When Trump rode the down-elevator to give his speech announcing he was running for President, he was accompanied by the darkest of clouds, even darker than the clouds when the Krakatoa volcano erupted in 1883.  All hell broke loose in 1883, as it did in 2015.  A cold chill emerged from the Trump basement, and its gotten worse over the last three years.

This cold chill, or what we should call the Trump Effect, a fallout of hate that has resulted in the harassment or attacks against immigrants, people seeking asylum, Latinos, Muslim-Americans, African-Americans, and others, appears to have no bounds.  This chill has its roots on this day in 2015, and started with these words:

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people. Source: https://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/

Trump’s Long History of Racism and Outlandish Behavior

Trump has been a racist throughout his adult life. In the current media cycle, people are looking for that instance that will expose Trump as a racist. He’s always been this way, long before he moved to D.C.

His twisted logic is full of lies, and outright racist talk in closed meetings, and in public, especially before the press. Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in chief of The Atlantic has assembled “50 Moments That Define an Improbable Presidency,” a catalog of incidents (much like the list of incidents of obstruction set out in the Meuller Report against Trump), that are outlandish. Although these are not all necessarily racist, they provide a wide range of this man’s outrageous behavior. Click here to see them all.

Remember, for example, that during a January 11, 2018 Oval Office meeting with US senators, Trump unleashed his “shithole nations” comment:

He reportedly referred to African countries as “shithole” nations—asking why the U.S. can’t have more immigrants from Norway instead—and complained that, after seeing America, immigrants from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts.”

All of the Republican senators said he never used the word “shithole,” but Senator Dick Durbin (IL) said he did.

Trump’s racial views have been well documented. You can find details at this Wikipedia article that identifies a history of speech and actions that define his own racial views, and fuel racial tensions in the U.S., as he is doing right now with his despicable attacks on United States Representative Ilhan Omar (MN), as well as three other House Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts. Everything that Trump has said about Representative Omar is false, and these accusations fueled a brutal rally in North Carolina in which white Trump supporters chanted “Send her Back.”

Trump’s tweets have fueled this attack, and finally the House of Representatives voted to condemn his remarks as racist. Only four Republicans in the House agreed with the motion.

That dark cloud of hate is visible nearly every time we see or read about Trump. The media has a responsibility here to stop rebroadcasting his comments, and instead refute his comments. The media can very easily use split screen technology to call out Trump’s hate speech. When he says that Representative Omar hates this country, they need to provide evidence that she does not. All they have to do is play a clip of her recent arrival home to her home in Minnesota.