Most of us were well aware that Donald Trump’s habit of routinely espousing demonic, devious, derogatory rhetoric was par for the course. What we apparently were unaware of was the length he was willing to go to parrot the words of one of the most sadistic and scurrilous human beings to ever walk this earth. During a campaign stop in New Hampshire on December 16 the current Republican Party front-runner stated that migrants are “poisoning the blood” of the United States and quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin about the “rottenness” of American democracy.
Emotionally whipping up thousands of supporters at a hockey rink, the former president revisited the perverse language Nazi German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler utilized with comments about migrants, mostly African, Asian, and South American ones, “poisoning the blood of our country.” This phrase is used a number of times in Hitler’s book Mein Kampf to describe the “influx of foreign blood” as “poison.” During a cabinet meeting in 2017, while president, Trump referred to such nations as “shithole countries.”