"These aren't people. These are animals" - Trump. Said this. Today. About immigrants.

[underpants]

Trump ramps up rhetoric on undocumented immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals.'

WASHINGTON — President Trump used extraordinarily harsh rhetoric to renew his call for stronger immigration laws Wednesday, calling undocumented immigrants "animals" and venting frustration at Mexican officials who he said "do nothing" to help the United States.

“We have people coming into the country or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are," Trump said.

"These aren't people. These are animals."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/16/trump-immigrants-animals-mexico-democrats-sanctuary-cities/617252002/

[MFM008]

1. Coming from a

Snake.

[treestar]

9. Nailed it

He's the animal.

[Fritz Walter]

38. You take that back!

Snakes serve a very useful purpose in their respective natural ecosystems. (I exclude those who have been transplanted into non-indigenous environments -- pythons in the Florida Everglades, for instance).

Back to my point: this is an abomination of nature. He should never have survived gestation. It's our duty to re-balance our eco-system.

Get.
Out.
The.
Vote.

Now, more than ever!

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Dehumanizing people is a Nazi propaganda tactic.

Eventually enough people in Germany came to view Jews as sub-human. Don’t let this toxic ideology take root here. It is unamerican.

[CCExile]

47. It is also the tactic of

all countries at war, including us.

[CatMor]

3. He has gone too far with those comments....

he is insane and has got to be removed. How can the republicans condone this mad man's rantings.

[RKP5637]

13. The republicans are cut from the same piece of cloth. tRump says what they think! The GOP is

pathetic. If tRump wanted to install a Nazi regime, the GOP would probably sit there and do nothing.

[Wednesdays]

21. If?

[RKP5637]

29. Yeah, the "if" is disappearing. n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Entirely. He got a HUGE boost in the polls when he assured Chris Matthews

women who get abortions WILL be punished

Wasnt sure if we should put women to death or just in prison but that they WILL be punished

[C Moon]

31. Yes they are pathetic, they are also the smaller of two parties that run the U.S.

so how the HELL did they gain control?
With a little help from Putin and his billionaire buddies; and I think it's been going on for awhile.

[RKP5637]

40. Yeah, I too think there is an awful lot going on and most Americans are totally clueless about it.

[Initech]

55. The GOP is going full Nazi and it's getting really scary.

Trump and really Putin have enabled the absolute worst of us and I'm afraid that there might be no stopping them.

[maveric]

4. "Rats"

The dehumanizing has begun.

[Yonnie3]

5. I was just watching this.

C-Span had tweeted about it and linked to C-Span video.

I will not post what I really want to say about the subhuman maggot who said this.

What I will say is this is obviously a case of projection. The only animal in the room is him.

Link to tweet

[yonder]

15. projection, yes

my first thought as well

[unblock]

6. aaaand we take another clear and explicit step toward genocide

http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/8StagesBriefingpaper.pdf

[workinclasszero]

14. And will the MSM raise the alarm?

Will the GOP say enough?

Hell no they won’t. Not until it’s way to late.

[unblock]

16. they won't even say anything when it's way too late.

that won't say a damn word to object until they're on trial long after it's happened.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Awaiting the hot takes from the "Hillary would have been worse!" crowd...

[Beartracks]

8. Hey, Republicans. This reflects on you. Very poorly.

I'm talking to YOU, Republican voters; not just the Reps and Senators. I know SOME of you have to care.

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[Croney]

10. I can't think of an animal I wouldn't prefer to this waster of oxygen.

[oasis]

11. Looks like Sarah B.Huckster gotta try to twist that into a positive

at tomorrow's WH breifing. If they dare have one.

[Yonnie3]

17. She'll have to get back to us. n/t

[SummerSnow]

30. Her comment will be ...he was joking

[workinclasszero]

12. Trump is ramping up to a Netanyahu

action on the Mexican/US border.

[VOX]

18. Precisely what the Nazis said about Jews-- easier to dispose of when they've been demonized...

and characterized as something less than human.

I do not make that association lightly. It's deadly serious, just how close the U.S. has moved toward out-and-out fascism.

[bettyellen]

34. True, but certain people will argue with you that these sociological trends are unprovable....

And it’s only costal elites who listen to academia, blah blah blah.

[VOX]

45. Oh, I'm not expecting any enlightenment where it's needed most.

Those who currently believe everything’s jim-dandy are permanently lost. It’s useless to try and win them over, particularly when their daily media addictions repeat-repeat-repeat all the Deep-State foolishness, never missing (no matter how obliquely) a chance to toss in a slight at those magic names of Clinton, Obama and Soros. They are told over and over how much we don’t respect working-class folks, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Democrats and progressives who try to woo these hard-cores are just whistling in the wind.

[bettyellen]

51. Totally agree with you. We need to motivate non and occasional voters

to be always voters.

[lpbk2713]

19. Typical way of thinking for a narcissist.

Everyone is inferior in his estimation.

[dalton99a]

20. And we're supposed to call this vile piece of shit president?

[Delmette2.0]

22. All I can say is......wait a minute while I

[Nonhlanhla]

23. The rhetoric of dehumanization

is the first step to genocide.

[C_U_L8R]

24. This is as UnAmerican as it gets.

Trump claiming that immigrants are animals is repugnant to everything this country stands for. Justice will eventually have its way with this traitor.

[byronius]

27. +1

[ProudLib72]

25. Fuck this shit! If that's the way he wants it, then I'm an animal too

I'd rather be an animal than one of the Rump's "people".

[BigmanPigman]

26. CA and our Sanctuary State

will vote Dem and eventually HE will end up in a cage like an animal if we can get a blue wave going in the midterms.

[Solly Mack]

32. Said the piss poor excuse for a human.

He probably applauds the burning of books.

Just a small step from...

[malaise]

33. Just like his folks and of course

his in laws

[underpants]

69. Yep

[LuckyLib]

35. Says he who is not too far on the immigrant

branch himself. He keeps stoking that racist fire, particularly against Mexicans. I’ve worked my whole life with immigrants and in Mexican and Mexican American communities. Hard-working and wonderful people.

[Sugarcoated]

36. Projection

Always. It's reflexive.

[uponit7771]

37. Those non whites are your enemies ... basically what he's saying

[BobTheSubgenius]

39. No, you dick.

You're thinking of your family and associates.

[2naSalit]

49. I wouldn't

Insult our fine brothers and sisters of the nonhuman sort, the first crime family are simply some kind subhuman species who appear to also be parasitic.

[pazzyanne]

41. Someone needs to educate tRump on the facts of life.

"President Trump used extraordinarily harsh rhetoric to renew his call for stronger immigration laws Wednesday, calling undocumented immigrants "animals" and venting frustration at Mexican officials who he said "do nothing" to help the United States

For example, if you want people/ countries to help you, you cannot go around spewing vile rhetoric about them and expect them to "help the United States." We use to have allies who helped us a lot, but he has alienated them to the point they are barely willing to talk to the US any more. Please remind me, what is there to like/ respect about this POS?

[neeksgeek]

42. Seriously??!

I’ve had enough of the idiot in the White House.

[ck4829]

43. "How bad these people are" What? Are they shooting up high schools?

Oh...

Well, maybe they're shooting up elementary schools?

Right...

What about attacking churches, music festivals, or Waffle Houses?

Darn...

Let's leave violence, clearly they defrauded the whole nation through subprime mortgages, right?

Really...

I keep hearing from Republicans they're linked to the drug crisis, I guess that means they must be the politicians and pharmaceutical executives who told us opioids were safe and non-addictive and worked with corrupt pharmacists to over-prescribe them, right?

Right?

[TCJ70]

44. And his supporters will cheer...

...not realizing that this is literally a Nazi tactic.

[Sunlei]

46. this administration's racism shouldn't be tolerated by Mexico/central & SA governments &

&& the American people.



All these articles full of FACTS show how racist trump and the right wing are & have been for many years. This shit will destabilize our democracy.

New York Times - Trump Shares Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Videos, and Britain’s Leader Condemns Them

CBS - Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic And Political Climate Fueling Resurgence In Radicalization And Recruitment.

Reuters - Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam - sources

New York Times - The Growing Right-Wing Terror Threat

Times of Israel - Top Trump aide wears medal of Hungarian Nazi collaborators

The Guardian - Q&A: What are Trump and the White House's links to the far right?

Politifact - Are there white nationalists in the White House?

