1973: the Nixon administration sued Trump for refusing to rent to black people
1980s: Trump's casinos were accused of hiding all the black people when Trump and his wife came to visit
1989: Trump took out a full page ad, arguing for the death penalty for a group of black men, effectively putting a bounty on their heads, and plaguing them with a lifetime of death threats. He was sued by the justice department for discrimination.
1991: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”
1992: Trump's casino was fined $200,000 for transferring black dealers off certain tables to appease its racist patrons.
1993: Trump said Native American casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
2000: Trump ran a series of attack ads against Native American casinos alleging (unfounded) that they were guilty of crimes.
2004: Trump fired a black Apprentice contestant on the show for being over-educated.
2005: Proposed a Blacks Vs. Whites season of The Apprentice
2010: Trump argued to segregate Muslims in Lower Manhattan.
2011: Oh. Right. Birtherism. Trump alleged that Obama was Kenyan based on nothing but skin color. If there was any other basis for the accusation, he would have given it.
2015: Trump called Mexican immigrants "rapists" who are bringing crime and drugs to the US. That is, at the very least, a racial generalization. I'm sure we can agree on that.
2015: Trump claimed he saw Muslims cheering the fall of the World Trade Center despite no video evidence of it ever existing and nobody else able to corroborate his story.
2015: Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the US.
2016: Trump called for a Mexican judge to recuse himself based on nothing other than his race. Paul Ryan said this was “the textbook definition of a racist comment.” Trump regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign, and has repeatedly been slow to condemn these groups He tweeted a picture alleging that Hillary was a Jew During his campaign (and in his subsequent speeches and executive orders) he's adopted Nixon's "Law and Order" rhetoric which was based in racial fearmongering
2016: Trump told black voters "What do you have to lose?"
2017: Trump asked a reporter to set up a meeting with the black caucus simply because she was black
2017: "some very fine people on both sides" said Trump of a violent Nazi rally.
2017: Trump said people from Haiti "all have aids" and people from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” after seeing America.
2018: Called Haiti and African countries shitholes. In a tweet, Trump referenced the trail of tears to mock Elizabeth Warren. A step up in racism from his usual Pocahontas insult.
2019: Trump tweeted that black and brown congress people should go back where they came from. This is a actually an example provided by US law in reference to racial discrimination.
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