Trump says immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country

On December 16, 2023, at a campaign rally in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump says: "They're poisoning the blood of our country. They're coming from Africa, from Asia, from South America, from all over the world." Trump had first used the "poisoning the blood" phrase in a September 2023 interview, repeated it at the December New Hampshire rally, then posted it to Truth Social in an all-caps post: "ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION." He doubled down at a December 19 Iowa rally, telling supporters who pushed back that the phrase was "a great term." The phrase "poisoning the blood" has documented roots in Nazi eugenics literature and appears in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Trump tells NBC News he had "never read Mein Kampf." The Biden campaign calls the remarks "the language of Adolf Hitler." The Anti-Defamation League flags the language as consistent with white nationalist "great replacement" theory. Trump uses the language in paid campaign advertisements in 2024. Trump expanded the phrase at the New Hampshire rally to include immigrants "from Africa, from Asia, all over the world," encompassing all non-white immigration.