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17 Rappers Have Supported Trump

Is this the biggest blunder in Black history?

Boston Guardian publisher William Monroe Trotter, who earned his graduate and postgraduate degrees at Harvard University, was the first man of color to earn a Phi Beta Kappa key there.

In 1912, Trotter endorsed Woodrow Wilson for president, but felt betrayed when Wilson segregated federal employees. In a historic meeting at the White House between the two on November 12, 1914, Trotter pointed out that “Black and white Federal employees had been integrated for over thirty-five years without calamity (even as they shared bathrooms and lunchrooms and breathing space).” Wilson accused Trotter of impudence. One version of the incident has Wilson ordering Trotter out of the White House. Following the encounter with the president, Trotter became a hero to Black Americans. He received sustained applause when he appeared before Black audiences.

The election of Donald Trump has been calamitous for millions. Though the media show Africans as suffering from the discontinuation of USAID, the end of USAID by Elon Musk was a catastrophe for 135 countries. It’s estimated that 14 million will die because of these cuts. If that were not enough, a program devoted to reducing HIV cases in Africa was ended. And in a fiendish attempt to own the Blacks, it was ended on Juneteenth, which must have been met by chuckles in the Oval Office.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has criticized the cost-cutting regime, much of which was enacted under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. As of May 2025, Gates has accused the world’s richest man of causing the deaths of the world’s poorest children by cutting US foreign aid for health initiatives, specifically HIV medicine funding. As a result of chaos in the supporting agencies, an Ebola outbreak is occurring in Uganda and the Congo.

It’s spreading. The dismantling of USAID has led to starvation in Somalia and Ebola in Africa, and Trump’s “war of choice” has led to a rise in food costs in Africa and elsewhere as the closing of the Strait of Hormuz has halted fertilizer shipments.

If the Trump administration’s cruelty were not enough, the expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium subsidies expired on December 31, 2025. Without congressional action to extend them, millions of Americans are seeing their health insurance premiums increase.

The largest cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in history means that 4 million people will lose access to food, many of them children.

After months of fighting and countless proposals for a bipartisan compromise, a Republican Congress eliminated the expiration date for the ACA’s enhanced premium tax subsidies. Thousands will die because they can’t afford the high costs of insurance premiums.

While Trump promised to deport Hispanic gangs, Hispanic citizens have been caught in the net, as well as Black Americans. I found the helicopter attack on a Chicago apartment building chilling, especially the removal of naked Black and brown children to the street. At least when the Confederate soldiers marched Black children from Pennsylvania to the South and slavery, the children were fully clothed.

The president has unleashed his personal storm troopers on brown and Black citizens, and Vice President JD Vance says they have “immunity.” Now that the killing of poet Renée Good shows they will kill white women too, will most white women continue to vote for those who want to limit their reproductive freedom? Who will kill them if they make the wrong turn?

Some of his domestic policies are harmful not only to Blacks and browns but also to his MAGA base, but cult members are willing to make any sacrifice to please the leader.

About a Supreme Court that is opposed to civil rights, Justin Jouvenal wrote in The Washington Post on April 9: “The sharply conservative Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s three appointees remade is the first since at least........

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