{"id":288299,"date":"2026-02-12T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/288299\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:51:13","slug":"trumps-pick-for-top-diplomatic-role-faces-scrutiny-over-white-supremacist-views-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/288299\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s pick for top diplomatic role faces scrutiny over \u2018white supremacist\u2019 views | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s pick for a top diplomatic post has championed \u201cwhite supremacist, racist, antisemitic and homophobic views\u201d, a former US state department official has warned.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Carl<\/a> is set to go before the Senate foreign relations committee on Thursday as the president\u2019s nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organisations, a role that involves managing relationships with and policies toward the United Nations and its agencies.<\/p>\n

Carl, from Montana<\/a>, served as deputy assistant secretary of the interior during Trump\u2019s first term. He is now a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative thinktank based in Upland, California, and specialises in issues such as immigration, multiculturalism and nationalism.<\/p>\n

He faces a rough ride from Senate Democrats over a long history of inflammatory remarks, some since deleted from social media, many on the topic of race.<\/p>\n

Carl has repeatedly expressed sympathy for the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d theory, a baseless notion that immigration is engineered to supplant white populations. \u201cImagine thinking the Great replacement is a conspiracy theory,\u201d he wrote in September 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2021, responding to comments by then congresswoman Cori Bush<\/a> about systemic racism, he wrote: \u201cThere is no \u2018peaceful coexistence\u2019 we are going to have when our opposition is led by people like this. We either win or die.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same year, he lamented what he inaccurately described as the \u201ctotal absence\u201d of white Protestants in Joe Biden\u2019s administration, calling it \u201ca huge story\u201d that was being ignored. He dismissed the creation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday<\/a> as \u201crace hustling and white-shaming\u201d and described \u201cself-hating white people\u201d as \u201cmentally ill\u201d.<\/p>\n

Following the conviction of members of the far-right Proud Boys for seditious conspiracy, Carl wrote that he would \u201crather be a Black man on trial for the assault of a white man in 1930s rural Mississippi than I would be a right-winger in DC today on trial for political crimes\u201d. And in the wake of Derek Chauvin\u2019s conviction for the murder of George Floyd<\/a>, Carl repeatedly described Floyd as a \u201cviolent felon\u201d and \u201cthug\u201d, writing that he was \u201clooking up from hell\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Senate has previously rubber-stamped Trump nominees such as Pete Hegseth<\/a> as defence secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr as health secretary and Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary despite misgivings over their extremism or lack of experience. But Carl may prove a bridge too far.<\/p>\n

Desir\u00e9e Cormier Smith<\/a>, the co-founder and co-president of the Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice, said: \u201cMy concern with Mr Carl is that he not only has no multilateral qualifications for the job but, perhaps more important, he has espoused white supremacist, racist, antisemitic and homophobic views. He is a proponent of the great replacement conspiracy theory, which essentially says that Jewish people and people of colour are in cahoots to \u2018replace\u2019 white people around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cHe has written books about a white genocide and how anti-white racism is going to ruin American democracy. He has called the Civil Rights Act of 1964<\/a> an \u2018anti-white weapon\u2019. This is someone who has extremely dangerous and offensive worldviews and I don\u2019t believe he could credibly represent the United States to the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has rattled global alliances with tariffs, threats to Greenland and the gutting of the United States Agency for International Development. A survey by Pew Research last year<\/a> found that positive ratings of the US had dropped significantly in 15 countries since the previous year. One of the biggest declines was in neighbouring Mexico.<\/p>\n

Smith, formerly the state department\u2019s special representative for racial equity and justice, warned that the confirmation of Carl would only further damage America\u2019s standing. \u201cWhite people only represent about 7% of the global population,\u201d she noted. \u201cImagine how he would be able to credibly engage in a respectful manner as partners with diplomats from Africa, from Latin America, from the Caribbean, from Asia, from Europe who are not white?<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could they engage with someone who essentially believes in white supremacy? I don\u2019t think it would be in the best interest of the United States to send someone to engage with the world who has these kinds of racist, offensive views.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last September, CNN reported<\/a> that Carl had deleted at least 5,000 social media posts, including expressions of sympathy of Trump supporters who attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, whom he described as \u201cpolitical prisoners\u201d. He even sought to have material removed from the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine \u2013 though not all of it disappeared.<\/p>\n

In December, Jewish Insider highlighted<\/a> more of Carl\u2019s past comments, including an apparent call for the \u201cJewish question\u201d to be addressed.<\/p>\n

Carl faces a committee united in opposition on the Democratic side. With no votes to spare, he will need every Republican on the panel to fall into line if he is to be reported favourably to the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

Jeanne Shaheen, the committee\u2019s top Democrat, told the Axios news site<\/a>: \u201cI am going to ask him about his statements with respect to women, and the antisemitic comments.\u201d Senator Tim Kaine was quoted by Axios as saying: \u201cI\u2019m amazed that Republicans have not pulled his nomination. He has such a flagrant series of just horrible missteps, discriminatory, antisemitic comments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader, took to the Senate floor to denounce the nominee<\/a>. \u201cTo call Jeremy Carl a radical and a bigot and unqualified is all far too kind,\u201d he said, accusing him of a \u201clong history of making violent, antisemitic and openly racist comments on podcasts and on social media\u201d.<\/p>\n

Schumer added: \u201cHe said that \u2018Jews often love to play the victim.\u2019 And on a podcast a few years ago he added \u2018throughout history, Jews chose some professions that made them more oppressive and they can\u2019t be surprised that the average descendants of Cossack peasants would be resentful towards them.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you believe this? What stereotypical garbage. On the Holocaust, Jeremy Carl simply says: \u201cEveryone has traumas in their past.\u201d In other words, get over it. That\u2019s vile.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state department did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n