Donald Trump is having a busy week, stomping on immigrants and shining an unflattering spotlight on his family while at it.
The former president threw red meat at his MAGA supporters by reviving his fiery anti-immigrant rhetoric. The billionaire real estate mogul explained that immigrants from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and even Europe come to America solely to poison its blood.
He revealed that if re-elected to office, he would implement strict laws that would make it possible for him to deport every immigrant.
Donald Trump said: “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we have a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”
Trump added: “That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just in the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
He went on to say: “We’ve got a lot of work to do – you know, when they leave, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people in our country. When they do that – we’ve got a lot of work to do.”
Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to further expand on these beliefs with the following statement: “Illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. They’re coming from prisons, from mental institutions — from all over the world.”
Political and history buffs analyzed Trump’s stunning remarks and quickly traced the quotes to Adolf Hitler‘s manifesto, Mein Kampf.
Hitler, who violently opposed and despised the mixing of races and immigration, originally wrote: “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”
However, this is not the first time Trump has used the term “blood poisoning.” According to the NBC news outlet, he used it in an interview earlier in 2023, also to condemn immigration.
It seems that Donald Trump’s fascination with Hitler runs deep. A piece in Vanity Fair from the 1990s included a stunning revelation from the late Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife and the mother of his three oldest children — Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump.
According to the publication, Ivana Trump “told her lawyer that Donald kept My New Order near his bed, which is a book of Hitler’s speeches. ”
Marie Brenner, reporting for the magazine, also shared these jaw-dropping tidbits about a family joke: “[W]hen he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.”
Back then, Donald Trump responded to the accusations by saying: “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
Trump’s decision to reference Hitler has prompted many to remind him that he has children with two immigrants.
Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, was born in Czechia.
The businessman’s third spouse, Melania Trump, is a Slovenian-American former model. The pair shares a son, Barron Trump.
Many questioned Donald Trump’s way of seeing immigrants by asking if he believes that his children’s blood has been poisoned because their mothers immigrated to the United States.
Some Republicans and almost all Democrats are asking Trump to change his tune on the matter.
