GRAPHIC: White Nationalism in the Trump Administration (1st Term) / Elephrame

GRAPHIC: White Nationalism in the Trump Admin (1st Term)

Following eight years of the United States' first black president, Barack Obama, white supremacy and white nationalism have invaded the White House. The current president, Donald Trump, as well as several of the people he has appointed to his administration, have ties to white supremacist and white nationalist individuals, groups and ideas. The following is a chart of those ties; it will be updated if new relationships become apparent.

Donald Trump ⤵
45th President of the United States

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Donald Trump ⤴ 45th President of the United States (2017-2021) • Described Mexican immigrants as drug dealers, criminals and "rapists" on the first day of his 2016 campaign for president.
• Encouraged his supporters to assault Black protesters during his 2016 campaign.
• Appointed several people with white supremacist and/or white nationalist views as well as connections to white supremacist and/or white nationalist circles.
• Signed two executive orders, Executive Order 13769 and Executive Order 13780, that have banned or limited immigration from majority-Muslim countries. These orders are commonly referred to as "Muslim bans."
• Repeatedly made racist remarks including questioning President Barack Obama's birthplace and dismissing a federal judge's qualifications because of his Mexican heritage.
• Endorsed by numerous white nationalist and white supremacist individuals and organizations including Richard Spencer, former KKK Imperial Wizard David Duke and neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. • Repeatedly used racist language, including "kung flu," to describe COVID-19. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/16/theyre-rapists-presidents-trump-campaign-launch-speech-two-years-later-annotated/ https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/22/politics/donald-trump-black-lives-matter-protester-confrontation/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13780 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/us/politics/donald-trump-white-identity.html?_r=0 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/president-donald-trump-racist-examples_us_584f2ccae4b0bd9c3dfe5566 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-hate-groups-neo-nazi-white-supremacist-racism
Stephen "Steve" Bannon ⤴ White House Chief Strategist, Special Counselor to the President (2017) • Bannon is the former executive chair of Breitbart News Network, a far-right website that he has described as a "platform for the alt-right." The "alt-right" is defined by the Anti-Defamation League as "a range of people on the extreme right who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of forms of conservatism that embrace implicit or explicit racism or white supremacy." The term was coined by white nationalist Richard Spencer.
• Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin praised Breitbart for going "hardcore" after Bannon became its executive chair, further stating that Breitbart\'s content is "basically stuff that you would read on [Anglin's neo-Nazi site] the Daily Stormer."
• Bannon's appointment was praised by white nationalists and white supremacists including former KKK Imperial Wizard David Duke, white nationalist publisher Peter Brimelow and Chairman of the American Nazi Party Rocky Suhayda. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alt-right https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/03/01/breitbart-under-bannon-how-breitbart-became-favorite-news-source-neo-nazis-and-white http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/why-its-fair-and-necessary-call-trumps-chief-strategist-stephen-bannon-white-nationalist http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/white-nationalists-on-bannon/index.html
Breitbart News Network ⤴ Far-Right Website (2017-Present) • Breitbart regularly publishes racist, xenophobic, misogynistic and homophobic articles. The website also features an area dedicated to "black crime."
• Breitbart has regularly promoted conspiracy theories including the racist "birther" conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama is a Muslim who was born in Kenya. Breitbart has also published articles promoting President Trump's false claim that President Obama wiretapped him and false allegations that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta were involved in a pedophile ring working out of a pizza shop. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/28/breitbartcom-becoming-media-arm-alt-right https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/here-are-some-of-the-most-controversial-stories-published-by http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/pictures/10-most-despicable-stories-breitbart-published-under-bannon-w452226 https://www.queerty.com/10-antigay-headlines-overseen-trumps-top-advisor-steve-bannon-20161114 https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-03-07/breitbart-fuels-donald-trumps-wiretapping-and-other-conspiracy-theories
