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    The Least Racist People We’ve Ever Interviewed

    Writers of<em> The Atlantic </em>reflect on President Donald Trump’s claim that he is “the least racist” subject.
    by The Editors Jan 15, 2018 6 minutes
    Source: Darren Hauck / Reuters

    President Donald Trump briefly took questions from reporters at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. A White House transcript shows the following exchange:

    Reporter: What is your response to people who say you are a racist?

    Trump: No, no, I’m not a racist.  I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you.

    We at The Atlantic have a big room filled with experienced reporters. So we decided to ask some of them, Who was the least racist person you’ve ever interviewed? It is fair to say that none of the people identified as least-racist by our participants seemed to share many personality characteristics with the 45th president.

    I don’t think of ‘racism’ as being a relative, scalar quality, like height or weight. Everyone has a certain racial identity; the luxury of being part of a majority racial group in any given country is not having to pay much attention to your racial ID. As a white person in

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