{"id":7243,"date":"2025-08-05T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:06:06","slug":"trump-escalates-attack-on-charlamagne-tha-god-while-doubling-down-on-long-history-of-racist-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7243","title":{"rendered":"Trump Escalates Attack on Charlamagne tha God While Doubling Down on Long History of Racist Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Stacy M. Brown<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump lashed out at popular radio host Charlamagne tha God, calling him a \u201cracist sleazebag\u201d and \u201clow-IQ individual\u201d after the Black media personality criticized the former president during an interview with Lara Trump on Fox News.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s outburst, posted on his Truth Social platform, came just hours after Charlamagne \u2014 whose real name is Lenard McKelvey \u2014 told Lara Trump, \u201cI don\u2019t want to say that I think he did a terrible job, but if he\u2019s doing a terrible job, I gotta call it like it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, an avid Fox News viewer, took offense not just to the criticism, but to the radio host and author\u2019s stage name.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is he allowed to use the word \u2018GOD\u2019 when describing himself?\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cHe\u2019s a Low IQ individual, has no idea what words are coming out of his mouth, and knows nothing about me or what I have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Trump claimed he deserved praise for his supposed peace deals and economic achievements, recent data shows core consumer prices continue to rise and Black unemployment has surged to its highest point since the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump, do you realize the best way to get the headlines you want is to simply do a good job. Is to simply do right by all Americans,\u201d said Charlamagne, responding to Trump on the show \u201cThe Breakfast Club<\/a>,\u201d a syndicated radio show based in New York that he co-hosts with DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious and Loren Lorosa. \u201cHe called me a racist. I didn\u2019t mention race not one time while on Lara Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some argue Trump\u2019s insults toward the radio host are consistent with a decades-long pattern of racially charged language, discrimination, and attacks on Black individuals and institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not real familiar with Charlamagne tha God because I don\u2019t listen to a lot of podcasts or media personalities, but I know he\u2019s an opinionated brother,\u201d writer John Valentine wrote on X<\/a>, formerly known as Twitter. \u201cIt\u2019s good to see him responding to Trump\u2019s unhinged rant about him. More Black men should have the courage to challenge him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pattern of Racial Attacks<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Trump\u2019s current behavior mirrors a well-documented history of racially inflammatory remarks and actions. According to PBS News, Trump has repeatedly used racially coded language to describe Black prosecutors like Letitia James and Alvin Bragg, referring to them as \u201canimals,\u201d \u201cdegenerate psychopaths,\u201d and \u201cracist.\u201d He also ran a campaign ad falsely alleging a romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a gang member she was prosecuting, a move critics say was intended to delegitimize her and incite racist sentiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s taking that historical racialized language that was offensive and insulting, and the subordinating of Black persons, applying it in a contemporary space and really bubbling up that history,\u201d Dr. Bev-Freda Jackson, a professor at American University, told PBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scientific Evidence of Harm<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A 2023 peer-reviewed study titled \u201cTrickle-down Racism: Trump\u2019s Effect on Whites\u2019 Racist Dehumanizing Attitudes\u201d<\/a> found that Trump\u2019s election emboldened racist views among his white supporters.<\/p>\n

Researchers Ashley Jardina and Spencer Piston discovered that white Trump supporters expressed more dehumanizing beliefs about Black people after the 2016 election, while his opponents moved in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

Reported hate crimes against Black people spiked after Trump\u2019s victory, with the surge largest in counties where he held rallies.<\/p>\n

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney warned of the very outcome, calling Trump\u2019s effect \u201ctrickle-down racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attempts to Erase Black History<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In addition to rhetoric, Trump has acted to dismantle the institutional recognition of Black contributions to American history.<\/p>\n

According to Human Rights Watch<\/a>, the Trump administration pushed to erase content about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad from National Park Service exhibits. Trump also issued an executive order targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture as \u201cdivisive,\u201d prompting the resignation of museum director Kevin Young.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s efforts included gutting the Institute for Museum and Library Studies and creating the so-called 1776 Commission, which aimed to replace curricula like the 1619 Project with \u201cpatriotic education\u201d that downplayed the role of racism in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

Historians described Trump\u2019s attack on the museum as part of his strategy to \u201csanitize racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

As noted in POLITICO, <\/a>Trump\u2019s executive order ignored slavery\u2019s constitutional roots and failed to mention that America\u2019s founders enshrined the institution of slavery in the Constitution by counting enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for the Census.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like we\u2019re headed in the direction where there\u2019s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed, or that Jim Crow laws and segregation and racial violence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,\u201d historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, told Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Legacy of Racism: \u2018This is Who Donald Trump Is<\/strong>\u2018<\/h2>\n

Trump\u2019s racial views didn\u2019t begin with politics.<\/p>\n

As early as 1973, the Department of Justice sued Trump and his father for housing discrimination against Black tenants. During the investigation, Trump reportedly told a federal attorney, \u201cYou know, you don\u2019t want to live with them either.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later led the \u201cbirther\u201d movement to delegitimize former President Barack Obama and notoriously called for the death penalty against the wrongly accused Central Park Five\u2014young Black and Latino men later exonerated. Even after they were cleared, Trump refused to apologize, claiming, \u201cThese young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s pattern also includes praising white supremacists in Charlottesville as \u201cvery fine people,\u201d suggesting immigrants from African nations come from \u201cs\u2014hole countries,\u201d and telling four Congresswomen of color to \u201cgo back\u201d to the places they came from \u2014 even though three were born in the U.S.<\/p>\n

For many Black Americans, Trump\u2019s attack on Charlamagne isn\u2019t just personal \u2014 it\u2019s historical.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is who Donald Trump is,\u201d Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter<\/a>, plainly noted. \u201cHe\u2019s been this way all his time in public life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Published without changes from Washington Informer Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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