Racist and race-baiting statements by Trump since January 20, 2017
2017
Jan 25: Trump falsely claims that two people were shot in Chicago while Obama was making a speech there.
Jun 30: Trump claims that crime and killings in Chicago have reached "epidemic proportions". He makes at least 15 more statements attacking the murder rate in Chicago during the first 2 years of his presidency
Sep 23: Trump attacks NFL players who protest police brutality and racial injustice, suggesting team owners should say, “Get that son of a bytch off the field right now. Out. He’s fired. He’s fired!”
Sep 24: Trump attacks NFL players for "disrespecting the flag" and states they should be fired or suspended.
Sep 30: Trump states that Puerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them,” and claims that their leaders are "politically motivated ingrates" who are “not able to get their workers to help."
Nov 27: At an event addressing Native American vets, Trump claims that he knows of a Native American in D.C. and calls Warren "Pocahontas"
Dec 23: Trump says about Haitian immigrants, "They all have AIDS" and claims that Nigerian immigrants would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.
2018
Jan 11: Trump asks, "Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out," and refers to African nations as "shytholes." He suggests more immigrants from places like Norway.
Mar 10: Trump repeatedly refers to U.S. Maxine Waters as "a very low I.Q. individual", following it with “You ever see her? You ever seen her? You ever see her?”
Apr 18: Trump refers to immigrants in sanctuary cities as "crime infested and breeding"
May 17: Trump refers to some of the immigrants coming into the country as "animals"
Mar 18: Trump announces that the death penalty should be expanded to drug dealers
May 21: A White House press release is titled: "What You Need To Know About The Violent Animals Of MS-13." The statement refers to MS-13 members as "animals" six times.
May 23: Trump states, "They're not people. These are animals."
May 23: In reference to NFL players: "You have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn't be playing. You shouldn't be there. Maybe you shouldn't be in the country."
May 24: Trump states, "Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept."
Jun 5: After several Philadelphia Eagles refuse to attend the White House gathering out of disagreement with Trump's policies, Trump falsely claims that they were anthem protesters.
Jun 14: Trump states regarding the NFL protests, "They're all saying, 'oh, it has nothing to do with the flag, it's the way we've been treated.' In the meantime, they're making $15,000,000 a year ... they shouldn't get the politics involved."
Jun 18: Trump claims that migrants in Germany have "strongly and violently changed their culture"
Jun 19: Trump claims that Democrats want illegal immigrants, "to pour into and infest our country."
Jun 24: Trump speaks of, "Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person."
Jul 5: Trump states, "I said it the other day, yes, [Maxine Waters] is a low-IQ individual. Honestly, she's somewhere in the mid-60s, I believe." This is the 7th time in 2018 that he referred to Maxine Waters as low-IQ.
Jul 13: Trump says immigration is "a shame" and Europe is "losing its culture" by allowing large numbers of refugees to enter. He says it "changed the fabric of Europe".
Jul 25: Trump tweets that Stacey Adams is a "crime loving opponent".
Aug 3: Trump tweets, "Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do." It was the 3rd time that Trump had insulted Lemon's intelligence.
Aug 9: Trump tweets, "The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their 'outrage' at something that most of them are unable to define."
Aug 13: Trump refers to the fired Omarosa, the only AA on the senior staff in the White House, as "not smart", "vicious", a "crazed crying lowlife", and a "dog."'
Sep 15: Trump launches into a series of attacks on Jemele Hill and claims she is responsible for ESPN's ratings "tanking"
Oct 30: Trump claims Andrew Gillum is a "thief".
Nov 1: Trump releases one of the most racist ads in US election history, equating refugee seekers from Central America with a cop-killer from Mexico.
Nov 1: Trump claims that Stacey Abrams is "not qualified" to be governor of Georgia
Nov 7: When Black reporter Yamiche Alcindor asked if Trump's nationalism encouraged white nationalists, Trump replied, "That is such a racist question. Honestly, I know you have it written down and you're going to tell me 'What do you think?' That is a racist question."
Nov 8: When Black reporter April Ryan asked Trump about voter suppression, he ordered, “Sit down. Sit down." Later he called her "nasty" and "a loser" and said she needed to learn to respect him.
Nov 10: When Black reporter Abby Phillip asked if Trump wanted the new AG to reign in Mueller, Trump responded, “What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid questions.”
