Beattie was fired from his role as a White House speechwriter in 2018 after it emerged that he had attended a white nationalist event in 2016. He had appeared on a panel with Brit ...

He seems to hate the American idea of freedom. He praises authoritarian regimes. And he’s in charge of our public diplomacy.

Darren Beattie, a former Donald Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attended ...

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and ...

In February 2025, news reports revealed that U.S. President Donald Trump's new Secretary of State Marco Rubio was appointing Darren Beattie to a key post in the State Department. Beattie was ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio appointed hardline MAGA personality Darren Beattie to a top role at the State Department, according to Semafor. The post Rubio Appoints MAGA Star Darren Beattie to Key ...

Darren Beattie previously served as a speechwriter for Trump, but he was fired in 2018 after he spoke at a conference attended by white nationalists ...

Darren Beattie may not be a household name, but you are almost certainly familiar with his long-standing ideas and ...

Trump tapped Beattie to serve as the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. In his role, Beattie is responsible for “lead [ing] America’s public diplomacy outreach” related to ...

Republican senators are warning that two of President Trump’s nominees for national security positions who have championed ...

Other controversial posts that are now spreading, including Beattie’s claims that middle-class white men are treated worse than China’s Uyghurs and that high-IQ white men are the only demographic that ...

“Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” he wrote in an October post on X. “Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and ...