The former president’s remark about undocumented immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the country is one of several comments he’s made over the years regarding “good genes.”

As with the speech in 2020, Mr. Trump’s remarks have been criticized by historians, Jewish groups and liberals, who said his language recalled the ideology of eugenics promulgated by Nazis in Germany and white supremacists in America.

      • Lophostemon@aussie.zone
        10·
        6 months ago

        I think most of Scotland these days would tell her to fuck off, were she still alive to boast of her heritage.

        She was a hideous racist, and for the most part Scotland these days takes great pride in being inclusive and open to all (except Nazis etc)

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          7·
          6 months ago

          Oh no doubt. Fred “KKK” Trump wouldn’t have married anyone who wasn’t a virulent racist. But she was still an immigrant. She was just the “right” kind of immigrant. And white makes right or something like that.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    91·
    6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    In recent months, Mr. Trump has drawn widespread criticism for asserting that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” a phrase that he said first in a right-wing media interview and has in the last week repeated on the campaign trail.

    As with the speech in 2020, Mr. Trump’s remarks have been criticized by historians, Jewish groups and liberals, who said his language recalled the ideology of eugenics promulgated by Nazis in Germany and white supremacists in America.

    In a radio interview on Friday, Mr. Trump again defended his use of the phrase “poisoning the blood.” He dismissed criticism that his language echoed Nazi ideology by saying he was “not a student of Hitler” and that his statement used “blood” in crucially different ways, though he did not elaborate.

    Mr. Cheung added, “Only the media is obsessed with racial genetics and bloodlines, and given safe haven for disgusting and vile anti-Semitic rhetoric to be spewed through their outlets.”

    On another occasion, he told the same aide that “well, Hitler did a lot of good things,” according to Michael C. Bender, a journalist who is now a New York Times reporter, in a 2021 book about Mr. Trump.

    Mr. Trump first directly addressed the comparisons between his remark and Hitler’s comments on Tuesday at a campaign event in Iowa, where he told hundreds of supporters that he had “never read ‘Mein Kampf.’”

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  • Facebones@reddthat.com
    7·
    6 months ago

    I’ve stopped cutting conservatives slack on this shit. Republicans are running on nazi ideals using nazi language.

    You. Are. Voting. For. Nazis.

    “I’m voting Republican for __________, not culture wars!” (for the economy, against Biden, etc)

    Cool, then you’re saying that nazis are fine as long as you get your perceived niche thing.

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    4·
    6 months ago

    Mr. Trump was talking publicly about his belief that genetics determined a person’s success in life as early as 1988, when he told Oprah Winfrey that a person had “to have the right genes” in order to achieve great fortune.

    Well, he is inadvertently half correct there. It’s not about the genes specifically but about who your parents were. As demonstrated by Trump himself.

      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        6 months ago

        It may have been an error with the safari reader view, but I hit a “sign in to read more” line and just quickly popped the link into archive.is to get passed that. Shared it in case others saw the same, but again, it may have just been a glitch with reader.