Nov 19: Trump publicly attacks LaVar Ball and three UCLA bball players and states that he should have left them in jail because they didn't show him proper respect
2019
Jan 14: Trump mockingly referenced Wounded Knee while making fun of Senator Elizabeth Warren
Feb 9: Trump mocking referenced the Trail of Tears while making fun of Senator Elizabeth Warren
Feb 24: Trump falsely accuses Spike Lee of making a "racist hit" against him and brags that he's done more for AA than almost any other president.
Apr 12: Trump combined an Ilhan Omar quote with footage of 9/11 in a tweet that leads to death threats against the Congresswoman
Support for racists and White Nationalists
Dec 13: Trump announces that Stephen Miller, an anti-immigration activist with a history of racist and race-baiting statements, will be a special adviser to the president
2017
Jan 24: Trump appoints Stephen Gorka, who has connections to Neo-Nazi groups in Hungary. Later Gorka blames crime on "black African gun crime against black Africans" and states "Black young men are murdering each other by the bushel", claiming that what is needed is to "Allow the police to do their jobs and rebuild those societies."
Jan 25: Trump removes a picture of the Statue of Liberty from the Oval Office and replaces it with a picture of Andrew Jackson, a slaveowner famous for his military campaigns against Native Americans and instigation of the "Trail of Tears"
Jan 27: After the State Department drafts a statement celebrating National Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump replaces it with a statement which does not mention Jewish people at all.
Jan 29: Trump appoints Steve Bannon to the new position of "Chief Strategist." Bannon promoted a racist novel, "The Camp of the Saints", and was seen as an incubator of White Nationalism as head of Breitbart, which featured a section titled "Black crime" during Bannon's leadership.
Feb 8: Trump's appointee Jeff Sessions is confirmed as Attorney General. Sessions was previously rejected by the Senate due to a history of racist statements and actions against civil rights for Black people.
Aug 9: After 3 White men attempt to bomb an Islamic center, Gorka excuses Trump's silence on the matter by falsely claiming that a series of recent hate crimes "turned out to actually have been propagated by the left."
Aug 12: After a White Nationalist murders a counterprotester and injures 35 others during the "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, President Trump fails to condemn the White Nationalists, claiming that there were "very fine people on both sides."
Aug 15: Trump blames "both sides," falsely claims that protesters were just quietly supporting the Robert E. Lee statue, and condemns counter-protesters for acting “very, very violently.”
Aug 17: Trump states that it is "Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments" and "the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!"
Aug 22: Trump states at a rally that those who are attempting to take down Confederate statues, "They’re trying to take away our culture. They’re trying to take away our history."
Aug 31: Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin delays the Obama-era plan to replace racist slaveowner Andrew Jackson's image on the $20 bill with that of Harriet Tubman. The Trump administration has still not announced intentions to move forward with the replacement.
Aug 26: The DOJ states that Sheriff Joe Arpaio had presided over the worst pattern of racial profiling in American history and finds him in contempt of court for continued "extreme racial profiling and sadistic punishments." Trump pardons Arpaio as his first presidential pardon, citing his “life’s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration."
Nov 29: Trump retweets three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos from Jayda Fransen, deputy head of the ultranationalist "Britain First" party. The videos were later shown to be fake or misrepresented.
2018
Feb 15: DHS releases an anti-immigrant document with a 14-word title: "We Must Secure The Border And Build The Wall To Make America Safe Again." This is a dog-whistle to the White Nationalist slogan known explicitly as "14 words": “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
Mar 1: Trump nominates David Otis to the US Sentencing Commission, an agency created to reduce sentencing disparities, despite Otis's calls to banish the commission and his history of racially charged statements about crime.
May 25: Trump nominates Ronald Mortensen to head the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, despite his position as a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigrant think tank founded by notorious White Nationalist John Tanton
Jun 13: Trump tweets an endorsement of Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart, an associate of White Nationalists who made his name defending symbols of the Confederacy
Aug 23: Trump promotes the White Nationalist conspiracy theory that White South African farmers are being subjected to "large scale killing" and the stealing of their land.
Oct 10: Trump appears at a rally for White Nationalist U.S. Rep Steve King, refusing to pull his endorsement even after King endorsed a notorious White Supremacist running for mayor of Toronto.
