21 APR 2024 · Trump’s actual record, however, tells a very different story. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks, from calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, to proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US, to suggesting a judge should recuse himself from a case solely because of the judge’s Mexican heritage. The trend has continued into his presidency. From https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/2/16/14642184/trump-congressional-black-caucus-racism to https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/13/16140504/trump-charlottesville-white-supremacists after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/us/trump-trail-of-tears.html, Trump hasn’t stopped with racist acts after his 2016 election. Most recently, Trump has https://www.vox.com/2020/6/23/21300332/trump-coronavirus-racism-asian-americans the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the “Chinese virus” and “Kung flu” — racist terms that tap into the kind of xenophobia that he latched onto during his 2016 presidential campaign; Trump’s own adviser, Kellyanne Conway, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-kellyanne-conway-coronavirus_n_5eeebc5dc5b6aac5f3a46b45 “Kung flu” a “highly offensive” term. And Trump https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1294033658068770820 that Sen. Kamala Harris, who’s Black, “doesn’t meet the requirements” to run for vice president — a repeat of the birther conspiracy theory that he perpetuated about former President Barack Obama.