C’mon…you can’t still be surprised.
During Black History Month, Trump publicly amplified racist content depicting President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. It was deliberate. It was global. It was dehumanising.
When a President portrays Black leaders as animals, it is not satire. It is a signal. Power at that level is never neutral. Presidential leadership can foster peace, hope, ager or hate.
Depicting the Obamas as animals is not an isolated mistake. It is a evil pattern.
For years, Trump has worked to distort the historical truth of slavery and race in the United States. Weakening Black history is not accidental to the MAGA movement — it serves it. Erase context, and grievance becomes easier to mobilise.
He says he is not racist. His conduct suggests otherwise.
He says he defends democracy. His behaviour strains it.
He promotes transparency? Then where are the Epstein files?
He claims Christianity. Yet in practice, faith becomes leverage — a tool for loyalty and power. That is transaction, not conviction.
I study transformation. Leadership defines what becomes normal. It redraws boundaries and influences systems beyond borders. The U.S. presidency does not operate domestically alone; its signals travel.
This is not outrage. It is power in motion.
Trump operates transactionally. Alliances are temporary. Loyalty is conditional. Support always carries a price — paid later. Proximity is not protection. Deals are not friendship.
Recently, the House press gallery was renamed after Frederick Douglass. Douglass deserves honour. Symbolism matters.
But symbolism is not structural reform. A renamed gallery does not protect voting rights or prevent erosion of civil protections. Institutions can celebrate abolitionists while tolerating dehumanisation in real time.
Power that feeds only itself does not govern.
It consumes.
And what it consumes, it ultimately destroys.
History will judge this moment not only by what he did with power — but by what others chose to defend.
Being Arthur 