Calls Grows For Trump To Nominate A Black Person For His Cabinet

NewsOne Featured Video Donald Trump listens to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in the Cabinet Room of the White House May 13, 2020, in Washington, D.C.  | Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Nearly two weeks after Donald Trump first began nominating people to be in his Cabinet, none have been Black. Instead, the president-elect has opted to pick unqualified white people to lead federal agencies outside of their expertise, like Tuesday’s inexplicable nomination of WWE executive Linda McMahon to lead the U.S. Department of Education. As a result, calls are growing for Trump to nominate at least one Black person, particularly since his pandering on the campaign trail to attract a historic number of Black voters to cast their ballots in his favor. MORE: Viral Post Shows List Of Black MAGA Loyalists Who Trump Is Snubbing For His Cabinet Related Stories When Trump named failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian American, to help launch a proposed new agency called the U.S. Department Of Government Efficiency, some may have thought that signaled a willingness to name other racial minorities (read: Black Americans). But thus far, that treatment has only applied to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the State Department nominee who all...