Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) called President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” and said she was “tired of the white tears” during an impassioned interview on CNN Monday. (Watch the videos below.)
Crockett, who is Black, was responding to host Laura Coates’ mention of Darren Beattie being nominated to serve under Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Beattie, a former speechwriter for Trump, was reportedly fired during the first term after it emerged that he attended a conference with white nationalists. In October 2024, he wrote on X: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”
“Your reaction,” Coates asked.
“He needs to go,” Crockett replied. “Right now we have a white supremacist that is sitting in the White House. He is backed up by other white supremacists.”
The lawmaker noted a high percentage of violent crime among white supremacists who “for whatever reason sit and they serve at the pleasure of the president. … They were the ones there on Jan. 6 tearing our democracy down physically and now we have them tearing us down from within.”
Coates offered a disclaimer that Trump has denied being a white supremacist, which Crockett scoffed at. “I don’t care what he said,” she answered with a laugh.
Crockett said she enters Congress daily knowing no one could make her doubt who she is “because I know that I have to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat.”
“When you look and you compare me to [GOP Georgia Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to [GOP Colorado Rep.] Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison,” she added. “…The only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder.”
The congresswoman suggested the plan is to deprive Black people of an education “because they don’t want any more Kamala Harrises, they don’t want any more Jasmine Crocketts.” She said historically Black colleges are being threatened by the Trump administration.
Trump backed off from an Office of Management and Budget freeze of federal grants and loans that could have affected HCBUs, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted his executive order to review programs perceived as woke remained in place.
Crockett had more to say on the matter in clips posted by MeidasTouch’s @Acyn:
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