The core ethos of Humanity in Kindness and Truth but racism, bigotry and lying are as American as apple pie. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate. The US has invaded over 72 countries with some of these invasions being genocidal. Recent American Government racism and bigotry is also exposed by astonishingly disproportionate ethnic and religious under-representation and over-representation in the Biden Cabinet and the present Trump Cabinet.
(1). Biden Cabinet.
The US became increasingly Zionist subverted after Apartheid Israel gained nuclear weapons by 1967. Support for Apartheid Israel (and hence support of utterly vile Apartheid) is now a pillar of US politics, with anti-racist critics of Israeli Apartheid ferociously attacked, side-lined, and falsely defamed as anti-Semitic. However under the deeply Gaza Genocide-complicit Administration of geriatric “Genocide Joe” Biden and “Kid Killing Kamala (KKK)” Harris, Zionist control was blatant: 32 percent or about one third of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet were Jewish Zionists and the remainder were moderate Christian Zionists. Yet Jews represented only 1.9% of the US population [1].
(a). Jewish Americans were 1.9% of the US population but 32% of the Biden Cabinet and were thus 32%/1.9% = 16.8-fold over-represented. The same analysis of “% in the Cabinet” / “% in the US population” was applied to other groups as follows [the figures for the Trump Cabinet as set out in detail in Part 2 of this analysis are given in square brackets, in this case for the Trump Cabinet: 4.9-fold over-representation for Jews].
(b). African Americans were over-represented 24%/14.2% = 1.7-fold [Trump Cabinet: 0.3-fold under-representation].
(c). Hispanic/Latino Americans were under-represented 16%/19.5% = 0.8-fold [Trump Cabinet: 0.4-fold under-representation].
(d). Asian Americans were slightly over-represented 8%/7.2% = 1.1-fold [Trump, Cabinet: 0.7-fold under-representation].
(e). Native Americans were slightly over-represented 4%/2.9% = 1.4-fold [Trump Cabinet: zero representation].
(f). Non-Jewish and non-Latino White Americans were substantially under-represented 24%/55.6% = 0.4 fold [Trump Cabinet: 1.3-fold over-representation].
(g). Women were under-represented 44%/50.5% = 0.9-fold [Trump Cabinet: under-represented 0.7-fold].
(h). Catholic Americans were disproportionately over-represented 71%/23% = 3.1-fold [Trump Cabinet:1.8-fold over-representation]. They failed to appreciate the wonderful pro-peace, pro-humanity and pro-Palestinian human rights words of the late Pope Francis and his successor Pope Leo XIV.
(i). Protestants were hugely under-represented 48.9%/24% = 2.0-fold [Trump Cabinet: 2.1-fold over-representation].
(j). Republicans, Pentecostal Christians (Evangelical Christians) and Racist Religious Right Republicans (R4s) had zero representation i.e. were totally absent from the Biden Cabinet [Trump Cabinet: 100% Racist Religious Right Republicans (R4s)].
(k). All of the members of the Biden Cabinet were fervently theist, nationalist, neoliberal, pro-market, pro-One Percenter, anti-socialist, pro-nuclear terrorism, pro-US hegemony, pro-militarism, pro-US interventionism, pro-Apartheid Israel (and hence pro-Apartheid) and pro-Zionist. To state the obvious, American politicians have to observe the sine qua non pillars of US politics of theism, capitalism, nationalism and support for Apartheid Israel (and hence for the vile crime of Apartheid that is condemned as a crime against Humanity by the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid ) [Trump Cabinet: ditto].
(l). Christians were under- represented 68% / 95.8% = 0.7-fold [Trump Cabinet: 1.5-fold over-representation].
(2). Trump Cabinet (2025) (Jewish members asterisked).
Details of the 24 members of the Trump Cabinet are set out below [2]. Detailed data are available on the ethnic composition of the US [3-5] and the religious composition of the US [ 5-10].
(1). Donald Trump (President; White American with German and Scottish heritage; Presbyterian Protestant).
(2). James David Vance (Vice President; White American with Scots-Irish descent; converted to Catholicism).
(3). Marco Antonio Rubio (Secretary of State; Cuban-origin Hispanic American; Catholic).
(4). Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent (Secretary of the Treasury; White American with French Huguenot and Scottish descent; Huguenot Church Protestant).
(5). Peter Brian Hegseth (Secretary of Defense; White American with Norwegian descent; Baptist Protestant ).
(6). Pamela Jo Bondi (Attorney General; White American with Italian descent; Catholic background, heads Trump’s Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias Task Force, links to Scientology, fervently anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion; Protestant ?).
(7). Douglas James Burgum (Secretary of the Interior; White American with a complex ethnicity of English, smaller amounts of Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, and Swiss-German, distant French, Belgian Walloon, Welsh, and Cornish; Methodist Protestant).
