The Trump Campaign’s Big Lie About Anti-White Racism Has Reached a New Low

This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. “As President Trump has said, all staff, offices, and initiatives connected to Biden’s un-American policy will be immediately terminated.” —Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung Should former President Donald Trump be reelected this November, his administration plans to weaponize Civil Rights–era legislation against the historically underserved communities that they were intended to help, according to an Axios report. The Trump campaign’s fable of anti-white racism goes something A spokesperson for the former president’s campaign, Steven Cheung, told Axios that if Trump wins a second term, “all staff, offices, and initiatives connected to Biden’s un-American policy will be immediately terminated.” Cheung did not clarify what “un-American” policy he was talking about. In an executive order in 2021, Biden vowed to “pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all,” adding in a press release that “entrenched disparities in our laws and public policies, and in our public and private institutions, have often denied that equal opportunity to individuals and communities.” Whatever Trump’s plan is to roll that back, his allies are already waging a legal battle against government equity programs. Still, it’s an explicit acknowledgement of what many racial justice advocates feared—that if Trump is reelected, his administration plans to eliminate hard-won gains that count as Civil Rights progress on many, many fronts.