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angrychair

(12,195 posts)
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 01:06 AM 17 hrs ago

Trump said "it's their genetics"

Yea, in that way. No ambiguity at all.

"They’re sick people, and a lot of them were let in here. They shouldn’t have been let in. Others are just bad. They go bad. Something wrong — there’s something wrong there. The genetics are not exactly, they’re not exactly your genetic," Trump told Fox News Radio's Brian Kilmeade in an interview released Friday. "It’s one of those problems, Brian. It’s a, it’s a terrible thing, and it happens."


And if you are wondering if Kilmeade showed some backbone and rebuked the comment then you would be absolutely wrong.

The sitting president of the U5 said that Black and Hispanic people were genetically predisposed to violence and inferior.

This guy and all his bootlicking sycophants can get fucked.

Reference:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-blames-recent-attacks-genetics-assailants-rcna263351
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msongs

(73,608 posts)
2. hey dems, promote this as things repubs believe. hang it round their necks. it's not just trump
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 01:15 AM
17 hrs ago

lapfog_1

(31,869 posts)
3. no doubt he is racist beyond belief...
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 01:23 AM
17 hrs ago

However, the way I read this is that he has, for a very long time, confused Asylum Seekers coming into the USA with people from insane asylums ( like we had before Ronny Raygun closed most of them and created the homeless problem that is still with us, not that those places didn't need to be reformed = see One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - but those places existed when Trump was a teen . Not to mention that he thinks insanity is genetic, which is something he worries about constantly given his family history.

This continued misunderstanding of the term is actually a sign of dementia and stupidity... and that worries me even more than racism ( well, they are all bad so... )

wnylib

(25,755 posts)
16. Well, Trump's grandfather was a draft dodger
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 01:50 PM
5 hrs ago

in Germany and ran a brothel in Alaska, so if Trump wants to talk behavioral genetics....

OTOH, consider someone as brilliant and compassionate as Bobby Kennedy, Sr. and his namesake son, and behavioral genetics falls apart.

That reminds me that I recently heard 2 different programs on NPR about a possible association between diseases and dementia in later life. Some studies indicate that people who have had several vaccinations in their lifetime show fewer cases of dementia as they age than people who avoided vaccinations. Some of the diseases suspected of contributing to dementia are chicken pox and covid. One study indicated that dementia statistics are lower in adults who have had a shingles vaccine.

Maybe RFK Jr. should get some of those vaccines ASAP.







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RainCaster

(13,642 posts)
5. and he's predisposed to fucking children
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 01:55 AM
16 hrs ago

And the entire Republican party is ok with that. Same with every broadcast news source in this country.

soldierant

(9,320 posts)
6. Damn, if any group is genetically predisposed to violence -
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 02:27 AM
16 hrs ago

it's white people (and especially white men.)

There are people alive today with Neanderthal DNA, and people alive today with Denisovan DNA. But, essentially, H. Sapiens eliminated those other too. Why? In my opinion, because we were the most violent.

Neanderthal simply means the Neander valley. The Neander is in Germany. Denisovans were in Asia.

But I really doubt anyone is genetically disposed to violence. Culturally is a different thing - but again, that would point straight to white men.

misanthrope

(9,476 posts)
18. Beg to differ
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 02:28 PM
4 hrs ago

Despite the archaic reflections on "noble savages," humans have been killing each viciously since we first discovered we could wield stones as weapons. Whether it is Meso-Americans, Gauls, Mongols, or modern Rwandans, the record is clear that homo sapiens contains savagery.

Hell, look at our closest primate cousins. Chimpanzees are brutal to each other.

Submariner

(13,349 posts)
7. Then we need to stop Scottish women from marrying German men
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 02:46 AM
16 hrs ago

and creating whatever genetic birth defect gave us that pile of sh*t called trump.

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malaise

(295,411 posts)
12. The sitting president is an ignorant racist
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 05:38 AM
13 hrs ago

My feral cats are superior to him - by a distance.

choie

(6,889 posts)
13. Says the man who started an illegal war against Iran
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 07:44 AM
11 hrs ago

And doesn’t give a shit that we killed hundreds of Iranian school girls.

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