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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: “Send Them Back” Is the Oldest Racial Taunt in History, and Now It’s Being Amplified by Trump

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s attack on elected officials of color isn’t just ugly rhetoric, it’s a calculated attempt to redefine who gets to belong in this democracy…

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Send them back is the oldest racial taunt in history, and now it's being amplified by Trump.

1:08.6

Donald Trump didn't merely criticize his political opponents this week, both at the

1:12.6

State of the Union and from his office yesterday morning. He went on a racist rant that would

1:17.2

have embarrassed a talk radio shock jock if it didn't get them fired, much less ahead of state.

1:23.0

After Representative Zilhan Omar and Rashida Talib shouted shame and liar during his state of the union and walked out in protest.

1:30.3

Trump took to social media a sneer that they had, quote, the bulging bloodshot eyes of crazy people, end quote, and were, quote, lunatics mentally deranged and sick, quote, who, quote, look like they should be institutionalized, end quote.

1:45.7

He labeled them low IQ, his favorite slur for women black and Hispanic people, and suggested they be sent back, quote, where they came from.

1:55.2

He lumped in Robert De Niro as Trump deranged, demented, and possibly, quote, criminal for criticizing him.

2:02.7

This is the president of the United States talking.

2:06.5

This may have been normal politics in the old Confederacy, which Trump is trying to revive

2:10.8

with his base namings and statues and purging black history from museums and monuments,

2:15.9

but it shouldn't be normal today. This is an elderly

2:20.1

man whose father was busted in a clan rally and who himself was busted in the 1970s for refusing

2:26.2

to rent to black people, now occupying the Oval Office and responding to dissent with language

2:32.2

that sounds like it was scraped from the darkest, most disgusting

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