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President Donald Trump silences his mobile phone in the Oval Office of the White House, May 23, 2025, in Washington. Evan Vucci—Associated Press

TIME: Trump's Dangerous Diversionary Device: Using Race to Erase Discourse

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses Trump’s deliberate strategy of constant distractions that allows him to evade accountability and dominate the narrative especially with the recent unjustifiable posting of an overtly racist AI-generated video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama in TIME