Oct 23: Trump announces that he is a "Nationalist"
Oct 29: After an anti-semite murders 11 people a synagogue, Trump refuses to condemn his White Nationalist views and instead blames the "fake news media"
Oct 29: Trump states that he is going to order an end to birthright citizenship
Nov 29: Trump's attempt to nominate Thomas Farr to a District Court position falls apart after he is revealed to have been behind a notorious anti-Black voter intimidation campaign in North Carolina.
2019
Jan 3: Trump praises Brazil's hard-right president the same day that president rolls back land protections for indigenous people and the descendants of slaves. Bolsonaro once called Afro-Brazilians "lazy" and "fat" and called African, Haitian, and Middle Eastern refugees the "scum of humanity"
Jan 5: Robert Wilkie, Trump's nominee for VA Secretary, is revealed to have undisclosed ties to Confederate groups
Apr 27: Trump praises NFL #2 draft pick Nick Bosa, a White player notorious for a history of racist and race-baiting tweets. Trump ignored the Black quarterback picked 1st in the draft.
May 6: Trump pardons Michael Behenna, a US soldier who had been convicted of refusing to release and then killing an uncharged Muslim prisoner in cold blood while he was in his custody, and then trying to cover up the killing.
Other ignorant crap
2017
Feb 16: When asked by a Black reporter whether he would meet with the Congressional Black Congress, Trump replies: “Well, I would. Tell you what, do you want to set up the meeting? Do you want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours? Set up a meeting."
Mar 22: When a member of the Congressional Black Caucus tells Trump that not all of her constituents on welfare were Black, Trump replies, "Really? Then what are they?" He also asks caucus members if they know Ben Carson personally, and appears surprised when none of them do.
May 2: Trump claims that if Andrew Jackson had still been alive, the Civil War wouldn't have happened
Trump repeatedly interrupts a briefing on Pakistan to ask the intelligence analyst, "where are you from?" He refuses to accept "New York" and "Manhattan" for answers, pushing her until she tells him that her parents are from Korea. Trump asks why this "pretty Korean lady" isn't working on the North Korea negotiations.
2018
Aug 20: Trump introduces a Latino border patrol officer at an event by saying, “Come here. You’re not nervous, right? Speaks perfect English.”
Actions by President Trump that have hurt minority communities
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2017
Jan 25: Trump falsely claims that two people were shot in Chicago while Obama was making a speech there.
Jun 30: Trump claims that crime and killings in Chicago have reached "epidemic proportions". He makes at least 15 more statements attacking the murder rate in Chicago during the first 2 years of his presidency
Sep 23: Trump attacks NFL players who protest police brutality and racial injustice, suggesting team owners should say, “Get that son of a bytch off the field right now. Out. He’s fired. He’s fired!”
Sep 24: Trump attacks NFL players for "disrespecting the flag" and states they should be fired or suspended.
Sep 30: Trump states that Puerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them,” and claims that their leaders are "politically motivated ingrates" who are “not able to get their workers to help."
Nov 27: At an event addressing Native American vets, Trump claims that he knows of a Native American in D.C. and calls Warren "Pocahontas"
Dec 23: Trump says about Haitian immigrants, "They all have AIDS" and claims that Nigerian immigrants would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.
2018
Jan 11: Trump asks, "Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out," and refers to African nations as "shytholes." He suggests more immigrants from places like Norway.
Mar 10: Trump repeatedly refers to U.S. Maxine Waters as "a very low I.Q. individual", following it with “You ever see her? You ever seen her? You ever see her?”
Apr 18: Trump refers to immigrants in sanctuary cities as "crime infested and breeding"
May 17: Trump refers to some of the immigrants coming into the country as "animals"
Mar 18: Trump announces that the death penalty should be expanded to drug dealers
May 21: A White House press release is titled: "What You Need To Know About The Violent Animals Of MS-13." The statement refers to MS-13 members as "animals" six times.
May 23: Trump states, "They're not people. These are animals."
May 23: In reference to NFL players: "You have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn't be playing. You shouldn't be there. Maybe you shouldn't be in the country."
May 24: Trump states, "Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept."
Jun 5: After several Philadelphia Eagles refuse to attend the White House gathering out of disagreement with Trump's policies, Trump falsely claims that they were anthem protesters.
Jun 14: Trump states regarding the NFL protests, "They're all saying, 'oh, it has nothing to do with the flag, it's the way we've been treated.' In the meantime, they're making $15,000,000 a year ... they shouldn't get the politics involved."
