I don't think everyone is a criminal, but if someone exhibits criminal behavior it can lead me to suspect they are.
The only thing that would lead me to think someone is a racist is if they exhibit behavior that would suggest it.
Call someone a racist when you see them cross to the other side of the street to avoid a black person. Until you realize they cross the street to avoid EVERYONE.
The person who crosses the street ONLY to avoid a black person? They've got the potential.
Trump basically declared every Mexican is a criminal, using various epithets. That is not a shining example of not being a racist.
His judgeship appointments are decidedly unbalanced statistically. Also not a shining example, exacerbated by the fact that he is the ONLY one not to appoint a black SCOTUS judge.
There are many more examples, dating all the way back to 1973 when he was sued by the USDOJ for refusing to rent to black tenants, or the 80's when black workers weren't allowed on the casino floor when he and Ivanka would show up, or in 1991:
"John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a Black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino
had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred Black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.
2005 Trump
publicly pitched what was essentially
The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He
said he “wasn’t particularly happy” with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering “an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”
The Catch-22: If we say he's not racist because there was likely not a qualified black person to appoint, then we have to say that one or more previous appointees was put in place simply BECAUSE they were black. That is a racist supposition in and of itself. The SECOND you use skin color to categorize a group of people, you are exhibiting racist behavior.
His actions definitely suggest he is racist. Denying he is racist by using general assumptions that he didn't appoint a black person simply b/c they were "not qualified" is in itself a racist thought process, especially when he appointed nine WHITE people who were not qualified.
