Tag: Trump white supremacy
Here is the truth behind Trump’s ‘white power’ tweeting
To this point in his presidency, Donald Trump has told more than 19,000 public lies.
However, he recently did something very much out of character: He was honest about his inner thoughts and true beliefs.
On Sunday, the president retweeted a video of one of his supporters in Florida displaying “Trump 2020” and “America First” signs while repeatedly shouting, “White power!”
Here’s a summary from NBC News of what happened: Continue reading.
The darkly cynical reason conservatives insist on calling Covid-19 the ‘Chinese virus’
As conservative media figures and Republicans pivot from their failed strategy of downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic, they’re adopting a deeply cynical new ploy to help manage perceptions of the growing outbreak.
Along with President Donald Trump, many right-wing personalities are insisting on referring to the pathogen as the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan virus,” which refers to the city in China where the first tracked outbreak of the virus occurred.
A reporter pressed Trump on Wednesday for an explanation of this terminology. Continue reading.
Donald Trump Torched Over ‘Gone With The Wind’ Lament: ‘The Doggiest Dogwhistle’
The president called for bringing “back” the 1939 movie as he complained about the South Korean film “Parasite” winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
President Donald Trump reminisced about the 1939 movie “Gone With The Wind” during his rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday and faced an immediate backlash on social media.
Trump asked to bring “back” the film — heavily criticized for its racist language, demeaning stereotypes of Black characters and its romanticization of slavery before the Civil War ― as he railed against the awarding of the Oscar for Best Picture to South Korean movie “Parasite,” directed by Bong Joon Ho.
“I’m looking for like … let’s get ‘Gone with the Wind,’ can we get ‘Gone with the Wind’ back, please?” asked Trump. “‘Sunset Boulevard.’ So many great movies,” he continued. “The winner from South Korea, I thought it was best foreign film. Best foreign movie. No … did this ever happen before?” Continue reading.
Minnesota Saw A Significant Increase In White Supremacist Propaganda In 2019
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The distribution of white supremacist propaganda in Minnesota saw a significant increase last year, jumping more than 160%, according to a watchdog group.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says that there were 63 incidents of white supremacist fliers, stickers and posters spotted in Minnesota in 2019. That’s a considerable uptick from 2018, when just 24 incidents of white supremacist propaganda were recorded by the group.
The uptick in Minnesota is consistent with an increase in propaganda across the Midwest and the country, the ADL reports. Year over year, the region saw a 118% increase in white supremacist propaganda while the country saw a 123% increase. Continue reading.
How Trump is aligning the US military with the Russian white supremacist criminal syndicate
Whether you’re a fervent nationalist or citizen-of-world internationalist, this story should inspire some alarm:
Russian efforts to weaken the West through a relentless campaign of information warfare may be starting to pay off, cracking a key bastion of the U.S. line of defense: the military.
While most Americans still see Moscow as a key U.S. adversary, new polling suggests that view is changing, most notably among the households of military members.
The second annual Reagan National Defense Survey, completed in late October, found nearly half of armed services households questioned, 46%, said they viewed Russia as ally.
Overall, the survey found 28% of Americans identified Russia as an ally, up from 19% the previous year.
Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor
Andrew Johnson pioneered the recalcitrant racism and impeachment-worthy subterfuge the president is fond of.
Last week, in defense of her father, Ivanka Trump tweeted out a quotation she wrongly attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville: “A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.”
The misquotation came from an opinion essay in The Wall Street Journal that has since been corrected. What is fascinating about this incident though, is that the quotation actually comes from an 1889 book, “American Constitutional Law,” that defends Andrew Johnson against his impeachment in 1868. By the time the book was written, emancipation and the attempt to guarantee black rights lay in shambles, and conservatives rallied to the defense of Johnson, one of the most reviled presidents in American history.
Much more than impeachment connects the presidencies of Andrew Johnson and Donald Trump. No one expected either man to enter the White House. Both presidencies began with a whiff of illegitimacy hanging over them: Johnson’s because he became president when Lincoln was assassinated, Mr. Trump’s because he won the Electoral College despite having nearly three million fewer popular votes than his opponent, the largest losing margin of any president who actually won the election. The size of the gap did not bode well for American democracy.
View the complete November 29 commentary by Manisha Sinha on The New York Times website here.
The far-right agenda of Trump’s most controversial aide
Bannon was speaking of Stephen Miller, the 34-year-old White House staffer who maintains a curiously firm place within President Trump’s otherwise constantly shifting orbit. Miller’s fingerprints can be detected all over Trump’s presidency. He is, after all, one of Trump’s main speechwriters. But his biggest role has been in molding the White House’s immigration policy, tacitly pushing through a sweeping series of measures — from travel bans on Muslim-majority countries to punitive actions against immigrants who receive public assistance — under Trump’s watch.
Although many advisers have come and gone during Trump’s tumultuous presidency, Miller has endured. That is, until now. Over the past week, more than 100 Democratic lawmakers and some civil society organizations have called for Miller’s resignation in response to new revelations about the depths of his ideological extremism.
View the complete November 24 article by Ishaan Tharoor on The Washington Post website here.
Supreme Court comes to Trump’s aid on immigration
The Supreme Court has repeatedly come to President Trump’s aid over the border, bolstering his efforts to build a wall and turn aside migrants seeking asylum on the southern border.
The latest example came Wednesday night, when the court issued an unsigned order allowing the administration’s stringent new asylum policy to remain in place while battles over its legality continue.
The new rule is essentially a blanket rejection of asylum-seekers who pass through Mexico before arriving at the southern border, denying entrance to almost all Central American migrants, who make up the majority of the recent surge in border-crossers.
View the complete September 14 article by Chris Mills Rodrigo on The Hill website here.
‘Their only concern is for whites’: Man Trump called ‘my African American’ leaves GOP
Gregory Cheadle went to a Trump rally out of curiosity and left it as an international headline.
The infamous moment, like many at Donald Trump’s rallies that summer in 2016, seemed to materialize out of nowhere. Trump was telling a story about an African American supporter when suddenly he spotted Cheadle in the front row at the Redding, Calif., event, and paused to single out the black man.
“Oh, look at my African American over here!” Trump exclaimed, pointing at Cheadle. “Look at him! Are you the greatest?”
View the complete September 13 article by Meagan Flynn on The Washington Post website here.