President Donald J. Trump is a White supremacist and Nazi apologist
Way past time to call it as it is...
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Amid the tariff chaos he spurred, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday, where he was asked by reporters about his plan to bring about the release of the 59 Israeli hostages being held captive in Gaza by Hamas.
In typical Trump fashion, the president dodged the question and went on a bizarre rant that seemingly remembered Nazis for … their sympathy.
“I said to them, was there any sign of love?” Trump said, recounting his conversation with released hostages.
“Did the, Hamas, show any signs of like, help? Or liking you? Did they wink? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? … Like, you know, what happened in Germany?” Trump said, absurdly comparing the hostages’ situation to the Holocaust, which murdered six million Jews.
“People would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress,” the president went on, suggesting that the Nazis were known for their generosity.
“No, they didn’t do that, they’d slap us,” Trump said the hostages told him about Hamas, while sitting next to the man who is currently leading Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “Their hatred is unbelievable.” - Marin Scotten, The New Republic, April 8, 2025
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Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.
“The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail is still on the shelves. The 1973 novel, which envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries, has been embraced by white supremacists and promoted by Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser.
“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.
The Trump administration’s decision to order the banning of certain books from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library is a case study in ideological censorship, alumni and academics say. – John Ismay, New York Times, April 11, 2025
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For years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor,” Harriet Tubman. “The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage,” the page began.
Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.
The introductory sentence is gone, too. It has been replaced by a line that makes no mention of slavery and that describes the Underground Railroad as “one of the most significant expressions of the American civil rights movement.” The effort “bridged the divides of race,” the page now says. - Jon Swaine and Jeremy B. Merrill, Washington Post, April 6, 2025
Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump enacted “Mission South Africa,” a race-based program offering citizenship to White South Africans “threatened with genocide,” a lie that’s been repeated for decades by White Afrikaners wanting a return to apartheid, given huge exposure by White South African Elon Musk, and now part of Trump racist bag of grievances. Trump used this lie to justify not attending the upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa, a meeting at which he was sure to catch grief over tariffs and other feats of Trump destruction. He also used this racist lie to justify kicking South Africa’s ambassador out of the US and ending AIDS funding to the country.
The Trump administration’s attack on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs) has turned into an all-out assault on anything having to do with the progress, rights, history, and perspective of non-White people, women, and queer folk. Dozens of Trump’s executive orders have demanded the removal of “DEI-tainted” books from libraries, college courses from curriculums, exhibits from museums, entertainment from venues supported in part by government grants, mentions from government websites, etc. Trump and his cohorts often use DEI as an epithet, a replacement term for N------.
Of the 38 top people in Trump’s administration, 34 are White, two are Latino, one is Arab, and one is a Black American. The Black appointee is Scott Turner, who heads HUD, an agency whose leader is traditionally a Black American. Trump’s second term cabinet is tied with George W. Bush’s for the second least racially/ethnically diverse ever (Trump’s first term cabinet is the least diverse). This follows “DEI” president Joe Biden’s most diverse cabinet ever, as well as increasingly diverse cabinets under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Even Jimmy Carter had more Black American cabinet members than Trump has had, and Carter was elected in 1976! (Note that diverse should be read as representative of the racial and ethnic make-up of the country.)
As president, Trump has hired outright racists, Holocaust deniers, antisemites, “White nationalists,” and “European chauvinists.” When the president’s hate team has been exposed, Trump and his people defend them with more vigor than they extend to the victims of racist violence. “Very fine people on both sides” is now “very fine people on the White side.”
Trump’s racism is not a new thing, not at all. His family has a long history of racial discrimination in housing. The man who claims "I don't have a racist bone in my body” has repeatedly told non-White people to “go back where you came from,” pushed racist slanders such as Haitian immigrants eating dogs, referred to African nations as “shitholes,” referred to a Black supporter as “my African American,” and so on. The Black people Trump is most comfortable with fit his stereotype of “the good ones” – athletes and entertainers.
None of what I wrote is conjecture. All of it is fact and can be backed up by more than news articles. Because Trump has no filter, there is plenty of audio and video of Trump and “his White people” spilling racism and using vile stereotypes. There’s a lot of legal documents that support charges of Trump’s racism, especially in housing but also in employment. And none of this stuff is hard to find.
Donald J. Trump is a White supremacist and, at the very least, a Nazi apologist.
Trump is not our first White supremacist president. Almost all of the Founding Fathers were White supremacists. Nearly every president before Lincoln enforced White power. Our post-Reconstruction presidents were quite lacking in racial empathy. Theodore Roosevelt was an outright racist. Woodrow Wilson palled around with the Ku Klux Klan. FDR’s racial policies were sketchy. Nixon’s racism (and antisemitism) is there on tape (and can be seen in his Southern Strategy). Both Reagan’s and Bush I’s presidential campaigns were centered on racist slander (Welfare Cadillacs, Willie Horton, etc.) and their rule hostile to civil rights. President Trump has good bad company.
The differences between Donald Trump - White supremacist and Nazi apologist - and the other presidents of the United States is that we are firmly in the 21st Century when White supremacy is a clear enemy of democracy and that Trump’s racism is the more aggressive than that of any president of past one hundred years. His administration is engaging in a racist attack on anything his goons see as threatening to White people, which is anything that is not White. Trump’s foreign policy is soaked in White nationalism. Many of his employees and closest allies are proven racists and antisemites.
The evidence to support Trump’s White supremacist beliefs is overwhelming and, yet, the mainstream media underreports the president’s racism and embrace of Hitlerism (New Republic was the only news source I found that reported Trump’s Nazi-empathy comments) and most pundits refuse to refer to Trump as the person he is, waiting for him to declare his hatred of anyone who isn’t like him. That’s not going to happen. Most White supremacists in the 21st Century deny their true beliefs or dance around the obvious. And what is obvious about Trump, backed up by decades of documented facts, is:
Donald J. Trump, president of the United States, is a White supremacist and Nazi apologist.