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President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed "the genetics" of assailants in a string of recent attacks across the country.

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Trump on terrorists: "They're just bad. Something wrong. There's something wrong. Their genetics are not exactly your genetic. It's a terrible thing. And it happens. And it happens."

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Mar 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM

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... "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." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-15 01:50 PM | Reply

It's those Semitic genes!

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-15 05:16 PM | Reply

"And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now"

President Trump is calling for ethnic cleansing.

JeffJ swears this isn't a call for ethnic cleansing.

And the other Republicans just ignore it.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-15 05:18 PM | Reply

@#3 ... President Trump is calling for ethnic cleansing. ...

Looks that way.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-15 11:42 PM | Reply

Give the other Republicans time to come around and accept that ethnic cleansing is what they really what

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-03-16 12:42 AM | Reply

Now let's pontificate on the gene pool of school shooters.

#6 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-03-16 04:26 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

www.alphabaking.com

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-16 04:47 AM | Reply

PEDO DONNIE the ------- idiot is now an expert on genetics. ---- you.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-16 04:05 PM | Reply

Genetics.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-16 04:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Yet again, C0RI0LANUS must burn out his mind's eye today.

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-16 04:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#9 | Posted by Nixon

They sure failed him.

#11 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-16 04:37 PM | Reply

"Trump Blames Recent Attacks on 'genetics' of Assailants"

He speaks the truth! A colored person (orange!) orchestrated the first-ever attack on our Capitol to stop the peaceful transition of power in our nation's history.

#12 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-16 04:44 PM | Reply

9. The mother looks like a charmer as well. And he's a dead ringer for her. Unless that's a composite sketch.

#13 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-03-16 05:21 PM | Reply

One trait common amongst the Trump men is a diminutive chin.

Donald has it, Eric has it, Barron has it.

Tiny little baby chin.

Based on the picture in #9, looks like they get it from their mom.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-16 05:58 PM | Reply

I guess that means it's white people's genetics to defraud millions of people, crash entire economies, and lie countries into wars.

#15 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-16 06:43 PM | Reply

Wow, eugenics, I did nazi that one coming from him.

#16 | Posted by dibblda at 2026-03-16 06:56 PM | Reply

Hah!

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-16 07:14 PM | Reply

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