Retiring Guy's Digest

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Donald Trump can’t be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Anti-diversity edition)

Headline: Denver Post, 10/9/2025

Colorado colleges — primarily in rural, underserved areas of the state — are losing millions in funding after the Trump administration last month announced an end to $350 million in federal grant programs for minority-serving institutions across the country.

Related posts:

September-December 2025

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore ("Scourged Back" edition). (9/26)

June-August 2025

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (slavery edition). (8/21)

Donald Trump, "the epitome of dumbness", can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Smithsonian edition). (8/20)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism (Homeland Security/Uncle Sam edition). (8/13)

Donald Trump cant be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Texas GOP gerrymandering edition). (7/30)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Washington Redskins edition). (7/7)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Juneteenth edition). (6/21)

Donald Trump and Scott Walker can't be bothered to hide their racism anymore. (6/21)

Dear New York Times: Why? You really need to ask? That's taking 'obtuse' to a new level. Best, Retiring Guy. (6/5)

May 2025

Trump is projecting and can't bother to hide his racism anymore. (5/28)

Trump Department of Racism is open for business. (5/16)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Civil Rights enforcement edition). (5/11)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (pushback edition). (5/11)

Donald Trump cant be bothered to hide his racism anymore (White Afrikaners edition). (5/10)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Dr. Carla Hayden Library of Congress edition). (5/10)

Eradicating Black history: Donald Trump doesn't even bother to hide his racism anymore. (5/8)

January-April 2025

F irst Felon Donald Trump doesn't even bother to hide his racism anymore (Harriet Tubman edition). (4/7)

Noise from Trump GOP racist dog whistles shows no signs of abating. (3/24)

Trump GOP doesn't even bother to hide its racism anymore. (3/22)

Why? Because the GOP, following the example of First Felon Donald Trump, can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore. (2/12)

2024

Donald Trump gets cozy with virulent racist Loony Laura Loomer. (12/28)

Donald Trumps racist rally: The day, 85 years later, when Madison Square Garden became a dark and rancid hellhole showing America at its worst. (10/29)

At Madison Square Garden racist rally, Trumps closing argument is accompanied by the strains of "Dixie". (10/29)

New York Times headline sums Donald Trumps closing argument in 3 words: grievances, misogyny, racism. (10/29)

New York Daily News sums up Donald Trump's closing argument in two-word headline: RACIST RALLY. (10/29)

GOP closing argument in 2024 presidential campaign. (10/28)

Demented Donald Trump and company serve up rancid stew of racism, nativism and grievance at Madison Square Garden. (10/28)

Demented Donald Trump says the quiet part out loud. (10/23)

2019

Here we go again: Trump loyalist sez the guy doesn't have a racist bone in his body. (2/1)

Dear Toni, They're not veterans; they're rebels, secessionists, men who wanted leave the Union and create a confederacy. Best, Retiring Guy

Headline: New York Times, 10/7/2025

Anna Venarchik reports:

One of the park’s creators, Toni London, said she believed that Confederate soldiers deserved the same honor as any other veterans.

“It’s been an obsession to make it succeed, to make it better,” Ms. London, 52, said of the park, “and to save more.”

But others — including officials in communities where Confederate statues have stood — have long seen the memorials as relics that inappropriately revel in the country’s racist past.

Denton (population 1,494) is 93.2% white.