Trump canceled a federal grant that helped rightwing extremists move away from radical ideas--THROWING KEROSENE

HOW TRUMP TOSSED KEROSENE ON RACIAL HATE AND DIVISION IN AMERICA

1. **Trump singled out funding for historically black colleges as potentially unconstitutional** https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/05/trump-historically-black-colleges-financing-unconstitutional-238061

2. **Trump Wanted to Make Mortgages More Expensive for Minorities of all colors** https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/donald-trump-fannie-mae-freddie-mac

3. **The most dramatic drop in black unemployment first came under Obama **, when it fell from a recession high of 16.8 percent in March 2010 to 7.8 percent in January 2017 --BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT ROSE UNDER TRUMP--it again fell significnatly under Biden-Harris https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27------------------ Fact check: Biden, not Trump, has the record lows for Black unemployment and poverty
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/16/politics/fact-check-trump-biden-black-unemployment-poverty/index.html

4. **African Americans also had higher income prior to the Trump administration. A black household earned median income of $40,258 in 2017, the latest data available. That’s below a 2000 peak of $42,348, according to the Census Bureau** https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27

5. Trump’s tax law disproportionately hurt African Americans.-African Americans were disproportionately left out from Trump’s tax cut. African American households received only 5% of the benefits from Trump’s tax law, despite making up about 13% of U.S. households. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/how-trumps-tax-cuts-favor-whites-over-minorities/

6. The Trump administration decided to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which was designed to reduce pollution and improve public health. This action directly affects people of color, since, according to the EPA, they are more likely to live near pollution-emitting power plants, making them more susceptible to dangerous health disorders such as asthma and cardiovascular disease.

7. Trump's Department of Interior recently reversed an Obama-era strategic plan to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in its parks hiring https://www.outsideonline.com/2256526/doi-wants-preserve-inequality-our-parks

8. Jeff Sessions overturned so-called smart on crime approaches to criminal justice by directing prosecutors to pursue the harshest drug sentences possible, without consideration of an individual’s role in a drug conspiracy. This reversal will contribute to the overincarceration of African Americans, who remain more than twice as likely to be arrested for drug possession than whites http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HolderMandatoryMinimumsMemo.pdf

9. Attorney General Sessions reversed a DOJ plan to reduce its use of private prisons, which profit from the war on drugs and house a greater share of people of color than public prisons.

10. Trump signed a bill taking away the right for people to take financial companies to court, a step toward weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects individuals—especially people of color—from wealth-stripping financial products and fights against discrimination in the financial industry.

11. **Trump administration wanted to eliminate the U.S. Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), which provides business consulting services to people of color who wish to start or expand their own businesses**

12. Trump's Education Department is reportedly considering scrapping Obama-era federal guidance designed to ensure school discipline policies do not discriminate against students of color

13. Trump wanted to freeze Pell Grant awards—which help nearly two-thirds of African American students and half of Latino students pay for college

14. In response to white nationalists rampaging through Charlottesville, Virginia and ultimately murdering one counter protester, President Trump responded by defending the white nationalists and blamed “many sides” for the violence

15. Trump rescinded a federal grant designed to help right-wing extremists move away from radical hateful racist ideas

16. Trump supports obamacare erepeal there is no replacement option

17. Trump attacked African American professional athletes for protesting systemic racism

18. The Trump Campaign paid For A Recount In Wisconsin — But Only In Areas With Large Black Populations--id Trump scream about the election results https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/trump-wisconsin-recount-black-voters

19.The right to vote is the most fundamental right of democracy in the United States. But under the Trump administration, countless Americans of color are faced increased barriers to the voting booth. In 2017, 2018 and 2020

20. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division is charged with protecting Americans from discrimination based on race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status, and national origin. Trump tried to undercut the division’s mission, by proposing to eliminate 121 of its staff positions.

21. More than 90 percent of President Trump’s nominees for federal judgeships are white, despite the fact that there were more qualified minorities, His judicial nominees, many of whom used hateful rhetoric and supported voter suppression laws, undermine the idea of representative democracy—that government should look like the people it serves

22. Trump asked Congress to cut funding from the Legal Services Corporation, a nonprofit that supports legal aid programs across the United States and whose client demographic is 4 percent African American and 17.9 percent Hispanic.

23. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Environmental Justice protects low-income communities and communities of color from environmental hazards such as toxic waste and air pollution. The Trump administration wanted to eliminate the entire office, jeopardizing the health and safety of countless Americans.

24. Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, putting 3.4 million American lives at risk. In response, Trump stated that Puerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them”; threatened to abandon the recovery effort; and cast doubt on long-term financial support. He just threw rolls of paper towels at folks

25. The Trump administration decided to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which was designed to reduce pollution and improve public health. This action directly affected people of color, since, according to the EPA, they are more likely to live near pollution-emitting power plants, making them more susceptible to dangerous health disorders such as asthma and cardiovascular disease.

