Day 1,324: Trump: anti-racism training is anti-American

According to the Department of Homeland Security, white supremacists are the deadliest domestic terror threat.

At the same time, during a national reckoning on race, Donald Trump, a deeply, deeply racist man, is telling federal agencies to stop anti-racism training, calling them “anti-American propaganda.”

The OMB director, Russell Vought, in a letter Friday to executive branch agencies, directed them to identify spending related to any training on “critical race theory”, “white privilege” or any other material that teaches or suggests that the United States or any race or ethnicity is “inherently racist or evil.”

Vought’s memo cites “press reports” as contributing to Trump’s decision, apparently referring to segments on Fox News and other outlets that have stoked conservative outrage about the federal training.

Trump, watching sycophantic coverage of himself, along with an almost entirely white audience, saw outrage about training federal employees to understand inherent equities in the system and decided to placate his base by ending such training. Claiming that even speaking about racism is anti-American says so much about Trump, much of his base and the networks that play to both.

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