Democrats have turned the “race card” into an all-purpose tool — not to fix real problems, but to squeeze political juice from every situation. It’s almost muscle memory at this point. Whenever something happens that they don’t like, the reflex is predictable: claim racism.
Maryland’s Democratic governor, Wes Moore, just proved that again in spectacular fashion. Moore went on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday and suggested his skin color might explain why he didn’t get an invite to a White House dinner with governors hosted by President Donald Trump.
“It’s not lost on me that I’m the only black governor in this country, and I find that to be particularly painful, considering the fact that the president is trying to exclude me from an organization that not only my peers have asked me to help to lead, but then also a place where I know I belong in,” Moore said.
The problem: Moore wasn’t excluded because of race; he was excluded because he’s a Democrat.
As Politico noted, “Trump had already announced that the traditionally bipartisan winter meeting between the NGA and White House would include only Republican governors.”
Is Moore a Republican? Nope.
The article does note that Trump “specifically blocked Moore and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis from the event’s black-tie dinner,” and Polis is white.
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I can hardly blame Trump for making it a Republican-only affair. Does anyone really think Democrats like Moore, Polis, Gavin Newsom, or J.B. Pritzker would even show up? I think we all know what would happen. There are a bunch of Democrat governors who are 2028 contenders, and does anyone really believe that they’d participate in a White House event? I wouldn’t bet on that. They’d have likely refused to participate to “resist” or protest some Trump administration policy. Then they’d have issued press releases about “defending democracy” or “standing up to hate,” and the entire narrative around the event would have been about Democrat governors choosing not to show up for what should have been a bipartisan event.
So, why give them the opportunity to do that?
“I have long learned — and I’ve talked to the people and the children of my state — that I am never in a room because of someone’s benevolence or kindness,” Moore claimed. “I’m not in a room because of a social experiment. I’m in the room because I belong there, and the room was incomplete until I got there.”
When pressed on whether he actually believed Trump excluded him because of his race, Moore backpedaled ever so slightly. “I can’t speak to the president’s intent. It’s not lost to me, but I can’t speak to the president’s intent.”
Translation: he wanted to float the accusation without having to defend it. Why do that? Because the important thing was making the accusation, not whether it was justified.
The truth is that Trump didn’t make this about race — Moore did. Democrats can’t function politically without weaving racial grievance into every thread of the conversation. When logic fails, they lean on emotion. When facts don’t fit, they reach for identity.
The constant playing of the race card isn’t just tedious. It’s shameful.
