Social media users are now comparing former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler following comments he made about immigrants in an interview on Monday.
JUST NOW: @realDonaldTrump leans heavily into race science by telling @hughhewitt that you can tell whether migrants are predisposed to committing murder by "their genes."
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) October 7, 2024
"We got a lot of bad genes in our country right now," he adds. pic.twitter.com/t722iYq4Hm
“We’ve got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) October 7, 2024
Donald Trump, today.
You know, there was this other guy trying to win an election 91 years ago who was also heavily into the “bad gene” theory. https://t.co/mNMskozBiI
This is one of the key and repellent things about Trump: he's a lifelong Nazi-style eugenicist. It's not an exaggeration to put it that way— he's brought up genes and "blood" for DECADES, from early in his career to his time on The Apprentice... He also thinks rich people deserve… https://t.co/L2Yi86oZAO
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) October 7, 2024
Trump appeared on The Hugh Hewitt Show on Monday, Oct. 7, the first anniversary of the 2023 Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. As the former President spoke to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt about the relationship between immigration and housing costs, he began to talk about how immigrants were predisposed to commit violent crimes due to "bad genes".
"If ‘blood’ is the biological marker of indelible personal, racial and ethnic character, by his own reasoning Trump’s organic linkage to Nazis must inexorably explain his unapologetic Hitlerian politics" https://t.co/gcUh1g0VDO
— TJ Washington 💙🪶🇺🇲🌻 (@wash_gton) October 7, 2024
Donald Trump is claiming that *murder* is "in the genes" of Black and Brown migrants, adding that "we have a lot of bad genes in our country right now".
— Alexis Vandom (@VandomVA) October 7, 2024
This is pure Nazi propaganda.
But yeah, keep focusing on the fucking economy, Independents. That's totally what matters most. https://t.co/xSa1bYUl7F
Trump has promoted racism since his college summer job at Swifton Village in Cincinnati.
— 🌊 Lawrence R. Gelber 🌊 (@GelberLaw) October 7, 2024
A close adherent of Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda principles based on escalating lies, his current riff on “bad genes” and “tainted blood” is the essence of mid 20th century Nazism.
"How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers. Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they're now happily living in the United States," said Trump. "You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it's in their genes. And we've got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. They left, they had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn't be here that are criminals."
"I saw a headline that stated Trump decries people 'bad genes', and I can't help but think about the Nazis, and how terrified I am for this country under an alt-right regime," wrote one X (formerly Twitter) user.
I saw a headline that stated Trump decries people ‘bad genes’, and I can’t help but think about the Nazis, and how terrified I am for this country under an alt-right regime.
— Sherry (@AWomansStruggle) October 7, 2024
"[Trump] is not just a run of the mill racist, but a Hitlerite type of racist," wrote another user. "Persons of color voting for this man, may be voting for their own eventual extermination."
"...Murder is in their genes.... we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now..."
— Naty Berhane Yifru (@NatyYifru) October 7, 2024
~ #DonaldTrump #Trump is not just a run of the mill racist, but a Hitlerite type of racist.
Persons of color voting for this man, may be voting for their own eventual extermination. https://t.co/T29yKR2GFf
Data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Congress last month has formed the crux of the former President's anti-immigrant rhetoric, with his campaign routinely suggesting that President Joe Biden's administration allowed 13,000 immigrants with homicide convictions to live within the U.S. unconfined.
When considering immigrants with any criminal conviction, the number grows to about 425,000. However, this data reflects trends dating back decades, long before President Joe Biden took office.
This is exactly what Hitler would say in his speeches about Jews and their bad “genes.” Donald Trump is a Hitler wannabe and is the biggest threat to freedom and our democracy https://t.co/yHXfScmX6j
— Greg Pomes 🎬 (@Greg_Pomes) October 7, 2024
Donald Trump is a Nazi. Always has been - he's long talked about his "good genes". https://t.co/xSKGxM1akw
— snow🌻 (@snowmanomics) October 7, 2024
Trump stuns Republicans and Dems with on-air 'bad genes' rant, sounding much like Hitler. https://t.co/x5mL3BAfUY pic.twitter.com/zdjRohsd8m
— Silvija V. stands w Harris/Walz! 🇺🇸 🇱🇻 🌻 (@SVecrumba) October 7, 2024
Hugh Hewitt himself came out in defense of the former President in a post on X. He stated that the buzz generated around Trump's comments about immigration were obscuring the actual purpose of the interview, which was to discuss the developing conflict in the Middle East.
"Left-wing scribblers and Never Trumpers are reviewing my interview and inventing a race-linked story—even they know it's a ridiculous reach— but in stretching to demonize Trump, they are missing the actual lede:
"HH: If Israel hits Iran and goes after the nuclear sites, will you applaud Israel and back them up?" wrote Hewitt.
Left-wing scribblers and Never Trumpers are reviewing my interview and inventing a race-linked story—even they know it’s a ridiculous reach— but in stretching to demonize Trump, they are missing the actual lede:
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) October 7, 2024
“HH: If Israel hits Iran and goes after the nuclear sites, will you…
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