BORDER/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s re-election campaign has harnessed Facebook advertising to push the idea of an ‘invasion’ at the southern border, amplifying the fear-inducing language about immigrants that he has also voiced at campaign rallies and on Twitter. Since January, Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign has posted more than 2,000 ads on Facebook that […]
Category: Racism
8/3/2019
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @i24NEWS_EN: There is nothing racist about President #Trump’s suggesting that those who regularly spew hate at #America might spend thei…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2019 3:51 pm […]
8/2/2019
CIVIL RIGHTS/HUD/MINORITIES/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing to significantly raise the bar for civil rights groups seeking to prove that a landlord, insurance company or lender is guilty of housing discrimination. The proposal, first revealed by Politico, would force civil rights groups to jump over five hurdles, instead of three, […]
7/31/2019
IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A few residents in Colorado Springs, Colorado, have started an online petition to change the name of a local street that shares its name with President Donald Trump. The petition calls for Trump Avenue to be changed to Immigrant Way. It was started by Nina Ellis Frischmann and her team to complete a […]
7/31/2019
POLLS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A narrow majority of Americans voters say President Donald Trump is a racist, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday [7-20-19]. Fifty-one percent of voters say they think Trump is a racist. Forty-five percent say they do not think so, and 5% don’t know. Opinions break down along party lines. Ninety-one percent of Republicans say […]
7/31/2019
MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “CNN’s Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television, insinuated last night while asking a debate ‘question’ that I was a racist, when in fact I am ‘the least racist person in the world.’ Perhaps someone should explain to Don that he is supposed to be neutral, unbiased & fair,…..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
7/29/2019
AFRICAN AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump widened his war on critics of color on Monday [7-29-19] with new attacks on the Rev. Al Sharpton and other political opponents even as he gathered his own African-American allies at the White House to defend him against charges of racism. In a third straight day of broadsides against […]
7/29/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The last time Donald J. Trump blamed a black man for the condition of this undoubtedly troubled city, the year was 2015, the death of Freddie Gray in police custody had spawned a racial uprising, and the black man in question was President Barack Obama…Now Mr. Trump is president himself, and he […]
7/29/2019
AFRICAN AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have known Al for 25 years. Went to fights with him & Don King, always got along well. He ‘loved Trump!’ He would ask me for favors often. Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites […]
7/28/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know, that Elijah Cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district, and of Baltimore itself. Dems always play the race card when they are unable to win with facts. Shame!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 28, 2019 1:35 […]
7/28/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….a look, the facts speak far louder than words! The Democrats always play the Race Card, when in fact they have done so little for our Nation’s great African American people. Now, lowest unemployment in U.S. history, and only getting better. Elijah Cummings has failed badly!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 28, 2019 […]
7/25/2019
MUSLIMS/NOMINATIONS/OBAMA/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s pick for the top spokeswoman job at the Treasury Department repeatedly spread conspiracy theories that suggested then-President Barack Obama was secretly a Muslim who was sympathetic to America’s enemies. Monica Crowley, who was appointed by Trump last week as assistant treasury secretary for public affairs, made multiple comments spreading these […]
7/25/2019
CELEBS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In an unusual flexing of diplomatic muscle, President Trump lashed out on Thursday [7-25-19] at the prime minister of Sweden over what he said was the unfair treatment of the rapper ASAP Rocky, who was charged with assault earlier in the day after nearly three weeks in Swedish custody…Rocky was charged […]
7/24/2019
AFRICAN AMERICANS/DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As ‘Robert Mueller Wednesday’ overtook Washington, with the nation transfixed on the congressional testimony of the special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election, Democratic presidential hopefuls laid out a different case: that President Trump is a bigot who unduly harms black communities. One by one, at the national […]
7/22/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The ‘Squad’ is a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart. They are pulling the once great Democrat Party far left, and were against humanitarian aid at the Border…And are now against ICE and Homeland Security. So bad for our Country!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, […]
7/20/2019
RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As you can see, I did nothing to lead people on, nor was I particularly happy with their chant. Just a very big and patriotic crowd. They love the USA! https://t.co/6IVKEffNnq” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 20, 2019 5:57 am […]
7/19/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a week of attacks by President Trump that culminated in a chant of ‘send her back’ at one of his re-election rallies, Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Democrat from Minnesota, returned to her district on Thursday [7-18-19] evening to a hero’s welcome. About 100 supporters mobbed Ms. Omar at Minneapolis-Saint Paul […]
