New Trump Official Declared ‘Competent White Men Must Be in Charge’ in Pack of Viral Resurfaced Tweets
Trump’s State Department is hiring first-term Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie to a top job just 15 weeks after he submitted that “competent white men must be in charge” in one of many controversial, resurfaced tweets.
Semafor broke the news on Sunday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appoint Beattie as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy at the State Department almost seven years after Beattie was fired from the first Trump White House for speaking at a conference with white nationalists.
And as recently as October, Beattie was bluntly espousing white authority, writing “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”
He doubled down in a response to an admirer trying to clean up the statement for him:
Do you agree or disagree that our national ideology is largely predicated on coddling the feelings of minorities and women?
— Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) October 5, 2024
Beattie is the author of scores of X/Twitter posts that are now recirculating since news of his appointment broke.
Users like CNN’s Bakari Sellers reacted with alarm and mockery:
…is he aware his new boss is Latino… https://t.co/mUPeGHF3Cm
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) February 3, 2025
New State Department nominee. https://t.co/SNr1H484Rr
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) February 3, 2025
You’re all going to miss wokeness. https://t.co/HkmfZKS5V4
— Jerusalem (@JerusalemDemsas) February 3, 2025
This person, who was previously fired from the Trump administration for being too racist, is going into a major job in the State Department. https://t.co/vIEiSpz1uz
— The Fact of Other Minds Stan Acct (@csilverandgold) February 3, 2025
Trump just made this guy a secretary of public diplomacy for the State Department.
I’m sure his appointment will greatly aid America’s diplomatic efforts in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and ingratiate our nation to female heads of state everywhere https://t.co/r0Zlulpynx
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) February 3, 2025
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