{"id":6453,"date":"2011-05-09T15:05:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:05:52","slug":"wanda-sykes-rips-donald-trump-calls-birthers-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6453","title":{"rendered":"Wanda Sykes Rips Donald Trump, Calls Birthers Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wanda Sykes<\/strong> has never pulled punches, especially when it comes to controversy and politics. On Thursday night, she delivered a jab to <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, and a full-on smack down of conservative birthers.<\/p>\n<p>Before her scheduled performance in Vancouver,<strong> Sykes<\/strong> spoke to the Vancouver Sun about her take on the right wing attacks on <strong>President Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel sorry for \u2019em, they\u2019re just sad,\u201d she said of the birthers. \u201cI love that they\u2019re hanging it on \u2018Well, he\u2019s not from this country\u2019 when they should just face it: You\u2019re having issues because a Black man is president. That\u2019s what it is, and you need to deal with that, to work with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump&#8217;s<\/strong> act has not exactly impressed <strong>Sykes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not happy unless he\u2019s relevant in some way,\u201d she told the paper. \u201cHe wants people to be talking about him. I thought he would be happy enough to finally have a decent season of &#8216;Celebrity Apprentice&#8217; but, you know, he had to make a little bit more noise than that, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda Sykes has never pulled punches, especially when it comes to controversy and politics. On Thursday night, she delivered a jab to Donald Trump, and a full-on smack down of conservative birthers. Before her scheduled performance in Vancouver, Sykes spoke to the Vancouver Sun about her take on the right wing attacks on President Obama. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}