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10 Demographically Offensive Donald Trump Quotes

​A rapid-fire rundown for the uninformed citizen on the “woman card,” his new Berlin Wall plan, and a complete shutdown of Muslim entry into the U.S.

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10 Demographically Offensive Donald Trump Quotes
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This article features 10 offensive quotes made by Donald Trump himself, nine of which have been made since the beginning of his campaign for President and a bonus 2004 gem just to support his having maintained these views for more than a decade. This article is complete with links for each point so you can read the full story from credible sources.

1. 2004: Pregnancy is “a wonderful thing for the woman… the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person who is running a business.”

Carolyn Kepcher, the then-employee under Trump, waited until she was showing six months into pregnancy before telling Trump she was pregnant saying, “In my mind, he might think it would perhaps be a setback… If I tell him at six months, it will be over in three months.” This rationale also supports why Kepcher returned to work just three weeks after giving birth. Don’t worry, she exacted a little revenge by calling Trump a “killer” in her book “Carolyn 101.”

2. 2015: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. In my opinion, she was off base."

Again, targeting women and attributing some characteristic he does not agree with to her anatomy as a woman and the ever-popular “period humor” when a woman expresses any “extreme” emotion.

3. 2015: “Ariana Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man -- he made a good decision.”

In this tweet, not only did he normalize divorce (a problem in and of itself), he related this to the gay community that her husband deciding to pursue another male is a bigger insult to their former marriage than if he had pursued another female. Gay culture is not support for revenge in a marriage, this was merely a sad occurrence as the end of any marriage is -- supporting his argument with a gay cultural reference was a weak offense.

4. 2015: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems to us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.”

This is a direct quote from Trump’s presidential campaign announcement speech. He goes on to trash Japan, China, the Middle East (see full article); whereas it doesn’t end, this was indubitably the most harshly direct criticism he made. It seems pretty clear his stance on the Hispanic community with this recent tweet from May 2016: "Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!" The cultural prejudice continues.

5. 2015: "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

This position expressed by Trump’s campaign team is humorous because the Trump brand is seen on a property in Turkey, as well as one under development in Bali, along with a golf course in Dubai. He also contradicted himself back in September saying, "Would I consider putting a Muslim American in my cabinet? Absolutely no problem with that, OK?" Come on, Donny, get your opinions straight.

6. 2016: “We cannot continue to allow China to rape our country.”

This was in reference to China’s increasing amount of exports relative to that of the United States on the global market. The issue is obviously relating China’s competitive edge over the United States in a particular export, to rape. Rape culture is misunderstood enough without a potential future leader using rape as a synonym for losing. Way to go.

7. 2016: "There has to be some form of punishment."

This references women who still seek abortions after the procedure is banned should Trump win the Presidency. After criticism, he later clarifies this statement and backtracks to place stipulations on when this type of treatment would be acceptable also placing blame on the doctors and victimizing women in the subject matter. This is a prime example of when we should think before we speak.

8. 2016: "All of the men, we're petrified to speak to women anymore. We may raise our voice. You know what? The women get it better than we do, folks. If she didn't play that card, she has nothing."


This was Trump’s statement on Hillary “playing the women’s card” during a rally in Spokane, Washington this May. I am mildly offended he stereotyped all men feeling this way because that is false, but this is also offensive by degrading women as having their largest crutch and defense in any argument being their female anatomy.

9. 2016: “You mean Pocahontas?”

In successive articles, Trump fired off in a NY Times interview after being asked if he faced any backlash from the Republican party following his Twitter feud with Senator Elizabeth Warren in May. Prior to this remark, he had already attacked Warren’s heritage by suggesting she committed fraud when claiming Native American on college forms. This is almost as offensive as other ethnically derogatory terms, like calling someone of Mexican decent a “cholo” which he might as well have done in our final point below bringing us up-to-date.

10. 2016: “We are building a wall. He is a Mexican. We are building a wall between here and Mexico. This judge is giving us unfair rulings and now I say why: well, I wanna, we are building a wall.”


First of all, this judge was born in Indiana, making him American by definition. Being of Mexican decent does not make you Mexican by nationality. Trump is of Scottish and German decent, so by his logic here he should not even be eligible for the Presidency of the U.S. because he "isn't American." Hello, 1961 called; the GDR wants their idea back.

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