NPR - Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Convicted Of Criminal Contempt

PBS - WATCH: President Trump signs executive order on infrastructure

VICE News Tonight - Charlottesville: Race and Terror

Washington Post - The nation can only weep

New York Times - Donald Trump Clung to ‘Birther’ Lie for Years, and Still Isn’t Apologetic

The New Yorker - Donald Trump and the Central Park Five

New York Times - Soldier’s Widow Says Trump Struggled to Remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s Name

New York Times - Trump, in Twitter Rant, Revisits Grievances Against Sports Figures

The Atlantic - The History of Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars

[underpants]

50. Great list

I'll look some of those up

[Yavin4]

48. And Michelle Wolf was wrong because??????

Some help here?

[dalton99a]

52. Bingo

[neeksgeek]

53. I just sent this to my Rep and Senators (all Rs)

President Trump just said immigrants from Mexico aren't human, they're animals.

I have one request. Denounce this evil, un-American statement.

It's your duty to hold the President accountable. If you don't denounce these vile words, you're saying you agree. And that makes you complicit in any evil acts that follow from the President's effort to dehumanize people.

Where will it stop? Will the President soon call Muslims animals? Disabled people? Blacks? Do I really need to read Martin Niemöller's poem to you? You know the one... it begins with "First they came for..." If you're unaware, ask one of your aides to look it up.

[dubyadiprecession]

54. Don't the rich corporate farmers need these cheap, undocumented immigrants to pick crops?

[Poiuyt]

56. Who else would talk like this?

[Gothmog]

57. This is what happens when trump keeps getting his butt kicked in court

Trump has lost a number of lawsuits on this issue and is pissed. Trump has a dumb legal position and the courts are rejecting these claims. Trump is lashing out in frustration

BTW, trump is racist asshole

[Kirk Lover]

58. Talk about picking on an easy target and "punching down" .....why does he continue to

BREATHE? Ya know what RUMP...we'll be willing to let this whole investigation go if you just stroke out on nat'l TV........DEAL?

[0rganism]

59. we're reaching the inevitable destination soon now

this train wreck is pulling into the station. president Nobel Genius is about to turn his armed supporters loose on their neighbors. the worse his legal situation gets, the less he has to lose by doing so. i think we've had it relatively easy so far, but shit is going to get dark real quick. Trump never took enough power in 2016 to truly consolidate after his coup, so he's got to wrap it up the hard way if he still wants to play for the big autocratic kielbasa, and for that he needs to spread all kinds of fear all over the country. the pressure's on him now to go big or go to jail.

[Demovictory9]

60. holy moly! He's a hatemonger

[Glamrock]

61. He would know....

Considering he's such a fucking pig.

[ggccvvtt]

62. So this was in response to...

Fresno Sheriff Margaret Mims comment about MS-13 gang members?

I live in San Francisco. I don't care who you are but I want criminal aliens out of my community!

[underpants]

63. Yes it was

At least that's what The Hill said. Welcome to DU.

[eShirl]

64. how about all criminals?

[Cha]

65. trump fucking projecting again. If he

accuses someone else of something he's always describing himself. Every damn time.

[oberliner]

66. Was he not talking about M13 gang members?

He always calls them animals

[betsuni]

67. Super-predators.

I have a feeling that Republicans are okay with Trump calling gang members animals but not super-predators because you-know-who said it about gang members decades ago.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

68. He's long intentionally blurred the line between gang members and other immigrants. That's his M.O.

He'll appear to reference gang members at certain times, but then moves the conversation to infer criminality to immigrants as a whole, both legal and undocumented.

This is to of course create the impression that the overwhelming majority of immigrants coming from the Southern border are here to commit crimes, which is of course bogus.

But just look to the infamous line in his announcement speech:

"The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. . . . When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/16/full-text-donald-trump-announces-a-presidential-bid/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.95339893a017

Note how he didn't differentiate between gang members and other immigrants there, or even draw a distinction between legal and undocumented immigrants. And the fact that the best he can offer us is that "some, I assume, are good people" speaks volumes. He can't even say for sure. He has to only assume that "some" (which seems to suggest a small minority) are "good people."

He's speaking to his xenophobic base here. That's what he's doing right now, and what he was doing three years ago.