![]() ![]() That’s why it’s critical to pay attention now, to be alert to any efforts to de-value, to denigrate any group, because any group is a potential target. What happens after that we can’t foresee. The danger at present is exclusion-the marginalization and potential removal of various groups of people beyond the boundaries of Trump’s national community. In writing this, however, I do not mean to imply that the President’s horrible comments will lead to gas chambers in our immediate future. At a campaign rally in November 2015, he mocked New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski in disgustingly crude fashion. ![]() Of course, this was not the first expression of Trump’s disdain for the disabled. Instead, the targets for this program were German Christians -those with various physical and mental conditions that designated them, in the regime’s terminology, “life unworthy of life.”Īs a historian of modern Germany, I felt compelled to write about this after seeing Donald Trump tell a crowd of Paralympic athletes visiting the White House on April 27 that it was “tough” to watch “too much” of the Paralympic games. The population targeted for extermination in this case was not German Jews. What I’ve just described was not the Holocaust. Afterward, the bodies were removed and burned. Once they were all inside, the doors were sealed and carbon monoxide gas was released into the chamber until all were dead. Upon arrival, they were told to undress and then led into a room designed to look like showers. First, they were transported to special facilities. They were people he considered undesirable and dangerous. "It is unacceptable for a child to mock another child's disability on the playground, never mind a presidential candidate mocking someone's disability as part of a national political discourse," he said.Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler began a program that involved the selection of a particular group of people for extermination. Ruderman said Trump would benefit from a "series of sensitivity training sessions" and offered to provide them. The Times expressed outrage afterward that Trump would "ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters." He's going like, I don't remember." His voice took a mocking tone, too. "Now the poor guy, you oughta see this guy - uh, I don't know what I said, uh, I don't remember. "Written by a nice reporter," Trump said in the speech. In 2001, Kovaleski, then with The Washington Post, and another Post journalist wrote a week after the 9-11 attacks about authorities in New Jersey detaining and questioning "a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks." The story did not suggest "thousands" were celebrating, as Trump claimed, and a story then by The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, said the reports of such celebrations by Muslims proved unfounded.Įven so, Trump has pointed to the Post story as backing up his claim and took issue with Kovaleski's recent statement that he did not remember anyone alleging that large numbers of Muslims were celebrating. Trump has made unsubstantiated claims that thousands of Muslims in New Jersey were seen celebrating the attacks. Trump was challenging recollections by Kovaleski and many others about the 9-11 aftermath. ![]()
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