7/19/2019
RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump on Friday [7-19-19] demonstrated the limited influence of allies or advisers who try to steer him away from pre-election racial and cultural fights. He walked back his disavowal of a racially loaded chant at a campaign rally less than 24 hours after making it. Acquiescing to behind-the-scenes pressure from […]
7/19/2019
GOP/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Ever since Donald J. Trump laid waste to its ideological shibboleths with his victory at the polls, the conservative intellectual class has been scrambling to keep up with him. And earlier this week, at the first major gathering dedicated to wresting a coherent ideology out of the chaos of the Trumpist […]
7/19/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very u…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 19, 2019 9:30 am […]
7/19/2019
MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….he could not have been nicer or more respectful to your favorite President, me. Then I saw the column he wrote, ‘Trump Will Be Re-elected, Won’t He?’ He called me a Racist, which I am not, and said Rhode Island went from economically bad to great in 5 years because the…..” –Donald […]
7/19/2019
DEMS/MEDIA/RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is amazing how the Fake News Media became ‘crazed’ over the chant ‘send her back’ by a packed Arena (a record) crowd in the Great State of North Carolina, but is totally calm & accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three Radical Left Congresswomen…” –Donald Trump, […]
7/19/2019
MEDIA/RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is amazing how the Fake News Media became ‘crazed’ over the chant ‘send he back’ by a packed Arena (a record) crowd in the Great State of North Carolina, but is totally calm & accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three Radical Left Congresswomen….” –Donald Trump, […]
7/18/2019
DEMS/RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Whatever President Donald Trump was planning to do at his rally Wednesday [7-17-19] night, the crowd outside Minges Coliseum was ready for it and ready to ramp it up. More than three days after President Donald Trump triggered national outrage with tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen of color to ‘go back’ […]
7/18/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Facing an onslaught of indignation and qualms even from his inner circle, President Donald Trump claimed Thursday [7-18-19] to be unhappy his rally crowd broke into chants of “send her back” as he denigrated a Democratic lawmaker he’d previously said should leave the US. ‘I was not happy with it. I […]
7/18/2019
GOP/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “He once encouraged supporters to attack protesters — then claimed to ensure the safety of all Americans. He mused that Russia should seize his competitor’s emails — then said it was just a joke. And he whipped his crowd into a frenzy about locking up Hillary Clinton — before insisting post-inauguration […]
7/18/2019
DEMS/MINORITIES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s series of attacks this week against four Democratic women – all minorities – has stirred outrage but it’s far from the first time he has stoked racial tensions. Trump has created controversy for years with incendiary rhetoric that is often directed at people of color – from his branding […]
7/18/2019
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LATINOS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The United States 2016 election, when President Donald Trump was voted into office, may have been tied to a rise in premature births among Latina women across the US, according to a new study. In the nine months beginning with November 2016, about 3.2% to 3.6% more preterm births to Latina women […]
7/18/2019
AFRICAN AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In October of 1973, the federal government charged the Trump Management Corporation with discrimination against African Americans seeking apartments in the 39 buildings the firm operated, most of them in Brooklyn and Queens. A short time out of Wharton, the company’s then president, Donald J. Trump, quickly denied the charges […]
7/18/2019
CONGRESS/GOP/IVANKA/RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nervous Republicans, from senior members of Congress to his own daughter Ivanka, urged President Trump on Thursday [7-18-19] to repudiate the ‘send her back’ chant directed at a Somali-born congresswoman during his speech the night before at a rally in North Carolina, amid widespread fears that the rally had veered into territory […]
7/17/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In 2016, it was ‘lock her up.’ In 2019, it’s ‘send her back.’ President Donald Trump doubled down on the go-back-to-where-you-came-from trope during a Wednesday rally in Greenville, N.C., laying into the four progressive House members who have styled themselves as the foil to the Republican president. During his first rally since […]
7/17/2019
DEMS/GOP/POLLS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democratic congresswomen, a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll shows. The national survey, conducted on Monday [7-15-19] and Tuesday [7-16-19] after Trump told the lawmakers they should […]
7/17/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats torched President Donald Trump as a racist this week — but they also know how to compartmentalize. The toxic relationship between Trump and the opposition party continues to hit new lows, but that’s not stopping Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her party from working with him to avert fiscal calamity and maybe […]
7/17/2019
