Examples of Trump Racism (Very Long)
Examples from a list compiled on Twitter by @honeyrainfall. All but one of the direct quotes have been widely reported and are left undocumented. I have heard them multiple times. Google exists. He said them.
1973: The Nixon administration sued Trump for refusing to rent to black people.
1980s: Trump's casinos were accused of hiding the black staff when Trump visited.
1989: Trump took out a full-page ad, arguing for the death penalty for a group of black men (The 'Central Park Five'), effectively putting a bounty on their heads, and plaguing them with a lifetime of death threats. He was sued by the Justice Department for discrimination.
1991: "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kinds of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day... I think that the [black] guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is." In his 1991 book Trumped! John O'Donnell quoted Trump as allegedly [this]. ...Trump told Playboy magazine in an interview published in 1997 "The stuff O'Donnell wrote about me is probably true". Two years later, when seeking the nomination of the Reform Party for president, Trump denied having made the statement.
1992: Trump's casino was fined $200,000 for transferring black dealers off certain tables to appease racist patrons.
2000: Trump ran a series of attack ads against Native American casinos alleging (with no proof) that they were guilty of crimes.
2010: Trump argued in favor of segregating Muslims in Lower Manhattan.
2011: Birtherism. Trump alleged that Obama was Kenyan based on nothing but skin color. He never apologized nor renounced that claim.
2015 (1): Trump called Mexican immigrants "rapists" who are "bringing crime and drugs" to the U.S.
2015 (2): Trump called for "a ban on all Muslims entering the U.S."
2016 (1): Trump called for a Mexican judge to recuse himself based on nothing other than his race. Paul Ryan said this was "the textbook definition of a racist comment."
2016 (2): Trump regularly retweeted material from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his campaign.
2017 (1): Trump asked a reporter to set up a meeting with the black caucus simply because she was black.
2017 (3): Trump said people from Haiti "all have AIDS" and people from Nigeria would never "go back to their huts" after seeing America.
2018 (1): Trump called Haiti and African countries shitholes.
2018 (2): Trump referenced the trail of tears to mock Elizabeth Warren.
2019: Trump tweeted that four black and brown congresswomen should go back where they came from. Then attacked Elijah Cummings. Then Baltimore. Then Al Sharpton.
2020: Trump called black protesters "THUGS" just days after calling white protesters "very good people." Then he threatened to direct the military to shoot the black protestors in the street.
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