[Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate

[Laurence Horn]

“Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.”
—Darren Beattie, Acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy [sic]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/03/us/trump-usaid-news <https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/03/us/trump-usaid-news>

Here’s the full quote in context:

Darren Beattie has been appointed acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, a senior State Department official confirmed. Beattie, who will manage the department’s messaging and relationship with foreign populations, has a history of incendiary comments, including an October 2024 tweet in which he wrote: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”

Unfortunately, this may need to be ruled out because the tweet was actually from October 2024. But on the other hand, laws and rules no longer apply.
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