CONGRESS/GOP/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Forty of the 250 Republicans serving in the U.S. Congress as of Wednesday [7-17-19] afternoon have criticized Republican President Donald Trump over his attacks, widely condemned as racist, on four Democratic lawmakers, all minority women. Four Republicans voted on Tuesday [7-16-19] in favor a Democratic-sponsored House of Representatives resolution condemning Trump’s tweets, […]
7/17/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House on Wednesday [7-17-19] killed an attempt to impeach President Trump for statements that the chamber condemned this week as racist, turning aside an accusation that he had brought ‘ridicule, disgrace and disrepute’ to his office. The move split Democrats, underscoring the divisions within the party over whether they […]
7/17/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats have long believed Donald Trump’s brand of scab-picking politics is deplorable, and now they have made it official, with a House of Representatives resolution condemning the president for urging four congresswomen to ‘go back’ to other countries if they insist on being so critical of his leadership of this one. There […]
7/16/2019
ELECTION/GOP/MINORITIES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. John Cornyn prides himself on winning a large share of the Latino vote in Texas, campaigning in the Asian American community and running ads in three languages. It’s a crucial strategy for a Republican in a diverse state — and one that is sharply divergent from President Donald Trump’s approach. So […]
7/16/2019
GOP/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kevin McCarthy @GOPLeader, ‘The President’s Tweets were not Racist. The controversy over the tweets is ALL POLITICS. I will vote against this resolution.’ Thank you Kevin!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 16, 2019 10:11 am […]
7/16/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not show ‘weakness’ and fall into their trap. This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat…..” –Donald […]
7/15/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, under fire for comments that even members of his own party called racist, amplified his attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color on Monday [7-15-19], saying that they hated America and that one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress sympathized with Al Qaeda. In an extraordinary back […]
7/15/2019
RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When President Trump defended neo-Nazi protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, one of his top aides took the rare step of publicly condemning what he said. Gary D. Cohn, who served as his top economic adviser at the time, said in an interview with The Financial Times that ‘this administration can and must […]
7/14/2019
DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion. Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including Nancy Pelosi, ‘RACIST.’ Their disgusting language…..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 14, 2019 7:02 pm […]
7/14/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 14, 2019 7:27 am […]
7/14/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 14, 2019 7:27 am […]
7/14/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
7/12/2019
DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an unlikely defender: President Donald Trump. Trump stuck up for Pelosi on Friday [7-12-19] after freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York ramped up her criticism of the Democratic speaker. Ocasio-Cortez accused Pelosi earlier this week of singling out ‘newly elected women of color’ for criticism. Ocasio-Cortez’s […]
7/1/2019
DEMS/HUD/RACISM/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Democrats are calling for Housing Secretary Ben Carson to justify his hiring of a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official who resigned this year after the disclosure of racially provocative comments he made spanning more than a decade. Last month, White House officials placed Eric Blankenstein, a former policy supervisor […]
6/28/2019
DEMS/DONALD JR/RACISM/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, shared another person’s tweet with his millions of followers during the Democratic debate on Thursday [6-27-19] that falsely claimed Senator Kamala Harris was not black enough to be discussing the plight of black Americans. ‘Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American […]
5/29/2019
BORDER/CIVIL RIGHTS/HILLARY CLINTON/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hillary Clinton said Wednesday [5-29-19] that President Donald Trump’s administration is tearing down ‘hard-won civil rights’…Slamming the White House’s hardline immigration policies, Clinton pointed to the US southern border, where she said ‘our government is tearing children from the arms of their parents’ and ‘locking them in cages.’ The former […]
5/13/2019
EU/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “He’s rolled back democratic checks on his power, mused about creating a European ethnostate and erected a razor-wire fence to keep migrants out, angering the rest of the European Union. So why was Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday […]
4/26/2019
JOE BIDEN/NEO-NAZIS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [4-26-19] defended his 2017 statement that there were ‘very fine people’ on both sides of the deadly white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Va., comments that recently came under fire again after former Vice President Joe Biden attacked Trump for them. When asked for clarification on his […]
4/16/2019
CONGRESS/MUSLIMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has no regrets about posting a video that spliced together footage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, telling a Minneapolis ABC affiliate that the congresswoman is ‘extremely unpatriotic and disrespectful to our country’…Trump on Friday [4-12-19] posted an edited video featuring a portion of Omar’s […]
4/12/2019
