After promising to protect ‘Black jobs’ Trump gave just one cabinet position to an African American

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Former longtime GOP strategist Deanna Bass Williams, who worked with former Housing Secretary Ben Carson, said that “not everything is about race” but about the best candidates to fulfill Trump’s agenda. The president signed an executive order in his first day in office stating that the federal government “should have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the American people,” and that a “growing body of evidence demonstrates that diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible workplaces yield higher-performing organizations.” Biden entered office in 2021 alongside the first-ever woman and first Black and Indian American to serve as vice president, and with several other Black nominees to his cabinet, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge. That’s what it is.” Trump has improved with appointments for women; Susie Wiles was tapped as the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, and he has picked Brooke Rollins as agriculture secretary, Linda McMahon for education secretary, Kristi Noem for Secretary of Homeland Security, and Pam Bondi for attorney general — his second choice for the role behind now-former congressman Matt Gaetz. “If the president put someone somewhere it is because he trusts them, because he thinks that they are going to do a great job and that is empowering.” Civil rights activists Rev Al Sharpton said Trump “spent this campaign selling himself to Black voters, especially men, by peddling sneakers and implying his criminal convictions would resonate with our community.” “Right now, it appears that the self-proclaimed ‘best president for Black America since Abraham Lincoln’ has lost interest in us,” he said.