Donald Trump made a speech recently in which he claimed the flooding of illegal immigrants into our country is “poisoning the blood of our country.” He added, “They (immigrants) poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world. They are coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
The context of the speech doesn’t do the former President any favors, as he used the phrase “poisoning our blood” more than once. While this writer does not believe Trump is an actual fascist, these remarks are disturbing nonetheless.
America is not a race, it is an idea, the idea being we mind our own business and have shared civic standards that allow us to share value with one another without having to like or approve of one another.
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Former US President Donald Trump once again made an anti-immigrant remark at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire, on December 16. Trump repeated the “poisoning the blood of our country” remark, a phrase that has been widely denounced as echoing the rhetoric of white supremacists and Nazis. He said, “They (immigrants) poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world. They are coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”