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Tamara Keith

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The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

And what do experts who specialize in this say it means?

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

Yeah, and that obviously is language that President Trump uses on the campaign trail, uses all the time.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

But now it's embedded.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

It struck me when reading your reporting that you referred to this messaging as propaganda.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

That is a very specific word.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

And I'm hoping you can explain why you chose that word and what it means.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

And certainly, Mara, it is the White House strategy to describe anyone who is in the country illegally as a criminal at this point.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

The policy of the United States is mass deportation.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

We are going to take a quick break and we'll have more in a moment.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

And we're back.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

And we're talking about Trump administration messaging that includes white nationalist themes.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

Odette, you talked about how some of this is coded, like people wouldn't necessarily know it if they didn't know what they were looking for.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

What is the Trump administration telling you about these accusations?

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

Odette, I do want to ask you, do you have a sense of what the administration's goals are here or

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

or who they want to get these messages.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

And there is also a sliding scale between some of this messaging and what I hear from voters a lot, which is like America for Americans.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

We should be prioritizing Americans.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

And that is is a message that certainly resonated with voters as President Trump has campaigned on it twice.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

Odette, is there any consequence to the government using this kind of language?

The NPR Politics Podcast
Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

I'm thinking about Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference talking about Western civilization and the need to control borders, because if you don't, it's essentially a threat to the fabric of the society and the survival of civilization itself.