LEGAL/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIRGINIA: “Mississippi federal Judge Carlton Reeves in a speech in Virginia assailed the Trump administration for lack of diversity in judicial appointments and likened President Trump’s attacks on the judiciary to tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan and segregationists in the Jim Crow era. Reeves, who has ruled on some of the state’s […]
4/12/2019
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The Trump administration will not nominate anyone to serve on a United Nations committee on racism, the latest sign of a U.S. retreat from international bodies and traditional human rights priorities. A State Department official said the White House intervened to prevent the expected renomination of a human rights lawyer chosen by […]
3/15/2019
RACISM: [Reporter: “Do you see, today, white nationalism as a rising threat around the world?”] “I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. I guess if you look at what happened in New Zealand, perhaps that’s the case. I don’t know enough about it yet. They’re […]
3/14/2019
RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “The top communications official at the Department of Veterans Affairs, John Ullyot, announced his resignation Thursday, according to an internal email obtained by CNN and a statement from Secretary Robert Wilkie. Ullyot will officially leave his post as the assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs in early April and will be ‘announcing […]
3/11/2019
IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Gary D. Cohn was considering resigning as the top White House economic adviser after President Trump blamed ‘both sides’ in a deadly white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va., his first stop was a meeting with Mr. Trump’s children. In a conversation in August 2017 with Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest […]
2/22/2019
DEMS/MEDIA/MILITARY/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump denied Friday [2-22-19] that his language enabled a Coast Guard officer accused of being a white nationalist who plotted to kill journalists and Democratic politicians. While speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he believes Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson’s plan to carry out white-supremacist terror attacks is […]
2/2/2019
RACISM/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Chicago police accused actor Jussie Smollett of fabricating a story about being attacked by MAGA-loving bigots, President Donald Trump was quick to weigh in. ‘What about MAGA and the tens of millions of people you insulted with your racist and dangerous comments!?’ he wrote on Twitter. And when Catholic high school […]
2/10/2019
ELECTION/ELIZABETH WARREN/NATIVE AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Senator Elizabeth Warren formally announced her 2020 presidential bid this weekend, President Trump responded with a familiar line of attack. He mocked Ms. Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, for her claims to Native American ancestry, again calling her by the slur ‘Pocahontas.’ Mr. Trump then appeared to refer to the […]
2/9/2019
ELIZABETH WARRN/NATIVE AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/25/2019
GOP/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Less than four months ago, the staid Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan became an unlikely battleground between anti-fascism activists and a far-right group known as the Proud Boys. After the Proud Boys’ founder, Gavin McInnes, spoke at the club, vandalism and violence ensued, as people associated with the group squared off […]
1/23/2019
DEMS/MIKE PENCE/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, the vast majority of Americans revere the legacy of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., but they aren’t always on the same page when it comes to the meaning of that legacy. Take, for example, the contrast between how Vice President Mike Pence and two congressional Democrats spoke about […]
1/22/2019
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump woke up thinking about Covington Catholic. In a tweet Tuesday [1-22-19] morning, Trump again expressed support for the all-boys Catholic school in Kentucky after outrage over a viral video from the weekend of a standoff with a Native American activist exploded. More videos emerged Sunday [1-20-19], a day […]
1/17/2019
ELIZABETH WARREN/NATIVE AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Sunday [1-13-18], President Donald Trump took aim at one of his favorite targets: Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is hoping to unseat him in 2020. Responding to a video Warren posted on Instagram in which she drinks a beer in her kitchen and introduces her husband, Trump tweeted: ‘If Elizabeth […]
1/16/2019
GOP/RACISM/STEVE KING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After years of turning a blind eye to Representative Steve King’s inflammatory statements and racist behavior, Republicans decided this week they had enough after Mr. King asked The New York Times when phrases like white supremacy and white nationalism had become offensive. But even as they piled on their condemnation, […]
1/15/2019
ELIZABETH WARREN/MITCH MCCONNELL/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mitch McConnell harshly condemned Rep. Steve King this week for his racist comments. But he has no plans to extend that condemnation to any of President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks.The Senate majority leader said Monday that King ‘should find another line of work’ after the Republican lawmaker from Iowa […]
1/14/2019
ELIZABETH WARREN/NATIVE AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s been more than a century since the Wounded Knee massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn, but both of these notorious conflicts were thrust into a national conversation about Native Americans and race following President Trump’s Sunday night tweet directed at Senator Elizabeth Warren. Mr. Trump, responding to a […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DONALD JR/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Donald Trump Jr. likened his father’s proposed border wall with Mexico to a zoo fence Tuesday [1-8-19] evening, sparking a sharp backlash on social media from users who thought he was comparing immigrants to zoo animals. ‘You know why you can enjoy a day at the zoo?’ the son of President […]
