“Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.” As if it was possible to hit a new low, Donald Trump has managed it with a series of brazenly racist comments bypassing previous dog-whistles. In a meeting this past Thursday, as confirmed by Sen. Durbin and Sen. Graham, he expressed the desire to keep immigrants from “sh*thole countries” from entering the U.S. in favor of majority white countries “like Norway.” He did not lament the factual poverty and destabilization in those countries, he said he doesn’t want those people here. The hoods are off all over America and in the White House. Trump showed us who he was during the candidacy from the moment he launched a tirade against all Mexican immigrants by calling them rapists and drug traffickers, and America bought it. After all, he was telling it as every Fox News watching racist was thinking. Every racist whose huddled ancestors came to the U.S. poor, not speaking a word of English, and escaping persecution and/or a “sh*thole country.” Then genociding Native Americans and stealing their land of course. In fact, under Trump’s new immigration rule, his own grandfather likely wouldn’t have gotten in.
With a constant barrage of racist antics and political scandal, he’s created a desensitized space where derisively speaking about minorities is okay as long as skin color isn’t mentioned. The unconstitutional Muslim ban is okay because Muslim isn’t a race – nevermind that the countries on the ban are majority Arab. Wanting to ban immigrants from the entire continent of Africa and country of Haiti because they’re “sh*tholes” is fine because he didn’t say “Africans” or “Haitians.” Disparaging a continent full of black people is fine because much Africa suffers from poverty and corruption. Thus, saying Africans “live in huts” and Haitians “have aids” becomes alright.
We’ve devolved to the point where explicitly stereotyping entire ethnic groups and countries full of them is acceptable, and not the dictionary definition of racism. Where wanting to prevent entire ethnic groups from entering the United States in favor of white Nordic countries is okay because the brown countries are ‘poor.’ Donald Trump didn’t state the fact that they were poor and destabilized, he decried letting people of color emigrating from them into the U.S. – and there lies the obvious problem.
Arrogantly mocking their poverty and corruption like a sociopath isn’t so funny when it’s the natural result of centuries of Western colonialism and exploitation. It’s only hypocritical. America is a nation built by poor, non-English speaking masses escaping poverty or persecution. With the current administration’s agenda favoring wealthy, highly-educated, English-speaking immigrants, white-Americans would not be here nor would Trump. Their ancestors were “poor huddled masses yearning to be free.” Wealthy people moving here continuing their way of life didn’t create the famous “American Dream.” It was the poor Irish immigrants escaping famine and building the Transatlantic railroad alongside Chinese immigrants, it was the German immigrants who faced the same discrimination and hate crimes Latino immigrants do this century. During WWI they couldn’t even speak their language in schools, their last names were changed, and German Americans were beaten. The country has collectively revisioned history and said, “I’ve got mine, screw you.”
Sixty-three million of us warned America. This egregious comment was not a new display of his character, he’s 71 years old. When you elect a notorious racist you get one. Here’s a history of his racist ideology, both verbatim, and through his heinous actions.
-Defended actual neo-nazis: Trump defended killer Charlottesville nazis to David Duke and Richard Spencer’s delight, calling them “fine people” when it was a self-described neo-nazi march with people hailing Hitler and yelling “Jews will not replace us”
-Sued twice by DOJ for housing discrimination against blacks
-Pardoned Arpaio, a barbaric, convicted racial profiler who ran 120 degree concentration camps and let a prisoner give birth in handcuffs
-Called Mexicans (NOT illegals) rapists and drug traffickers. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
-Launched birtherism against the first black President lasting over 8 years; continues to obsessively legislate in spite of Obama.
-Called Puerto Ricans going through a major natural disaster lazy. When people had no power, no fuel, no refrigeration, only one hospital operating, took eight days to adequately respond after relentlessly attacking the mayor & calling its people lazy.
-He’s accused “millions” of voting illegally (and pointlessly?) in blue states and when cited for proof pointed to the fact that Latino Americans were voting.
–Endorsed child molestor Roy Moore who said America was great during slavery
-He thinks all black people are on welfare: When meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus last Spring a member said regarding welfarerecipientss that “Not all,,are black,” and he replied “Really? Then what are they?”
-Echoes white supremacist narratives:
-“They’re trying to take away our history, our heritage.” He’s from New York and his family was not in the U.S. during the Civil War. He doesn’t mean Southern “heritage,” he means white.
-Appointed a band of blatant white supremacists to his cabinet of deplorables:
–Gorka, a member of a nazi organization in Hungary called Vitezi Rend
–Sessions – a man too racist to pass a Reagan-era confirmation hearing in the South as Attorney General
-Hired Stephen Miller, a white supremacist, friend of Richard Spencer, who wrote regularly for the Duke Chronicle, where he denied systemic racism, called multiculturalism “segregation,” He’s railed against immigrants from non-European countries “not assimilating.” In high school he complained about the school’s celebration of Cinco De Mayo, and criticized a visit by a Muslim leader, and tormented Spanish speakers, telling them to go back to their countries.
Trump on Jewish people:
–Used the dog-whistle “America First.” A WWII-era anti-Semitic, xenophobic mantra used to enforce 1940s quota laws against Jews during their ongoing persecution in Germany.
-Shuttered the State Department’s anti-Semitism monitoring office
-Deliberately took out the word “Jew” from Holocaust Remembrance Day remarks
On Blacks:
” Black guys counting my money! I hate it.”
-”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 something they can control.”
-He thinks all black people are on welfare: When meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus last Spring a member said regarding welfare recipients that “Not all…are black,” and he replied “Really? Then what are they?”
