Coco Chow?

I don't use the word "hate" casually. And, in fact, there are not very many things that I would say that I hate.

But I hate Donald Trump. 

To me, he is a person who is so self-absorbed that he would, in the words of Lord Varys from Game of Thrones, "...see this country burn if he could be the King of Ashes." (Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 4 ("And Now His Watch Is Ended," written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss).

So I certainly am not nor will I ever be within five hundred miles of being an apologist for him.

But I have to admit that I'm puzzled about the fusillade of news reports reference his recent "racist" Truth Social post about Elaine Chao:

"China loving wife, Coco Chow" is certainly disrespectful and inappropriate...but I have to admit that I don't understand how it is racist. I checked Wikipedia's List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity (not making this up) to see if they knew something I didn't, and I couldn't find anything corresponding to any of the questionable words in this phrase. I checked other internet sites as well. Nothing.

So I have to admit that unless someone enlightens me, I am not seeing the racism here...and I don't just mean the "Chinese is not a race, so it's xenophobia, not racism" argument. 

And here's the thing: calling this stupid and disrespectful post racism allows Trump's defenders an opportunity to respond by saying, "See? These Woke Snowflakes go out of their way to make unfair accusations of Our Beloved Leader." And I don't think it's ever a good idea to give those fools fuel for their fire.

P.S. By a strange coincidence, as I was thinking about these things at 4 a.m. this morning I was watching a recap of the NFL games from yesterday, and caught a glimpse of this on my television:

It's a strange universe.