Had Friedrich Trump Not Migrated To The U.S., Donald Probably Would Have Been Tried At Nuremberg

Don't Kid Yourself, Trump Is A Full-On Nazi— Bad Bad Genes

From his public debut, Hitler was spreading a range of grotesque, absurd and unfounded accusations against Jews, particularly— in those early days— “foreign” Jews from the East, very consciously working to dehumanize them and make the mass persecution he had in mind more acceptable to the public. His lies were designed to provoke disgust and fear, painting Jews as not only a political or economic threat but as morally degenerate and subhuman. Vance and Trump manufactured their pet-eating bullshit with ulterior motives as well. 

One of the most infamous and enduring antisemitic lies was the blood libel, a centuries-old myth claiming that Jews kidnapped Christian children and used their blood in religious rituals, particularly for baking Passover matzo. Hitler revived this medieval slander to incite hatred against Jews, portraying them as literally bloodthirsty and monstrous. This grotesque accusation played on deep-seated fears and was meant to evoke visceral disgust, a lesson Trump seems to have learned and embraced. On Trump super-fan, Laura Loomer, tweeted from Trump’s private plane that Haitians are eating people as well as pets.

Trump also picked up on the Nazis’ portrayal of Jews (and gypsies) disease spreaders, and he and Vance were quick to accuse Haitians in Springfield of spreading disease as well. Like the Nazis, they have been using pseudoscientific language to suggest that migrants are biologically unclean and inherently dangerous to public health. This dehumanizing comparison depicted Jews as vermin or bacteria, insinuating that they needed to be eradicated like a plague. Propaganda posters and films showed Jews as carriers of typhus and other diseases, furthering the idea that they were a destructive force on society. This rhetoric of course is echoed in Trump’s claim that immigrants bring crime “in their genes,” which we’ll get to in a moment.and act as a corrupting force.

In rural Germany, the Nazis spread the lie that Jews from the East are poisoning Germans’ wells, another medieval antisemitic myth revived by the Nazis. This baseless conspiracy theory was originally used to justify violence against Jewish communities across Europe and in the 1930s was invoked by Nazi propagandists to portray Jews as inherently malicious and willing to destroy society for their own gain. Yesterday on Hugh Hewitt’s show Trump, who’s been threatening Jews about voting for him started grousing about them again: “I did more for Israel than anybody. I did more for the Jewish people than anybody. And it’s not reciprocal, as they say, not reciprocal.” I wonder what he means? What did he do for the “Jewish people?” I mean, one thing? Anything? Letting Ivanka marry Jared doesn't count.

Nazi propaganda also dehumanized Jews by portraying them as animals, often in grotesque caricatures that exaggerated their features to make them appear subhuman, likening them to rats or parasites, emphasizing the need to “exterminate” them like pests. These kinds of grotesque fabrications were central to Hitler’s efforts to create an atmosphere in which mass violence against Jews seemed not only acceptable but necessary for the health and survival of the German nation. Trump's use of outlandish, dehumanizing claims about immigrants serves a similar function— stoking fear and hatred by portraying marginalized groups as dangerous “others” who must be removed or controlled. In both cases, the goal is to make the public see certain groups as inherently inferior, dangerous, and morally corrupt, paving the way for harsh policies and then violence.

Yesterday, Emmy Martin reported that during an interview Trump was using “increasingly harsh rhetoric to attack immigrants, suggesting… that immigrants commit horrendous crimes because ‘it’s in their genes. How about allowing people to come to 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. You know now a murder, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now,’ he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.”

Hitler-like, “Trump’s suggestion that immigrants are predisposed to violence is an escalation of his recent rhetoric against migrants, which he has used consistently on the campaign trail, assuring mass deportations if he wins,” juts like the Nazis did with Jews, gypsies, gays and other undesirables.” Earlier Trump, the grandson of immigrants (one of whom owned and ran a brothel) had called immigrants “vermin” and told his moron base that “they’re poisoning the blood of our country.” The White House condemned Trump’s statement for ‘echoing the grotesque rhetoric of fascists and violent white supremacists.’”

As usual, Trump’s deranged and divisive ravings are an extremely disturbing and dangerous form of Hitlerian rhetoric that not only demonizes immigrants but also taps into long-standing racist and xenophobic tropes. Trump’s comments about immigrants having “bad genes” is not only scientifically baseless but also echoes the kinds of eugenic ideas and fascist ideologies that have been used to justify violence against marginalized groups in the past. Historically, the idea of certain people being inherently violent or criminal because of their genetic makeup has been used to rationalize atrocities, including genocide.

According to a report by David Smith on Friday, projector-in-chief, Señor T “unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade about undocumented immigrants and predicted that this ‘could be the last election we ever have’ if Kamala Harris wins during a private fundraising dinner this summer. The Guardian obtained a 12-minute recording of a speech that the Republican presidential nominee gave at a dinner on 10 August in Aspen, Colorado, where attendees were required to donate anywhere from $25,000 to $500,000 a couple. Trump devoted most of his address to border security and immigration, recycling xenophobic claims now familiar from his rallies. ‘Radical leftwing lunatics’ want people to come in from prisons, mental institutions and insane asylums, he asserted without evidence, adding that the US was harbouring ‘a record number of terrorists.’ [He] insisted that ‘smart, very streetwise’ leaders of Venezuela and other South American countries were sending murderers and drug dealers to the US to reduce their own crime rates, relieve the burden on their prisons and save money.”

Trump cited a false example of 22 people he claimed had come to the US after being released from prison in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “We said, ‘Where do you come from?’ They said, ‘Prison’. ‘What did you do?’ ‘None of your fucking business what we did.’ You know why? Because they’re murderers.”

The candidate added, “I hate to use that foul language”, apparently recognising that his use of the F-word went further than his campaign rallies. The Congolese government has said there is no truth to Trump’s statements.

The candidate went on: “These are the toughest people. These people are coming in from Africa, from the Middle East. They’re coming in from all parts of Asia, the bad parts, the parts where they’re rough, and the only thing good is they make our criminals look extremely nice. They make our Hell’s Angels look like the nicest people on earth.”

Studies show that immigrants are less likely to commit crime than native-born Americans.

Trump’s poorly educated, moron base— not necessarily the people at the Aspen dinner [although Boebert was there] believes everything he tells them, and fully, ignorantly embrace the similarities to the early xenophobia and racism that Hitler used to build political support and justify escalating violence. Hitler began his career by scapegoating Jews, gypsies, the handicapped, the LGBTQ community… and blaming them for societal problems and painting them as inherently dangerous and subversive. This kind of divisive dehumanization— presenting certain groups as genetically or inherently inferior— was central to Nazi ideology and laid the groundwork for the horrors of the Holocaust. Is Trump laying the same foundations now? Certainly for mass deportation— he’s said so over and over. But would you trust him to go no further?