Jun 18: Trump claims that migrants in Germany have "strongly and violently changed their culture"
Jun 19: Trump claims that Democrats want illegal immigrants, "to pour into and infest our country."
Jun 24: Trump speaks of, "Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person."
Jul 5: Trump states, "I said it the other day, yes, [Maxine Waters] is a low-IQ individual. Honestly, she's somewhere in the mid-60s, I believe." This is the 7th time in 2018 that he referred to Maxine Waters as low-IQ.
Jul 13: Trump says immigration is "a shame" and Europe is "losing its culture" by allowing large numbers of refugees to enter. He says it "changed the fabric of Europe".
Jul 25: Trump tweets that Stacey Adams is a "crime loving opponent".
Aug 3: Trump tweets, "Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do." It was the 3rd time that Trump had insulted Lemon's intelligence.
Aug 9: Trump tweets, "The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their 'outrage' at something that most of them are unable to define."
Aug 13: Trump refers to the fired Omarosa, the only AA on the senior staff in the White House, as "not smart", "vicious", a "crazed crying lowlife", and a "dog."'
Sep 15: Trump launches into a series of attacks on Jemele Hill and claims she is responsible for ESPN's ratings "tanking"
Oct 30: Trump claims Andrew Gillum is a "thief".
Nov 1: Trump releases one of the most racist ads in US election history, equating refugee seekers from Central America with a cop-killer from Mexico.
Nov 1: Trump claims that Stacey Abrams is "not qualified" to be governor of Georgia
Nov 7: When Black reporter Yamiche Alcindor asked if Trump's nationalism encouraged white nationalists, Trump replied, "That is such a racist question. Honestly, I know you have it written down and you're going to tell me 'What do you think?' That is a racist question."
Nov 8: When Black reporter April Ryan asked Trump about voter suppression, he ordered, “Sit down. Sit down." Later he called her "nasty" and "a loser" and said she needed to learn to respect him.
Nov 10: When Black reporter Abby Phillip asked if Trump wanted the new AG to reign in Mueller, Trump responded, “What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid questions.”
Nov 19: Trump publicly attacks LaVar Ball and three UCLA bball players and states that he should have left them in jail because they didn't show him proper respect
2019
Jan 14: Trump mockingly referenced Wounded Knee while making fun of Senator Elizabeth Warren
Feb 9: Trump mocking referenced the Trail of Tears while making fun of Senator Elizabeth Warren
Feb 24: Trump falsely accuses Spike Lee of making a "racist hit" against him and brags that he's done more for AA than almost any other president.
Apr 12: Trump combined an Ilhan Omar quote with footage of 9/11 in a tweet that leads to death threats against the Congresswoman
Support for racists and White Nationalists
Dec 13: Trump announces that Stephen Miller, an anti-immigration activist with a history of racist and race-baiting statements, will be a special adviser to the president
2017
Jan 24: Trump appoints Stephen Gorka, who has connections to Neo-Nazi groups in Hungary. Later Gorka blames crime on "black African gun crime against black Africans" and states "Black young men are murdering each other by the bushel", claiming that what is needed is to "Allow the police to do their jobs and rebuild those societies."
Jan 25: Trump removes a picture of the Statue of Liberty from the Oval Office and replaces it with a picture of Andrew Jackson, a slaveowner famous for his military campaigns against Native Americans and instigation of the "Trail of Tears"
Jan 27: After the State Department drafts a statement celebrating National Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump replaces it with a statement which does not mention Jewish people at all.
Jan 29: Trump appoints Steve Bannon to the new position of "Chief Strategist." Bannon promoted a racist novel, "The Camp of the Saints", and was seen as an incubator of White Nationalism as head of Breitbart, which featured a section titled "Black crime" during Bannon's leadership.
Feb 8: Trump's appointee Jeff Sessions is confirmed as Attorney General. Sessions was previously rejected by the Senate due to a history of racist statements and actions against civil rights for Black people.
Aug 9: After 3 White men attempt to bomb an Islamic center, Gorka excuses Trump's silence on the matter by falsely claiming that a series of recent hate crimes "turned out to actually have been propagated by the left."
Aug 12: After a White Nationalist murders a counterprotester and injures 35 others during the "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, President Trump fails to condemn the White Nationalists, claiming that there were "very fine people on both sides."
Aug 15: Trump blames "both sides," falsely claims that protesters were just quietly supporting the Robert E. Lee statue, and condemns counter-protesters for acting “very, very violently.”
