Donald Trump’s History of Racism

Katie Writes · Jul 17, 2026
Donald Trump isn't "insensitive," his comments aren't "racially tinged," and his actions don't have "racial overtones." Donald Trump has been a racist for his whole life.
US Department of Justice|
The defendants…have discriminated…by:
(a) Refusing to rent dwellings…because of race and color…
(b) Requiring different terms and conditions…because of race and color…
The Nixon Administration brought suit against Trump for discriminating against Black renters.
The Village Voice|
Last March the Justice Department complained that...“racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity.”
Five years later, DOJ accused Trump of continuing to discriminate in violation of a consent decree signed after the prior case.
Kip Brown
When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.
Donald Trump|
And it isn’t funny, I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.
O’Donnell, John R., and James Rutherford. Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump - His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall (London: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 148.
Donald Trump|
I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.
O’Donnell, John R., and James Rutherford. Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump - His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall (London: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 148.
Jill Harth Houraney|
On or about January 9th, 1993, at a business dinner party at [Trump's] estate in Palm Beach…defendant Trump directed that any black female contestants be excluded [from the "Calendar Girl" competition].
Donald Trump|
People have birth certificates. [Barack Obama] doesn’t have a birth certificate. Now, he may have one, but there’s something on that birth - maybe religion, maybe it says he’s a Muslim, I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that or he may not have one. But I’ll tell you this, if he wasn’t born in this country, it’s one of the great scams of all time.
For years, Trump propagated the racist lie that the first Black president wasn't really American, might be a secret Muslim, and wasn't eligible to be president.
Donald Trump
South Africa was once a beautiful country twenty, thirty years ago. Mandela fucked the whole country up. Now it’s a shithole. Fuck Mandela. He was no leader.
Cohen, Michael. Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to the President of the United States (New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing, 2020)
Trump preferred the era when South African Blacks lived under a brutal Apartheid regime to the leadership of the man who peacefully instituted racial democracy.
Donald Trump|
There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey [on 9/11] where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down...It was well covered at the time.
This did not happen, and Trump could never provide a single piece of evidence to substantiate his claims.
The New York Times|
[Haitian immigrants] “all have AIDS,” [Trump] grumbled...

Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials.
Donald Trump|
Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?
Donald Trump|
Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out [of an immigration deal].
Donald Trump|
So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run, Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
Three of the four Congressmen attacked by Trump were born in the United States and all are citizens.
Donald Trump|
You have good genes, you know that, right? You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory? You think we’re so different. You have good genes in Minnesota.
Trump said this to a rally after praising white pioneers and warning about Somali immigrants.
Donald Trump|
[Democrats could] eliminate single-family zoning, bringing who knows into your suburbs, so your communities will be unsafe and your housing values will go down.
Donald Trump|
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there.
Trump repeated this racist lie about Haitians based on a single Facebook post that the poster later deleted and expressed regret for.
Donald Trump|
I don’t want ‘em in our country, I’ll be honest with you, ok? Some will say, “oh that’s not politically correct,” - I don’t care. I don’t want ‘em in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don’t want ‘em in our country…We’re gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.
Donald Trump|
These people - you can’t replace them very easily. You know, people that live in the inner city are not doing that work, they’re just not doing that work…These people do it naturally. Naturally. I said what happens if they get - to a farmer the other day - what happens if they get a bad back. He said, they don’t get a bad back sir, because if they get a bad back, they die. I said, that’s interesting.
Donald Trump|
[Somalians are] low IQ. I can generalize. They're low IQ people. They're bad people.
Donald Trump|
They’re all crooks, the Somalians are - what they’ve done to Minnesota, the Somalians, they’re crooked as hell…they’re all crooks.
Truth Social Video|
Trump posted a video to his Truth Social feed which depicted the Obamas as apes. While he deleted the video after an outcry, he notably refused to apologize.
Truth Social Video|
Trump posted a video to his Truth Social feed which depicted the Obamas in front of an Air Force One covered with graffiti and Arabic writing.
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