No, Don Jr., No One Said Exercise is Racist

The Little MAGA Prince is lying again — because stoking white resentment is the family brand now

Tim Wise

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Donald Trump Jr., photo by Gage Skidmore, Flickr, ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Donald Trump Jr., much like the man whose morally compromised seed produced him, is a liar, a con man — utterly and irredeemably full of shit.

Although this much is obvious and hardly worth noting, there is something about saying it which never fails to satisfy.

But my reasons for expressing this banal truism are unrelated to either personal catharsis or amusement. Instead, I do so because exposing his latest turn at dishonesty serves two valuable functions.

First, it reveals how the right seeks to stoke the fires of white racial resentment for political gain. And second, it demonstrates a more profound truth about racism in American history — one which the right actively seeks to cover up in our nation’s schools.

In a recent rant on his Rumble channel — a right-wing YouTube alternative for people who can’t manage to find all the easily-accessible right-wing content on YouTube — he accused the left of finding a new target in our never-ending woke crusades.

And what is that target?

According to Junior, it’s exercise.

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Tim Wise
Tim Wise

Written by Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)