{"id":65696,"date":"2026-02-07T09:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/trump-posted-something-blatantly-racist-what-a-surprise-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:56:53","slug":"trump-posted-something-blatantly-racist-what-a-surprise-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/trump-posted-something-blatantly-racist-what-a-surprise-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump posted something blatantly racist? What a surprise | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama video should take a toll on the president\u2019s political career \u2013 but of course it won\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>Despite Donald Trump\u2019s war on woke, he hasn\u2019t (yet) made Black History Month illegal. In fact, on Tuesday the president issued a proclamation declaring February 2026 to be a celebration of Black history <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/02\/national-black-history-month-2026\/\">and called<\/a> \u201cupon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/07\/trump-racist-obama-arwa-mahdawi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama video should take a toll on the president\u2019s political career \u2013 but of course it won\u2019t Despite Donald Trump\u2019s war on woke, he hasn\u2019t (yet) made Black History Month illegal. In fact, on Tuesday the president issued a proclamation declaring February 2026 to be a celebration of Black history and called \u201cupon public &#8230; <a title=\"Trump posted something blatantly racist? What a surprise | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/trump-posted-something-blatantly-racist-what-a-surprise-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump posted something blatantly racist? What a surprise | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}