MS NOW's Gaudy Eddie Glaude: J.D. Vance 'Is Not Tired of Being Racist'

Appearing as a guest on the first episode of The Assignment with Antonia Hylton on Saturday, MS NOW contributor Eddie Glaude declared that Vice President J.D. Vance may be "tired of being called racist," but that he is "not tired of being racist." He also tacitly admitted that the liberal agenda on how to teach history is to provoke "judgment" against whites.

Hylton devoted a segment to reports that the Trump administration plans to return a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery next year. After noting that a disclaimer arguing against the Lost Cause was recently removed from where the monument used to be, she went to Glaude and asked why he believed the words were scrubbed.

On the liberal news network that has frequently accused the Trump administration of promoting white nationalism, the liberal professor began by claiming that not enough time has been spent accusing the Trump administration of promoting white nationalism:

I think part of what we haven't done enough is to dissect, to deconstruct the ideology that informs Trumpism -- that MAGA isn't reducible to the personality of Donald Trump, even though it's the engine -- that there is a kind of ideological apparatus with a host of assumptions about who possesses the country, about racial hierarchy. One way to describe it is as a white nationalist project.

Pushing paranoia over "racial hierarchy" is Glaude's modus operandi. He then added:

And that involves, in part, a particular understanding of the history of the country in so many ways, I think, and this is really critical for what they're trying to do -- that is a kind of cultivated ignorance in order to justify its policy decisions, is to, in so many ways, bracket history such that history does not provide resources for judgment. They want to be white without judgment. And history, of course, offers so much in order to account for our current moment.

Hylton followed up by playing a clip of Vice President Vance speaking at the recent Republican convention in Texas. Here's Vance talking about Biden's mass importation of immigrants: "We are tired of seeing the cartels and the criminals given free rein over our great country, and we were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous."

Glaude responded:

He's tired of being called a racist -- he's not necessarily tired of being racist, because when you flesh out that sentence, he's trafficking in all sorts of stereotypes. And remember, this is the same man on July 5, 2025, said that America can't be just simply a creedal nation. "We're more than an idea." And in so many ways, he invoked the language of blood and soil in that moment.

He then concluded by apparently reacting to Trump saying the country became "dirtier" with all the immigrants pouring in.

And so he's trading in a set of tropes really designed to push the idea that we are infestations, that we sully the body politic, and that his task is in so many ways -- their task, right, is to clarify it, is to cleanse it. And we're seeing that with immigration policy -- we're seeing that with voting policy -- we're seeing that with policy in general.

Transcript follows:

MS NOW's The Assignment

September 12, 2026

EDDIE GLAUDE: Well, I mean, I think part of what we haven't done enough is to dissect, to deconstruct the ideology that informs Trumpism -- that MAGA isn't reducible to the personality of Donald Trump, even though it's the engine -- that there is a kind of ideological apparatus with a host of assumptions about who possesses the country, about racial hierarchy.

One way to describe it is as a white nationalist project, and that involves, in part, a particular understanding of the history of the country in so many ways, I think, and this is really critical for what they're trying to do -- that is a kind of cultivated ignorance in order to justify its policy decisions, is to, in so many ways, bracket history such that history does not provide resources for judgment. They want to be white without judgment. And history, of course, offers so much in order to account for our current moment.

ANTONIA HYLTON: That element of -- of not wanting to have to deal with the judgment is so interesting. And I was thinking about it, actually, when I was hearing a lot of the speeches coming from Dallas this week during "Trumpapalooza." I want you to take a listen to something that the Vice President said there.

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: We are tired of seeing the cartels and the criminals given free reign over our great country, and we were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.

HYLTON: So that is the Vice President of the United States saying, "We were tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous."

GLAUDE: He's tired of being called a racist -- he's not necessarily tired of being racist because when you flesh out that sentence, he's trafficking in all sorts of stereotypes. And remember, this is the same man on July 5, 2025, said that America can't be just simply a creedal nation. "We're more than an idea." 

And in so many ways, he invoked the the, the, the language of blood and soil in that moment. And so he's trading in a set of tropes really designed to push the idea that we are infestations, that we sully the body politic, and that his task is in so many ways -- their task, right, is to clarify, it is to cleanse it. And we're seeing that with immigration policy -- we're seeing that with voting policy -- we're seeing that with policy in general.