Trump Says Immigrants Are "Poisoning the Blood of Our Country," Echoing Nazi Rhetoric

Former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says at a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire on November 11, 2023 that migrants entering the United States are "poisoning the blood of our country." He repeats the phrase multiple times across rallies and in subsequent interviews. Historians and Holocaust scholars note the phrase directly echoes language used by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, where Hitler warns against "poisoning" German racial bloodlines. Trump, in a social media post the same day, uses the same language to attack immigration policy. When pressed in interviews, Trump denies being familiar with the Hitler comparison and continues using the phrase. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt states the language is "dehumanizing and eliminationist" and comes "directly from the Nazi playbook." The phrase becomes a central element of Trump's 2024 campaign messaging on immigration.