Is Trump Really That Racist?

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We know his rhetoric has been described as boundary breaking when it comes to race. But U.S. presidents have been enacting racist policies forever. So as President Trump wraps up his first (and maybe only) term in office, we're asking: In terms of racism, how does he stack up to others when it comes to both words and deeds?

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0:00.0	I'm Jean-Tempey.
0:01.0	I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji and this is Code Switch.
0:04.8	From NPR.
0:07.3	We are just a couple of months away from the end of Donald Trump's first and possibly
0:13.2	his last term as president of the United States.
0:16.6	Yeah, months because we're talking about inauguration, how election day, which is like just a couple
0:20.9	weeks away from now.
0:21.9	Yes.
0:22.9	And while we don't know how that forthcoming election will turn out, what we do know is that
0:26.1	the past four years have been different.
0:29.6	Distinct.
0:30.6	Yeah.
0:31.6	Definitely been.
0:32.6	Yes, these past four years, how many years?
0:35.7	Almost four years.
0:36.7	Almost four years have definitely hit different as the kids say, the youth, the youth.
0:43.0	That was unlike any presidential news conference I have ever seen.
0:48.0	You know, this president has an unconventional style.
0:50.3	Classic Trump distraction play a way to turn the media and the public's attention away
0:54.5	from yesterday's disastrous stock.
0:56.4	As we said, it's unprecedented.
0:58.0	And abuse in the public trust that is unprecedented in both its breadth and its brazenness.
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