11/20/2018
ELECTION/GOP/RACISM/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump spoke up for a Republican senator Tuesday [11-20-18] facing a runoff election and fierce criticism after making a joke about a ‘public hanging.’ Trump said he plans to hold at least two campaign events, possibly even a third, to support Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in her runoff against Democrat […]
11/14/2018
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers suing President Donald Trump over his decision to end special protections shielding certain immigrants from deportation are seeking unaired footage from his reality TV show ‘The Apprentice’ to try to bolster their case alleging the move was racially motivated, the attorneys said Wednesday [11-14-18]. Lawyers for Civil Rights, which sued Trump […]
11/9/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During a rant on Friday [11-9-18] about CNN reporter Jim Acosta, President Donald Trump turned to another reporter, April Ryan. ‘You talk about somebody that’s a loser,’ Trump said of Ryan, a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks who is African American. ‘She doesn’t know what the hell she’s […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/MINORITIES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s efforts to whip up fear around immigration in the closing days of the midterm cycle may have helped some Republicans clinch wins around the country. But in places like the diverse Denver suburbs, it had the opposite effect. ‘We are part of this country,’ said Saad Salim, who fled Iraq […]
11/8/2018
MEDIA/RACISM/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders seized on a misleading video apparently first posted by a far-right personality associated with fringe media organization InfoWars as a basis for indefinitely suspending the press credentials of CNN’s chief White House correspondent. On Wednesday [11-8-18] evening, Sanders released a statement announcing that the White House […]
11/5/2018
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Monday [11-5-18] closed out an us-against-them midterm election campaign that was built on dark themes of fear, nationalism and racial animosity in an effort to salvage Republican control of Congress for the remaining two years of his term. Mr. Trump’s fiery, invective-filled campaigning produced what may be the most […]
11/1/2018
DEMS/ELECTIONS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “He called Nancy Pelosi ‘an MS-13 lover.’ He deemed Maxine Waters a ‘low-IQ person.’ He dubbed Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas.’ President Donald Trump has never been shy about branding his female political enemies with personal and demeaning insults. But here in Missouri, where Claire McCaskill is facing off against Josh Hawley in one […]
11/1/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the most racially charged national political ad in 30 years, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party accuse Democrats of plotting to help people they depict as Central American invaders overrun the nation with cop killers. The new spot, tweeted by the President five days before the midterm elections, is the […]
10/31/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez called President Donald Trump’s new immigration ad an example of the President ‘at his worst.’ When asked Wednesday [10-31-18] by CNN’s Chris Cuomo for his reaction, Perez called the ad an example of Trump ‘fear mongering’…The ad, tweeted by Trump on Wednesday afternoon, shows a Hispanic […]
10/30/2018
ANTI-SEMITISM/MEDIA/RACISM/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Claiming the media holds him to a higher standard than his rivals, President Donald Trump doubled down Monday [10-29-18] night on the type of rhetoric his critics have argued influenced the perpetrators of a mail bomb scare against CNN and high-profile Democrats last week and a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue […]
10/23/2018
ELECTION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump fixed reporters with a hard gaze and declared: ‘I’m a very nonpolitical person, and that’s why I got elected President.’ Like much of what Trump says, his comment required a large helping of salt, since it came in a session in which his considerable, instinctive and often cynical political prowess […]
10/22/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MIDDLE EAST/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Twitter on Monday [10-22-18], President Trump said that ‘unknown Middle Easterners’ had infiltrated the caravan. That and almost all of his other assertions were inaccurate, misleading or incomplete…There is no evidence that ‘unknown Middle Easterners’ have infiltrated the migrant caravan heading toward the United States’ southern border. Reporters with The […]
10/12/2018
GOP/RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump praised Confederate General Robert E. Lee at a rally in Ohio Friday [10-12-18] night during a soliloquy in which he also praised a number of Ohioans, including Union General Ulysses S. Grant…Trump added that the frustrated Lincoln was forced to turn to Grant to finally deliver a victory for […]
8/29/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican U.S. Congressman Ron DeSantis came under fire on Wednesday [8-29-18] when the President Trump-backed Florida gubernatorial candidate said his state should not ‘monkey this up’ by electing Democratic Mayor Andrew Gillum, who is African-American. Gillum scored a surprise victory in Tuesday’s [8-28-18] Democratic primary for one the United States’ most competitive races […]
