Our latest book is Divided We Stand The 2020 Elections and American Politics. Our next book will look at the 2024 race. Trump has a history of stoking racism, threatening his opponents, and despising people with disabilities.
Donald Trump vowed to “rescue” the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, from the rapists, “blood thirsty criminals,” and “most violent people on earth” he insists are ruining the “fabric” of the country and its culture: immigrants.
Trump’s message in Aurora, a city that has become a central part of his campaign speeches in the final stretch to Election Day, marks another example of how the former president has escalated his xenophobic and racist rhetoric against migrants and minority groups he says are genetically predisposed to commit crimes. The supposed threat migrants pose is the core part of the former president’s closing argument, as he promises his base that he’s the one who can save the country from a group of people he calls “animals,” “stone cold killers,” the “worst people,” and the “enemy from within.”
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His rhetoric has veered more than ever into conspiracy theories and rumors, like when he amplified false claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets. And Trump has demonized minority groups and used increasingly dark, graphic imagery to talk about migrants in every one of his speeches since the Sept. 10 presidential debate, according to a POLITICO review of more than 20 campaign events. It’s a stark escalation over the last month of what some experts in political rhetoric, fascism, and immigration say is a strong echo of authoritarians and Nazi ideology.
Donald Trump cast California as a “Paradise Lost,” at a rally in the Coachella Valley Saturday, blaming Kamala Harris for turning the state into what he described as a hellscape flooded with murderous gangs.
“She’s imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the Third World,” Trump said, donning a red Make America Great Again hat as the 100 degree desert sun beat down on the crowd.
The messaging tracked with the increasingly xenophobic and racist rhetoric he has directed against immigrants who he depicts as criminals.
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He vowed to force Newsom to give California farmers more water and repeated a threat to withhold federal funding for wildfires if the governor didn’t open the spigots.
“We’ll force it down his throat and we’ll say, “Gavin if you don’t do it, we won’t give you any of that fire money for all the forest fires.”
Newsom responded with an X post, saying Trump showed “us exactly who he is—threatening life saving disaster aid to achieve his political goals.”
“This man is sick,” Newsom wrote.
Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher at NYT:
Donald J. Trump took his seat at the dining table in his triplex penthouse apartment atop Trump Tower on the last Sunday in September, alongside some of the most sought-after and wealthiest figures in the Republican Party.
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He disparaged Vice President Kamala Harris as “retarded.” He complained about the number of Jews still backing Ms. Harris, saying they needed their heads examined for not supporting him despite everything he had done for the state of Israel.
