Trump has a special hatred for Africa and people of African descent

Within the first three weeks of his second presidential administration, Trump’s crimes have included:

• Fascist round-ups of immigrant workers, with hundreds being deported in military aircraft while being shackled. Trump is setting up a concentration camp for immigrants in Guantánamo on land stolen from Cuba.
• Trump launched a storm of anti-trans attacks, radically removing trans people’s rights, banning gender identity from all official documents such as passports, banning transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports, and restricting or even eliminating gender-affirming care.
• Menaced Colombia with a trade war when Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro protested the mistreatment of Colombian immigrants.
• Trump is seeking to take over Greenland, annex Canada, and is threatening to invade Panama. Thousands of U.S. troops have been sent to the Mexican border. Trump has ridiculously ordered renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
• Now, Trump wants to seize Gaza and kick out two million Palestinians who have survived 15 months of genocide.
• Yet, with all of his attacks on Latin America and Palestine, the first country that Trump bombed was the African country of Somalia.

Trump has a special hatred for Africa and all Black people. He wants to turn back the clock to the days of undisguised white supremacy.

On his second day in office, Trump rescinded President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 executive order banning discrimination in hiring by the federal government and its private contractors. Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah has rightfully called Trump’s campaign against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), an effort at resegregation.

Trump’s attendance at the Super Bowl depends on the message “End Racism” being removed from the end zone.

Darren Beattie — Trump’s pick to be the State Department’s Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs — is an open bigot.

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.” 

The apartheid connection

Donald Trump’s entire life as the offspring of a real estate mogul has been coated with bigotry. Trump and his daddy were sued by the U.S. government in 1973 for refusing to rent to Black people.

Trump took out full-page newspaper ads when five innocent Black and Latinx youths were framed for assault in the 1989 “Central Park” case. Trump has never apologized, even though the Exonerated Five were freed after years in jail and compensated.

One of the five, Yusef Salaam, has been elected to the New York City Council.

On Feb. 3, Trump condemned South Africa for a law that has taken small amounts of land from whites. Thirty years after the fall of apartheid, whites still control 70% of land in South Africa, all of it stolen from Africans.

Trump whined on his Truth Social account that “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY.” The term “certain classes” means white settlers.

Trump is now suspending all U.S. aid to South Africa, most of which funds HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. That’s as genocidal as the U.S.-made bombs that killed thousands in Gaza.

Fox News and all fascists call any efforts at land justice in South Africa to be “White Genocide.” During Trump’s first administration, two pro-apartheid white farmers from South Africa — Kallie Kriel and Ernst Roets — met with National Security Advisor John Bolton.

Kriel and Roets also met with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officials. This shows how this agency, which is being shut down by the Trump regime, was about U.S. domination, not helping people. 

Elon Musk — Donald Trump’s virtual co-president — is the son of an apartheid-era emerald mine owner. Musk also attacked the land law, as did Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Vice President JD Vance’s mentor is the billionaire Peter Thiel, who was brought up under apartheid. Thiel’s millions in campaign contributions were vital in electing Vance as a U.S. Senator from Ohio.

Alongside Trump’s attacks on immigrants, Palestinians, and Black people are his vicious attacks on transgender people. Bigotry hurts all poor and working people.

Trump & Co. want to return to the days before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which helped smash open colonial rule. Millions of people need to come out in the streets — as we did during the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 — to stop this fascist regime.