Trumps public use of Hate Speech

Former president D. Trump promised if re-elected to ***root out** … fascists and radical left thugs that live like vermin* in his speech on Veterans' Day at Claremont. He dehumanizes his political opponents.

— (look at Washington Post, Nov 11, 2023.) The Trump campaign defended the former president's use of the word *vermin" to describe his political opponents.*

* youtube - Video-Ausschnitt der Rede
* In Veterans Day Speech, Trump Promises to 'Root Out' the Left - [1] (Article by NYT)
Donald Trump has long toyed with the language of famous autocrats, authoritarians and fascists. Think: “enemy of the people,” “retribution” and the frequent, years-long allusions to political violence.
But even by his standards, the former president is now mining darker territory — with overtones of some of the ugliest episodes in recent world history.

The Washington Post this weekend summarized Trump’s Veterans Day speech in a headline thusly: “*Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini.*”Trump not only likened his political opponents to “vermin” but suggested they represent a “threat from within” that is more dangerous than threats from beyond our borders. Both are themes seized upon by strongmen to foment populist movements. (How Trump’s rhetoric compares with Hitler’s . Analysis by Aaron Blake, WP, November 13, 2023)

* “The language is the language that dictators use to instill fear,” said Timothy Naftali, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “When you dehumanize an opponent, you strip them of their constitutional rights to participate securely in a democracy because you’re saying they’re not human. That’s what dictators do.”
* Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University, said in an email to The Washington Post that “calling people 'vermin’ was used effectively by Hitler and Mussolini **to dehumanize people and encourage their followers to engage in violence**.”

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* Hate speech, Abusive language, "Cursing", use of "Strong language"
the whole sentence

published to his social-media platform truthsocial on Saturday afternoon:
“*In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day [sic], we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American Dream. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within.”*

* Wash.Post: *Trump says the quiet part out loud: He’ll destroy democracy. He’s telling us exactly what he wants to do.* (Opinion ● By Jennifer Rubin 17 Nov 2023)

germ./deutsch

( Weiterleitung: Politische Gossensprache )Der frühere US-Präsident Trump hat **mit der Bezeichnung politischer Gegner als »Ungeziefer«** scharfe Kritik auf sich gezogen. Das Wahlkampfteam von US-Präsident Joe Biden warf dem Republikaner am Montag vor, »die autokratische Sprache von Adolf Hitler und Benito Mussolini nachzuahmen«. Denn viele US-Soldaten hätten im Zweiten Weltkrieg ihre Leben im Kampf genau gegen diese beiden Diktatoren geopfert, erklärte Bidens Wahlkampfsprecher Ammar Moussa mit Blick auf die Tatsache, von Trump’s Rede am Samstag, 11. November 2023.

Trumps Benutzung ***faschistoider Sprache*** - Trump hatte am US-Veteranentag bei einer Wahlkampfveranstaltung im Bundesstaat New Hampshire eine Rede gehalten und dabei gesagt:

> »Wir werden die Kommunisten, Marxisten, Faschisten und linksradikalen Gangster ausrotten, die wie Ungeziefer (*vermin*) in den Grenzen unseres Landes leben, die lügen, stehlen und bei Wahlen schummeln und alles in ihrer Macht Stehende unternehmen werden – legal oder illegal – um Amerika zu zerstören und den amerikanischen Traum zu zerstören.«
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Das englische Wort »***vermin***« kann ins Deutsche mit *»Ungeziefer«, »Schädling«, »Schmarotzer« oder »Pack«* übersetzt werden. Historiker erinnerten nach Trumps Äußerungen daran, dass solche Begriffe von den Nazis in Deutschland verwendet worden waren, um Juden zu entmenschlichen.

Trumps Wahlkampfteam entgegnete auf die Kritik, wer solche historischen Vergleiche anstelle, dessen »traurige, miserable Existenz wird zerquetscht, wenn Präsident Trump in das Weiße Haus zurückkehrt«.

### Weblinks

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary\_of\_Nazi\_Germany#V
	+ de: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprache\_des\_Nationalsozialismus
	+ de: Tiervergleiche, Ungeziefervernichtung - de (as Pest\_control at wp en)

* Wikipedia about "Untermensch"
* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vermin

* Trump's disgusting 'vermin' address can't be brushed off. LA Times, 11-13
* [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4306953-meacham-trump-vermin-ghastly-crimes-morning-joe/

Historian Meacham links Trump ‘vermin’ comments to ‘most ghastly kinds of crimes’ *]. the hill, by MIRANDA NAZZARO, 11-13*

* [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4306953-meacham-trump-vermin-ghastly-crimes-morning-joe/

Historian Meacham links Trump ‘vermin’ comments to ‘most ghastly kinds of crimes’ *]. the hill, by MIRANDA NAZZARO, 11-13*

* Steve Benen: Why it matters that Trump referred to many Americans as ... at msnbc.com

* Donald Trump is the accelerant - Vox https://www.vox.com › trump-vio... · - 09.01.2021 — From 2015 to 2021, a comprehensive history of Donald Trump encouraging hate groups and political violence — from his messaging at rallies, ... ]

* https://abhms.org/about-us/news/condemning-the-hate-speech-of-donald-trump/