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  • 2019-03-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Comedian Steve Harvey Praise President Trump as a Politically Incorrect 'Fixer'? (en)
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  • In early 2019, a viral Facebook message appeared to indicate that the comedian and broadcaster Steve Harvey had published an unusual defense of President Donald Trump, likening him to a flawed janitor hired to clear a home of raccoons -- which represented the Democratic and Republican parties as well as undocumented immigrants in the analogy: In some cases, the message was simply shared or re-posted without any reference to any author, but in other instances it was attributed to Steve Harvey. This attribution prompted inquiries from readers about whether the person behind the viral analogy was in fact the well-known and widely-respected host of Family Feud and the syndicated talk show Steve. At least one blog post explicitly claimed the post had been written by Steve Harvey, the public figure. It's not clear who was the creator of the raccoons analogy, which has been making the social media rounds since at least 2016. However, it was shared more than 120,000 times after it was posted on 11 January by Steve Harvey, a Facebook user who appears to live in Tennessee: Steve Harvey, the popular broadcaster, did not write the message and had not posted it online as of 4 March 2019. Harvey met with Trump in January 2017, a week before his inauguration, to discuss a potential collaboration with incoming Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson -- a meeting which Harvey said was initiated by the outgoing Obama administration's transition team. (Harvey enjoyed a friendly relationship with Obama and interviewed him on his talk show in 2013.) Harvey's meeting with Trump prompted outrage among some commentators, a backlash which Harvey himself criticized as unfair and misleading. However, Harvey has since emphasized that he is not a Trump supporter and said he should have accepted his wife Marjorie's advice to not meet with the president-elect. Before the 2018 mid-term elections, Harvey expressed strong support for Democrat candidates including Andrew Gillum (Florida gubernatorial candidate), Stacey Abrams (Georgia gubernatorial candidate) and Beto O'Rourke (Texas Senate candidate), saying voters should elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, in order to create a greater political balance within the legislative branch of government. (en)
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