Tag: Trump racism

Trump promotes white nationalist propaganda about South Africa

The following article by Eric Lutz was posted on the Mic.com website August 23, 2018:

President Donald Trump late Wednesday night said he has directed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers” — a reference to white nationalist propaganda warning of a “white genocide” in the country.

Trump’s tweet, which was praised by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, came just after Tucker Carlson dedicated a segment of his Fox News program to the bogus conspiracy, which has been promoted by white nationalists and members of the alt-right.

The conspiracy theory originally sprouted from a plan by the South African government to amend the country’s constitution to allow the government to seize land without compensation. The move was made to address historical inequalities in land ownership between black South Africans and the country’s white minority that have persisted since apartheid ended in 1994.

Trump adviser Larry Kudlow hosted publisher of white nationalists at his home

The following article by Robert Costa was posted on the Washington Post website August 21 2018:

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow gives a report on the economy during a Cabinet meeting at White House on Aug. 16, 2018. Credit: Andrew Harnik, AP

The publisher of a website that serves as a platform for white nationalism was a guest last weekend at the home of President Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow.

Peter Brimelow attended the gathering, a birthday bash for Kudlow, one day after a White House speechwriter was dismissed in the wake of revelations that he had spoken alongside Brimelow on a 2016 panel.

Brimelow, 70, was once a well-connected figure in mainstream conservative circles, writing for Dow Jones and National Review. But over the past two decades, he has become a zealous promoter of white-identity politics on Vdare.com, the anti-immigration website that he founded in 1999.

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Trump Says Hispanic-American Border Patrol Agent ‘Speaks Perfect English’ Video

The following article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis was posted on the New York Times website August 20, 2018:

President Trump made the remark during a White House event honoring employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Image by Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be a White House salute to the heroism of immigration agents who put their lives on the line to protect Americans. But on Monday, President Trump appeared to have something else on his mind: the ethnicity of one of the men he was honoring.

“Speaks perfect English,” Mr. Trump blurted out as he encouraged Adrian Anzaldua, a Hispanic-American Border Patrol agent and dog handler from Texas, to join him onstage in the East Room. Mr. Anzaldua recently arrested a smuggler in Laredo who had tried to bring 78 people into the United States illegally inside a truck trailer.

“Come here. I want to ask you about that — 78 lives,” Mr. Trump said, putting Mr. Anzaldua on the spot. “You saved 78 people. So how did you feel, that there were people in that trailer?”

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Trump speechwriter fired amid scrutiny of appearance with white nation

The following article by Robert Costa was posted on the Washington Post website August 19, 2018:

Credit: Brendan Smialowski,i AFP, Getty Images

A White House speechwriter for President Trump was terminated last week after revelations that he had spoken at a conference attended by well-known white nationalists, according to three people familiar with the decision who were not authorized to speak publicly.

Darren Beattie, who was a visiting instructor at Duke University before he joined the White House speechwriting team, was fired Friday after a media inquiry about his appearance at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club conference, where Beattie spoke on a panel alongside Peter Brimelow.

Brimelow, founder of the anti-immigrant website Vdare.com, is a “white nationalist” and “regularly publishes works by white supremacists, anti-Semites, and others on the radical right,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an advocacy group that tracks extremists.

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Donald Trump Once Considered Setting ‘Blacks Against Whites’ On ‘The Apprentice’

The following article by Lee Moran was posted on the Huffington Post website August 16, 2018:

“It would be the highest-rated show on television,” Trump boasted on “The Howard Stern Show” in 2005.

President Donald Trump once said he could gain stellar television ratings by pitting black contestants against white ones for a season of his reality TV show, “The Apprentice.”

In a 2005 radio interview on “The Howard Stern Show,” Trump claimed “some person” had proposed the concept of “nine blacks against nine whites.” CNN aired resurfaced audio of the interview on Wednesday.

“And it would be nine blacks against nine whites, all highly educated, very smart, strong, beautiful people, right?” Trump told host Stern.

