It’s been seven months since the start of Donald Trump’s second administration. A hundred and eighty days. Feels like years.

With lightning speed, razor-sharp precision, and the ferocity of junkyard dogs, Trump and his minions have slashed thousands of federal jobs, gutted departments responsible for health, education, environmental protection; for international development assistance; for the funding of medical and climate research.

War has been declared on free speech, transgender people, and the media — corporate and public.

“Fake News,” Trump calls them. “Enemies of the People.”

Central mission of Trump’s second regime: driving millions of undocumented migrants out of the country; pursuing them with militarized savagery; spiriting them off to gulag jails stretching from Florida, Louisiana and Texas down to El Salvador; shipping them off to remote African locations; people who’ve lived and worked in America for years; who’ve never committed a crime; who’ve paid taxes; raised kids – kids born in America.

Strip them of their citizenship,  Trump and his ‘Homeland Security’ capos cry.

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Aside from migrant black, brown and Hispanic folks who just want to earn a living in a country they believe is great, nothing fills Donald Trump’s craw with more bile than those three normative nouns – diversity, equity and inclusiveness.

Trump and his White-America-First czars are now rooting out DEI programs with the zealousness of medieval crusaders.

Dorothy Roberts

American scholar and writer Dorothy Roberts spoke with the GPM about Trump’s first 180 days, examining Trump’s policies through the lens of race, class and gender.

Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, and the Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society – and a prolific writer.

Among Dorothy Roberts’ works: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century; Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty; and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare.

Roberts’ latest book — The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family — will be available in February 2026.

Listen to our conversation with Dorothy Roberts in today’s podcast. Click on the play button above, or go here.

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