Trump’s real-estate company triedto avoid renting apartments to African-Americansin the 1970s and gavepreferential treatment to whites, according to the federal government.
He uses the gang MS-13 todisparage all immigrants. Among many other statements, he has suggested that Obama’s protection of the Dreamers — otherwise law-abiding immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — contributed to the spread of MS-13.
In December 2015, Trumpcalled fora “a total andcomplete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” including refusing to readmit Muslim-American citizens who were outside of the country at the time.
In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recentimmigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS”and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa.
He spent years suggesting that the nation’s first black president was bornnot in the United States but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.
He is quick tohighlight crimes committed by dark-skinned people, sometimesexaggerating or lyingabout them (such asa claim about growing crime from “radical Islamic terror” in Britain). He is very slow to decry hate crimes committed by whites against dark-skinned people (such asthe killing of an Indian man in Kansas last year).
He called Puerto Ricans who criticized his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria “politically motivated ingrates.”
He hasretweeted white nationalistswithout apology.
He called some of those who marched alongsidewhite supremacistsin Charlottesville, Va., last August “very fine people.”
Trumpendorsed and campaigned for Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate whospoke positively about slaveryand whocalled foran African-American Muslim member of Congress not to be seated because of his religion.