Donald Trump says he never read Hitler’s Mein Kampf, doubles down on ‘blood’ rhetoric
- Donald Trump doubles down on remarks about undocumented migrants who are ‘destroying the blood of our country’
- The Biden campaign has accused the 2024 Republican front runner of ‘parroting autocrats like Hitler and Mussolini’
Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has never read Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf and is not quoting the German dictator when he says illegal immigrants inside the US are poisoning and destroying the blood of America.
In a rally in Iowa, Trump – the clear front runner for the Republican presidential nomination – repeated language he has used in recent campaign events about illegal immigrants that has been criticised for being xenophobic and similar to language used by Hitler.
“It’s true. They are destroying the blood of our country,” Trump told a crowd of supporters in Waterloo, Iowa. “They don’t like it when I said that. I never read Mein Kampf.” Trump said Hitler used language “in a much different way”.
In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler wrote in 1925: “All great cultures of the past perished only because the original creative race died out from blood poisoning”.
Hitler was the dictator of Germany between 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He initiated World War II, and instigated the mass murder of many minorities, including the genocide of six million Jews known as the Holocaust.