26. Despite widespread and sustained protests, the Trump administration approved the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a controversial project that puts the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe at risk.

26. Only 1 in 5 National Park Service employees and visitors to U.S. national parks are Americans of color. However, Trump's U.S. Department of Interior recently reversed an Obama-era strategic plan to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in its parks.

27. The Bears Ears National Monument contains countless Native American ceremonial sites, historical artifacts and dwellings, and other cultural resources. The Trump administration put this cultural area at risk of destruction and looting by shrinking the protected land by 85 percent to allow for commercial activities, including potential mining and oil and gas development.

28. Trump reversed an Obama-era executive order that placed commonsense training and supervision requirements on local law enforcement when they apply to obtain surplus weapons and equipment from federal agencies such as the U.S. departments of Defense and Justice.

29. Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned smart on crime approaches to criminal justice by directing prosecutors to pursue the harshest drug sentences possible, without consideration of an individual’s role in a drug conspiracy. This reversal will contribute to the overincarceration of African Americans, who remain more than twice as likely to be arrested for drug possession than whites.

30. Trump's Attorney General Sessions directed the DOJ to re-examine existing “consent decrees,” which are court-supervised agreements made between DOJ and local governments to address systemic racism and abuse of power in their police departments, as well as build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. This move was immediately followed by an attempt to derail an agreement to overhaul Baltimore, Maryland’s, police department and signals an end to federal oversight of local law enforcement.

31.Trump's Attorney General Sessions rolled back a DOJ program providing technical assistance to local law enforcement agencies that wanted to build trust with local communities. This voluntary program was popular among police chiefs nationwide, and its changes undermine public safety.

32. Trump's Attorney General Sessions reversed a DOJ plan to reduce its use of private prisons, which profit from the war on drugs and house a greater share of people of color than public prisons.

33. Trump supported cutting an additional $21 million from tribal law enforcement, despite the fact that there is a lack of necessary resources to address high rates of rape and murder on tribal lands.

34. President Trump issued an executive order establishing the Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, headed by Attorney General Sessions, which will develop policies that further entangle local law enforcement with immigrant enforcement and could potentially reignite the war on drugs.

35. Trump pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, who was found guilty of criminal contempt for disregarding a court order to stop illegally profiling and detaining Latinos based on their perceived

36. Trump signed a bill taking away the right for people to take financial companies to court, a step toward weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects individuals—especially people of color—from wealth-stripping financial products and fights against discrimination in the financial industry.

37. Trump planned to merge the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which monitors discriminatory practices among government contractors, with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which holds all employers accountable for discrimination. The merger would decrease their combined budget by millions, making it more difficult to review and prevent discrimination in the workplace.

38. Trump asked Congress to eliminate the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, which provides high-quality after-school programs to 1.1 million low-income students of color.

39. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos advocates for a private school voucher system that would strip funding from public schools and could reinforce school segregation.

40. The Education Department is reportedly considering scrapping Obama-era federal guidance designed to ensure school discipline policies do not discriminate against students of color and those with disabilities.

41. The Education Department proposed eliminating 7 percent of the professional staff members working for its Office for Civil Rights, which would make it more difficult for the office to fulfill its mission of protecting against discrimination in schools and ensuring equal access to education.


42. Students of color are overrepresented in the for-profit college sector. But the Education Department halted the gainful employment rule and borrower defense rule, two Obama-era regulations that protected students and taxpayers from fraud on the part of for-profit colleges, putting more students, especially students of color at risk.

43. Student debt is a growing problem. Close to half of African American borrowers have defaulted on a student loan, yet the Trump administration struck Obama-era requirements that would have ensured borrowers at risk of default receive better student loan servicing and get back on track to repayment.
President Trump wants to slash the budget for the Bureau of Indian Education by $64 million—even though American Indian and Alaska Native people have lower high school graduation rates and are half as likely to obtain a college degree.

44. President Trump supported a proposal to defund Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that nearly 1 million people of color rely on the organization for health services, such as physicals, cancer screenings, and contraceptive care.

45. President Trump asked Congress to slash the budget and staff of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, which protects against discrimination in the health care industry.
The Trump administration failed to secure a timely reauthorization for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This, in conjunction with his proposal to slash Medicaid funding, threatened programs that provide health coverage for 52 percent of Hispanic children, 56 percent of black children, and 25 percent of Asian children.

46. Approximately 58 percent of African American women and 57 percent of Hispanic women between ages 15 and 44 currently use some form of birth control. But President Trump issued an executive order allowing employers to deny women their right to contraceptive care.

47.The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps 13.5 million families of color put food on the table, yet President Trump wants to slash this program by more than $193 billion over the next ten years. This would undermine a program essential to the health and well-being of 8 million African Americans, 7.7 million Hispanic Americans, 1.3 million Asian Americans, 560,000 Native Americans, and 431,000 people of two or more races.

48. Trump’s budget proposal would cut $6.2 billion from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which provides subsidized housing to more than 9 million people, including 4.2 million African Americans and 1.8 million Hispanic people.

