More from the article ...

... "They're sick people, and a lot of them were let in here. They shouldn't have been let in. Others are just bad. They go bad. Something wrong -- there's something wrong there. The genetics are not exactly, they're not exactly your genetic," Trump told Fox News Radio's Brian Kilmeade in an interview released Friday. "It's one of those problems, Brian. It's a, it's a terrible thing, and it happens." ...

The president has often used language around genetics to praise or criticize others. Experts have long associated similar language with racial pseudoscience, or eugenics, a theory regarding superior hereditary traits of racial groups that modern scientists have debunked and found to be unethical. ...

In 2024, Trump, who was then running for president, suggested that immigrants who become murderers have "bad genes."

"You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it's in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now," he said in an interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show."

Three years ago, Trump drew criticism from then-President Joe Biden when he said during a campaign rally in New Hampshire that immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country."

Biden at the time accused Trump of "parroting Adolf Hitler," who used the term "blood poisoning" in his manifesto "Mein Kampf." ...