{"id":2343,"date":"2025-02-06T12:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2025-04-28T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:22:00","slug":"trump-elevates-white-nationalist-darren-beattie-to-key-government-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-elevates-white-nationalist-darren-beattie-to-key-government-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump elevates White nationalist Darren Beattie to key government role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump has once again elevated a known white nationalist to a key government position, appointing Darren Beattie as the acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Beattie, who has a long record of racist, misogynistic, and extremist rhetoric, will now be responsible for shaping U.S. messaging abroad, including on issues of counterterrorism and violent extremism. For African Americans and other marginalized communities, Beattie\u2019s appointment is yet another clear signal that this administration prioritizes individuals who openly promote white supremacy and hostility toward diversity. This pattern has been a hallmark of Trump\u2019s administration, where figures with histories of racism, bigotry, and extremism have been strategically placed in powerful positions. Beattie, a former speechwriter for Trump, was dismissed from the White House in 2018 after reports surfaced of his ties to white nationalist groups. Since then, he has built a platform to amplify extremist ideology, founding the right-wing media outlet&nbsp;<em>Revolver News<\/em>, which has spread disinformation, particularly regarding the January 6 attack. Beattie has repeatedly promoted baseless conspiracies, including the false claim that federal agencies orchestrated the insurrection, calling it a \u201cFedsurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beattie\u2019s record of explicit racism and misogyny is well-documented. In one tweet last year, he declared, \u201cCompetent 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.\u201d He praised Dr. James Watson; the disgraced scientist who claimed Black people were genetically inferior to white people. Beattie has also taken direct aim at Black lawmakers and policy leaders, demanding that they \u201clearn their place\u201d and \u201ctake a knee to MAGA.\u201d In a series of deleted tweets following the January 6 attack, he called for Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to kneel before MAGA supporters, while also targeting Black figures such as Senator Tim Scott, historian Ibram X. Kendi, and Kay Cole James of the Heritage Foundation with the same racist command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His attacks extend to gender. In 2020, he criticized pop star Taylor Swift for opposing a Tennessee Capitol monument honoring Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. He compared Swift\u2019s advocacy to performing sexual favors for music producers, writing, \u201cThat celebrities are required to debase themselves with such statements is, in some ways, even more humiliating than the physical favors they are required to perform for their producers.\u201d His statements on foreign policy have also raised concerns. In July 2024, Beattie dismissed concerns over a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, writing that it \u201cmight mean fewer drag queen parades in Taiwan, but otherwise not the end of the world,\u201d while suggesting the U.S. should negotiate \u201cmassive concessions from China on Africa and Antarctica.\u201d In September 2024, he implied that the U.S. intelligence community was more likely to be behind assassination attempts on Trump\u2019s life than Iran. His disdain for U.S. diplomatic institutions was evident in his 2021 remark, \u201cImagine having respect for the State Department.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett railed against Trump, Beattie, and the administration\u2019s opposition to diversity. \u201cThe 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,\u201d Crockett said. She addressed Beattie\u2019s complaints about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, saying, \u201cIf you are competent, you are not concerned.\u201d Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy also blasted Beattie\u2019s appointment. \u201cIt seems to be standard that the qualification to serve in the Trump administration is affection for racist and misogynist philosophy,\u201d Murphy asserted. Timothy Welbeck, director of Temple University\u2019s Center for Anti-Racism, stated, \u201cThe United States cannot say that it\u2019s fully been a meritocracy when we have 249 years of slavery, 90 years of racialized segregation, and barred women from entering into the workforce in meaningful ways for much of our nation\u2019s history.\u201d Murphy added, \u201cThere seems to be people like him being peppered throughout Trump\u2019s government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has once again elevated a known white nationalist to a key government position, appointing Darren Beattie as the acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Beattie, who has a long record of racist, misogynistic, and extremist rhetoric, will now be responsible for shaping U.S. messaging abroad, including on issues of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[98,1442,67],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-african-americans","tag-darren-beattie","tag-donald-trump","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}