Donald Trump's gifts to Pope Francis of books written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are as shameless as they are ironic. MLK would be appalled at the composition of the Trump White House with people like Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller, and Michael Anton, who have all been described as nationalists. Each of these has his own dark record of race-baiting and each has gone right up to the edge of propriety in their manner of speaking about non-Americans, particularly Hispanics, Muslims, Africans, and other dark-skinned people. Of course these people never go on record saying overtly racist things - that would be too self-incriminatory and they know it. So they go right up to the line and speak in coded dog whistles to their base, whose level of racism eclipses that of every other demographic. MLK would have sniffed Trump out and called him out on his race-baiting dog whistles in a heartbeat. Hopefully Pope Francis is neither fooled nor impressed by Donald Trump's "gifts."