(8). Brooke Leslie Rollins (Secretary of Agriculture; White American; fervent Christian faith, Protestant? ).
*(9). Howard William Lutnick (Secretary of Commerce; White American; Jewish).
(10). Lori Michelle Chavez-DeRemer (Secretary of Labor; Hispanic American; Catholic).
(11). Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.(Secretary of Health and Human Services; White American with Irish heritage; Catholic).
(12). Eric Scott Turner (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; African American; Baptist Protestant).
(13). Sean Patrick Duffy (Secretary of Transport; White American with Irish and German ancestry; Catholic).
(14). Christopher Allen Wright(Secretary of Energy; White American; fervent climate change denialist, Protestant? ).
(15). Linda Marie McMahon (Secretary of Education; White American with; Baptist convert to Catholicism).
(16). Douglas Allen Collins (Secretary of Veterans Affairs; White American; Baptist Protestant ).
(17). Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem (Secretary of Homeland Security; White American with Norwegian ancestry; evangelical Protestant).
*(18). Lee Michael Zeldin (Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; White American; Jewish).
(19). Russell Thurlow Vought (Director of the Office of Management and Budget; evangelical Christian Protestant and self-described Christian nationalist).
(20). Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence; Polynesian Samoan and European ancestry; Hinduism).
(21). John Lee Ratcliffe (Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; White American; Catholic).
(22). Jamieson Lee Greer (United States Trade Representative; White American; Mormon Protestant, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
(23). Kelly Lynn Loeffler (Administrator of the Small Business Administration;White American; Catholic).
(24). Susan Wiles (White House Chief of Staff; White American; Episcopalian Protestant ).
Percentage of Trump Cabinet positions by ethnicity: Arab Americans: 0.0%; Asian Americans: 0.0%; Pacific Islander Americans: 1 x100/24 = 4.2% ; African-Americans: 1 x100/24 = 4.2%; Jewish Americans: 2 x100/24 = 8.3%; Hispanic Americans: 2 x100/24 = 8.3%; non-Hispanic White Americans: 18 x100/24 = 75.0%
US population by ethnicity: Asian Americans: 6.4%; Arab Americans: 0.64%; First Nations American Indians: 1.3% ; Pacific Islander Americans: 0.3%; African-Americans: 13.7%; Jewish Americans: 2.4%; Hispanic Americans: 19.5%; non-Hispanic and non-Jewish White Americans: 58.4%.
Trump’s unequal sharing of Cabinet positions by the ratio of “observed %”/ “% of US population”: Arab Americans: 0.0/0.64 = 0.0; First Nations American Indians: 0.0/1.3 = 0.0; Asian Americans: 0.0/6.4 = 0.0; Pacific Islander Americans: 4.2/0.3 = 14; African-Americans: 4.2 /13.7= 0.3; Jewish Americans: 8.3/2.4 = 3.5; Hispanic Americans: 8.3/19.5= 0.4; non-Hispanic and non-Jewish White Americans: 75.0/58.4 = 1.3.
Thus in Trump’s Cabinet there are zero (0) Arab Americans, zero (0) Asian Americans and zero (0) First Nations American Indians. African-Americans are under-represented 0.3-fold, and Hispanic Americans 0.4-fold. However non-Hispanic and non-Jewish White Americans are over-represented 1.3-fold, Jewish Americans 3.5-fold and (tyranny of small numbers) Pacific Islander Americans 14-fold.
Percentage of Trump Cabinet positions by religion: Muslim 0.0%; Hindu 1×100/24 = 4.2%; Judaism: 2×100/24 = 8.3%; Catholics 8×100/24 = 33.3%, Protestants 15×100/24 = 62.5%; Christians 23×100/24 = 95.8%;
US adult population by religion: Muslim: 1.2%; Jewish: 1.7%; Buddhist: 1.1%; Hindu: 0.9%; Other non-Christian: 2.4%; Atheists: 7%; Agnostics: 4%; Catholics: 19%; Protestants: 40%; Christians: 62% [5-7].
In the absence of available data, we can assume that for all groups that children are 21.7% of the American population, adults are 78.3% of the American population [3], and that child and adult religiosity is the same in order to estimate religious as a percentage of the total American population.
Accordingly, we can assume that the US total population breakdown by religion is the same as for the adult population:Muslim: 1.2%; Jewish: 1.7%; Buddhist: 1.1%; Hindu: 0.9%; Other non-Christian: 2.4%; Atheists: 7%; Agnostics: 4%; Catholics: 19%; Protestants: 40%; Christians: 62%/ [5-7].
