Former First Lady Laura Bush wrote a stirring opinion piece bashing Trump’s forced separation policy. In it, she pointed out a blight on our history:
The Japanese American internment camps of World War II.
Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned.
I’m now wondering if the former First Lady used this analogy purposely, because Donald Trump said in 2015 he might have supported Japanese internment camps.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told TIME that he does not know whether he would have supported or opposed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
“I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer,” he said during a recent interview in his office in New York City. “I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer.”
He would have to be there to give us the proper answer?
Like what, being there locked up and experiencing the horror?????
When Trump said he wanted his people to “sit up attention” when he speaks, the same way Kim Jong-Un’s people do, what he’s really saying you might be the next one in his modern day internment camps.
Trump admires how dictators do things and this is why Trump has children locked away in cages right now. This is the stuff of dictatorships. Period.
Pressed numerous times during an appearance Monday morning on MSNBC to say whether or not the internment violated American values, Trump refused to respond.
President Ronald Reagan signed legislation in 1988 apologizing to the more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, including many Americans, who were placed in U.S. detention camps during World War II. The law also authorized reparations for survivors of the detention. “The internment of the individuals of Japanese ancestry was caused by racial prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership,” the legislation read.
Refusing to answer this question reveals all you need to know about Trump and it’s the reason he admires authoritarian leaders like Kim Jong-Un, Vladimir Putin and others.