Former President Donald Trump’s history of racist rhetoric has been amplified over the course of his political career. In an August report, PBS News notes the 2024 MAGA hopeful “has used terms such as ‘animal’ and ‘rabid’ to describe Black district attorneys. He has accused Black prosecutors of being ‘racist.’ He has made unsupported claims about their personal lives. And on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump has deployed terms that rhyme with racial slurs as some of his supporters post racist screeds about the same targets.”
He continued, “This idea of hierarchy — democracy is committed to the rule of law, and what that means is that anyone, Black or white, woman or man, non-binary person, who is in that position as a judge, is and has the sacred duty of democracy and protecting the rule of law. So the contempt that he is showing is an attack on the equality that democracy, that democratic rule brings. The attack on the rule of law, and he’s saying it’s racial and gender hierarchy, ‘and me, I’m your macho leader who is the real law.'”