Critics Accuse Trump Of Using Race To Divide Americans
President Trump's alarming rhetoric on race is a feature of his 2020 campaign. His actions have normalized racist fringe ideologies and encouraged extremists, according to critics.
Soon after President Trump was discharged from the hospital after being treated for COVID-19 he tweeted the slur "Chinese virus" to refer to the coronavirus, something he's oft repeated during the pandemic.
It's the latest example of Trump's alarming language that critics charge is xenophobic, discriminatory and even white supremacist. While Trump denies those labels, he has increasingly returned to the issue of race in the runup to the November election.
Last month he barred and then expanded it to in an . At the first debate last month, to an international audience, he called the trainings — aimed at creating an inclusive work
