‘The most dangerous man in America’: Internet slams Donald Trump for evoking anti-immigrant remarks

DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential contender, warned his supporters in New Hampshire on Saturday, December 16, that undocumented immigrants were 'poisoning the blood of our country', repeating language that has previously been criticized as xenophobic and reminiscent of Nazi terminology.

Trump made the remarks at a campaign speech in the city of Durham, New Hampshire when he lamented the high number of people attempting to breach the US border illegally, according to Reuters.

Should he win re-election to a second four-year term in office, Trump has pledged to crack down on illegal immigration and restrict legal immigration.

What did Trump say in his speech in New Hampshire?

"They're poisoning the blood of our country," Trump said at the rally on Saturday attended by thousands of supporters, adding that immigrants were pouring to the United States from Asia and Africa as well as South America. "All over the world they are pouring into our country."

In the event of a re-election in 2024, Trump promised "to stop the invasion of our southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history."

In late September, Trump used the same "poisoning the blood" rhetoric in an interview with a right-wing website, The National Pulse.

The statement about 'poisoning the blood of our country' was not in Trump's prepared remarks released to the media prior to Saturday's event, and it was unclear whether his use of that rhetoric was intentional or spontaneous.

The Anti-Defamation League, directed by Jonathan Greenblatt, condemned the rhetoric as "racist, xenophobic, and despicable."

According to Jason Stanley, a Yale professor and author of a book on fascism, Trump's persistent use of similar language is hazardous.

Stanley claimed Trump's statements recalled Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's warning in his political dissertation 'Mein Kampf' against Jews poisoning German blood.

"He is now employing this vocabulary in repetition in rallies. Repeating dangerous speech increases its normalization and the practices it recommends," Stanley said to the outlet. "This is very concerning talk for the safety of immigrants in the U.S."

 

In October, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung called criticism of the former president's rhetoric "nonsensical," arguing that comparable language was common in books, news stories, and on television.

Cheung did not directly address Trump's remarks when asked for comment on Saturday, instead referring to controversies over how U.S. colleges have handled campus protests since Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, saying media and academia had provided a "safe haven for dangerous anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas rhetoric that is both dangerous and alarming."

Trump is the Republican Party's frontrunner for the presidency in 2024, and he has made border security a central focus of his campaign.

He has promised to reinstate the hardline measures enacted during his presidency from 2017 to 2021, as well as to enact new ones that will further restrict immigration.

The expected Democratic Party nominee, President Joe Biden, has worked to adopt a more humanitarian and orderly immigration policy, but has grappled with record amounts of migrants, a problem considered a vulnerability for his re-election campaign.

Trump has regularly used incendiary language to describe the border issue and to criticize Biden's proposals on his campaign trail.

On Saturday, he recited the lyrics of a song he repurposed to compare immigrants to poisonous snakes.

Internet blasted Trump for spouting even more dangerous rhetoric in his campaign speeches

People on X (formerly Twitter) slammed the former President's ever-increasing Nazi-like rhetoric in his campaign speeches and expressed their concern about the situation in the country by the time general elections roll around next year.

One X user said: "This is the most dangerous man in America and people cheering this. Please pay attention."

Another user wrote: "Is it still unreasonable to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler? Or do we still need more time?"

Another user remarked: "The old immigrants are against new immigrants?"

One user tweeted: "Back to the Hitler euphemisms again I see"

Another X user said: "This is such dangerous talk."

Another user wrote: "Now Trump is repeating lines from Hitler's Mein Kampf He wants to be a dictator so bad he can taste it."

One user stated: "Still stunning we have grown men & women in Congress who support this piece of sh*t. We had millions of Americans who sacrificed their lives for our democracy. What does it say about members of congress who stand by Trump. Cowards."

Finally, this user tweeted: "Well, thats some of the most racist white supremacist rhetoric I've ever heard him say. I'm sure there are other things close.."

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