Trump was a racist through and through.
For instance, Navarro was appointed because Trump was looking for the most anti-China racist he could find. His son-in-law did a Google search for racists who wrote anti-China books, and then they found Navarro.
Trump could easily have told his son-in-law not to look online for the most anti-China racist he could find. He could easily have not appointed Navarro or skipped him. But he kept Navarro around for four years. Trump would always choose the most racist, fascist underlings. Some of those underlings are now writing books pretending Trump had secret conversations where he was moderate.
But in reality Trump never blocked a single one of their fascist actions. And he was the one who appointed them and kept them. And he always publicly and repeatedly spouted the same racist, fascist anti-China hate his underlings did. Remember China virus?
Imagine if you have a hotel where all the management hate black people and repeatedly call them n*ggers. Imagine if that hotel repeatedly enacts racist policies that target blacks. Imagine if the owner of that hotel also repeatedly says racist things about black people and often calls them niggas in front of massive crowds. Before becoming owner, said person also consistently made speeches about how he was going to make black people pay.
Now, is that owner a secret moderate because his management calls black people n*ggers but he only calls black people niggas? No, he's a racist.
Trump was and remains a racist, fat, fascist racist who needs to be Uvalded.