Trump has kept just one major campaign promise — and it sowed 'deadly results': analyst
It appears President Donald Trump has been able to keep one of his most odious campaign promises, according to one analyst.
In 2024, Trump made major promises to bring down the cost of living for Americans and to release the FBI's investigation files into disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. However, neither of those promises has been kept, according to a new article from Nathalie Baptiste, a senior reporter on HuffPost's national desk.
Instead, Trump appears to have kept his promise to make America racist again, she argued.
"One year into his second term, his approval numbers are in the tank, and inflation persists," Baptiste wrote. "But that’s because the president’s real campaign promise wasn’t about the economy. Instead, it was all about racism."
Baptise pointed to the Trump administration's "explicit promises and the tacit implications" toward racists, such as Trump deporting thousands of immigrants without a trial, and the "dehumanizing rhetoric" he uses to describe Somali Americans.
"The fact that Trump faced no consequences and instead was rewarded with another shot at the presidency has enabled even more blatant lies about marginalized, often immigrant, populations — with deadly results," she wrote.
Baptiste argued that the killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother in Minneapolis, was directly connected to Trump's rhetoric toward immigrant communities. She added that the government's decision to spread falsehoods about the event will have a "trickle-down effect."
"In many ways, it may be too late to put this genie back in the bottle," she wrote. "Immigration enforcement is only the most visible and most recent manifestation of the administration’s agenda."