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The Most Fascist Things Donald Trump Has Done; A Thread PART ONE!
"Fascism," if we could explain in a tweet = racism + ultra-nationalism + sexism + attacks on human rights, the media, & unions + obsessions w/ national security & law & order + near-religious fervor for charismatic leader + cronyism + corruption + election fraud. Trump's record:
1) 1973: The DOJ sues Trump for refusing to rent housing to black tenants & lying to applicants for housing if they're black. Trump is forced to sign a non-discrimination agreement 2 years later. https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history
2) 1980s: “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.” - Kip Brown, former Trump Castle employee https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history
3) 1989: Trump calls for the death penalty in the Central Park 5 case, where racialized teenagers were wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape of a white jogger. Despite DNA evidence exonerating them, Trump said in 2016 that he still thinks they're guilty. https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history
4) Trump is the leading & loudest proponent of a baseless conspiracy alleging that Barrack Obama - the first black president in U.S. history - is not a U.S. citizen. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-nationalists-delusion/546356/
5) 2016: Donald Trump spends much of his election campaign denigrating & scapegoating Mexican migrants as drug smugglers, rapists, and gang members. https://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8911467/donald-trump-immigrants-boycott
6) January 2017: Trump bans visitors from several Muslim-majority countries and fights w/ SCOTUS throughout 2017 to defend his ban. https://www.vox.com/2017/12/4/16735466/muslim-ban-trump-who
7) During his time as president, Trump has halved legal immigration despite the negative implications for the economy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/07/21/trump-cuts-legal-immigrants-by-half-and-hes-not-done-yet/
8) Trump orders ICE to start arresting any undocumented migrant (previously only ones that posed a threat were targeted for arrest). https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/trump-immigration-court-ice/523557/
9) @realDonaldTrump regularly retweets memes & talking points from white supremacists. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/us/politics/donald-trump-white-identity.html?_r=0
10) After the August 2017 white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Trump famously refused to condemn the white supremacists, choosing instead to infer that then neo-nazis there were morally equivalent to their opponents. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-thanks-trump-for-defending-the-truth-on-charlottesville
11) Trump consistently attacked NFL players exercising their 1st Amendment rights by taking a knee to protest police racism & brutality. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44232979
12) Claiming that Haitian immigrants "all have AIDs" & Nigerian immigrants won't "go back to their huts" after seeing America, Trump laments the lack of European immigrants, referring to Haiti & African nations as "shithole countries." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html
13) As a fraud artist, Trump has a well-deserved reputation for stiffing contractors & creditors, owing an estimated $1.8 billion to 150 different creditors. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-businesses-owe-debt-1-8-billion-150-institutions-study-source-study-president-elect-university-hotels-golf-courses-a7512586.html
14) Then there was the whole "Trump University" scam. https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/trump-university-its-worse-than-you-think
15) The history of sexual assault allegations against Trump goes back decades & includes allegations of child rape. Some of the allegations are admitted to by Trump's own recorded boasts. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html
16) One of Trump's favourite Islamophobic lies to repeat is that he personally witnesses Muslims cheering the WTC towers falling on 9/11. https://www.vox.com/2016/6/14/11931338/donald-trump-muslims-cheering-terrorism
17) Nothing says "disdain for human rights" than publicly mocking a disabled person in front of a national audience. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/02/donald-trumps-revisionist-history-of-mocking-a-disabled-reporter/
18) During the 2016 election, Trump encouraged his supporters to physically assault his opponents, telling him that he'd pay for their legal defense if they did so. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-told-white-supremacists-attack-protesters-so-they-did-650622
19) Echoing the nazi term "lügenpresse" ("lying press"), Trump starts referring to mainstream news media outlets as "fake news." https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/09/13/when-trump-cites-fake-news-one-hears-echoes-germany-its-worst/IBBPpsXVfOvPIFtIJcTkJO/story.html
20) Trump hires white supremacist Darren Beattie as his speech writer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/20/fired-white-house-staffers-association-with-white-supremacists-confirms-big-concern-about-presidency/?utm_term=.b6aa18b1a183
21) Trump hires white supremacist Ian M. Brown as a policy analyst. https://fortune.com/2018/08/29/leaked-emails-ian-m-smith/
22) Trump hires white supremacist Larry Kudlow as his economic advisor. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trump-white-nationalism/568393/
We've run out of space in this thread! More Trump fascism in Part Two!