-His pitch for the black vote to a crowd full of white people: “What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? What do you have to lose?You live in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”
–“Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations!”
–Retweeted neo-nazi false crime statistic reports saying that white victims are murdered by black people 81% of the time.
On Muslims:
-Has called for tracking them using a database, shutting down mosques, and banning Muslims altogether from entering the country.
On Mexicans:
-“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
–“If you go to Fusion, you will see a story: About 80% of the women coming in, you know who owns Fusion? Univision! Go to Fusion and pick up the stories of rape. It’s unbelievable when you look at what’s going on. So all I’m doing is telling the truth,” Trump said. Lemon replied that the press stories are about women being raped, but not about criminals coming across the border. “Well, somebody’s doing the raping, Don! I mean somebody’s doing it! Who’s doing the raping? Who’s doing the raping?” he asked.
– Called 1996 Latina Miss Universe “Miss Housekeeping”
-Said federal Judge Fonzalo Curiel who was presiding over a Trump University lawsuit was unqualified to do his job because of an “inherent conflict of interest” due to his Mexican heritage
–Wants to repeal the 14th amendment
He’s not only wrong, he’s projecting. He claims Mexicans are rapists, but he has multiple lawsuits from women claiming sexual assault and multiple tapes where he proudly details his predatory behavior leading to assault have surfaced. He pushes the narrative of the tax-avoiding illegal, yet they pay more taxes than he does!
Legislative Nativism and Xenophobia: How Trump’s Curbing Legal Immigration
Even more significant is his legislative nativism – he’s enacting white supremacist dreams of a white utopia and closing off immigration for minorities. While ending legal protections for Mexicans, Indians, Haitians, Salvadorans and more. Which will cripple the economy. He’s deporting 200,000 Salvadorans who have been legally allowed to remain in the U.S. for over a decade back to the violence they escaped. He’s deporting thousands of people who should be granted refugee status – who fled from the MS-13 lethal gang violence and sexual assault. To the “sh*thole” he doesn’t want any kind of immigration from. Trump is a complete and utter disgrace to humanity. This is not how the leader of the free-world acts.
The Sociopath in Chief is also ending a program allowing 59,000 Haitian refugees to live in the U.S.
He’s curbing H-1B extensions which will lead to the deportation of thousands of skilled workers and a negative impact on the U.S. economy. Five-hundred thousand to 750,000 Indian visa holders could be kicked out. All because of his “hire American” plan which erroneously contends increased immigration takes jobs away from Americans.
And such a view shows a lack of basic economic literacy.
So much for Trump not being a racist xenophobe who only hates illegals, it turns out he doesn’t want legal immigration either. Like his white supremacist base, he wants a white ethnostate and is trying to ethnically engineer the flow of immigrants into this country.
Proposing a skills-based immigration system thereby ending ‘chain immigration.’ This cuts back on family immigration by 85%, legal immigration by 50% over 10 years. Favoring ” applicants who can speak English, financially support themselves and their families and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy” per Nosferatu Stephen Miller. Limiting family-based migration to spouses and children.
Thus far, he’s rescinded DACA, a program protecting 800,000 young, tax-paying professionals, army members, and college students with a 91% employment rate and no felonies or misdemeanors. (No it has never been ruled unconstitutional by any courts. It’s actually a lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion.) Leaving these economically contributing individuals in legal limbo.
America became a world power by allowing poor, non-English speaking, unskilled workers with nothing but an American Dream. With the current administration’s agenda favoring wealthy, highly-educated, English-speaking immigrants, white-Americans would not be here nor would Trump. Their ancestors were “poor huddled masses yearning to be free.” Wealthy people moving here continuing their way of life didn’t create the famous “American Dream.” It was the poor Irish immigrants escaping famine and building the Transatlantic railroad alongside Chinese immigrants, it was the German immigrants who faced the same discrimination and hate crimes Latino immigrants do this century. During WWI they couldn’t even speak their language in schools, their last names were changed, and German Americans were beaten. The country has collectively revisioned history and said, “I’ve got mine, screw you.”
The “Hire American” agenda propagates the myth that immigrants “take jobs away”
These decisions function under the guise of the multi-billionaire professional con-artist putting disenchanted coal-miners to work. Nevermind that we are already at “full employment with more job openings than at any point in history.” The idea that there is a fixed amount of jobs available falls under the “lump of labor fallacy.” As population increases so does total employment; foreign workers do not crowd-out employment.
They aren’t taking anyone’s jobs away. The US economy is actually seeking 6.2 million jobs at a time when general unemployment is at a 16-year low, which is even lower among college-educated. The majority of Dreamers are students, 17 percent pursue an advanced degree., and they tend to be employed in higher-skilled jobs. Among this college educated group the market is higher than full employment, so the talking-point that low-skilled white and black workers are being squeezed out of an economy higher than full-employment is yet another lie. The idea that unemployed native-born Americans are substitutes for these highly-skilled jobs is xenophobic propaganda.
Furthermore, curbing H-1B extensions will create a skilled worker shortage in America in core fields like science and technology. ” I mean those workers were brought in because of a shortage to begin with. To hire an immigrant US employers must first prove a lack of qualified or willing workers in the US” No amount of “MAGA” idiots without scientific or tech training will replace them. No amount of economically anxious MAGAs will gain a job by deporting 700,000 skilled people.
While Trump and his “made in China” company continues to bring in foreign workers to Mar-A-Lago on his 92 $48 million golf trips courtesy of tax-payers, we must recall the voice of old conservatism:
“Miss Liberty, like the many millions she’s welcomed to these shores, is of foreign birth.” -President Reagan
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