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Dismantling White Supremacy: Modern Strategies for a Modernized Foe

By Victoria M. Beatty Parent Category: Stereotype, Bias, Racism Category: Whiteness and White Privilege
25 July 2026 Hits: 24

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Abstract

Victoria M. Beatty, Dismantling White Supremacy: Modern Strategies for a Modernized Foe, 25 Berkeley Journal of Black Law & Policy 14 (2025) (512 footnotes). (Full Document)

Donald J. Trump was born June 14, 1946, to Frederick Trump, Sr. and Mary Trump. Fred was a multi-million dollar real estate developer, so the family lived in an upscale community in Queens, New York. Donald Trump joined his father’s business in 1968.3 He avoided the draft during the Vietnam War with a medical deferment due to a physician diagnosis of bones spurs. Donald Trump’s first big real estate deal came in 1976.5 He wanted to develop a Grand Hyatt Hotel, but he did not have the money to purchase the hotel nor the land. Instead, he used his father’s clout in the Democratic Party to convince New York City government officials to give him a 40-year tax break allowing him not to pay property taxes on the hotel. Because of his father, he was given an abatement valued at $400 million over 40 years. He used the abatement to outbid competitors and secure the deal.

When Donald Trump entered the casino business in 1990, the casino began to fail so his father saved him. Fred purchased more than $3 million in casino chips to infuse his son’s failing company with cash, the purchase was later deemed an illegal loan. Before his father died, Donald Trump received approximately $413 million from his father. Today, President Trump is the first United States President who was elected as a convicted felon on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to an adult film star. In 2023, he was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 1996 and a $5 million judgment was awarded. He had no military or political experience prior to becoming the 45th President of the United States. When he ran for reelection and lost, he encouraged rioters who stormed the Capitol to overturn the election that resulted in the death of five people and, as of January 6, 2025, led to the arrest of 1,583 people.

In the first few days of his second term, his erratic tariff policies “suspended diplomatic ties, shaken markets and confounded entire industries.” In an attempt to eliminate government bureaucracy, he cut thousands of federal jobs and gutted USAID, the effects of which will lead to at least 23 million children across the globe losing access to education and 95 million people losing access to basic healthcare. A year after assuming the Presidency, Trump entered the U.S. in a war with Iran by killing 175 school children and staff at Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school. Trump initially blamed Iran for killing its own children until the findings of a U.S. military investigation revealed the missile belonged to the U.S., to which he admitted the U.S. hit the school by mistake. The damage inflicted by his incompetence, however horrific, pales in comparison to the incompetence of his administration.

On November 12, 2024, Trump nominated Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. During the nomination process, Hegseth’s former sister-in-law sent an affidavit to Senators alleging he physically abused his former wife and was an alcoholic. In 2007, Pete Hegseth became the executive director of Veterans for Freedom. By 2008, the organization was operating at a deficit of $700,000, having raised over $8.7 million in revenue but spending over $9 million. In 2010, a mere three years later, Veterans for Freedom reported less than $265,000 in revenue. He was fired in 2011.23 That same year Hegseth was appointed executive director of Concerned Veterans for America. By 2016 the organization reported revenue of $15.9 million and $16.4 million in expenses; he was forced to resign. In 2024, the New Yorker revealed a previously undisclosed “whistle-blower report” by Concerned Veterans for America employees accusing Hegseth of sexual misconduct and repeated incidents of public intoxication and at times needing to be carried out of the organization’s events.

Hegseth joined Fox News in June 2014 and became an official host of Fox & Friends Weekend January 2017. In that same year, a woman attending the Republican Women’s Convention claimed Hegseth, the convention’s keynote speaker, drugged her and sexually assaulted her. She filed a police report with Monterey Police Department. The Police Report recommended the case be forwarded to the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office for review. The Monterey County District Attorney’s office refused to press charges. When the victim and her husband threatened to sue in 2020, Hegseth secretly agreed to a financial settlement. In 2021, Hegseth was barred from participating in President Biden’s Inauguration because a military officer was alarmed by his tattoos of a Crusader’s cross and the motto “Deus Vult,” a medieval term coopted by white supremacists and far-right militants. The military officer alerted his superiors that Hegseth may be an ““insider threat.”

Hegseth was confirmed as Secretary of Defense on January 24, 2025, and now runs an organization that employs over 3 million individuals with an $857 billion budget. Once confirmed, he immediately appointed his younger brother Phil Hegseth, as senior adviser to the secretary for the Department of Homeland Security and liaison officer to the Defense Department. Before assuming his position in the Department of Defense, Phil Hegseth ran a podcast production company and worked on social media podcasts.

In March 2025, The Atlantic reported a journalist was added to a Signal group chat where Hegseth shared top secret information on military operations. A month later he shared more confidential military operations on another Signal chat. House Republicans blocked efforts to open an official inquiry on Hegseth’s incompetent security breaches. As Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth has no senior military, national security, or government experience and has the least overall military experience of any defense secretary in U.S. history.

When President Biden pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021, triggering a Taliban takeover and a disastrous evacuation, Pete Hegseth during his Senate confirmation hearing blamed it on Biden’s “DEI hire.” He was referring to General Lloyd J. Austin III, the nation’s first Black Defense Secretary, who Hegseth has now replaced. Over the course of General Austin’s 41-year career, he served as the 12th commander of the United States Central Command, the 33rd Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq, Silver Star recipient, recipient of five Defense Distinguished Service Medals, a Legion of Merit recipient, and commanded in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan at the one-, two-, three-, and four-star levels. Despite the General’s commendations, Hegseth, the most unexperienced Secretary of Defense this country has seen, testified to Congress that the General was hired for nothing more than his racial identity.

President Trump appointed Elon Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Elon and his brother Kimball were both born in South Africa and emigrated to Canada in 1989 to avoid South Africa’s mandatory military service. The brothers then moved to California where they founded Zip2.43 Elon and Kimball received funding from their father to launch the company. The brothers sold the company to Compaq for $307 million. Following its sale, Musk founded Paypal, Space X, Open AI, and became CEO of Tesla Motors.

Over the last 20 years, Musk has reportedly received $38 billion from government loans, subsidies, and tax credits to sustain his companies. When Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy, Musk received a $465 million loan from the United States Energy Department and has collected $11.4 billion in regulatory credits. SpaceX has been granted at least $18 billion in federal contracts in the past decade.

DOGE’s stated goal was to reduce government spending and bureaucracy, improve the procurement process, and reform regulations. By November 2025, DOGE fired 271,000 federal workers and federal government spending was $248 billion higher than spending in November 2024.51 He dismantled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and cancelled nearly 2,300 government contracts. In April 2025, a whistleblower testified before Congress that after DOGE infiltrated the personnel records of the National Labor Relations Board, there were several log-in attempts from a Russian IP address. Congress refused to investigate the claims. Shortly after the accusation, Elon’s SpaceX was awarded $6 billion dollars. A month after receiving the grant, Musk left DOGE.

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