It’s OK To Use The N Word to Describe Trump and MAGA

Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are promoting a hateful and false lie about Haitian immigrants that originated from a neo-Nazi group. Must we all play Taboo to find the correct label to describe MAGA?

(Drake Berentz and members of Blood Tribe marching in Springfield, Ohio on August 10, 2024. Screengrab: Odysee Stream; Talking Points Memo)

My wife and I enjoy inviting friends over to play epic and competitive games of Taboo. It’s a nice social activity for us middle-aged teetotalers who have kids and no active social life. For those who are unfamiliar, Taboo is a game in which an individual is given one minute to get their respective team to guess a specific word without saying a list of given words that would make it obvious. For example, if the magic word was “Weird” you could shout “J.D. Vance!” and most likely your team would guess it immediately and score a quick point. 

Usually, I enjoy being straightforward and direct when it comes to describing our current political reality and using appropriate words to expose and identify threats to our national security and democracy. I just don’t have the time or energy to play Taboo and say “Economic Anxiety” when the correct term is “Racism” to describe one of the major motivating forces of MAGA. I also don’t like saying “Presidential” in reference to Trump just because he was barely able to stumble over the lowest bar on Earth and read a teleprompter without spewing a vomitorium of lies, grandiose statements, and falsehoods.

However, briefly indulge me, dear reader, and let’s play a game of Taboo for fun.

Suppose there was an individual who deliberately and knowingly spread a hateful, racist conspiracy theory that originated from a neo-Nazi group that falsely alleged innocent Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating pets. Even after law enforcement and city officials debunked the rumor, they persisted in promoting and mainstreaming the lie that quickly escalated into several threats which required the shutting down of schools and city hall. 

Haitian citizens of Springfield, Ohio would wake up to smashed windows and acid thrown on their cars. The New York Post would ignore every other major news story and publish an everyday story of a Haitian motorist making an illegal turn and crashing into a car. Wittenberg University announced it had to take “extreme precautions” in response to a terror threat warning of an on-campus shooting that was targeting Haitian members of their community. When asked by the media to denounce bomb threats, this individual would pour gasoline on the fire of his own making by falsely alleging, “I don’t know what happened with the bomb threats. I know that it’s been taken over by illegal migrants” 

For context, this same individual had a colorful history with Nazi fetishism. During a white supremacy rally in Charlottesville a few years back, a neo-Nazi rammed his car through a car killing a white anti-racist protestor Heather Heyer. When asked to condemn the assembled group of tiki torch carrying white nationalists, this individual said they were “very fine people” and both sides were to blame. A few years later, Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and a young leader of a burgeoning white nationalist movement, would be invited to dine with this individual at his home. When repeatedly asked to condemn Fuentes, this individual would refuse fearing it would alienate a part of his base. This individual would also travel with an unhinged conspiracy theorist, Laura Loomer, who also socialized with Nick Fuentes.

Speaking of his base, when asked publicly during a televised event to condemn white supremacist groups, this individual instead told a violent, racist militia to “stand back and stand by.” They understood the assignment and showed up to engage in a failed coup. Four years later, they returned to the streets of Springfield, Ohio to intimidate and threaten Haitians.

This individual who had grand political ambitions in the United States of America would also share a campaign ad promising a “unified Reich” if he were to be elected. This individual who was notorious for watching television instead of reading admitted in the past to owning a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kamp. Coincidentally, he used Hitler’s hateful language to dehumanize immigrants and accused them of being “vermin” who are “poisoning the blood” of America. 

At a political convention, this individual wore a giant diaper on his ear after surviving an assassination attempt and decided to invite Tucker Carlson, one of the most racist television personalities of the modern era whom white nationalists said was their guy on Fox News. For his part to help the Aryan race, Carlson would host a two-hour podcast with Darryl Cooper, a Nazi apologist. Cooper would go on to say that Winston Churchill was the “chief villain of the Second World War” and not the weird German guy with a thin mustache who engineered a genocide. Speaking of the Holocaust, this historian would also allege that the systematic slaughter of six million of Jews was an accident.

Time’s up.

Who’s the “individual” I’ve described? If you guessed Donald Trump, then you are correct. 

If Donald Trump quotes Nazis, dines with Nazis, promotes Nazi talking points, describes Nazis as “very fine people,” pals around with people who platform Nazi apologists, and mainstreams Nazi conspiracy theories that have resulted in terrorist attacks and threaten to endanger innocent Haitian communities, then what do you call such a person?

I’ll give you one more clue courtesy of his own vice presidential candidate, the weird guy J.D. Vance who onced referred to him as an American –?

Hint: It’s an N word, and not the one that Trump used to describe a Black contestant on The Apprentice.