Donald Trump Boasts About His ‘Beautiful White Skin’ During Michigan Rally. So, Who’s Going To Tell Him?

At this point, it almost seems as if Donald Trump no longer cares that he’s being called racist by virtually everyone who isn’t an equally racist Trump supporter, and now he’s just leaning into it.

During a recent rally in Warren, Michigan, Trump criticized Kamala Harris for — *checks notes* — wanting to tax the rich as opposed to raising taxes on middle and lower-class folks, and then, in an odd segue even for him, Trump started yammering on about his “beautiful white skin” and how he could be tanning on a beach instead of running for president. (If only, amirite?)

Trump: That beautiful white skin that I have would be nice and tan. I have the whitest skin because I never have time to go out in the sun. I have that beautiful white. It could’ve been beautiful tan. pic.twitter.com/EWteCNVahP

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 1, 2024

“She wants to tax companies,” Trump said. “You know what happens when you tax them? They leave. A lot of these big companies, you know, they’re run by inter—they live in Switzerland. They have very glamorous lives. They have the life that I could’ve had if I decided not to do this (run for president), actually.”

First of all, it’s not even clear why his opposition to raising taxes on corporations is even popular with red-state white people who are likely nowhere near the tax bracket they would need to be in to worry about the taxing of the wealthy, but, whatever — at this point it’s clear that Trump could tell his supporters that, actually, he was the one eating people’s cats and dogs, not Haitians, and they would still gleefully cast a ballot for him.

And that’s the same reason the ex-president who thinks white people are experiencing reverse-Jim Crow was able to brag about his orangey-tinged whiteness without raising too many eyebrows.

“Somebody said to me, ‘Are you glad you did it?’ I said, ‘Absolutely, but I could’ve been on the best beaches in the world. I own the best beaches in the world,’” Trump said. “I could’ve been at the great Turnberry in Scotland. I could’ve been anywhere I wanted to be. I could’ve had those waves smacking me in the face. That white, beautiful white skin that I have would be nice and tan. I got the whitest skin ’cause I never have time to go out in the sun. But I have that beautiful white, and you know what? It could’ve been beautiful, tanned, beautiful.”

Now, look, we already know what a Caucasian Trump supporter is going to say in defense of their white nationalist messiah: “Well, Black people brag about their melanin all the time. Why can’t a white man do the same?”

Obviously, the movement for Black pride came as the result of generations of Black people being told our skin, hair, wide noses, thick lips and everything else about our aesthetic is undesirable because Blackness just doesn’t jibe well with Eurocentric standards of beauty. That’s why when we shout, “I’m Black and I’m proud,” we’re making a statement that goes beyond simply taking pride in our Black and its persistent refusal to crack. Whiteness, on the other hand, is generally the default for cultural and social normalcy in the Western world, so when white people start bragging about their “beautiful white skin,” they’re not just showing white pride, they’re echoing a clear call to “white power.”

Remember when Trump mused that Black and Latino immigrants had “bad genes” that caused them to be predisposed to violence, or when he said migrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country, or when he said he wishes the U.S. received more white immigrants from “nice” European countries? All of these are examples of the commander-in-fantasizing-about-eugenics saying the white supremacy part out loud. His remarks about his “white skin” are no different. (As for his remark about how nice his rust-colored pumpkin spice tan is — well that’s just Donnie the Delulu showing off his complete lack of self-awareness.)

In fact, another shining example of Trump’s racist bullhorning (because I feel like we can’t even call it dog whistling anymore) look no further than remarks he made at a rally in Wisconsin Friday, when he essentially said that Greek NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo couldn’t really be Greek because he’s clearly Black.

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