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Donald Trump’s actions and incendiary remarks in the first year of his second presidential term have left many women, people of color and their allies in a tailspin.
Shortly after re-entering office, he released executive orders that attacked diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and transgender rights. His January orders that called for an end to DEI and affirmative action led to thousands of cuts in the private and public sectors – and shake-ups within the journalism industry. One directive that banned access to gender-affirming care for youth under the age of 19 sent families into a flurry as they scrambled to ensure that their trans kids continued to receive treatment. Another executive order directed his vice-president, JD Vance, to prohibit federal spending on Smithsonian programs or exhibits that focused on race. He also worked to suppress Indigenous history by again changing the name of the mountain Denali in the Athabascan language to Mount McKinley. And his mass deportation operations have torn families apart.
Along with his federal policies, Trump also shared racist, xenophobic and sexist comments during speeches, press meetings and on his social media platform, Truth Social, throughout the year.
Here’s Trump – in his own words – as year two of his second term looms.
On Race
And we just clean out that whole thing … I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.
– Suggesting Palestinian displacement onboard Air Force One, 25 January 2025
Then it’s a group within the FAA – another story – determined that the workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately. This was in the Obama administration, just prior to my getting there. And we took care of African Americans, Hispanic Americans. We took care of everybody at levels that nobody has ever seen before. It’s one of the reasons I won. But they actually came out with a directive: too white. And we want the people that are competent.
– Speaking about the role of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the fatal American Airlines crash with a US army Black Hawk helicopter at a press briefing, 30 January 2025
... Somalia, which is barely a country. They have no, they have no anything. They just run around killing each other. There’s no structure … Somebody would say, ‘Oh that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks and we don’t want them in our country … We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, ‘Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.’ These are people that do nothing but complain.
– On Somalia and Somali American congresswoman Ilhan Omar, at a 2 December 2025 cabinet meeting
I love this Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with the little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch – she’s always complaining. She comes from a country where I mean, it’s considered about the worst country in the world, right? They have no military. They have no nothing. They have no parliament. They don’t know what the hell the word parliament means. They have nothing. They have no police. They police themselves. They kill each other all the time … She married her brother in order to get in. Therefore, she’s here illegally. She should get the hell out. Throw her the hell out.
– On Omar at an economic rally in Pennsylvania, 9 December 2025
On Religion
And Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. You know, he’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish any more. He’s a Palestinian.
– On the US Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, during an Oval Office meeting with the Irish prime minister, 12 March 2025
Think of that: No death tax. No estate tax. No going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker – and in some cases, shylocks and bad people.
– Invoking the antisemitic slur “shylocks” at an Iowa rally, 3 July 2025.
On Immigration
I love the smell of deportations in the morning …
– Truth Social, 6 September 2025
I’ve also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries.
– Economic rally in Pennsylvania, 9 December 2025
Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few? … From Denmark. Do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people. Do you mind? But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. The only thing they’re good at is going after ships.
– Economic rally in Pennsylvania, 9 December 2025
On Women
She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart … Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job!
– Truth Social, 22 January 2025, on Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s inaugural sermon
Quiet. Quiet, piggy.
– On Air Force One, 14 November 2025, when Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey tried to ask about the Jeffrey Epstein files
It’s not the question that I mind; it’s your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It’s the way you ask these questions … You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
– In the Oval Office, 18 November 2025, to ABC News chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce
The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third-rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.
– Truth Social, 26 November 2025, about a New York Times reporter
Because they let him in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane, along with thousands of other people that shouldn’t be here, and you’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.
– At Mar-a-Lago, 27 November 2025, to CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes
You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious, a terrible, actually a terrible reporter and it’s always the same thing with you.
– To ABC news reporter Rachel Scott in the White House press corp, 8 December 2025
Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person.
– Truth Social, 8 December 2025, about US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene
