Trump calls immigrants thieves in his speech after winning the first election
The former president Reviving antiimmigrant rhetoric which he passed during his term as president between 2017 and 2021. He said he promised a “A level of deportations that we have not seen since Dwight Eisenhower”US president in the 1950s who led a program to deport more than a million immigrants.
Without naming numbers or providing evidenceTrump declared that “a lot of terrorists are coming” and that “mental hospitals are being emptied” and patients are migrating to the United States.
“Us Let's close the border. Because right now we are experiencing an invasion in which millions and millions of people are coming into our country. I can't imagine why they think this is a good thing, this is a very bad thing. We can't have that. It is not sustainable as a country. It’s terrible,” Trump said.
“And they come from prisons, from countries most people have never heard of, from 'mental institutions,' from psychiatric hospitals that are being emptied. And they are terrorists. A lot of terrorists are coming. In 2019, I recently conducted a survey stating that there were no terrorists there. And once “that group” took over (the presidency), there were hundreds and hundreds of terrorists, and many of them were very bad.”
In the speech, Trump called US President Joe Biden “the worst president we have ever had in the history of our country. He is destroying our country.” And he declared: “All over the world people laugh at the United States.”
He also praised the preliminary candidates Republicans Ron De Santis and Nikki Halley said the country was on the verge of a coup “America First”one of his most important presidential slogans.
For weeks, Donald Trump, the favorite to win the Republican race for the White House, has been sharpening his speech about immigrants. In late 2023, he declared that foreigners were “poisoning the blood of the United States.”
The Trumpist discourse is embraced by Republican voters. A CBS poll released Monday (14) shows that 72% of Republicans surveyed agree that foreigners are “poisoning American blood.”
At that time, after his speech, Biden accused Trump of “using the rhetoric of Nazi Germany.”
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