Trump-supporting billionaires are enabling his white supremacist rantings

“Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who posted after Jan. 6 attack that Trump should “resign and apologize to all Americans,” changed his tune in July when he announced he would endorse Trump. At the time Ackman wrote on social media, “We are in the midst of a perilous moment for our democracy.” (Seeing Trump, who is facing criminal charges for attempting a coup and called for the “termination” of the Constitution, as a guardian of democracy is laughable.)

New York Jets owner Robert “Woody” Johnson said this year on Fox News that he is backing Trump again because “Americans remember how good it was or how much better it was on the border and inflation and gas prices and grocery prices, all that, during the Trump administration, and they want to get back there.” The Winklevoss twins, famously depicted in the film “The Social Network,” about the founding of Facebook, donated more than $1 million each to support Trump, citing Trump’s “Pro-Bitcoin Pro-Crypto Pro-Business” position.

But every one of these billionaires is telling us that in exchange for the policy goals they want, they are on board with or at least comfortable with Trump’s bigotry. After all, if racism were a deal-breaker for them, would they still be funding his 2024 campaign?

Others, like Musk, though, appear to be more openly on board with Trump’s extremist agenda. Musk has peddled the same types of bigoted attacks Trump has about Black migrants in Ohio, demonized DEI programs while suggesting white people are inherently smarter than Black people. And Ackman has been vocally critical of DEI programs with posts on X such as “DEI is inherently a racist and illegal movement in its implementation even if it purports to work on behalf of the so-called oppressed.”

Trump has become the head cheerleader for white victimhood and the defender of symbols of white power. This explains why on Friday he told supporters at an event in North Carolina he would rename the local military base to again honor the slave-owning Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, who, as part of the Confederacy, fought to preserve chattel slavery. 

“Should we change the name Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg?!” Trump asked, and the crowd exploded with cheers. (The name of that base, like others that honored Confederates, was changed in 2020 when Congress overrode Trump’s veto of the bill.) Trump vowed that if wins, he is “doing it.” This syncs up perfectly with Trump’s defense of monuments honoring white supremacy as “beautiful” when he was president.

Those who claim that they’re supporting Trump for his promises of tax cuts or deregulation don’t get a pass when he’s using such racist language and promising to carry out racist policies. If a candidate campaigning on white supremacy is elected to the presidency again, they won’t be able to evade accountability with the claim that that’s not why they supported him.”


The Parasite Class looks the other way on Trump’s white supremacist views so they can make more money - kind of like Nazi billionaires in the 1930s and 1940s…