Stoking Division
2016
2016-08-22 During a speech Trump said, “You could go to war zones in countries we’re fighting and it’s safer than living in some of our inner cities that are run by the Democrats”.
2017
2017-01-20 Within the first three minutes of Trump’s first inaugural speech he planted seeds of doubt in the US government by saying “The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens”.
2019
2019-03-01 In 2021 news outlets reported on surfaced video from March 2019 where Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted and harassed gun control activist and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg and made baseless claims that the activist was being funded by George Soros.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-david-hogg-video
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-55849877
https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2578
2020
2020-07-07 (context) Former political consultant Julie Kelly published a book, “Disloyal Opposition; how the *NeverTrump Right Tried - and Failed - to Take Down the President”. Her bio can be found on docs.house.gov as file HHRG-117-JU08-Bio-KellyJ-20220121.pdf.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20220121/114349/HHRG-117-JU08-Bio-KellyJ-20220121.pdf
2020-12-19 Trump posted on social media “Big protest in D.C on january 6th Be there, will be wild!”
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/tweets-december-19-2020
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-january-6-univision-town-hall/
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/january-6-committee-hearing-trump-extremists/
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/13/trump_summoned_mob_after_unhinged_meeting
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62140410
2022
2022-01-01 (context) Former political consultant Julie Kelly published a book, “January 6 – How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right”. Her bio can be found on docs.house.gov as file HHRG-117-JU08-Bio-KellyJ-20220121.pdf.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20220121/114349/HHRG-117-JU08-Bio-KellyJ-20220121.pdf
2022-03-29 Kash Patel published a politically biased children’s book called “The Plot Against The King”, featuring “Hillary’s horrible plot” against Trump, fake heralds, and “Komey’s spying slugs”.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5213692
2023
2023-02-08 Republican Governor of Arkansas Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated, “the choice is between normal or crazy”, accused the Biden administration of “woke fantasies” and asserted that Republicans “are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn’t start”.
2024 February
2024-02-23 In a speech at CPAC Kash Patel talked about the need for an army to help Trump take America back, fight the media, fight the “deep state”, fight education, fight the border, and propagate conservative values back into the ecosystem.
https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/kash-patel-speaks-at-cpac/638926
July
2024-07-26 A news article quoted JD Vance as saying, ”…the rejection of the American family…is perhaps the most pernicious and evil thing the left has done…”.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/26/trump-running-mate-jd-vance-defends-childless-cat-ladies.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024 August
2024-08-03 Far-right activist Jack Posobiec’s book ‘Unhumans – The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them’ refers to anyone on the left as “unhuman” and claims they “undo civilization itself”. This person also promoted the Pizzagate hoax. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5303473/jack-posobiec-bessent-hegseth-europe-influencer
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/republican-national-committee-2024-posobiec.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024-08-07 JD Vance spoke at the Shelby Police Department during a memorial service. There he politicized the officer’s death by blaming Kamala Harris for it.
2025 June
2025-06-08 Stephen Miller described protests in Los Angeles as “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States”.
2025-06-28 Trump posted on social media, “Republicans must remember that they are fighting against a very evil, corrupt and, in many ways, incompetent (Policywise!) group of people, who would rather see our Country “go down in flames” than do the right thing”.
2025 August
2025-08-25 During an interview with Sean Hannity, Stephen Miller claimed that Democrats are a domestic extremist group.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377384186112
2025 September 9
2025-09-09 Newsmax host Rob Schmidt fearmongered his listeners, stating, “For the last several years the Democrats have destabilized this country by installing agents of chaos…” and suggested Democrats are trying to “intentionally sabotage the country” and “shred faith in the system”.
2025 September 12
2025-09-12 In an interview with Fox, Trump said “radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want crime” but that “radicals on the left are the problem”.
2025 September 14
2025-09-14 During a prayer vigil for Kirk, Kari Lake addressed the crowd with conspiracy theories that the suspect was “brainwashed” by woke. She went on to “warn” parents not to send their children to universities, which she labeled “indoctrination camps”. This is important because she is the senior advisor for the US Agency for Global Media and could potentially hold a lot of unchecked power in media. For context, Kari Lake also helped stir controversy in 2022 when she demanded ballots be counted by hand.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kari-lake-blames-college-indoctrination-for-charlie-kirks-death/
2025 September 24
2025-09-24 In speech during a Concord, North Carolina event JD Vance blamed Democrats for political violence.
2025 October
2025-10-09 (context/divisive) In protest over Bad Bunny set to headline the Super Bowl halftime, the Trump administration announced it would be setting up its own Charlie Kirk Turning Point USA “All American Halftime Show”.
2026 February
2026-02-08 Multiple far-right commentators complained that the halftime show wasn’t unifying enough, claimed it was sexualized, and whined about the performance being in Spanish. Trump made his divisive comments after.
https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/2020670509613015491?s=46&t=ur2P5MSMSrGDxyzhmgAjQw
https://time.com/7376165/ogles-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-sexual-lyrics-congress-investigation/
https://abcnews.com/US/trump-calls-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show/story?id=129980124
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116038200403048483
2026 March
2026-03-22 Trump posted on social media, “Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87lyEmlTfP0&list=WL&index=2&t=58s
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116272810363139207
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116269463539535135
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116272713025328785
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116273343074887409
2026-03-26 During a CPAC convention far-right podcaster Benny Johnson told the CPAC crowd to “out-breed” the Libs. Some of the quotes include, “Having children and starting a family is the culture war right there”, and “Because the left, we’re gonna just outbreed them! Can I get a witness? Can I get an amen? We’re just going to outbreed the left. You ever met a lib?”. Among a multitude of other things left to unpack there, acting as though women are designed to be breeding stock for political agendas.
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/maga-outbreed-left-wing-babies-1760769.amp