Now more than ever, Islamophobia was not limited to the irrational views or hateful slurs of individuals, but was an ideology that drove the president's political worldview and motivated the laws, policies, and programs he would seek to push forward. This had also been the case during the Bush and Obama administrations, but the Trump moment marked a new phase of transparency in which explicit rhetorical Islamophobia aligned, in language and spirit, with the programs the new president was poised to implement.

Builds on: "Islamophobic campaign rhetoric transformed directly into governing policy."

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 64