Environmental Deregulation, Spectacular Racism, and White Nationalism in the Trump Era

Figures & data

Table 1. Delineation of events, action, and discourse

Events
Actions	Discourse
Budgets Court rulings Observed acts of censorship Executive orders/memoranda Policy: new, changes, delays (Non)appointments	President tweets Agency administrator tweets President speeches

Table 2. Frequency and kind of environmental and racial events: 20 January 2017 to 20 January 2018

Event	Frequency	Percentage
Environmental actions	173	88.72% of environmental events
Environmental discourse	22	11.28% of environmental events
Total	195	100.00%
Racial actions	83	23.45% of racial events
Racial discourse	271	76.55% of racial events
Total	354	100.00%

Figure 1. All actions during the first year of Trump’s presidency (N = 256) broken into environmental and racial arenas.

Figure 2. All discursive events during the first year of Trump’s presidency (N = 293) broken into environmental and racial arenas.

Table 3. Mechanisms for environmental events: 20 January 2017 to 20 January 2018

Mechanism	Count	Percentage
Policy	59	29.44
Appointments	43	21.83
Executive	32	16.24
Discourse	22	11.17
Delays	16	9.64
Budget	9	4.57
Censorship	5	2.54
Legislative	5	2.54
Judiciary	3	1.52
Omission or denial	1	0.51
Total	195	100

Table 4. Justifications for environmental events: 20 January 2017 to 20 January 2018

Justification	Count	Percentage
Undetermined	57	29.23
Business interests or competitiveness	42	21.54
Efficiency	40	20.51
National interests or security	24	12.31
Energy	17	8.72
Science	8	4.10
Core mission	7	3.59
Total	195	100

Figure 3. All racial tweets during the first year of Trump’s presidency (N = 355) broken down by racial group.

Table 5. Number of discursive events by group: 20 January 2017 to 20 January 2018

Group	Count	Percentage
Mexican and Latinx	94	34.69
Muslim, South Asian, and Arab	87	32.10
International: China and North Korea and Israel and Palestine	34	12.55
Multiple groups	27	9.96
Black people	26	9.59
Native Americans	3	1.11
Total	271	100

Note. Multiple groups refers to events that addressed more than one targeted group.