Aug 17: Trump states that it is "Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments" and "the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!"
Aug 22: Trump states at a rally that those who are attempting to take down Confederate statues, "They’re trying to take away our culture. They’re trying to take away our history."
Aug 31: Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin delays the Obama-era plan to replace racist slaveowner Andrew Jackson's image on the $20 bill with that of Harriet Tubman. The Trump administration has still not announced intentions to move forward with the replacement.
Aug 26: The DOJ states that Sheriff Joe Arpaio had presided over the worst pattern of racial profiling in American history and finds him in contempt of court for continued "extreme racial profiling and sadistic punishments." Trump pardons Arpaio as his first presidential pardon, citing his “life’s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration."
Nov 29: Trump retweets three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos from Jayda Fransen, deputy head of the ultranationalist "Britain First" party. The videos were later shown to be fake or misrepresented.
2018
Feb 15: DHS releases an anti-immigrant document with a 14-word title: "We Must Secure The Border And Build The Wall To Make America Safe Again." This is a dog-whistle to the White Nationalist slogan known explicitly as "14 words": “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
Mar 1: Trump nominates David Otis to the US Sentencing Commission, an agency created to reduce sentencing disparities, despite Otis's calls to banish the commission and his history of racially charged statements about crime.
May 25: Trump nominates Ronald Mortensen to head the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, despite his position as a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigrant think tank founded by notorious White Nationalist John Tanton
Jun 13: Trump tweets an endorsement of Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart, an associate of White Nationalists who made his name defending symbols of the Confederacy
Aug 23: Trump promotes the White Nationalist conspiracy theory that White South African farmers are being subjected to "large scale killing" and the stealing of their land.
Oct 10: Trump appears at a rally for White Nationalist U.S. Rep Steve King, refusing to pull his endorsement even after King endorsed a notorious White Supremacist running for mayor of Toronto.
Oct 23: Trump announces that he is a "Nationalist"
Oct 29: After an anti-semite murders 11 people a synagogue, Trump refuses to condemn his White Nationalist views and instead blames the "fake news media"
Oct 29: Trump states that he is going to order an end to birthright citizenship
Nov 29: Trump's attempt to nominate Thomas Farr to a District Court position falls apart after he is revealed to have been behind a notorious anti-Black voter intimidation campaign in North Carolina.
2019
Jan 3: Trump praises Brazil's hard-right president the same day that president rolls back land protections for indigenous people and the descendants of slaves. Bolsonaro once called Afro-Brazilians "lazy" and "fat" and called African, Haitian, and Middle Eastern refugees the "scum of humanity"
Jan 5: Robert Wilkie, Trump's nominee for VA Secretary, is revealed to have undisclosed ties to Confederate groups
Apr 27: Trump praises NFL #2 draft pick Nick Bosa, a White player notorious for a history of racist and race-baiting tweets. Trump ignored the Black quarterback picked 1st in the draft.
May 6: Trump pardons Michael Behenna, a US soldier who had been convicted of refusing to release and then killing an uncharged Muslim prisoner in cold blood while he was in his custody, and then trying to cover up the killing.
Other ignorant crap
2017
Feb 16: When asked by a Black reporter whether he would meet with the Congressional Black Congress, Trump replies: “Well, I would. Tell you what, do you want to set up the meeting? Do you want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours? Set up a meeting."
Mar 22: When a member of the Congressional Black Caucus tells Trump that not all of her constituents on welfare were Black, Trump replies, "Really? Then what are they?" He also asks caucus members if they know Ben Carson personally, and appears surprised when none of them do.
May 2: Trump claims that if Andrew Jackson had still been alive, the Civil War wouldn't have happened
Trump repeatedly interrupts a briefing on Pakistan to ask the intelligence analyst, "where are you from?" He refuses to accept "New York" and "Manhattan" for answers, pushing her until she tells him that her parents are from Korea. Trump asks why this "pretty Korean lady" isn't working on the North Korea negotiations.
2018
Aug 20: Trump introduces a Latino border patrol officer at an event by saying, “Come here. You’re not nervous, right? Speaks perfect English.”
Actions by President Trump that have hurt minority communities
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They have some shame not to act like he does. Which is why staying policy based is the right strategy. You can't point to every Republican and say they are acting uncivil or are unfit for office. It only applies to Trump.