US President, Donald Trump is not exactly known for political correctness and sensitive language. The list of his racist comments is long. An Overview.
Hate-filled rhetoric during the election campaign, offensive Tweets full of racist Stereotypes, or the Lack of a clear distancing of extreme-right violence as the one in Charlottesville. Often Trump made a stance or statement, which caused worldwide outrage.
Trump on Obama: “Why doesn’t he show his birth certificate?”
A black President? In the eyes of supporters of the racist, so-called “Birther”movement is an absolute No-Go. Trump was for a long time the most prominent advocate of the conspiracy theory: Barack Obama is not in the USA, but born in Kenya and not a Christian. In an Interview with the American TV channel ABC in 2011, Trump expressed its doubts as to the birthplace of the former US President: “Why doesn’t he show his birth certificate?” In August 2012, in the middle of the presidential race between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, to put Trump on Twitter: “An extremely credible source has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery.”
Again and again, Trump questioned the Legitimacy of Obama’s in question, held on to the crude conspiracy theory, even after the White house Obama’s birth certificate released. In September 2016, the presidential candidate, Trump decided to suddenly u-turn: “President Obama is born in the United States. Point.” Whether he apologized to his predecessors ever for the absurd, discrediting, is not known.
Trump on Mexican migrants: “Criminals and rapists”
A perennial favorite during trump’s presidential campaign: propaganda against Mexicans. Again and again he insulted Mexicans and Americans with Mexican roots. 2015 ranted Trump: “Mexico sends us the best. It sends people that have a lot of problems. They bring drugs, they bring crime, they are rapists. And some, I suppose, are good people.” He concluded from this, one of his most controversial campaign promises: The construction of a wall on the border to the neighbouring country for “Mexico will have to pay”.
Trump about the Muslim soldier’s mother: “Can you speak at all?”
Another low point: trump’s reaction to the speech of Khizr Khan, his son in 2004, has fallen as a soldier in the Iraq war. The American lawyer with Pakistani roots held in the summer of 2016, at the Congress of Democrats critical of trump’s candidacy and its racism. While he spoke, his wife, Ghazala Khan, next to him. Your Silence is interpreted Trump in his own way: “If you look at his wife as she stood there. You had nothing to say. Maybe you could say nothing at all.” In social networks not only as a completely irreverent perceived, but also as a racist remark against Muslims.
Critics of Trump, he is stoking the hatred in America
Trump about Muslims: “Islam hates us”
From various quotes Trumps resentment can be towards Muslims. So Trump of 2015, claimed in an Interview with the ABC TV channel about the terror attacks of September 11. September: “There are people in New Jersey who watched large parts of the Arab population, who have cheered, as the building collapsed.” A statement that was clearly false.
On CNN, the presidential candidate Trump in March 2016 surmised: “I think Islam hates us.” Another Time, Trump said: “We have problems with Muslims and we have problems with Muslims coming into our country.” One of the first acts of the President Trump was then ban the controversial entry, the people from six of the majority should prevent the Muslim countries at a port of entry in the United States.
Trump on right-wing extremists: “racism is evil”…or is it?
To the extreme right-wing violence in Charlottesville at Trump – first of all, said nothing. First of all, Trump spoke of “violence by all sides” without having to call racists and neo-Nazis explicitly by name. After fierce criticism of rank, a clear statement from Trump and then finally: “racism is evil, and those who apply in his name for violence are Criminals and criminals,” he said. A few days later, he rowed back, however, at a press conference: “There was a group that was bad, and gave it to the other side of a group, the violence was also very active.”
Controversial in this context, also the personnel, Steve Bannon. Trump’s chief strategist was the head of the right-wing populist media magazine’s “Breitbart,” a voice of the racial “Alt-Right”movement. In addition, critics of Trump’s point of view, dissociate it credible enough of extreme right-wing groups such as the white Suprematist, the Ku Klux Klan or the “Alt-Right”. As a result, he encourage him or her to your hatred.