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The Trump campaign just tweeted something really racist (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Republicans have reportedly been pleading with Trump to stay on message — but his campaign just can't seem to help itself.

On Tuesday, an official social media account of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign posted a racist meme implying that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency in November, nice suburban neighborhoods will be overrun with hordes of Black people and immigrants.

“Import the third world. Become the third world,” read the post on X, the former Twitter.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 169 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There's this one guy in my neighborhood that has led lights in his to make it stand out from all the others in the neighborhood.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone is selling that corrugated plastic with Trump signage printed on it and a couple houses have zip tied them to every possible place that can. The houses look like campaign adverts, it's crazy.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What has the HOA ever done for us?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

It's an eyesore, but I don't mind. I moved here, so it's kind of nice to know who the crazy people are.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 157 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They tweeted something really racist again.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 130 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump, you traitorous dipshit, you have personally done more to move the US towards "third world" status -- by threatening to withdraw from NATO -- than literally any other person in history!

[+] comrade19@lemmy.world -56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Third world haha. How does an entire media team use a term from world war 1 discerning whether a country was allied/axis/neither, instead of the modern terms 'developed and developing' which we learnt about in high school geography.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I hate to break it to you (especially since I agree with your overall point), but you've got a bit of a "glass houses" issue going on with your criticism:

"First/Second/Third world" is Cold War-era terminology ("Second World" was [Eastern Bloc|communists]).
WWI was the [Entente|Triple Entente|Allies] vs. the Central Powers, not the Axis. Allies vs. Axis was WWII.

[–] comrade19@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah ffs I even looked this up before typing my comment and my source was WRONG. You caught me with my pants way down. Well either way I believe developing and developed is the better term now

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago

The US isn't developing, though. It's been doing the opposite of that for quite a while.

It's third world without the hope for future improvement that “developing” implies.

(And, frankly, a lot of third world countries have better citizen rights, standard of living, life expectancy, infant mortality, and whatnot than the US. It's a bit of a shithole even by third world standards.)

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, a double-boner

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 39 points 1 month ago

i know this may be hard for you to believe, but language is fluid. it evolves. it changes.

first/third world terms have moved from their original intention to this more generic definition. youre just going to have to suck it up.... literally

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Ay yo, your praxis sucks dawg.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meme in question:

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

That adds so much more context. Thank you

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Patrick Stewart demonstrating mild shock

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

That means it's a day of the week that ends in Y

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Let me check : ~Sunday...Monday...Tuesday...Wednesday...Thursday...Friday...Saturday~
ok, i see ...

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So not sundae

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This one is extra racist.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The black dude living next to me is the quietest neighbor I've ever had. This guy waits until the afternoon to mow his yard. The maga drooler on the other side often is firing up his mower at 6 in the morning and neighbor behind my house mows and uses a gas leaf blower until ten or eleven at night sometimes.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably not race related but def an asshole neighbor

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh its not race, its assholes all the way down. Problem with the leaf blower neighbor is that they are not in the city limits. So I would have to call the sheriff and they wont do anything. They think they are real muricans and my long haired hippy ass is some communist.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is it at least an electric leaf blower? Those gas ones are the worst.

[–] iamanurd@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Doubt it, if he’s maga. Can’t be using none of that liberal solar energy.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nope, gas.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Trump looks like he’s wearing a Chinese made rubber mask of his own face over his face

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Oh, was it that time of the day again?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

How is this news?

[–] Sir_packsalot2@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is not in jail? Oh that's right cops don't want to their job

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...what?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, it doesn't have anything to do with the tweet, but they're right, Trump belongs in jail for his proven crimes.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

True.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Well the sun is up so...

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social -1 points 1 month ago

Oh word?

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

That's not news

[+] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Don't be misled by articles written by committed Democrats for committed Democrats. No one who reads the Huffington Post is even considering voting for Trump.

This is a succinct restatement of the Republicans' successful message on immigration, not some crazy Trumpism or verbal gaffe. Current Democratic immigration policy is not popular and if I were advising Trump, this is exactly the sort of thing I would suggest he should say. Almost no one offended by it would have voted for him anyway, and aggressively pounding the Democrats on immigration is not just useful in its own right but also distracts Trump from saying things that actually do harm him.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump doesn't need to win over his base - he, strategically, needs to win over independents. Open racism isn't popular... the old "Ey took er jerbs" messenge will always resonate well but his level of demonizing immigrants has been classically unpopular - especially the "Criminals and rapists" style lines.

Here's hoping he keeps up the racist uncle bullshit and turns off voters.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If this was there normal fear mongering of "look at this ms-13 member who raped and killed 5 kids" then yeah a normal person would probably get scared at that and want trump for immigration. But this is just a bunch of black people chilling, they aren't brandishing weapons or rioting or anything out of order. This literally only caters to people who feel threatened by the mere existence of black people, ie. Racists.

[+] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That picture was taken near where I live in Manhattan. The issue of migrants has been very divisive even here in NYC, a Democratic stronghold where over a third of the population was born outside of the USA and blacks and Hispanics together make up about half the population. Overall, the majority of New Yorkers still hold pro-immigration views, but 41% of New Yorkers want to build Trump's wall. (50% are opposed and the rest are undecided. This data is from the Siena College survey.)

I can't find data specifically about the attitudes of black New Yorkers but according to nationwide data from PRRI:

from 2017 to 2021, the percentage of Black Americans who favored building a wall at the southern border of the United States rose, from 15% to 34%. Yet this percentage is significantly lower compared to the general population (45%).

Note that that's before the peak of the migrant influx.

I suspect that you're underestimating how many Americans, including immigrant Americans and black Americans, oppose the current immigration policy. I'm not saying that the majority of them will be happy with Trump's depictions of immigrants, but enough might be for this to plausibly increase support for Trump even among Americans who aren't native-born whites.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't doubt that people don't like migrants, but most people don't like them because they "cause crime" or "take jobs" ( problems way smaller then the right wing media narrative about them) but the people in this photo are doing neither. These people are just existing as people of color which only upsets people who don't like migration simply because it allows more people of color to exist in the u.s. The people who don't like migrants because of that are racists and a minority of Americans, at least I hope they are.

Ask yourself why is the second photo bad and the first one good?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'll be honest, I do think that the photo looks pretty bad. I wrote my original comment in this thread after reading the text of Trump's tweet but without loading the image, and after seeing the image I agree that it looks a lot more racist than what swing voters want to see. The funny thing is that usually most of the people at that shelter are lighter-skinned Hispanics, not blacks. I suppose that makes the picture even worse...

I think it's interesting and important for Democrats to look at statistics about the attitudes of minorities towards immigrants, but I shouldn't have done that here.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump was worse on immigration than biden by right wing standards, biden has deported far more and trump blocked border reform that was bipartisan because it would be bad for his reelection if the problem was solved (not speculation, really what he said)