Hate speech against migrants
Trump: “There are a lot of bad genes in our country right now”
October 7, 2024, 9:46 p.m
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Donald Trump repeatedly makes derogatory comments about migrants. The Republican is now making racist statements again in a radio show. The 78-year-old also claims that he is extremely popular among Jewish people.
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again expanded his hostile rhetoric against migrants and made the racist accusation that they bring “bad genes” into the country. In a radio interview on WABC, the Republican presidential candidate said that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, as vice president, had allowed “thousands of murderers” into the country through her immigration policies. Many of them now lived “in peace and quiet” in the USA. “These murderers, you know, I think it’s in their genes,” the former president told host Sid Rosenberg. “And we have a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”
The right-wing populist is relying on extremely anti-immigrant rhetoric during the election campaign, insulting undocumented immigrants at almost every one of his campaign appearances and declaring that he would order a mass deportation of migrants if re-elected. Migration and the situation at the border with Mexico, through which many undocumented people come to the USA, is one of the important topics of the election campaign. Before his first term in office (2017-2021), Trump announced the construction of a wall on the 3,000 kilometer long border with Mexico, which he then never implemented.
“They are all for Trump”
Trump also said in the interview that he was so popular in Israel that he could run for public office there too. “I could run for prime minister, although Bibi is doing much better at the moment,” said the 78-year-old, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The US Republican claimed that “very conservative Jews” supported him in the USA. “They’re all for Trump, all of them, 100 percent, because I’ve done things that – they get it.” He also heard that he was very well received in New York, “with Jewish people from New York, I heard that I was well received.” Trump was already a guest on host Rosenberg’s show in July and claimed at the time that Vice President Harris, whose husband is Jewish, didn’t like Jewish people.
Four weeks before the presidential election on November 5th, opponents Trump and Harris are tied in the polls in many places. Due to the peculiarities of the US electoral system, the election is likely to be decided in only a few states where the outcome is particularly close.