The Racist-Chauvinist-Conman President…Sadly Proves It
This past week, Donald Trump’s concrete actions stamp his intent to erase minority history, stifle government-agency policing, and care for himself and his rich cronies.
Recall in January 2017 when the new president Trump spat out more executive orders than a dragon does flames? And how he’s doing the same thing now?
Reminded me of the consummate Deep Throat movie: “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House” starring that consummate actor Liam Neeson as Felt. Deep Throat was the code name given him by The Washington Post. He was their whistleblower in the Nixon administration who anonymously guided the newspaper’s investigative reporter Bob Woodward.
It brought back specifically Felt’s clandestine meeting with Woodward in a parking deck during dead of night. Woodward’s suffering with the Nixon Administration what we’re suffering via Trump: a massive barrage of activity from the White House; in Woodward’s case involving the Watergate scandal that’s swirling his head. The characters’ meaningful brief exchange:
Bob Woodward: We're lost in detail.
Mark Felt: That's their plan. They want everyone confused. Confusion is control. The truth could ruin the administration.
Trump actually clarified the confusion with two main actions last week.
First Action
Trump issued an executive order terminating all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), programs. DEI efforts are basically to encourage hiring of “underrepresented groups,” i.e. racial minorities, women, and individuals of various sexual orientations.
But one particular anti-DEI action caught my attention, seen in the Associated Press story “More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots”. The article noted:
The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation’s first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII unit and their all-Black 332nd Fighter Group had one of the lowest loss records of all the bomber escorts in the war.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, consisted of the female World War II pilots so vital in ferrying warplanes for the military.
Trump’s specific desire to eliminate knowledge of these two particular groups of patriotic Americans spotlights not only his racism and chauvinism, but a dictator’s desire to erase American history.
This is an ominous reminder of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 and its protagonist Winston Smith. He’s a mid-level worker for the Ministry of Truth. His job: daily REWRITE historical records to conform with the state’s EVER-CHANGING version of history. But in Trump’s case: don’t rewrite it. Remove it. Another type of Nazi book burning.
Trump may be able to get away with it. Why? Because the conservative majority Supreme Court in 2023 overturned 20-year-old caselaw, ruling that educational institutions can no longer consider an applicant's race in making admissions decisions.
That DEI decision may be a basis for the high court to support Trump’s actions. That could make it legal. But that doesn’t mean it’s not racist and chauvinistic.
Second Action
On Friday, Jan. 24, Trump fired at least 18 of the federal government’s inspectors general. An inspector general’s job is to prevent inefficient or illegal operations within the agency. According to NBC News:
Among those terminated were inspectors general for the Defense Department, State Department, Health and Human Services Department and the Department of Labor. The move did not affect the inspectors general for the Justice Department or the Department of Homeland Security.
What does that tell you? Trump wants no one policing the budgets or activities of the military, of the government’s foreign affairs, health services for citizens, or private employers’ actions against employees.
Sounds like he wants to run the government’s business the way he ran his own private businesses, which included (but not limited to) screwing innocent folks seeking a real-estate education through Trump University out of at least $25 million (the amount he legally settled on paying back), and having his private charity shut down for using donations for his own business and political purposes. And then there was last year’s jury of New York citizens who convicted him of 34 felony counts of falsified business records.
Of course, we don’t know if he’s through firing more inspectors general. We’ll have to wait and see.
But he may not be able to get away with it.
Almost immediately on the night of the mass purge, Sergio Gor, White House director of presidential personnel, received a letter from Hannibal “Mike” Ware, chairperson of The Council of Inspectors General of Integrity and Efficiency. Within that missive, Ware told Gor:
At this point, we do not believe the actions taken are legally sufficient to dismiss Presidentially Appointed, Senate Confirmed Inspectors General.
Specifically, based upon the 2022 amendments to the Inspector General Act of 1978, the President must notify Congress 30 days prior to removal of an IG and provide “substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons” for such removal. 5 U.S.C. § 403(b), as amended by the section 5202(a) of the Securing Inspector General Independence Act of 2022 (Title LII, Subtitle A, of P.L. 117-263, 136 Stat. 2395, 3222). The requirement to provide the substantive rationale, including detailed and case specific reasons, was added to better enable Congress to engage on and respond to a proposed removal of an Inspector General in order to protect the independence of Inspectors General.
Bottom line: We’ll soon learn if elected Republicans in Congress want to demand that the president follow the rule of law. Or will they kowtow.
Expect this lack of policing to aid Trump and his billionaire cronies. Teen Vogue wrote what it expects in the article “The Trump Administration Will Function as an Oligarchy of Billionaires and Tech Bros.”
I agree, except for the oligarchy. I believe it’s a dictatorship.
We The People…
If you think Trump’s actions discussed above are fine, then as you were. You probably see in the column above what I think of what you think.
If you don’t agree with Trump’s actions, write or call your Congressional delegation and suggest that they refrain from racist, chauvinistic, illegal actions, and challenge the president for such actions.
You might also get organized, educated, and active in creating change by electing Congressmembers and senators in two years, when the midterm elections occur, who are not racist, chauvinistic, and criminal.
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) - Quotes - IMDb
Trump's federal DEI purge puts hundreds on leave, nixes $420M in contracts (msn.com)
DEI ban: Air Force removes course videos of Tuskegee Airmen, female pilots | AP News
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia
Nazi book burnings - Wikipedia
Trump fires 18 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move (nbcnews.com)
Office of Inspector General (United States) - Wikipedia
Trump paying $25M after judge approves Trump University deal | AP News
Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundation | AP News
Here's what all 34 felony counts in Trump's hush money trial mean : NPR
cigie-letter-to-white-house-1-24-2025.pdf (politico.com)
The Trump Administration Will Function as an Oligarchy of Billionaires and Tech Bros | Teen Vogue
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