Trump’s religion-based unequal sharing of Cabinet positions by ratio of “observed %”/“% of US population”: Muslim: 0; Buddhist: 0; Other non-Christian: 0; Atheist: 0; Agnostic: 0; Hindu: 4.2%/ 0.9% = 4.7; Judaism: 8.3%/1.7% = 4.9; Catholic: 33.3%/19% = 1.8; Protestant: 40%/19%= 2.1; Christian: 95.8%/62% = 1.5.
Thus in Trump’s Cabinet there are zero (0) Muslims, Buddhists, Other non-Christians, Atheists and Agnostics. However (tyranny of small numbers) Hinduism is over-represented 4.7-fold, Judaism 4.9-fold, Catholics 1.8-fold, Protestants 2.1-fold and Christians 1.5-fold.
Percentage of Trump’s Cabinet by sex: females represent 51% of the American population but only 8 of Trump’s Cabinet (33.3%) are females who are thus disproportionatelv under-represented in the Trump Cabinet 33.3% / 51% = 0.7-fold.
Summary and conclusions.
The American Declaration of Independence famously declares that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [persons] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. In similar vein the Ten Commandments include “Thou shalt not kill” and wonderful Jesus Christ proclaimed “Love thy neighbour as thyself”. However the Godless and anti-Christ Biden Administration and the Godless and anti-Christ Trump Administration have both flatly rejected these moral injunctions by (a) the racism and bigotry implicit in the disproportional representations in their Cabinets, and (b) the genocidal racism implicit in their fervent support for the horrific Zionist Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide.
Thus in Protestant Trump’s Cabinet there are zero (0) Arab Americans, zero (0) Asian Americans and zero (0) First Nations American Indians. African-Americans are under-represented 0.3-fold, Hispanic Americans 0.4-fold, and women 0.7-fold. However non-Jewish and non-Hispanic White Americans are over-represented 1.3-fold, Jewish Americans 3.5-fold and Pacific Islander Americans 14-fold. Religion-wise, in Protestant Trump’s Cabinet there are zero (0) Muslims, Buddhists, Other non-Christians, Atheists and Agnostics. However (tyranny of small numbers) Hinduism is over-represented 4.7-fold, Judaism 4.9-fold, Catholics 1.8-fold, Protestants 2.1-fold and Christians 1.5-fold.
In Catholic Biden’s Cabinet there were zero (0) Arab Americans. Hispanic/Latino Americans were under-represented 0.8-fold, non-Jewish and non-Latino White Americans 0.4-fold, and women 0.9-fold. However African Americans were over-represented 1.7-fold, Asian Americans 1.1-fold, and Native Americans 1.4-fold. Religion-wise, in Catholic Biden’s Cabinet there were zero (0) Muslims, Buddhists, Other non-Christians, Atheists and Agnostics. Christians were under-represented 0.7-fold and Protestants 2.0-fold. However Jews were over-represented 16.8-fold and Catholics 1.8-fold.
What war criminals Biden and Trump have in common is Zionist subversion, Zionist perversion, and war criminal complicity in the horrific Gaza Genocide through unfailing diplomatic support for the children- and women-killing Zionazi perpetrators and an endless and deadly supply of weapons and bombs. Expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet estimated 64,260 violent (direct) deaths by 30 June 2024 [11], this corresponding to 64, 260 x 585 days/ 267 days = 140,794 deaths by mid-May 2025 (this ignoring several weeks of a ceasefire that was repeatedly violated by the Zionazis). Other epidemiologists (also in The Lancet) estimated that indirect deaths from imposed deprivation were “conservatively” 4 times the direct deaths [12, 13] and hence 703,970 deaths from violence and deprivation by 15 May 2025 or a shocking 29% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million (see [15-23]). Interestingly, in proposing the complete ethnic cleaning of Gaza, Trump referred to “1.7 million” Gazans to be moved, this implying 0.7 million Gazans “missing” from the 2.4 million pre-war population [24-28] and thus the death of 0.6 million Gazans (0.1 million having escaped to Egypt [29-31]).
The West rightly applied sanctions on Russia over the US-provoked but nevertheless war criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine. The horrific and ongoing Gaza Genocide demands global sanctions against Apartheid Israel, Zionist-perverted America and indeed against all countries complicit in this unforgivable and ongoing Nazi-style atrocity. Nazi is as Nazi does: there is a shocking list of 52 Zionist- and Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany comparisons [32].
Outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (NYU): “For obvious reasons, the Zionists are very sensitive about being compared to the Nazis (not so sensitive that it has restrained them in their actions but enough to bellow “unfair” and to charge “anti-Semitism” when it happens). Yet, the facts on the ground, when not obscured by one or another Zionist rationalization, show that the Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis” [33]. Famed Jewish Canadian journalist, author and activist Naomi Klein: “There is a debate among Jews – I’m a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: “Never again to everyone, or never again to us?… [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card…There is another strain in the Jewish tradition that say[s], ‘Never again to anyone”” [33]. Anti-racist Jewish scholar Moshe Menuhin (father of famed musician Yehudi Menuhin) re Zionist Israeli oppression of Palestinians: “Jews should be Jews – not Nazis” [33].