8/29/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Florida governor’s race is shaping up to be a ferocious showdown after Tuesday [8-28-18] night’s primary victories by Representative Ron DeSantis, the Republican endorsed by President Trump, and Mayor Andrew Gillum of Tallahassee, a progressive Democrat endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The two hard-charging politicians, both 39, represent a rejection […]
8/23/2018
AFRICA/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is a group of people in Africa President Donald Trump is seriously concerned about. That group of people is white farmers in South Africa. This is the first time as President that Trump tweeted his concern about Africa — Twitter is our window into his brain, remember — and it was […]
8/23/2018
AFRICA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Like so many of President Trump’s late-night tweets, this one was inspired by a segment on his favorite cable channel, Fox News. But when Mr. Trump announced Wednesday [8-22-18] night that he was directing his secretary of state to scrutinize what he said was the targeting of white farmers for land seizures […]
8/22/2018
AFRICA/AGRICULTURE/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. ‘South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.’ @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 9:28 pm […]
8/22/2018
AFRICA/AGRIVULTURE/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have asked Secretary of State @MikePompeo4USA to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. ‘South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.’ @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 9:18 pm […]
8/21/2018
HISPANICS/ICE/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “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 [8-20-18], President Trump appeared to have something else on his mind: the ethnicity of one of the men he was honoring. ‘Speaks perfect English,’ […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s campaign said Tuesday [8-14-18] it has filed for arbitration, accusing Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former campaign aide and White House official, of breaching a 2016 nondisclosure agreement with the campaign. The move is the first legal action the Trump campaign has taken since Manigault Newman published a tell-all […]
8/14/2018
MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Aides to President Donald Trump questioned him during the 2016 campaign about the existence of an audio tape in which he purportedly said the N-word, a racial epithet, during production of his reality TV show ‘The Apprentice.’ But officials’ divergent accounts, shifting stories, and an overall dearth of credibility have combined […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/ELECTIONS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump made race an overt issue in American politics. Now Democrats are ready to meet him head on. Some of the party’s top potential 2020 candidates are testing a barrage of early — and unusually explicit — race-related appeals in the run-up to the next presidential campaign. Sen. Kamala Harris […]
8/14/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump on Tuesday [8-14-18] added his former White House aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, to the growing list of African-Americans he has publicly denigrated on Twitter, calling her ‘that dog’ and a ‘crazed, crying lowlife’ in the wake of her allegations against him of mental deterioration and racism. Even for […]
8/11/2018
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 11, 2018 8:26 am […]
7/24/2018
RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “A senior Trump administration appointee at the Department of Veterans Affairs spread birther conspiracy theories about then-President Barack Obama and made anti-Muslim comments on social media while working for the Trump campaign in Arizona. Thayer Verschoor, the VA’s executive director of intergovernmental affairs, is a former Arizona state Senate majority leader and longtime […]
7/10/2018
ELECTIONS/GOP/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Atlantic County Republican Chairman Keith Davis said Tuesday [7-10-18] he won’t withdraw his support for congressional candidate Seth Grossman, despite Grossman’s sharing of a racist article from a white nationalist website on social media…Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, revealed Monday [7-9-18] that Grossman, the GOP candidate in New Jersey’s 2nd […]
7/3/2018
IMMIGRATION/POLLS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than half of American voters surveyed by Quinnipiac University for a recent poll said they disapprove of the way President Donald Trump has handled immigration. Just 39 percent of those polled said they approve of Trump’s handling of immigration, while 58 percent said they disapprove. But 50 percent of respondents said […]
6/29/2018
HUMAN RIGHTS/RACISM/STATE/UN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Trump administration appointee to the State Department tore into standard UN documents that condemn racism as a threat to democracy. The deputy assistant secretary for refugees and migration, a foreign service officer promoted by the White House to an unusually senior position for his rank, disputed the idea that leaders have […]
6/26/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A man and his mother were doing yard work in California when a woman unleashed a diatribe against Mexicans, and — invoking President Trump — called them rapists, animals and drug dealers. The encounter was captured in a video that was posted on Twitter early Monday [6-25-18] morning and had been […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump amplified his heated immigration rhetoric on Tuesday [6-19-18], accusing Democrats of wanting migrants to ‘infest our country’ and turning a speech on the economy into an angry tirade defending his harsh stance. It was a reflection of Trump’s growing frustration that the family separation crisis roiling his administration has […]