Trump Says Immigrants From Africa, Asia, South America Are ‘Poisoning Blood of Our Country’

Former President Donald Trump delivered some really scathing remarks aimed at immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire: “They’re poisoning the blood of our country." These comments become more important than ever before, given that a border deal is currently in the works in the Senate and the Iowa caucuses are posted to start soon. As reported by NBC News, Trump also said, “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world, they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

The term 'poisoning' was subsequently used once more by Trump in an all-caps post on his social media platform, Truth Social, where he claimed overnight that “illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. They’re coming from prisons, from mental institutions—from all over the world.” However, it's worth noting that Adolf Hitler was credited with coining the derogatory phrase 'blood poisoning' in his manifesto, Mein Kampf, which denounced racial mixing. Hitler wrote, “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”

This is not the first time Trump has used such white supremacist rhetoric; he earlier employed the same in October, reported The Guardian. Joe Biden's campaign has issued a statement denouncing Trump's comments. “Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy. Trump is not shying away from his plan to lock up millions of people into detention camps and continues to lie about that time when Joe Biden obliterated him by over 7 million votes three years ago,” the Biden campaign said.

Trump's strong opinions on the matter make his speech sound more frightening. During his tenure in the White House, Trump constructed 450 miles of fence along the approximately 2,000-mile border, replacing most of the pre-existing barriers to discourage immigration. His government imposed stringent border security measures along with a travel ban on citizens of numerous countries with large Muslim populations, POLITICO reported.

If re-elected to another term, Trump has promised to complete the border wall, reinstate travel restrictions, and begin mass deportations. He has also promised to revoke birthright citizenship for children born to immigrants. Apart from the pejorative use of poisoning blood, Trump also declared in the speech that he would 'restore and expand' his travel bans to the US. He also promised to 'implement strong ideological screening for all illegal immigrants.'

Trump's strongest critic among his GOP rivals, Chris Christie, referred to Trump's comments as 'disgusting' on CNN's State of the Union. “He’s disgusting, and what he’s doing is dog-whistling to Americans who feel absolutely under stress and strained from the economy and the conflicts around the world, and he’s dog-whistling to blame it on people from areas that don’t look like us,” Christie said before adding, “The other problem with this is the Republicans who are saying this is OK.”