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For months now (and that’s being generous), Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding undocumented migrants in America has become increasingly more demeaning, outrageous, xenophobic and flat-out bigoted. After his anti-immigrant racism backfired on him last week during the presidential debate, when he parroted false rumors spread by his running mate, J.D. Vance, about Haitian migrants in Ohio abducting and eating people’s pets, he and Vance both decided that the best way to do damage control is to ramp up their anti-migrant rhetoric. Now, Trump appears to be trying to recruit Black and brown people who aren’t in the country legally in his campaign to present undocumented migrants as Hannibal Lecter-like “animals” who are “not human” by warning us that they’re not only stealing our “Black jobs,” but, due to the policies of President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris, they’re “killing Black and Hispanic heritage,” whatever that means.
Trump claimed via his “Truth” Social platform that “Illegal Migrants” are “POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY” and “taking the JOBS away from Black and Hispanic people who have held them for years.” Then he claimed “Comrade Kamala Harris is killing Black and Hispanic heritage” and “killing their legacy and their rights.”
So, basically, the ex-president who spearheaded the propaganda-reliant attack on critical race theory — which includes studies on anti-Black employment discrimination — issued an executive order banning diversity training in the workplace during his presidency, and is now promising to end all DEI programs across America if he’s elected again is continuing his narrative that there are “Black jobs” designated for Black people that are now being taken from us by “illegal migrants.”
Now, there’s a lot of hypocrisy to dig through here. The ex-president who once declared that “laziness is a trait in Blacks” is suddenly really concerned that our resources for menial employment are being taken from us. When Trump launched his “big lie” regarding the non-existent election fraud that cost him the presidency in 2020, he challenged predominately Black and Latino voting districts and only predominately Black and Latino voting districts, but now he’s pretending to be really concerned with the “heritage,” “legacy,” and “rights” of Black people and that of the Latino/Hispanic Americans whose safety he puts in danger with his bigoted anti-migrant rhetoric whether they’re in this country legally or not.
Then there’s the hypocrisy of Trump — who rarely goes a single day without launching into unhinged rants about how Harris will destroy America if she’s elected — continuing to use this extreme and hyperbolic language against his opponent while crying about how Biden and Harris’ far less extreme and far more truthful anti-Trump rhetoric is what caused the latest attempt on his life.
“He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump told Fox News Digital of alleged gunman Ryan Wesley Routh. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out.”
Trump pointed out that both Biden and Harris had made comments calling him a “threat to democracy” and made the connection to a social media post by Routh that claimed, “Democracy is on the ballot” in November.
Mind you, whether Routh was influenced by Harris or not, calling Trump a “threat to democracy” isn’t a lie. Trump’s big and baseless lie about election fraud costing him the 2020 presidential race — which he has repeated as recently as when he crashed and burned on the debate stage against Harris last week — caused 147 Republican legislators to vote to overturn a legal and fair election based on election fraud claims that Trump conjured out of thin air. So, anyone calling Trump a “threat to democracy” isn’t guilty of using irresponsible “rhetoric” — they’re guilty of stating observable truth.
But beyond that, Trump still refuses to take any responsibility for instigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot despite the fact that he spent months leading up to the riot embarking on an endless propaganda campaign to convince America he actually won the election that he lost. He even repeated his big lie during a speech in Washington D.C. that ended in him telling his supporters to “fight like hell” just before the mob attacked the Capitol in an effort to overturn the election based on election fraud nonsense that he made up. During the debate against Harris, he laughably claimed, “I had nothing to do with that other than they asked me to make a speech.”
If someone takes a shot at Harris because Trump claimed she’s “KILLING BLACK AND HISPANIC HERITAGE,” will he take responsibility? Surely, we already know the answer to that.
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