By Lauren Burke
BLACK PRESS USA NEWSWIRE — Citing Trump’s “attacking our democracy,” the Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Individuals (NAACP) is not going to invite President Donald Trump to its nationwide conference this yr. The choice marks the primary time that America’s oldest civil rights group will exclude a sitting president from its conference. In an announcement on the night of June 16, the explanations have been made clear.
“Donald Trump is attacking our democracy and our civil rights,” the assertion from the NAACP learn partly. “He believes extra within the fascist playbook than within the U.S. Structure. This playbook is radical and un-American. The president has signed unconstitutional govt orders to oppress voters and undo federal civil rights protections; he has illegally turned the army on our communities, and he regularly undermines each pillar of our democracy to make himself extra highly effective and to personally profit from the U.S. authorities.”
The NAACP’s assertion referred to President Trump’s current resolution to ship the Nationwide Guard to Los Angeles after protests towards ICE detentions and abductions despatched worry via elements of the Los Angeles neighborhood. The White Home responded to the NAACP’s June 16 assertion.
“The NAACP isn’t advancing something however hate and division, whereas the President is concentrated on uniting our nation, enhancing our financial system, securing our borders, and establishing peace throughout the globe. This is similar imaginative and prescient for America {that a} file variety of Black People supported within the resounding reelection of President Trump,” said White Home spokesperson Harrison Fields in a written assertion.
Since he took workplace in January 2025 for his second time period within the White Home there was a transparent anti-Black coverage focus pushed by the Trump administration. Trump and members of his cupboard have always attacked range, equality and inclusion since taking workplace.
The Trump administration has additionally fired with out trigger a number of Black officers in high roles resembling Normal CQ Brown, who was chair of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, and Carla Hayden, who served because the Librarian of Congress. It was reported in early April that books on racism, civil rights and the Black expertise have been faraway from the library on the U.S. Navy Academy in Annapolis. The rationale was the said coverage by the Trump administration towards “range” and “inclusion.”
“For 116 years, the NAACP has invited the sitting president of america to deal with the NAACP Nationwide Conference — no matter their political occasion. There’s a wealthy historical past of each Republicans and Democrats attending our conference — from Harry Truman to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Invoice Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and past. We’re nonpartisan and all the time welcome those that consider in democracy and the Structure,” the group, led by Derrick Johnson, additionally said.
Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush addressed racism throughout their speeches to the NAACP. The group’s annual conference is among the largest gatherings of Black management within the U.S. every year.