References.
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[11]. Zeina Jamaluddine, Hanan Abukmail, Sarah Aly, Oona M R Campbell, and Francesco Checchi, “Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis”, The Lancet, 9 January 2025: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02678-3/fulltext .
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[14]. Gideon Polya, “The Lancet: 64,260 Gaza Violent Deaths Indicating 257,000 Indirect Deaths In 9 Months”, Countercurrents, 14 January 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/01/the-lancet-64260-gaza-violent-deaths-indicating-257000-indirect-deaths-in-9-months/ .
[15]. Gideon Polya, “Estimated 273,000 Gazans Killed In the First Year Of Oxford Union-Perceived Gaza Genocide By Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 6 December 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/12/estimated-273000-gazans-killed-in-the-first-year-of-oxford-union-perceived-gaza-genocide-by-apartheid-israel/ .
[16]. Gideon Polya, “Reckoning: 553,000 Gaza Deaths From Violence & Deprivation Demand Global Sanctions & Huge Reparations”, Countercurrents, 21 January 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/01/reckoning-553000-gaza-deaths-from-violence-deprivation-demand-global-sanctions-huge-reparations/ .
[17]. Gideon Polya, “Aboriginal Genocide & Gaza Genocide Expose Racist Australian Mainstream Lying & Censorship”, Countercurrents, 29 January 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/01/aboriginal-genocide-gaza-genocide-expose-racist-australian-mainstream-lying-censorship/ .
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[20]. Ralph Nader interviewed by Amy Goodman, “A Horrifying Undercount”: Ralph Nader Says True Gaza Death Toll Could Be Many Times Higher”, Democracy Now, 10 September 2024: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/10/ralph_nader_gaza_death_toll .
[21]. “EXPOSING THE GAZA DEATH UNDERCOUNT, BY RALPH NADER; Congressional Record Vol. 170, No. 152: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-152/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E1000-3 .
[22]. Gideon Polya, “Western Undercounting Of 335,500 Gaza Genocide Dead From Jewish Israeli-Imposed Violence & Deprivation”, Countercurrents, 15 October 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/10/western-undercounting-of-335500-gaza-genocide-dead-from-jewish-israeli-imposed-violence-deprivation/ .
[23]. Julia Conley, “UN Expert Fears ‘Almost the Entire Population’ of Gaza Exterminated If Israel Not Stopped”, Common Dreams, 6 September 2024: https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-2669142495 .
[24]. Gideon Polya, “LeMay, Albright & Trump: 3 US Officials Who Confessed To US Mass Murder Of Civilians”, Countercurrents, 17 March 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/03/lemay-albright-trump-3-us-officials-who-confessed-to-us-mass-murder-of-civilians/ .
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[26]. Kevin Maimann, “’1.7 million’ Palestinians in Gaza? Trump’s statement raises questions about death toll”, CBC, 13 February 2025: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-gaza-population-relocation-1.7457559 .
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[28]. Jonathan Cook, “The Gaza ‘war’ was a lie, as is the ceasefire. Trump just told you”, Middle East Eye, 6 February 2025: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-lie-ceasefire-trump-just-told-you .
[29]. Mohammed Mhawish, “Escaping Gaza’s war, Palestinians find little solace in Egypt”, The New Humanitarian, 1 July 2024: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2024/07/01/escaping-gazas-war-palestinians-find-little-solace-egypt .
[30]. Carolina S. Pedrazzi, “Gazan Refugees in Egypt Are in a Hellish Limbo”, Jacobin, 21 January 2025: https://jacobin.com/2025/01/gaza-palestine-refugees-egypt-visas .
[31]. Jesse Marks, “It’s Time to Help Palestinians Left Behind in Egypt”, Refugees International, 8 October 2024: https://www.refugeesinternational.org/perspectives-and-commentaries/its-time-to-help-palestinians-left-behind-in-egypt/ .
[32]. Gideon Polya, “ A Shocking List of 52 Zionist- & Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany Comparisons”, Countercurrents, 7 August 2021: https://countercurrents.org/2021/08/a-shocking-list-of-52-zionist-apartheid-israeli-nazi-germany-comparisons/ .
[33]. “Jews against racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/home .
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Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia over 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, notably a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (2003). He has also published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (2007, 2021), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (1998, 2008, 2022), “US-imposed Post-9-11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide” (2020), “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions” (2020), “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide” (2024), and contributed to Soren Korsgaard (editor) “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published – Dangerous Deception Exposed!” (2020). For images of Gideon Polya’s huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ .
