Demonizing
1989
1989 Trump called for the reinstatement of the death penalty and paid for full-page advertisements in several New York City newspapers. For context, in 1989 five Black and Latino men were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/nyregion/central-park-five-trump.html
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5108632/central-park-five-trump-debate
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/22/why-are-the-central-park-five-suing-donald-trump
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1779055166234356
https://entertainmentnow.com/news/central-park-five-donald-trump/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case
1999
1999-08-16 David Horowitz wrote an article in Salon.com titled, “Guns don’t kill black people, other blacks do” and the caption below said, “The NAACP’s ludicrous idea to sue gun manufacturers is yet another attempt by the left to avoid personal responsibility for some individuals’ bad behavior”. Another excerpt of this article read, “If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus? Why do all those black Haitians want to come here? To be oppressed?”.
https://www.salon.com/1999/08/16/naacp/
2001
2001-01-01 Stephen Miller invited David Horowitz to speak at his high school and started a group called “Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom”. For context, David Horowitz wrote an article in Salon.com in 1999 writing, ““If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus? Why do all those black Haitians want to come here? To be oppressed?” and “Guns don’t kill black people, other blacks do”.
https://www.salon.com/1999/08/16/naacp/
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/01/stephen-miller-david-horowitz-mentor-389933
2022
2022-04-05 In a JD Vance campaign commercial as an ‘America First Conservative’, he said, “Are YOU a racist? Do you hate Mexicans? The media calls us racist for wanting to build Trump’s wall. They censor us, but it doesn’t change the truth. Joe Biden’s open border is killing Ohioans, with more illegal drugs, and more Democrat voters pouring into this country. This issue is personal. I nearly lost my mother to the poison coming across our border. No child should grow up an orphan.” [approved by JD Vance. Paid for by JD Vance for Senate Inc.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qYJoSV0lI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024
2024-07-10 During a National Conservatism convention, JD Vance stated, “…look, the thing on immigration is that no one can avoid that it has made our societies poorer, less safe, less prosperous, and less advanced.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-debate-immigration-housing-prices-real-estate-federal-reserve
https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-4-2024/presenters/sen-jd-vance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXH1p8_jhc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024-09-05 During a campaign rally in Phoenix Arizona, JD Vance said, “…There is a logic to what the Democrats are trying to do. It’s disgusting, but there’s a logic to it. They want illegal aliens to steal everybody’s job, and now they want illegal aliens to steal everybody’s vote.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024-09-11 JD Vance doubled down on his perpetuating the nonsense that migrants were eating pets in Ohio. During a sit-down interview with Kaitlan Collins on CNN, he stated “When you have a lot of people saying ‘My pets are being abducted’ or ‘Geese at the city pond are being abducted and slaughtered right in front of us’, this is crazy stuff. And again, whether those exact rumors turn out to be mostly true, somewhat true, whatever the case may be – Kaitlan, this town has been ravaged by 20,000 migrants coming in. Health care costs are up. Housing costs are up. Communicable diseases like HIV and TB have skyrocketed in this small Ohio town. This is what Kamala Harris’s border policies have done. And I think it’s interesting, Kaitlan, that, that the media didn’t care about the carnage brought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats”. [see Thought Project section in the main menu under ‘Fallacies’]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024-09-17 During a campaign stop in Eau Claire, JD Vance was quoted by a local newspaper saying, ”…we’re bankrupting…a lot of hospitals by forcing [them to] provide care for people who don’t have the legal right to be in our country…”. Experts and economists both rejected Vance’s false and sensational claims.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-debate-immigration-housing-prices-real-estate-federal-reserve/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/02/vance-immigration-housing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024-10-02 In a transcript of the Walz-Vance debate, JD Vance stated, ”…illegal aliens competing with Americans for scarce homes is one of the most significant drivers of home prices in the country”. Experts and economists both rejected Vance’s false and sensational claims.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/full-vp-debate-transcript-walz-vance-2024/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-debate-immigration-housing-prices-real-estate-federal-reserve/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/02/vance-immigration-housing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2025 February
2025-02-20 Pastor Corey Brooks asserted on Fox that Black communities have lost self-reliance and are being seduced by dependency.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6368956070112
2025 May
2025-05-01 Stephen Miller claimed that Biden imported a “terrorist army”, that the media covers up rape-torture-and-murder, and blamed due process for the killing of a woman.
2025 September
2025-09-09 During an interview on Right Wing Watch, Pastor Joel Webbon said Christian parents need to have “the talk” with their children about the dangers of Black people.
https://x.com/rightwingwatch/status/1965441200627782132?s=46
2025-09-16 In response to the Kirk killing, Laura Loomer posted on social media about videos mocking the assassination, “most of them are black and appear to be social rejects…our colleges have become welfare centers….this is the product of race based enrollment”.
2025 October
2025-10-15 Kristi Noem posted an AI generated video featuring a masked Black man attacking DHS.
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1979265889599131994
2025 November
2025-11-18 Texas Governor Greg Abbot deemed the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a terrorist organization and banned them or anyone associated with them from purchasing or acquiring Texas land. The organization later filed a lawsuit.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/greg-abbott-muslim-land-ownership-ban/
2025 December
2025-12-03 Tom Emmer claimed on Fox News that 80% of crimes being committed in Minnesota were being committed by Somalis.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1996231534542512489
2026 January
2026-01-03 Both House.Gov and Congress.gov has documentation showing how Minnesota lobbyist David Hoch would publicly make derogatory, anti-Muslim and racist remarks on Instagram (now deleted) including calling them “demons”.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20260107/118796/HHRG-119-GO00-20260107-SD091.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118871/documents/HHRG-119-JU08-20260121-SD032.pdf
2026 February
2026-02-24 During the State of the Union, Trump stated, “The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA, and it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime.” Representative Ilhan Omar looked on in horror, while JD Vance and Mike Johnson laughed and applauded.