Donald Trump, the
president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, has a history of speech and actions that have been viewed by scholars and the public as
racist or sympathetic to
White supremacy. Journalists, friends, family, and former employees have accused him of fueling
racism in the United States. Trump has repeatedly denied accusations of racism.
[1][2]
In 1973, Trump and his company Trump Management were sued by the
Department of Justice for
housing discrimination against
African-American renters; he settled the suit, entering into a
consent decree to end the practices without admitting wrongdoing.
[3][4][5] From 2011 to 2016, Trump was a leading proponent of the debunked
birther conspiracy theory falsely claiming president
Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
[6][7] In a racially-charged criminal case, Trump continued to state, as late as 2024,
[8] that a group known as the Central Park Five mostly made up of African American teenagers were responsible for the 1989 rape of a white woman in the
Central Park jogger case, despite the five males having been officially exonerated in 2002