The Trump Campaign Endorses a Racist Theory

Charlie Sykes: “The Trump campaign’s post yesterday about the ‘Third World’ went beyond Trump’s known obsession with migrant crime to highlight an embrace of the ‘Great Replacement’ theory.”

“Yesterday, the official Trump War Room campaign account on X posted a picture of a peaceful residential neighborhood, which it captioned ‘Your Neighborhood Under Trump.’ The tranquil image was juxtaposed with a chaotic scene of Black and Hispanic migrants who’d arrived in New York last summer, captioned: ‘Your Neighborhood Under Kamala.’

The post declared: “Import the third world. Become the third world.”

Subtle it was not… This racist post is consistent with the tone that the Trump campaign has taken in recent weeks—one even uglier than that of months and years past—as the former president struggles to gain traction against Kamala Harris. Like Donald Trump himself, the War Room account has a singular obsession: It regularly highlights stories about migrant crime, posting pictures of Black or brown men who have immigrated to the U.S. and been arrested.”