Part 2: What Do They Want You To Believe? Black People Are Stupid & Other Lies

This is a four part series. If you haven’t read part one, start here.

Donald Trump thinks Black people are not as intelligent, skilled, or motivated as white people.  

Are you listening?

He has admitted that it is probably true that he told the former president of Trump Hotel and Casino in 1988 "Laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that, I have Black guys counting my money and I hate it."

Jim Crow-era racist cartoon depicts a caricature of a newly freed Black person as “lazy”.

Since returning to office in 2025, he rescinded a 1965 Executive Order signed by Lyndon B. Johnson that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. A memo claimed it undermined “our national unity.”

All he needed was common sense and a belief to conclude that DEI caused the D.C. air tragedy. His narrative was that people who were not qualified were in positions that caused the accident. 

He said, “We have a high standard. We’ve had a higher, much higher standard than anybody else. And there are things where you have to go by brainpower, you have to go by psychological quality and psychological quality is a very important element of it.” 

Without evidence, he claimed any DEI hire on either aircraft or in the tower was to blame – but there were none! What this administration wants is a return to when America was great – and whenever they claim that was,  it was a lot whiter in every way that mattered.

How else do you explain Darren Beattie – just selected to serve as the State Dept’s acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs  (fired from the first Trump administration after attending a white supremacist conference) – who during Jan 6 insurrection tweeted insults at Black political figures and organizations, including this, “Ibram Kendi needs to learn his place and take a knee to MAGA. Learn his proper role in our society.” 

In October, Beattie wrote on X, “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities and demoralizing competent white men.”