Trump Trivia
What was Trump’s campaign slogan?
Make America Great Again
What did the reading suggest we should do to the Electoral college?
Abolish it
What are the names of the programs created by the Obama administration that Trump vowed to end?
DACA and DAPA
What social media platform is Donald Trump known to use for his empty-headed posts?
What does Trump want to create in order to make this country great?
A wall
How did trump win the presidency?
electoral vote
What does the reading say we should defend against?
Hate crimes, Islamaphobia, Anti-black racism, LGBT attacks, and Erosion of reproductive rights
What does the reading say we should outlaw?
Hate groups such as the KKK
Who said the quote used at the beginning of the presentation?
Audre Lorde
What groups did Trump target during his campaign?
anyone who is not a straight white male
What is the name of the show that Trump famously starred in?
The Apprentice
What is a sanctuary city?
A city that protects undocumented immigrants from deportation or prosecution, despite federal immigration law
What did the Obama administration’s deportations of undocumented workers do?
Rebooted the Sanctuary movement
What does the reading refer to Trump's election as?
A national trauma
What is Trump planning to do to sanctuary cities
Cut Funding
What does the Trump organization do?
Build or renovate skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses
What is the Southern Poverty Law Center?
An American nonprofit legal advocacy organization that monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the U.S. and exposes their activities
Name an activist group mentioned in the presentation
Women of Color Against Violence - Radical Women -the Immigrant Solidarity Network - CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities - the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) - Movement of Black LIves - Network Against Islamophobia - Project South - Southerners on New Ground (SONG) - the Moral Mondays Movement
What does the reading say that Trump's followers are attracted to?
“They are attracted to Trump’s wealth as a metonym of an American dream that they, too, can enjoy once America is “great” again—which is to say, once the country returns to being “a white MAN’s country.”
What is "whitelash"?
a race-based term describing a counterattack on the loss of empowerment that middle and lower class whites
What boarding school did Trump go to?
New York Military Academy
In the 1980s, what two countries did nearly one million refugees flee from due to U.S. backed dictatorships?
Guatemala and El Salvador
What is the U.S. plan that empowers a seven-member, unelected board to impose severe measures as a way of restructuring its debt called?
PROMESA
What does Robin Kelley describe “whiteness” as?
a foundational myth for the birth and consolidation of capitalism
What does the reading say that Trump's populist message represents?
The nation's deep-seated distrust of Washington