By Katherine Tinsley
1:32pm PST, Feb 5, 2025
Trump recently fired Darren Beattie for speaking at a white nationalist conference, but Crockett thinks the president's ties to the latter should be a cause for concern.
"He needs to go. I mean, this is very simple. We right now have a white supremacist that is sitting in the White House. He is backed up by other white supremacists," Crockett said.
"The people that commit 80 percent of the most violent crimes in this country are White supremacists," she explained, later alluding to Trump's convictions being overlooked by voters. "Yet, for whatever reason, they sit and they serve at the pleasure of the president."
Aside from Beattie, Crockett noted that the divestment from DEI won't undermine her professional achievements.
"I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned," Crockett said when asked about diversity programs being scrapped.
"I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison," she added. "And that is the life that we have always lived."
Due to losing DEI positions, there are fears of women, veterans and people of color no longer having access to opportunities.
"So, the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder," the Texas-based congresswoman shared.
Crockett pointed out that the Trump administration has been critical of affirmative action and other forms of reparations.
"This is why they don't want us to have education," Crockett claimed.
"This is why they are trying to literally say we won't fund the HBCUs, because they know that if they've already gone after affirmative action and they're saying, you know what, don't allow them to come in to say these [predominantly white institutions], as we call them, don't allow them to come into these institutions," she added.
In an official White House briefing, Trump's administration criticized
Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris' efforts.
"Individual dignity, hard work, and excellence are fundamental to American greatness," the document reads. "This Executive Order reaffirms these values by ending the Biden-Harris Administration's anti-constitutional and deeply demeaning "equity" mandates, terminating DEI, and protecting civil rights."
After the plane crash occurred in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, January 29, Trump blamed the rise in BIPOC and female pilots for the tragedy.
The reality star told journalists the government will only prioritize hiring "the best and brightest in every position possible."
"The era of DEI is gone at the Defense Department," he exclaimed.
