The Sheridan County Republican Party published a racist post on its Facebook page Tuesday afternoon, using a racial slur and several derogatory stereotypes about Black Americans to describe former President Donald Trump’s candidacy, before deleting the post about 45 minutes later.
The post references a campaign stop that Trump made Sunday in suburban Philadelphia, where he staffed the fry station of a McDonald’s.
The post on Sheridan County Republican Party’s Facebook included a still image from a local television station’s coverage of that day. In the image, an apron-clad Trump is standing next to a sign that says “This McDonald’s is locally owned and operated.”
Below the image is a racial slur.
“Trump is even more of a n****r candidate now” it reads. The slur was crossed out in the post.
Several bullet points are included underneath the text including, “gold plated everything with his name on it,” “multiple baby mamas,” “mugshot,” “34 felonies,” “got shot” and “worked at McDonald’s for a day and quit.”
It also included “dindu nuffin,” which is a derogatory contraction of the words “didn’t do nothing,” according to Hatebase, a website that tracks hate speech.
The Sheridan GOP captioned the post: “While really not a thing in Wyoming, you must admit this is rather funny.”
A reverse Google-image search traces the post back to a far-right online forum that’s popular with extremists and frequently hosts violent, antisemitic and racist content, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Party response
Sheridan County GOP Chairman Bryan Miller said the post was removed because it was “inappropriate” and did not represent the party.
Miller, who was not aware of the post until WyoFile initially contacted him, said he does not run the party’s social media accounts. Instead, that’s the responsibility of the organization’s “communications team.”
“I called and talked to our team, and one of the folks thought it was funny. I said, ‘I don’t think it is, get rid of it.’ And they did,” Miller said.
Miller declined to share more details about who is on the communications team, or who published the post.
“We do not share the names of our folks who do our posting and all that because people here and across the state, they end up doxing them and doing all that crap,” Miller said. “And I will not do that to my people, even when they screw up.”
The post comes two weeks before Election Day, when Trump is expected to handily win Wyoming’s three Electoral College votes against Vice President Kamala Harris. Several polls indicate a tight race in other states as the two candidates head into their final campaigning days.
“Bottom line is, it was inappropriate, and so [I] had it removed because it’s not representative of Sheridan County,” Miller told WyoFile. “It’s that simple. There’s nothing more to it.”
Miller said the role of the organization’s Facebook page has been to “get information out to people,” since he said there’s usually not enough media attention given to the business of the county party.
When asked what information is important for people to have right now, Miller said, “nothing in particular, other than people need to get out and vote.”
Early voting is underway in Wyoming. The general election is Nov. 5.
I moved from California a few months, to resettle in Wyoming to escape leftist ideology, then this! The idiot that submitted this on Facebook is apparently a RINO. Who really supports Trump at the Reblican Headquarters in Sheridan, and the author of the trash post, are they still working there?
When people show you who they are, believe them.
I agree the post was offensive and should go into the collection of offensive and just plain dumb comments:
Did Wyofile report on this one from Sheridan politician Cyrus Western and his racist tweet?
http://www.theroot.com/wyoming-congressman-apologizes-for-tweeting-where-the-1845905063
Or maybe Stephan Pappas on why a woman with a job and four children can’t be in the Senate.
cowboystatedaily.com/2022/09/28/democrat-marcie-kindred-trying-to-unseat-gop-sen-stephan-pappas-in-cheyenne-senate-seat/
Wyofile did report on Karlee Provenza’s provocative posting of Aunti-Fa… but the speech was defended by dismissing the ethics complaint because you are free to use your speech in an offensive manner, according the Speaker Sommers.
wyofile.com/lawmakers-to-examine-legislative-ethics-misconduct-rules/
Just a reminder that more than a few people should self-censor themselves. I tend to like it when they expose their “superior” intellect.
The post isn’t surprising. The chrump worshippers have shown their racist bigotry on countless occasions.
