As Trump Reveals His Unqualified Cabinet Picks, Will Tim Scott And Byron Donalds Get Their ‘Black Jobs’?
Donald Trump greets Rep. Byron Donalds during a campaign rally at Crotona Park in the Bronx on May 23, 2024. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty
As Donald Trump continues to reveal his cabinet pics and those pics continue to be a chorus line of MAGA loyalists — most of whom are not underqualified and prove that Trump is engaging in the white conservative version of what white conservatives think DEI is — there’s a lingering question on the minds of many on social media, especially Black people:
When are Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Byron Donalds going to get their “Black jobs” in Trump’s administration?
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I mean, come on Trump, you couldn’t have asked for better sambo-licious cheerleaders than Scott and Donalds. Who else is going to tour Black churches and barbershops in feeble attempts to convince Black people that you’re not racist just because you keep saying racist sh*t, explicitly demonstrate a racist, white nationalist ideology, and have made it clear you’re here to fight almost exclusively for racist white conservatism to thrive? Who else is going to be the Black voice to help you lie about a fictitious surge in violent crime in Black neighborhoods? You could just make up a cabinet position like you made up the position “border czar.” You can call it the Department of Trump’s Got Black Friends So Clearly He’s Not Racist. Maybe that’s a little too on the nose. How about a department for Holding Oppresors Unaccountable for Saving Euro-centric Supremacy by Lying About the Value of Equality (HOUSE SLAVE)?
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) cheers on Donald Trump at the State Fairgrounds on February 24, 2024, in Columbia, South Carolina. | Source: Win McNamee / Getty
Seriously, though, Trump already let Scott and Donalds tap-dance for VP consideration just to pass them over for some white guy who hates Haitians and childless women more than he used to hate Trump. Just this week, the president-elect nominated for Secretary of Defense a Fox News host with zero experience in national defense.
Hell, Trump just nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as U.S. attorney general. MATT GAETZ!!! I mean, I know accused sexual abusers of a feather flock together, but when a 34-time felon convicted of paying hush money to a porn star for political purposes nominates a congressman who is still the subject of a bipartisan investigation by the House Ethics Committee into alleged sex trafficking and two loyal Black MAGA men still can’t get a job, it’s just a sad day in Sunken Place History, man.
So, what’s it going to take, Trump? Assuming Ben Carson won’t be making his grand return to the MAGA White House camp, will Scott and Donalds have to stage a mandingo fight to decide who’s grabbing that Housing and Urban Development spot?
Somebody has to compare Trump’s prosecutions to Jim Crow. Somebody has to declare that Republicans are the new N-words. Somebody has to wannabe-whitesplain to Black people that “America is not a racist country” and deny the existence of systemic racism, statistical data be damned.
Do the right thing, Trump? Don’t let all of that shucking and jiving be in vain.
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