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A Year After Charlottesville, Trump Faces New Questions About Racism

The following article by Lindsey McPherson was posted on the Roll Call website August 14, 2018:

Racism charges resurface in light of feud with ex-aide Omarosa Manigault Newman

President Trump has attacked his former aide Omarosa Maginault Newman as a “lowlife” and a “dog.” Credit: Sarah Silbiger, CQ Roll Call file photo

A year has passed since President Donald Trump was accused of racism after he failed to quickly and unequivocally condemn racially motivated violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. But recent claims made by and against his former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman have given new life to those accusations.

On Saturday, the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville violence, Trump tweeted that the riots “resulted in senseless death and division” and called for the nation to come together.

“I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence,” he said in his tweet. “Peace to ALL Americans!”

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White House press secretary can’t guarantee public won’t hear Trump use n-word on audio recording

The following article by John Wagner and Felicia Sonmez was posted on the Washington Post website August 14, 2018:

When asked if a tape of Trump using the n-word exists, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she “can’t guarantee anything.” Credit: Reuters

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that she couldn’t guarantee that the American people will never hear President Trump uttering the n-word on an audio recording, as a former senior White House adviser continued a publicity tour to promote her new book depicting the president as a racist.

The briefing by Sanders came after Trump referred to the former adviser, Omarosa Manigault Newman, as “that dog” in a morning tweet.

“I can’t guarantee anything, but I can tell you that the president addressed this question directly,” Sanders said. “I can tell you that I’ve never heard it.”

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Penn Jillette: Trump said ‘racially insensitive things’ during ‘Apprentice’ tapings

The following article by Jacqueline Thomsen was posted on the Hill website August 14, 2018:

Penn Jillette Credit: Gage Skidmore

Comedian and magician Penn Jillette said in a new interview that he heard President Trump “say racially insensitive things that made [him] uncomfortable” during tapings of “Celebrity Apprentice” as new claims from ex-White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” make headlines.

Jillette, who was a contestant on the show in 2013, told Vulture in an interview published Tuesday that Trump would “ramble” during tapings of his former reality TV show.

“I don’t think he ever said anything in that room like ‘African-Americans are inferior’ or anything about rape or grabbing women, but of those two hours every other day in a room with him, every 10 minutes was fingernails on chalkboard,” Jillette said. “He would ask one cast member if he’d rather have sex with this woman or that woman.”

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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

The following commentary by David Glosser was posted on the Politico website August 13, 2018:

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Brendan Smialowski, AFP via Getty

Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.

It begins at the turn of the 20th century, in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus. Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms and forced childhood conscription in the Czar’s army, the patriarch of the shack, Wolf-Leib Glosser, fled a village where his forebears had lived for centuries and took his chances in America.

He set foot on Ellis Island on January 7, 1903, with $8 to his name. Though fluent in Polish, Russian and Yiddish, he understood no English. An elder son, Nathan, soon followed. By street corner peddling and sweatshop toil, Wolf-Leib and Nathan sent enough money home to pay off debts and buy the immediate family’s passage to America in 1906. That group included young Sam Glosser, who with his family settled in the western Pennsylvania city of Johnstown, a booming coal and steel town that was a magnet for other hardworking immigrants. The Glosser family quickly progressed from selling goods from a horse and wagon to owning a haberdashery in Johnstown run by Nathan and Wolf-Leib to a chain of supermarkets and discount department stores run by my grandfather, Sam, and the next generation of Glossers, including my dad, Izzy. It was big enough to be listed on the AMEX stock exchange and employed thousands of people over time. In the span of some 80 years and five decades, this family emerged from poverty in a hostile country to become a prosperous, educated clan of merchants, scholars, professionals, and, most important, American citizens.

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How to understand Trump’s condemnation of ‘all types of racism’

The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website August 12, 2018:

President Trump condemned “all types of racism” in a tweet on the first anniversary of the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Video: Elyse Samuels /Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

Sharply criticized for his failure to immediately condemn racist protesters after last year’s unrest in Charlottesville, President Trump this year tried to get out ahead of the issue before a planned march in Washington on Sunday.

“The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division,” Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon. “We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!”

Trump was also criticized after Charlottesville for his equation of the concerns of the white-nationalist groups with those of the people coming out to oppose those groups. In his tweet on Saturday, he did the same thing.

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