffragists to the Ku Klux Klan.

“The only thing that the Democrats uniform was missing tonight is the matching hood,” Pierson tweeted early Wednesday morning.

Pierson, who made false claims on television during the 2016 election about Hillary Clinton’s health and wrongly asserted that President Barack Obama started the war in Afghanistan, was not the only figure affiliated with Trump’s campaign to draw KKK comparisons with the Democrats wearing white.

The Rev. Darrell Scott, who acted as a liaison between Trump and black pastors and served on his presidential transition team, tweeted before the State of the Union, “I see the Dems have their Klan colors on tonight!!”

The KKK comparison was repeated by other rightwing figures, including Sean Davis, co-founder of the conservative site the Federalist, and radio host Mark Simone.

“Tonight is not the first time a bunch of ghouls dressed in white denied the humanity of an entire class of people in order to continue perpetuating horrific violence against them,” Davis wrote on Twitter.

Simone tweeted: “The Democrat women all dressed in white — to show solidarity with the Ku Klux Klan? As a tribute to Good Humor salesmen? To look like insane asylum attendants? They like dressing like Charlie Chan?”

The tweets echo a talking point for some on the right who have tried to link the Democratic Party’s history with the KKK. The KKK actually infiltrated both parties during the height of its influence in the 1920s, The Washington Post determined in a story last March.