1- Trump is a racist white supremacist who is purging the federal administration of its African-American personnel. He and his Zionist friends see eye to eye on matters of racism: He, in the US, hates African Americans and they, in raped Palestine, hate Palestinian Arabs.
2-Trump is an illiterate dumb idiot who thinks that science is a waste of time and money. For that he is known as Bozo the Clown.
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Trump Sued For Racial Discrimination, Accused Of Firing 75% of Black Officials At Independent Federal Agencies
Christopher Rhodes
Mon, April 27, 2026
Lawsuit alleges racial discrimination in firing of Black federal employees under Trump administration.
Upon returning to office, President Donald Trump immediately implemented orders and policies against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in government and beyond while also slashing federal agencies and laying off employees. Now, a new lawsuit alleges that these policies have combined to target Black federal employees, as the Trump administration is accused of racial discrimination.
Lawsuit alleges racial bias in firing of National Transportation Safety Board official
Alvin Brown, a Democrat nominated by President Joe Biden who served as a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, filed a complaint alleging that his dismissal in May 2025 was done because of racial bias. Brown argues in his complaint that his firing cannot be explained by partisan reasoning. ‘Mr. Brown’s removal from the NTSB cannot be explained by the fact that Mr. Brown is a Democrat and President Trump might have wanted to exert Republican control over the Board,” Brown’s lawyer wrote in the lawsuit. “At the time of Mr. Brown’s removal from the NTSB, there were two other Democrats serving on the Board.” Rather, Brown is arguing that his removal is part of a systematic targeting of Black federal employees, and thus a violation of his Fifth Amendment rights.
Alleged pattern of firing or replacing Black people
According to Brown’s attorneys, 75% of Black officials of independent agencies have been fired under Trump. “President Trump has removed Black Senate-confirmed appointees; he has either nominated a non-Black individual for their replacement or has not formally replaced them at all,” Brown’s attorneys further allege. “This trend fits with President Trump’s consistent messaging criticizing diversity and inclusion and his clear and demonstrable emphasis on hiring white people.” A second Black former official, Robert Primus, has filed a similar lawsuit relating to his firing in August from the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, a position to which he had been nominated by Trump and then elevated to board chairman under Biden. In addition to race, Primus pointed toward his opposition to a massive railroad merger deal as motivation behind his firing.
Slashing federal jobs, dismantling agencies, and opposing diversity initiatives
Since returning to the White House, Trump has initiated a series of executive orders and policies against DEI programs and initiatives, which have been interpreted broadly to censor or remove information relating to Black people and other minority communities. Trump also dismantled federal agencies and conducted mass firings of federal employees, with DOGE initially taking a leading role in this process. Trump has additionally attempted to fire or even prosecute officials who previously opposed him or have current policy disagreements with him, such as Jerome Powell and Lisa Cook of the Federal Reserve Board.
The lawsuits filed by Brown and Primus challenge these policies. The suits push back against Trump’s efforts to fire federal employees and gut diversity initiatives, arguing that the impact of these policies has been active, disproportionate targeting of Black employees. In making these challenges, lawyers in the two cases have cited stunning statistics and patterns of Black employees being eliminated from federal positions or replaced, painting a picture of an administration actively hostile toward Black people in the federal government.
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Trump’s purge of National Science Board condemned as a ‘real bozo the clown move’
Josh Marcus
Sun, April 26, 2026
Trump’s purge of National Science Board condemned as a ‘real bozo the clown move’
The Trump administration reportedly fired all 22 current members of the National Science Board, a key body that advises the president and Congress on U.S. science policy and steers the National Science Foundation.
Critics are alarmed by the news that the Trump administration reportedly fired all 22 current members of the National Science Board, the body that steers the National Science Foundation and advises Congress and the president on top scientific issues.
In a statement on Saturday, Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California called the decision a “real bozo the clown move.”
“This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation,” she said. “The NSB is apolitical. It advises the president on the future of NSF. It unfortunately is no surprise a president who has attacked NSF from day one would seek to destroy the board that helps guide the Foundation.”
“Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?” she added.
“This unseemly political maneuver must be seen for what it is: An attempt to silence independent scientists, shut down evidence-based decision making, and keep the public in the dark,” Gretchen Goldman, president and CEO of the Union of Concerned Scientists, wrote in a blog post.
The Trump administration reportedly fired the entire National Science Board on Friday, a key body that steers U.S. science policy and advises the president and Congress (Reuters)
The National Science Foundation directed questions to the White House, which did not immediately respond to a request from The Independent for comment.
The White House reportedly fired the members of the board on Friday with little explanation.
The advisory body, whose members serve six-year terms, helps guide the overall direction of the NSF’s more than $9 billion budget. It helps approve major expenses and sets long-term priorities for the agency, the engine of basic non-medical science and engineering funding in the U.S., which has had a hand in the creation of major technologies like GPS and the internet.
“What it means is that there won’t be any practical impediments to the administration essentially enacting their own budget and priorities and ignoring Congress’ directives or congressional law,” Keivan Stassun, a professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University who was among those fired, told The Lost Angeles Times.
“What we’re likely to see is a collapse of what has historically been a broad investment in American science and technology capabilities,” he added. “The most transformative discoveries are transformative because you can’t predict them in advance, so we invest foundationally in scientists and engineers to do basic science and engineering research.”
The Trump administration has taken other controversial steps around scientific policy, including removing the entirety of a key CDC vaccine advisory panel (Reuters) [Can you guess what the other Bozo - RFK Jr. - is really thinking from the way he is looking at Trump hurling his verbal diarrhea?]
The reported firings are the latest sign of uncertainty and upheaval at the NSF.
Last April, NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan resigned from the agency, as personnel from the Trump administration’s slash-and-burn DOGE cost-cutting program were working inside NSF to cancel scores of grants.
The following month, board member Alondra Nelson resigned, citing the DOGE takeover, alleging the Elon Musk-led effort had “by fiat the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications which had been systematically vetted by layers of subject matter experts.”
Last year, the White House proposed a 55 percent cut to the NSF budget, which Congress rejected. The administration has again requested cuts as part of the fiscal year 2027 budget.
In March, the administration nominated Jim O’Neill, a former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and biotech investor, to lead the science agency.
O’Neill, who has yet to go for a hearing before Congress, would be the first NSF chief who lacked a formal scientific or engineering background.
The president has championed U.S. dominance in technology, and Silicon Valley CEOs donated to his campaign and inauguration (AFP/Getty) [here, a lineup of the Great Moron's asskissing billionaire friends]
In its first year in office, the Trump administration terminated or froze more than 7,800 research grants, while roughly 25,000 scientists and staffers at research-related agencies left the government, according to Nature.
Last summer, the administration removed all the members of an influential CDC vaccine advisory board, some of whom were replaced by vaccine skeptics.
The administration similarly removed members of an autism advisory board, installing members in their place who had previously made debunked claims linking vaccines to autism.
The president has a long history of denying well-established science, and he called the climate crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” last year at the United Nations General Assembly.
The president has proved supportive of the technology industry, though, championing artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency.
His administration has pushed to speed the development of AI data centers across the U.S.
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