Trump Says 3 Word Truth Bomb About Muslims That ‘People Don’t Want To Talk About’
During an appearance on Morning Joe on Monday, Donald Trump stated there is a “level of hatred” coming from segments of the Muslim community that cannot be dismissed as incidental.
The candidate was quick, however, not to paint with too broad of a brush. The show co-host Mika Brzezinski asked Trump, “How would you characterize most Muslim Americans?”
“They are terrific people. I know many,” he replied. “But, within the Muslim American community and within the Muslim community, we have some very radical people who want to do great harm to you and to Joe and everybody on your panel and to me and to this country and to the world. We can say that doesn’t exist and everyone would be happy, until there is a problem.”
“If you don’t address the problem, and you don’t know what the problem is, you are never going to solve the problem. This world has a big problem and we have a president who does not want to even call it by its correct name,” Trump added. “There’s a level of hatred that people don’t want to talk about.”
Asked whether he thought Islam was an inherently peaceful or violent religion, Trump answered, “There’s something going on. There’s something definitely going on. I don’t know that that question could be answered. It could be answered two ways. It could be answered both ways. But there’s something going on there.”
Over the weekend, Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough called into question Trump’s assertion that Muslims worldwide had gone “wild” in celebration following the 9-11 attacks. Scarborough tweeted several incidents in which Muslims stood in solidarity with the U.S. after the horrific events.
On Monday’s program, the candidate referenced a Gallup poll from 2008 the Morning Joe panelists had discussed earlier that day, which found that found 7 percent of Muslims surveyed worldwide thought the 9-11 attacks were “completely justified” and the additional 6.5 percent, who thought it was “mostly justified.” Trump noted that percentage represented a significant number of people.
“There’s a lot of hatred coming out of at least a big part of it,” he said. “You see the hatred. I mean, we see it every day. You see it whether it’s in Paris, whether it’s the World Trade Center, or whether it’s one minute of silence at a soccer game, out of respect for the people who died [in the Paris attacks]…There’s something nasty coming out of there. And you could answer it any way you want. But at least we have to know the problem.”
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Trump also took Obama to task for identifying global warming as the nation’s gravest problem. “I think one of the dumbest statements that I have ever heard in politics was Obama’s statement that our number one problem is global warming,” he said, adding, “when we have large groups of people that want to blow up every one of our cities, that want to destroy our country, that want to kill our people, and he’s worried about global warming.”