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Trump’s racist rhetoric: a lifelong strategy, not a series of slips

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 US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a spending bill that ends a partial shutdown of the federal government in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, February 3, 2026

The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE

THE recent racist meltdown by United States President Donald Trump is no aberration.

It is in fact part of a deep history of racism by the far-right US president.

It is a disgrace that there is any doubt that Trump was personally responsible for posting a video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes — a well-worn racist trope against black people.

What is perhaps even more of a disgrace is the pass that he seems to be given over this in the US and by the so-called international community.

There was barely a whimper from world leaders over the posting by Trump. This perhaps says as much about them as it does against racist Trump.

The fact is that Trump’s racism has been crystal clear from the moment he entered public life.

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One of the many problems I have around Trump’s racism, having known of his racism for years and attempted to raise the alarm from the beginning, is that he continues to get away with his despicable behaviour and world leaders still rush to be photographed next to him.

The man is a racist and should be called out at every opportunity by everyone including so-called world leaders — regardless of diplomatic niceties.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trumps-racist-rhetoric-lifelong-strategy-not-series-slips

Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.
Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.
Climate science denier Nigel Farage explains that it's simple to blame asylum-seekers or Muslims for everything.
Climate science denier Nigel Farage explains that it’s simple to blame asylum-seekers or Muslims for everything.
Donald Trump explains why he established his Bored of Peace
Donald Trump explains why he established his Bored of Peace

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Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/farage-turns-on-broadcasters-racism-allegations-bbc

Nigel Farage gave an angry performance at a press conference in London. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him

Nigel Farage has turned on broadcasters for questioning him about his alleged teenage racism and antisemitism as the number of school contemporaries who recalled such behaviour to the Guardian reached 28.

In an angry performance at a press conference in London, the Reform leader suggested he would boycott the BBC and said ITV had its own case to answer, as he repeatedly shouted “Bernard Manning”.

Manning, a comedian from Manchester who died in 2007, was a regular face on British television in the 1970s but he drifted from the public eye after claims that his material was racist and misogynistic.

The intemperate performance by Farage, whose party has slipped in the national polls in recent weeks, came as a further five school contemporaries came forward to the Guardian with allegations that they had witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by him.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/farage-turns-on-broadcasters-racism-allegations-bbc

dizzy: Is Farage’s current flavour of argument that there were other blatant racists and misogynists at that time so that it’s fine?

He’s said that he wants an apology “for everything”. I can try, might take a few goes.

I’m so sorry that everyone is not as perfect as you Nigel. You’ve obviously been taught all your life that you’re so special and it’s so unfortunate that there are so many inferior people and races affecting your absolutely perfect being and experience. I’m so sorry that you’re so obviously always in distress, I can see you shouting it at every opportunity.

… I’ll have to work on it.

Nigel Farage blames the Muzzies.
Nigel Farage blames the Muzzies.
Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia.
Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia.
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Morning Star Editorial: Starmer may fall, but the right’s grip on Labour won’t be broken from within

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 Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister’s Questions at the Houses of Parliament, November 12, 2025

IF KEIR STARMER intended to stave off a leadership challenge by advertising his readiness to fight one, he has miscalculated.

All his intervention has done is placed the question of his leadership at the top of MPs’ minds.

Perhaps identifying Wes Streeting as a possible challenger was intended to frighten the left away from triggering a contest — since Streeting is even further right than Starmer.

In practice it simply showcases the Prime Minister’s insecurity and the toxic culture Streeting accurately describes in Downing Street — where the government briefs against its own, and a leadership that has always relied on bans and expulsions to maintain authority descends into a “circular firing squad,” to use the ever eloquent Barry Gardiner’s phrase. Unlike Starmer, MPs might reflect, Streeting has never pretended to be on the left and as a Blairite true believer might at least try to govern through persuasion rather than fear.

Nobody should fear challenging Starmer: his government is as inept as it is cruel and is paving the way for a far-right Reform UK regime.

But Streeting is no solution. The Health Secretary would be a cosmetic change, no more: he’s wedded to the same policies of privatisation and cuts that have wrecked our public services and national infrastructure. Starmer loyalists point to the long death agony of the last Tory government as evidence that switching leader doesn’t help — and it won’t, without dramatic changes in Labour policy.

And that’s a problem. Starmer’s leadership exists to prevent change, not deliver it: its whole mission has been the destruction of Corbynism and the threat of a socialist-led Labour Party. That project was endorsed by the overwhelming majority of Labour MPs even before last year’s election brought in cohorts of carefully vetted conformists.

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Keir Starmer refuses to be outcnuted by Nigel Farage's chasing the racist bigot vote.
Keir Starmer refuses to be outcnuted by Nigel Farage’s chasing the racist bigot vote.
Keir Starmer commits to play the caretaker role for Capitalism through the "hard times".
Keir Starmer commits to play the caretaker role for Capitalism through the “hard times”.
Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership is intensely relaxed about assaulting those least able to defend themselves - the very poorest and most vulnerable.
Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership is intensely relaxed about assaulting those least able to defend themselves – the very poorest and most vulnerable.
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Morning Star Editorial: Having sold out on every working-class promise, Starmer finally stoops to migrant-bashing

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Chasing racist votes Keir Starmer says that he can be just as racist and cnuty as Nigel Farage.
Chasing racist votes Keir Starmer says that he can be just as racist and cnuty as Nigel Farage.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/having-sold-out-every-working-class-promise-starmer-finally-stoops-migrant-bashing

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By pandering to racist representations of immigration and failing to explain it as the inevitable consequence of colonialism, empire and the neoliberal global order, Starmer now shares an ideological position with Nigel Farage.

The plan to end licensed immigration by people contracted to work in the care sector will intensify the crisis in the NHS and make life miserable for people in care.

Care sector employers are upset because it hits their supply of cheap labour and thus their profits.

This illustrates a feature of 21st century immigration into capitalist countries that disrupts both Farage’s narrative and Labour’s imitation of the same.

A migration-enlarged labour force increases precisely those profits — the unpaid wages that employers retain — that would be diminished if they were compelled to train locals and pay them enough to attract a sufficient supply of labour.

A sensible strategy would be to attack Farage for his support for privatisation, his opposition to employment rights, his fawning over Trump and his works, his willingness to flog off the NHS to US corporations.

The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country — public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/having-sold-out-every-working-class-promise-starmer-finally-stoops-migrant-bashing

Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia.
Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia.
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