And American President having NO problem in demigrating and attacking people and countries of color with little to no repercussions…
“Civil Right’ put in the drawer….
Diversity a dirty word….
Using immigration as a thing to attack migrants of color….
Going after school’s that are trying increase minority students….
Yes…
Trump & Co. ARE attempting UNDO decades of America dealing with who it is….
Increasingly NOT just ‘White’…
But a beautiful increasinly mixed place as it has always been moving towards…….
We’re dealing with Racism coming from the VERY TOP decades after marching and preotesting against it…
Is this truly making ‘America Great Again’?
President Trump’s Cabinet applauded him this week after he described Somali immigrants as “garbage” who “contribute nothing. He unapologetically condemned an entire community, with no fear of political backlash.
Why it matters: Guardrails against racist, xenophobic or dehumanizing rhetoric have all but vanished on the American right. What was once disqualifying — or the exclusive domain of online trolls — is now a fixture of national political discourse.
Flashback: Before Trump came on the scene in 2015, it was common in modern American politics for elected or appointed officials to face consequences for making racist or bigoted comments.
- As far back as 1976, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz was forced to resign after telling a racist joke about Black Americans on a flight returning from the GOP convention.
- In 2002, GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was pressured to step down after praising Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist presidential campaign.
- Even during Trump’s first term, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was censuredand removed from committees for questioning why terms such as “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” had become offensive.
But Trump himself has been largely impervious to those norms, with public outrage over his caustic language growing more muted year after year.
- Trump vaulted into political prominence by promoting the racist conspiracy theory that President Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. — a playbook he revived in 2024 against other rivals of color.
- His 2016 campaign-opening claim that Mexico was sending “rapists” into the U.S. triggered weeks of national uproar, as did his leaked complaint in 2018 about immigration from “shithole countries.”
Zoom in: Then came the 2024 election campaign, which blew open the Overton window on race and identity.
- Trump discarded any lingering restraint, declaring that unauthorized immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country” (echoing a Nazi theme), and amplifying false claims that Haitian migrants in Ohio were eating pets.
- Conservatives mobilized around backlash to the 2020 racial justice movement, the Biden administration’s immigration policies and perceived censorship of political speech by the left.
- Trump’s MAGA movement treated his 2024 win as a sweeping cultural mandate — and grew more explicit in their mission to “defend Western civilization” and preserve white Christian identity.
Zoom out: Nearly a year into Trump’s second term, language that once led to denials, clarifications or resignations now circulates freely online and at the highest levels of government.
- GOP members of Congress reacted to New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s election by posting images of the 9/11 attacks and calling for the Ugandan-born Democrat to be denaturalized and deported.
- The Department of Homeland Security and White House social media accounts now routinely mock immigrants targeted for deportation, deploying trollish memes on official channels.
Note…
And like the tides of the ocean?
The waves of those chastised and set upon are surely going tro return to America’s sure’s…
Even a ex-NTC Real Estate guy won’t stop it….
You’re surprised by this?
Those views are pervasive in the Republican Party.
Trump gets that.
Me surprised?
NOPE….
Been posting about this from Donald for OVER a Decade…..