White Makes Right

Presidential historian Alexis Coe with a scathing op-ed: Trump's obsession with Obama's origins was never about citizenship. It was a calculated effort to delegitimize the first Black president by cynically exploiting deep-seated prejudices.

That Trump embraces Musk, an immigrant executive from South Africa, lays bare the true nature of his worldview—complexion, not nationality, determines who belongs in the corridors of power...

In Donald Trump's America, a Hawaiian-born Black man elected by millions is an eternal suspect. A South African-born white billionaire nobody voted for, however, is handed the keys to the White House. This perverse inversion unmasks MAGA's racial calculus, where "Americanness" is measured in shades of white, not ballots cast.