“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.”Donald Trump in a recent interview with the National Pulse
OK, let’s analyze this colossally obscene statement by a man that many want to be president again.
“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from.”
Hundreds of hours of vetting by professionals at the border says that somebody definitely knows where they come from. But wait…
“And we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums.”
Wait, I thought nobody knows where they come from! So how do we “know” they come from prisons, mental institutions and insane asylums? This isn’t the first time that the former leader of the free world contradicts himself inside of two sentences! I think that’s what you call a non sequitur.
Does anyone care about this oft repeated silliness from Trump? Why are people with brain cells still sympathizing with a man who continually makes such illogical and fanciful claims? He’s bloviated so many things of this nature over the last decade that they’ve lost their shock value. He’s perpetrated such a national moral injury on all our consciences that we can’t even hear the fire alarm anymore. If it weren’t for January 6th, one might just give him one more mulligan for being just another amoral politician. But we can’t. We mustn’t!
He recently advocated shop lifters to be shot and that former Joint Chiefs Mark Milley should be executed! These are fascist, not American jurisprudence ideas.
Not for nothin’, there is no proof that migrants come from prisons or asylums or that they’re terrorists. Zero evidence. Yet, check out the most egregious part of his self-indicting assertions here…
“It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”
When I first read this, I thought it had to be one of the most insulting Trump statements in a long time. Then I realized that “poisoning the country’s blood” is a near direct quote from history’s most murderous character. As such, this has to be placed near the top of the list of shameful hate-filled comments by our very own former leader. And make no mistake, it’s a long and deplorable list!
Let’s start with the easiest part by reminding ourselves that both his mother and his wife were foreign-born. Does that mean his blood and therefore that of his children are equally poisoned? (Maybe injecting bleach will stop the spread! Couldn’t resist.)
Here’s a parallel sentence from Mein Kampf: “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.” In another place in his asinine excuse for genocide, Adolf Hitler wrote: “This poison was allowed to enter the national bloodstream and infect public life without the Government taking any effectual measures to master the course of the disease.” His assertion that “foreign blood” (that of non-Aryan races) had “poisoned the blood” of the German race and needed purging inspired millions of gullible Germans to murder millions of men, women and children.
Let me be clear, I can’t know for sure that Trump was intentionally quoting or mirroring Hitler or his villainous claims. Nor am I saying that he is a Neo-Nazi. It’s possible that he didn’t even know that this language was Hitlerish. But I’d venture to say that if he’s too stupid to know how offensive and destructive his words were (which I doubt) he was at the very least mindlessly regurgitating language he’s heard a thousand times on his alt-right media outlets.
No doubt he, his campaign manager, or one of his dozens of lawyers on retainer will explain his comments away in some equally contradictory and disjointed fashion. At that point, his sympathizers with their heads sufficiently hidden in the sand, will go on their way humming a merry tune to drown out the last vestige of their calloused conscience.
Yes, Adolf Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were “causing a blood poisoning” of his country. His hatred and the hatred he spread through his Nazi propaganda got six million Jews incinerated. When anyone, a former president of the United States included, uses similar language to describe women and children who have risked everything to get to safety, I call it despicable.
You say, surely he wasn’t paraphrasing the 20th century genocidal maniac. I suppose it can’t be proven that he kept the Führer’s speeches on his bedstand, as has been claimed. But when a reporter asked him about it, instead of denying it he said, “who told you that?” Later, he said “If, I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.” To my mind, not a denial, but a dodge. Something of which he’s a master.
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” Romans 3:13-14 New International Version
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