49. Trump planned to slash $50 million from HUD’s Indian country housing programs and completely eliminate housing funding for the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. According to the National Congress of American Indians, 40 percent of on-reservation housing is substandard, compared with 6 percent outside of Indian country.


50.. Trump ally held an event at which they were handing out cash to black attendees.--trying to show that African Americans like free stuff--i am sure there are lots and lots of photos

51. Trump campaign Super Bowl ad that featured the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 64-year-old black grandmother from Mississippi, who was convicted and sentenced==the ad had numerous lies

52. The ad touted Trump’s support for the criminal justice reform bill passed by Congress. But that had nothing to do with Johnson’s release, which was the result of a presidential commutation.

53. **Trump has ruled on only 204 clemency requests — 24 approvals and 180 denials. That is the slowest pace in decades.-yet he acts like he is some sort of orange savior shouting from the mountain top--he did find the time to first pardon racist extrodinaire sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been a vocal Trump supporter--Joe Arpaio played a big giant role in the birtherism skit--flying people to hawaii to harrass city and county executives about Obama's birth certificate--LET THIS SINK IN--THE FIRST PERSON TRUMP PARDONED--Vowed To Keep Pushing Birtherism IN 2018 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/28/597523854/senate-candidate-joe-arpaio-vows-to-keep-pushing-birtherism**

54. 2011: **Trump argued that Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School**, and demanded Obama release his transcripts. Trump claimed, “I heard that President Obama was a terrible student.**OBAMA WAS HEAD OF THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW-- THE HIGHEST STUDENT POSITION AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL--HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK STUDENT ELECTED TO THAT ROLE--HARVARD WAS ESTABLISHED 383 YRS AGO IN 1636**

55. Trump administration seeks to make it easier for banks to reject loans for people of color https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-seeking-roll-back-housing-desegregation-rules-discrimination-fair-act-2020-1-1028848036

56. Trump have failed to disavow the Ku Klux Klan in late February 2016 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/29/donald-trump-marco-rubio-david-duke-ku-klux-klan/81101906/

57. Some of his top advisers and cabinet picks have histories of prejudice --Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, was executive chairman of Breitbart, a news site that Bannon dubbed the “home of the alt-right

58. The Justice Department sued his company ― twice ― for not renting to black people.

59. Workers at Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have accused him of racism over the years. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino $200,000 in 1992 because managers would remove African-American card dealers at the request of a certain big-spending gambler. A state appeals court upheld the fine.

60. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,”

61. Trump disparaged his black casino employees as “lazy” in vividly bigoted terms

62. Trump nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States. The Senate refused to confirm Sessions as a federal judge in 1986 amid accusations that he’d made racially insensitive comments

63. Steve Mnuchin Treasury secretary, faces allegations of profiting from racial discrimination. , Mnuchin purchased a troubled mortgage bank, sped up its foreclosure rate. Along the way, Mnuchin’s bank came under fire from housing rights groups for racist practices like lending to very few people of color and maintaining foreclosed-upon properties in neighborhoods that were predominantly black and brown less than in white neighborhoods.

64. There were nearly 900 hate incidents across the U.S. in the 10 days following the election, a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center found. In nearly 40 percent of those incidents, the SPLC found, people explicitly invoked the Trump's name or his campaign slogans

65. He condoned the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester--At a November 2015 campaign rally in Alabama, Trump supporters physically attacked an African-American protester after the man began chanting “Black lives matter.” Video of the incident shows the assailants kicking the man after he has already fallen to the ground.

66. He questioned whether President Obama was born in the United States--for almost a decade and has not provided any evidence he claimed to have had

67. He encouraged the mob justice that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of the Central Park 5.--he continues to appeal to mob justice even after the central park five were found to be innocent by DNA evidence

68. Al Sharpton blasted Trump for holding no events on MLK Day https://www.newsweek.com/insult-american-people-al-sharpton-trump-mlk-day-events-1299344

69. Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/05/trump-historically-black-colleges-financing-unconstitutional-238061

70. African Americans had higher income prior to the Trump administration. A black household earned median income of $40,258 in 2017, the latest data available. That’s below a 2000 peak of $42,348, according to the Census Bureau https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HolderMandatoryMinimumsMemo.pdf

71. Trump signed a bill taking away the right for people to take financial companies to court, a step toward weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects individuals—especially people of color—from wealth-stripping financial products and fights against discrimination in the financial industry.

72. Trump's Education Department is reportedly considering scrapping Obama-era federal guidance designed to ensure school discipline policies do not discriminate against students of color

73. Trump regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign

74. Trump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election https://www.theroot.com/trump-believes-giving-black-voters-access-to-voting-is-1843418169


Hate crimes reportedly jumped by 226 percent in counties that hosted Trump campaign rallies https://www.vox.com/2019/3/24/18279807/trump-hate-crimes-study-white-nationalism**