Opinion | Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List
- 6 years ago
Opinion | Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List
I’ve said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black,
because I really believe they do have an actual advantage.”
He began his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”
He uses the gang MS-13 to disparage all immigrants.
You walk down the street, you get shot.” Trump also said to black voters: “You’re living in poverty; your schools are no good; you have no jobs.”
He frequently offers false crime statistics to exaggerate urban crime, including about Oakland, Philadelphia and Ferguson, Mo.
He spent years suggesting that the nation’s first black president was born not in the United States
but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.
The media often falls back on euphemisms when describing Trump’s comments about
race: racially loaded, racially charged, racially tinged, racially sensitive.
In 1989, on NBC, Trump said: “I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that.
In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and
that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa.
I’ve said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black,
because I really believe they do have an actual advantage.”
He began his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”
He uses the gang MS-13 to disparage all immigrants.
You walk down the street, you get shot.” Trump also said to black voters: “You’re living in poverty; your schools are no good; you have no jobs.”
He frequently offers false crime statistics to exaggerate urban crime, including about Oakland, Philadelphia and Ferguson, Mo.
He spent years suggesting that the nation’s first black president was born not in the United States
but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.
The media often falls back on euphemisms when describing Trump’s comments about
race: racially loaded, racially charged, racially tinged, racially sensitive.
In 1989, on NBC, Trump said: “I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that.
In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and
that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa.