What did Donald Trump do today?
He said it was wrong to study racism in America's past, then insulted yet another person of color.
Trump once again spent his (official) vacation day on Twitter. In particular, he was upset by the New York Times new feature, The 1619 Project. It looks at the 400 years of American history following the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the present-day United States.
Trump, who yesterday threatened to designate people protesting white supremacists as terrorists, called the project a "racism witch hunt." It's not clear what he meant or if he'd read it.
Later in the day, Trump attacked Fox News contributor Juan Williams, who is black, calling him "pathetic" and "nasty and wrong." It's not clear what if anything provoked Trump's anger at Williams this time.
Besides Williams, a partial list of the non-white Americans Trump has attacked—just on Twitter alone—since he started running for president includes:
- Huma Abedin, aide to Hillary Clinton
- Stacy Abrams, voter rights activist and Georgia politician
- Lavar Ball, entrepreneur
- the majority non-white city of Baltimore
- Cory Booker, U.S. Senator
- Donna Brazile, DNC Chair
- Ben Carson, his own HHS secretary
- Elijah Cummings, member of Congress
- Carmen Yulín Cruz, mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator
- Gonzalo Curiel, federal district court judge
- the predominantly African-American government of Washington, D.C.
- Brandon Victor Dixon, actor
- Justin Fairfax, lieutenant governor of Virginia
- Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck
- Whoopi Goldberg, TV host and actor
- Nikki Haley, his own former ambassador to the United Nations
- the mostly non-white cast of Hamilton
- Jemele Hill, sports journalist
- Lester Holt, journalist
- Samuel L. Jackson, actor
- Sarah Jeong, journalist
- Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana
- Colin Kaepernick, athlete and activist
- Spike Lee, director
- Don Lemon, CNN anchor
- John Lewis, member of Congress and veteran of the civil rights movement
- Errol Louis, pundit
- Loretta Lynch, former Attorney General
- Alicia Machado, former Miss Universe
- Omarosa Manigault, his own former aide
- NFL players, mostly non-white, who knelt for the national anthem in protest against police brutality
- Ana Navarro, Republican strategist
- Michael Nutter, former mayor of Philadelphia
- Barack Obama, former president
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, member of Congress
- Bruce Ohr, federal prosecutor
- Ilhan Omar, member of Congress
- Colin Powell, former Secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Ayanna Pressley, member of Congress
- Puerto Ricans (in general)
- Cody Riley, Jalen Hill, and LiAngelo Ball, UCLA basketball players
- Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, mayor of Baltimore
- Dave Roberts, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Ronda Rousey, mixed martial artist
- Jennifer Rubin, conservative political columnist
- Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator
- Baraki Sellers, former member of the South Carolina legislature
- Al Sharpton, reverend and political activist
- Tavis Smiley, journalist
- Jussie Smollett, actor
- Brenda Snipes, Florida elections official
- Talbert Swan, bishop
- Snoop Dogg, rapper
- Rashida Tlaib, member of Congress
- Univision, the predominantly Latino Spanish-language broadcast network
- Paulina Vega, former Miss Universe
- Oprah Winfrey, media mogul
- Maxine Waters, member of Congress
- Frederica Wilson, member of Congress
Why does this matter?
- Racism is as racism does.