They’re claiming that they have a right to free speech, as if that’s the problem. It’s not the speech, it’s the hate behind it that’s the problem.
“We do not share the names of our folks who do our posting and all that because people here and across the state, they end up doxing them and doing all that crap,” Miller said. True, but maybe if individuals knew that they would be subject to public accountability, they might not do this kind of stupid stuff.
Yes
“Hey, we aren’t racists. That was just a funny joke!” Yeah, right.
Miller seems to have tuned up his talking points in the last 24 hours. It’s worth noting that in an interview with another outfit (Cowboy State Daily), Miller essentially defended the post, saying that it’s been blown out of proportion, that “too many people don’t have a sense of humor”, that this is a reflection on “the state of free speech in this country”, and that their party intentionally posts things that “push the envelope” to get more engagement. It’s disgusting that the official representatives of the GOP here in Wyoming defend this kind of incredibly overt racism. https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/10/22/sheridan-county-gop-shares-then-deletes-racist-post-about-trump-at-mcdonalds/
“He believes that those in the media that contacted him about the post are blowing it out of proportion, which he sees as a testament to the state of free speech in America. ‘There are far too many people who don’t have a sense of humor,’ he said. ‘Political satire has been out there for eons.’ Miller also added that the county party intentionally makes and shares posts that push the envelope in order to get greater engagement on social media.”
Quite indescribable how society is so extremely interested and JUDGEMENTAL about people’s and politicians private life. Media and more use this to sway an audience of those who seems to be interested. The overwhelming desire to forcefully dictate opinions upon others. Aggression, the element of longstanding global strife and endless war.
Private life? This was a public post by a county political party
Trump worked at McD’s for an hour and the next day dozens of people were hospitalized with food poisoning – coincidence or proof that everything the malignant orange touches dies?
Like Pavlov’s dog getting his cue; somebody, somewhere was going to blame Trump for the Mickey D’s listeria outbreak that is occurring nowhere near Pennsylvania.
Interesting that this GOP chairman wants to protect the identity of the racist imbeciles who posted this, and yet Republicans across this country are silent when poll workers have their lives threatened for the hard work they do.
“While really not a thing in Wyoming, …”
What is not a thing? Racism? Emanating from the Sheridan area? Nah never as it is not part of a pattern, or is it? Maybe we should ask outgoing Representative Cyrus Western? Maybe he was not racist enough for Sheridan?
““We do not share the names of our folks who do our posting and all that because people here and across the state, they end up doxing them and doing all that crap,” Miller said.”
Yeah the right to dox people only resides with their idol Donald Trump.
It seems to me, that someone from the Sheridan GOP communications team needs to be removed from that team.
If Bryan Miller thinks regularly bathing in flagrant Anti-Semitism and racism on 4chan isn’t representative of the GOP, then he’s clearly not in-touch at all with his own party.
Bottom line- The voters of Wyoming have a right to know who posted it.
Bryan Miller took immediate action so it was removed. He has taken action to prohibit such garbage to ever be published again!
Unfortunately you are voting for a guy that is dividing America with lies you believe. Wyoming will be giving its 3 electoral votes to a piece of garbage.
Actually, Miller defended the post in a separate interview the very next day.
This is why as a life long Republican, someone who volunteered at the age of 13 to work in Ronald Reagan’s 1976 insurgent campaign and was President of the college Republicans in 1980, I chose not to participate in the Sheridan Republican Party. Ronald Reagan is my political hero. He would never have stood for this garbage. The way the Sheridan Republican Party is run is often disgraceful.
I would say it is representative of Sheridan County unfortunately.
The racist comments were deemed inappropriate by the Sheridan GOP because they were wrong or didn’t go far enough for them?
Because it was outrageous and wrong!
Then why did he say about this issue, “There are far too many people who don’t have a sense of humor. Political satire has been out there for eons.” ??That’s a direct quote.