Jean-Pierre’s ‘racist’ lens

Newly installed White House press secretary Karine JeanPierre has a long history of accusing policies and political enemies of racism, a review of her social media and TV news appearances show.

The Post looked at JeanPierre’s tweets between 2015 and 2020 and found 57 instances in which she accused people, policies, ideas or words of being “racist.”

Jean-Pierre also labeled people and ideas as “racist” at least 43 times in TV appearances, according to the video-clipping service Grabien, whose available analysis spanned just the first two years of former President Donald Trump’s term in office.

Jean-Pierre’s target on both social media and TV was overwhelmingly Trump.

“If it walks like a racist, talks like a racist, acts like a racist, it is a racist, and we have a racist president in the White House who really pushes his racism like a peacock,” she told a panel in 2018 on MSNBC’s “AM Joy.”

“Donald Trump is a RACIST!” she railed in a tweet from January 2018, echoing what became a common refrain of hers during his presidency.

In 2020, she tweeted: “Donald Trump is the most outwardly racist President that we have seen in generations and African Americans voters aren’t blind to that. He uses his megaphone to divide people, spew racism, and give cover to white supremacists.”

Her current boss, President Biden, got in on the act during the 2020 presidential campaign, claiming that Trump was “one of the most racist presidents we’ve ever had.”

Trump was not alone as an object of Jean-Pierre’s derision. She also ripped the former president’s staff and confidants as racists, including advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Reps for Jean-Pierre did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.