Really? I'm pretty sure it was meant to /rhyme/.
Trump peddled a racist lie and conspiracy theory for five years, before he was even in politics. Birtherism. And before that, the Central Park Five. And before that the federal lawsuit against him and his dad for discrimination in housing. It's not plausibly deniable. And this is the same thing.
Read that above statement, how is it not fanning the flames? That a way a president get to talk to an oppressed black population?