Former President Donald Trump faced widespread ridicule and criticism for a racist dog whistle toward immigrants during a recent televised interview at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump, addressing his supporters, asserted that there are "people who are coming from parts unknown, countries that you’ve never heard of."
He added:
“Languages that nobody in this country speaks. We don’t even have teachers of some of these languages. Who would think that we have languages that are like from the planet Mars?” ...
“Nobody, nobody, knows how to, you know, speak it."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
As immigration becomes a focal point for the 2024 election, with Trump positioning it as a key issue, his remarks continue to draw both ridicule and criticism. Trump has vowed to take a tough stance on immigration, promising significant measures if he were to return to the White House, including what he termed as "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history."
Many condemned Trump's racist remarks.
Others mocked his absurd interplanetary assertion.
Trump has continued to garner criticism for praising authoritarian leaders and repeating anti-immigrant and racist language.
In December he claimed that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," echoing fascists like genocidal Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, who wrote about "blood poisoning" in his book Mein Kampf.
Trump has ramped up his violent and inflammatory rhetoric in recent months, telling a crowd in November that his political opponents are "vermin" that he must "root out," a declaration that angered people on both sides of the aisle to say nothing of historians who've sounded the alarm about what the 2024 election could signal for the future of American democracy.
President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—among others—have compared Trump to Hitler, saying that if he were to be elected again, all semblance of American democracy would vanish.
