u/brave_axolotl7

In a discussion with Fox News host, Brian Kilmeade, Trump remarked that there is something wrong with the "genetics" of Islamic terrorists in reference to the string of terrorist attacks that occurred back in March of 2026 (specifically the Old Dominion University shooting in Virginia, the failed New York City bombing attempt near Gracie Mansion in Manhattan, and the Temple Israel synagogue attack in Michigan):

>"They're sick people and, uh, a lot of them were let in here, they shouldn't have been let in. Others, they're just bad, they go bad. Something wrong, there's something wrong there. The genetics are not exactly - uh, they're not exactly your genetic. It's one of those problems, Brian."

Here is the video (the above quotation starts 1 minute and 50 seconds into the video). Trump is not a geneticist, so how could he possibly know something like that and why would he make such a claim in the first place? Why would he not cite something like extreme religious indoctrination or geopolitical events such as the current war in Iran, which likely served as a catalyst for the terrorist attacks listed above?

Of the ~120,000 Japanese Americans that were forced into internment camps from 1942-1945, many of them received reparations from the federal government under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988: Congress issued a formal apology and passed the Civil Liberties Act awarding $20,000 each to over 80,000 Japanese Americans as reparations for their treatment.

Jewish Holocaust victims received reparations from Germany: From 1945 to 2018, the German government paid approximately $86.8 billion in restitution and compensation to Holocaust victims and their heirs.

And wealthy white plantation owners in D.C. received monetary compensation as an incentive to free their slaves under the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862.

Liu's father Arthur Liu explained his reasoning for doing so:

>Arthur Liu said that he intentionally chose Caucasian egg donors for his children because he, “felt his children would benefit from a diverse gene pool" and a multicultural upbringing.

This seems a bit weird to me considering the fact that people in Africa contain the world's highest levels of human genetic diversity. If he wanted a truly diverse gene pool, why didn't he select egg donors from various ancestral backgrounds in America, not just those with mainly European ancestry? Plus, implicit in this is the default association between whiteness and America, which shouldn't be a thing because we are a diverse nation. I'm not at all saying that white people in America do not come from diverse backgrounds (Irish, French, Italian, German, British, etc.), but if he truly wanted a "diverse gene pool," wouldn't it have been better to include other ancestral groups from regions not just in Europe?

Liu's father Arthur Liu explained his reasoning for doing so:

>Arthur Liu said that he intentionally chose Caucasian egg donors for his children because he, “felt his children would benefit from a diverse gene pool" and a multicultural upbringing.

This seems a bit weird to me considering the fact that people in Africa contain the world's highest levels of human genetic diversity. If he wanted a truly diverse gene pool, why didn't he select egg donors from various ancestral backgrounds, not just those with mainly European ancestry? Plus, implicit in this is the default association between whiteness and America, which shouldn't be a thing because we are a diverse nation. I'm not at all saying that white people in America do not come from diverse backgrounds (Irish, French, Italian, German, British, etc.), but if he truly wanted a "diverse gene pool," wouldn't it have been better to include other ancestral groups from regions not just in Europe?