'This Is the Language of a Fascist': Trump Denounced for Racist Rant, Calling Immigrants 'Animals'

Every day a new horror and heartbreak. Truly, I just felt sick when I heard Mr. Trump's words this morning. We Americans need to know this truth as quoted by Max Berger: "This is the kind of dehumanizing, violent language that leads to genocide and ethnic cleansing." And we need to take it very, very seriously. This sickness in our culture must be seen for what it is, stopped, owned, healed, and transformed. We need to come together to do this now. For our children, for all the children everywhere, we need to do this. — Molly

"From Palestinians in Gaza to immigrants in America, dehumanization is always the prelude to cruel and callous policies."

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Jake Johnson, staff writer

President Donald Trump has made so many vile remarks about immigrants and people of color that it is often difficult to keep track, but during a roundtable discussion in the White House on Wednesday the president unleashed what is being denounced by lawmakers, activists, and virtually all of civil society as his most racist and dehumanizing rant yet, calling the immigrants his administration is deporting at a rapid pace "animals."

"You wouldn't believe how bad these people are," Trump said. "These aren't people, these are animals, and we're taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that's never happened before."

Responding to Trump's remarks on Twitter, Mother Jones national affairs editor Mark Follman wrote simply: "This is the language of a fascist."

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