Thread by @StandUpRepublic

Trump's history of racism, a timeline:

October 17, 1973 from the @nytimes: "Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color.’ [and] had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.”

1980s, Kip Brown, a former Trump employee: “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor...It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”

January 1989, Donald J. Trump: "Who the f*** knows? I mean, really, who knows how much the Japs will pay for Manhattan property these days?”

May 1, 1989, Donald J. Trump:

1991, Donald J. Trump: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day…laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

October 19, 1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino is ordered to pay a $200,000 fine for removing black and women dealers from specific tables because of a high-roller's prejudices.

October 5, 1993, Donald J. Trump congressional testimony opposing casinos run on Native American reservations: “they don’t look like Indians to me.”

February 2000: Trump takes out newspaper ads against a proposed casino in New York State stating "Are these the new neighbors we want? The St. Regis Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.”

2004: During the second season of The Apprentice, Trump fired African-American contestant, Kevin Allen for being over educated. “You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything...At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’”

July 11 2005, Donald J. Trump on the upcoming season of the Apprentice: ”This time around, I wanted to do an idea that is fairly controversial, creating a team of successful African-Americans versus a team of successful whites."

September 1 2010, Donald J. Trump referring to Muslims: “Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”

February 10 2011, Donald J. Trump: "Our current president [Obama] came out of nowhere. Came out of nowhere. In fact, I'll go a step further: The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they don't know who he is. It's crazy."

March 23 2011, Donald J. Trump: "I want him [Obama] to show his birth certificate. I want him to show his birth certificate. ... There's something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like."

March 30, 2011, Donald J. Trump: "If you are going to be president of the United States you have to be born in this country...[President Obama] doesn't have a birth certificate. He may have one, but there's something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim.”

April 2011, Donald J. Trump: "I have a great relationship with the blacks, I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.”

April 2011: Trump sends a team to Hawaii to research and discredit President Obama's birth certificate. "I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding"

April 7, 2011, Donald J. Trump: “You are not allowed to be a president if you're not born in this country. Right now, I have real doubts."

August 6, 2012:

March 5, 2013, Donald J. Trump: "When it comes to immigration, you know that the 11 million illegals, even if given the right to vote, you know...the fact is, 11 million people will be voting Democratic...Now I say to myself, why aren’t we letting people in from Europe?”

April 24, 2013, 11 years after the group known as the Central Park Five was exonerated, Donald J. Trump: “The Central Park Five documentary was a one sided piece of garbage that didn't explain the horrific crimes of these young men while in park”

December 12, 2013:

April 24, 2013:

June 21, 2014, now 12 years after the Central Park Five was exonerated, Donald J. Trump: “My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it's a disgrace...These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.”

November 25, 2014:

April 27, 2015:

June 16, 2015, Donald J. Trump announces his campaign for president: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best... They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

June 16, 2015, Donald J. Trump later in his campaign announcement: “It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East.”

June 16, 2015, Donald J. Trump, continuing his campaign announcement: "What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc."

June 23, 2015, Donald J. Trump: “And if you look at black and African American youth, to a point where they’ve never done more poorly. There’s no spirit.”

July 9, 2015: In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Trump again casts doubts on President Obama's birth certificate: “I don’t know. I really don’t know. I don’t know why he wouldn’t release his records.”

July 31, 2015, Donald J. Trump in a New York Times article about the Central Park Five settlement: “They walked away with $41 million and the best thing they had going for them was they were wilding in other parts of the park, beating the hell out of people,”

October 19, 2015, Donald J. Trump: "I’m leading in the polls with the Hispanics because I produce jobs, and they know it. I have thousands of Hispanics that work for me, my relationships to Hispanics is better than those groups"

November 16, 2015, Donald J. Trump: "You're going to have to watch and study the mosques... And from what I heard, in the old days — meaning a while ago — we had great surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City"

November 17, 2015, Donald J. Trump, on closing mosques: “Some bad things are happening... Nobody wants to say this and nobody wants to shut down religious institutions or anything, but you know, you understand it... We’re going to have no choice.”

November 19, 2015, Donald J. Trump on a Muslim Surveillance Program: : "There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. We should have a lot of systems..."

November 19, 2015, Donald J. Trump on Muslim Surveillance continued: "We’re going to have to do things that we never did before. And some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule..."

November 19, 2015, Donald J. Trump when asked whether Muslims would be legally required to register with database: "They have to be — they have to be."

2015 Iowa Poll: “Among Trump voters there is almost even division with 38% thinking Islam should be allowed [legal] and 36% that it should not.”

November 25, 2015, Donald J. Trump justifying his Muslim Ban: “Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down...in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.”

December 3, 2015, Donald J. Trump gives a speech to Republican Jewish Coalition: "Stupidly, you want to give money. ...You're not going to support me because I don't want your money..."

December 3, 2015, Donald J. Trump's Republican Jewish Coalition speech continued: "I'm a negotiator, like you folks. Is there anyone in this room who doesn't negotiate deals? Probably more than any room I've ever spoken."

December 7, 2015: "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States...our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life."

February, 28, 2016, interview with Jake Tapper:
Trump: "You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about..."
Tapper: "OK. I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here, but --"
Trump: "Honestly...I don't believe I've ever met him."

June 2, 2016: then-candidate Trump asked U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel to recuse himself from a case against Trump University because he was "of Mexican heritage": "I'm building a wall. It's an inherent conflict of interest"