One on one with Trump’s Black MAGA pastor

A candid—and sometimes heated—conversation with Lorenzo Sewell, who claims President Donald Trump is actually an anti-racist who is improving Black lives.

Mother Jones
Trump says he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ben Carson

President Donald Trump has announced he will award Ben Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This marks the third such award Trump has announced this month. Trump made the announcement Saturday in a speech during an event at Mount Vernon for the American Cornerstone Institute, which Carson founded. Carson, a former neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate, served as Housing and Urban Development secretary during Trump's first term. The Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor, recognizing individuals for significant contributions to the United States. Trump has already announced two other recipients since returning to the White House, Rudy Giuliani and a posthumous award for Charlie Kirk.

AP News

Former Texas lawmaker Scott Turner confirmed to lead HUD
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/turner-confirmation-hud-secretary

* TX House Representatives 2013-17
* HUD executes housing laws, incl. helping low-income people find homes & combating housing discrimination

* Turner a skeptic for gov assistance to alleviate poverty
* welfare: “one of most destructive things for the family” <-- Ch. Koch/libertarian billionaire playbook 101

#USpol #ScottTurner #HUD #BenCarson
#Trump2 #GOP #authoritarianism #Project2025 #BlackConservatism

Former Texas lawmaker Scott Turner confirmed to lead HUD

Turner served in the Texas House from 2013-2017.

The Texas Tribune

/1 Black conservative Ben Carson an anti-critical race theory proponent

[2021] Kristi Noem signs "1776 pledge" to ban "anti-American indoctrination" in public schools
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113805209780268350

* Noem & Carson's Fox News op-ed against critical race theory
* recall that ideology posited pre-Civil War slaves benefited f. slavery 🤨

#USpol #GOP #Trump1 #HHS #BenCarson #BlackConservatism #antiCRT #CRT
#Trump2 #fascism #Project2025 #ChristianRight #antiLGBT #KristiNoem
#Christofascism #transgenocide

[thread] Ben Carson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson#Remarks_on_transgender_use_of_homeless_shelters

* Am. retired neurosurgeon/academic
* Seventh-day Adventist Church
* apocalypse beliefs, literal reading of Book of Genesis
* 2017-2021 Trump1 Sec. Housing & Urban Development
* 2019 transphobic remarks wh. barring trans women f. homeless shelters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church

Transgenocide: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113591011564014172

#USpol #GOP #Trump1 #HHS #BenCarson #BlackConservatism
#Trump2 #fascism #Project2025 #ChristianRight #antiLGBT
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Ben Carson - Wikipedia

[thread] Scott Turner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turner_(politician)

* businessman/politician/fmr football player
* pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church
* prev. Exec Dir White House Opportunity & Revitalization Council
* Nov 2024 Trump nom. Turner as Sec. Housing & Urban Development in Trump2 administration

Comment: same dept. HUD prev. run by notorious transphobe Ben Carson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson

#USpol #ScottTurner #HousingSec #HUD #BenCarson
#Trump2 #GOP #authoritarianism #Project2025 #antiLGBT #BlackConservatism

Scott Turner (politician) - Wikipedia

/1

* Fred Trump met w. Trump1 admin. officials incl. [transphobe] Ben Carson #BlackConservatism to lobby for children with disabilities
* Donald Trump called Fred back yo the Oval Office, reportedly said “Maybe those kinds of people should just die,” given “the shape they’re in, all the expenses”
* another time: “I don’t know. He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

* reminds us why we need reproductive justice AND disability justice
...