Stephen Miller ⤴ Senior Advisor to the President (2017-2021) • Miller was an associate of white nationalist Richard Spencer while the two attended Duke University. They worked with each other to organize an event with Peter Brimelow, founder of the white nationalist publication VDARE.
• Miller regularly derided multiculturalism and immigration in articles and radio appearances during high school and college. One high school classmate described him as having "an intense hatred toward people of color, especially toward Latinos."
• One of the architects of Trump's nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant "America First" agenda, including Executive Order 13769, often referred to as the "Muslim ban."
• Served as Attorney General Jeff Sessions' communications director when Sessions was a U.S. Senator for Alabama. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/01/very-young-person-in-the-white-house-on-a-power-trip https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/stephen-miller-a-key-engineer-for-trumps-america-first-agenda/2017/02/11/a70cb3f0-e809-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html http://www.univision.com/univision-news/politics/how-white-house-advisor-stephen-miller-went-from-pestering-hispanic-students-to-designing-trumps-immigration-policy
Richard Spencer ⤴ President of the National Policy Institute (2011-2020) • Served as president of The National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank, from 2011 until it was dissolved in 2020.
• Advocates for ethnic cleansing and for the creation of a white ethno-state in North America.
• Helped organize the August 2017 "Unite the Right" white nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia that culminated in a terrorist attack by white nationalist James Alex Fields Jr. that killed anti-racist counterprotester Heather Heyer. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/richard-bertrand-spencer-0 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist
Jefferson "Jeff" Sessions ⤴ Attorney General of the United States (2017-2018) • In 1986, Sessions's nomination to a district court was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee after his history of racism was revealed during confirmation hearings.
• During the hearings, black Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Figures testified that Sessions had made several racist and racially insensitive comments including calling him "boy." Coretta Scott King wrote a letter to the Committee stating that Sessions had used his office as U.S. Attorney to "intimidate and frighten elderly black voters." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/02/jeff-sessionss-comments-on-race-for-the-record/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/10/read-the-letter-coretta-scott-king-wrote-opposing-sessionss-1986-federal-nomination/
Sebastian Gorka ⤴ Deputy Assistant to the President (2017) • Gorka, a naturalized U.S. Citizen born in London to Hungarian parents, wore a medal from the Vit•zi Rend during Trump's inauguration. The Vit•zi Rend is a Hungarian nationalist group that was allied with Nazi Germany during World War II. He has also twice signed his name with the marker "v.", an initial that only members of the Vit•zi Rend are permitted to use.
• Three leaders of the Vit•zi Rend have stated that Gorka is a sworn member of the group.
• He has repeatedly expressed Islamophobic views, including the idea that Islam is inherently violent. http://forward.com/news/366339/sebastian-gorka-what-is-the-evidence-and-why-does-it-matter/ http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/sebastian-gorka-donald-trump-white-house https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-a-trump-adviser-an-odyssey-from-the-fringes-of-washington-to-the-center-of-power/2017/02/20/0a326260-f2cb-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html
Michael "Mike" T. Flynn ⤴ National Security Advisor (2017) • Promoted Islamophobia, declaring that "Fear of Muslims is rational" on Twitter in February 2016.
• Tagged racist conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich as well as anti-Semite Jared Wyland in several of his tweets. Also re-tweeted an antisemitic comment blaming Jewish people for criticism of Russia. He later deleted that re-tweet, claiming that it was a "mistake."
• Flynn's appointment was praised by former KKK Imperial Wizard David Duke.
• On February 13, 2017, Flynn resigned as National Security Advisor after The Washington Post reported that he had discussed sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak prior to Donald Trump's inauguration. • Flynn is also a retired Lieutenant General in the United States Army. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/kfile-flynn-tweets/ http://fusion.kinja.com/white-supremacists-are-absolutely-loving-donald-trumps-1793863834

Donald Trump ⤵

Stephen "Steve" Bannon ⤵

Breitbart ⤵

Stephen Miller ⤵

Richard Spencer ⤵

Jefferson "Jeff" Sessions ⤵

Sebastian Gorka ⤵

Michael "Mike" T. Flynn ⤵