8. His racism against Latinos. Between his pledge to build a massive border wall, his declaration that Mexico is sending “criminals, drug dealers, rapists”, or his bizarre taco-bowl-based outreach, Trump’s anti-Latino racism has been a signature of his campaign. But it’s perhaps best epitomized by his claim that federal judge Gonzalo Curiel, because he has Mexican ancestry, is unfit to preside over any case involving Trump’s business empire:
Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the federal judge presiding over a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University on Thursday, questioning his impartiality in handling the case because his Mexican heritage is “an inherent conflict of interest.”
—Trump escalates attack on ‘Mexican’ judge, Politico, 2 June 2016
7. His flirtations with anti-Semitism. While Trump hasn’t made this a centerpiece of his campaign the way he has with other prejudices, he has so many white supremacists in his orbit that some of their other obsessions are seeping in. A case in point is the infamous six-pointed-star-on-a-background-of-money anti-Hillary meme that the Trump campaign lifted from a white supremacist bulletin board, then comically tried to defend. He’s also refused to condemn the waves of anti-Semitic hatred his fans have unleashed against journalists and has even seemed to excuse it:
And when pressed on the anti-Semitic vitriol and death threats some of his supporters unleashed online against reporter Julia Ioffe over a profile she wrote about Trump’s wife in GQ magazine, Trump said he didn’t “know anything about that.”
“I don’t have a message to the fans,” Trump said when pressed on the anti-Semitic death threats in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in May. “A woman wrote an article that’s inaccurate.”
—Donald Trump’s ‘Star of David’ tweet controversy, explained, CNN, 5 July 2016