Trumphobia: What Both Sides Fear

I am officially running

for President of the United States.

And we are going to make our country great again.

I want surveillance of certain mosques.

I will build a great, great wall.

Block funding for sanctuary cities.

I would repeal and replace the big lie, Obamacare.

Suspend the Syrian refugee program.

Our country is in serious trouble.

Political correctness is killing this country.

They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people.

It's amazing the way I can talk people into things, right?

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue

and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters.

- Nothing he says or does can turn off voters.

His campaign slogan might as well be,

Trump 2016, you're stupid and ugly.

- Which Republican candidate has

the best chance of winning the general election?

- Of the declared ones, right now, Donald Trump.

- It's fine, he's not gonna win anything.

It's fine.

- Oh, it's very good news

if you're in the Hillary Clinton camp.

- So right now, we have Hillary's

about a 75% or an 80% favorite with--

That high?

- Four polls that have Clinton

up by more than 10 points.

- President Obama will go down

as perhaps the worst President

in the history of the United States,

exclamation point, @realDonaldTrump.

Well, @realDonaldTrump,

at least I will go down as a President.

- And we have our first projections of the night,

take a look, Donald Trump we project will win in Kentucky.

Donald Trump will take Ohio, Indiana.

- Donald Trump will win Alabama.

- Huge news, Donald Trump has won the State of Pennsylvania.

- Donald Trump will win the State of Utah.

Wins Florida, Arkansas, Georgia.

Louisiana.

- Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota.

- Montana, where Fox News can project.

- Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi.

- North Dakota, Wyoming.

- Texas, Idaho.

- The State of Wisconsin, North Carolina.

South Carolina.

- In Kansas, we can project a winner.

- In Missouri, Michigan.

- Donald Trump will carry Iowa, West Virginia,

Arizona, and the State of Alaska.

- Donald Trump is the President of the U.S.

- Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business.

- We created the bias response team

to look into incidents of discrimination

and harassment that are occurring

because in the post-election climate,

there's been an increase in incidents

involving harassment, intimidation, and violence

on the basis of people's religion or perceived religion,

immigration status, gender identity,

other areas of protection under our law.

- A spike in hate crimes across the country

since Election Day.

- Also in the wake of the election,

hate crimes are rising.

- From swastikas at a baseball field

to Pennsylvania high school students shouting hate messages

in the hallway and a throwback to the days of segregation.

- Donald Trump's supporters have also been the victims.

- You voted Trump, you voted Trump?

Yeah!

- Donald Trump, white people, boy.

- The FBI defines a hate crime

as a criminal offense against a person or property

motivated by an offender's bias against a race,

religion, disability, sexual orientation,

ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.

Hate itself is not a crime,

and it's protected by freedom of speech.

The FBI is in charge of keeping records of hate crimes,

and it needs at least a year to produce an accurate report.

The problem is that there are several organizations

and police departments across the country

that are not doing a good job reporting these incidents.

- Trump people are feeling that they were aggrieved

by not just Obama's policies

but the way that liberals treated them

and the way they look down on them.

And now they've got their time

and they're gonna do their thing.

And the liberals are going, "You guys didn't win this right

and we're gonna pay you back."

Everybody's so mad at each other,

everybody's so engrossed in trying to get the payback

back and forth, that sometimes they lose track

of what they're fighting for, and all they want to do

is win and get those other guys back

and make those other guys feel bad.

- Okay, what about all these people

being racist to me right now?

What about that?

- Donald Trump doesn't give a fuck about you guys.

That's the saddest part.

That's it.

Anybody with that much money

doesn't give a fuck about you guys.

- We are all Americans, so get out of my face!

- You're fighting with- - Get out of my face!

Right now!

Get out of my face!

So what's up?

What's up?

Who gonna do what to me?

I'll go out, I'll go out before I do that, so what's up?

- What we see happening under Donald Trump

is very scary, but it continues

what was very much in full order under the Democrats.

- We're seeing these people step out into the public

and spew their hateful rhetoric.

Sometimes it's worse than rhetoric.

Sometimes it's physical violence.

- The date of the incident, it was

November 17th, which was a Thursday.

I ordered an Uber early in the morning,

and Muhammad showed up as being my driver.

We kind of, halfway into the ride,

kind of became buddy-buddy a little bit,

and that's when I asked him how the post-election

or how the election environment had treated him

because I had seen things in the news.

And I have a lot of friends who are Muslim-Americans

but are not necessarily being discriminated against

every day, so I'm interested to ask these questions.

And he responded to me, "You know, it's better for me

to show you rather than tell you."

- Trump is President, asshole, so you can kiss

your fucking visa goodbye, scumbag.

They'll deport you soon, don't worry, you fucking terrorist.

- The video just blew me away because I wasn't expecting

anything to contain so much vitriol, hatred, intolerance,

and just plain ignorance, really.

- Fucking Arab motherfucker, terrorist, fucking cocksucker.

I don't care, bro, video.

You're a loser!

You're not even from here, you motherfucker.

- So I said, that's a video that needs to be seen

by more than just myself in the backseat of your car.

This should be, if nothing else,

given to the media or to the police or something,

and be investigated as a hate crime.

- Appears to be another bias incident in New York City.

Several local leaders say the incidents

have spiked after the presidential election.

- He told me, "You have to respect me."

I turned to him and I said to him,

"You have to respect the road, and that's it."

- Mohammed went around the man.

A block away, here at the corner of 41st Avenue

and Crescent Street, the other driver began his tirade.

- Fuck you and your family, you terrorist fuck.

Video all you want, you're an Arab.

You're a fucking loser, sand nigger.

- The America that I was raised to believe in

is very much an America where no matter who you are,

as long as you work hard and play

by the rules, we're all equal.

And these types of behaviors and xenophobic overreactions,

especially to people who are American citizens,

are more detrimental to the country

than they are beneficial.

Because if you want to radicalize

anybody who's a Muslim, make them feel unwanted,

make them feel hated and that they don't belong here.

That's how you're gonna recruit

somebody who's gonna become ISIS.

If you want them to not do that,

you just treat them like you're equal.

- Look, I used to be a liberal.

I used to be a liberal like you.

I'm not brainwashed anymore, homie.

Hey, I'm a Latino and I voted for Trump.

There's a lot of Trump supporters that are in the closet

or are not very outspoken and are very silent.

Why?

It is because we saw the violence that was happening

to Trump supporters from the beginning.

- Then what? - That's good.

That's a good start. - Then what?

Yeah, it's a good fucking start.

- It is a good start.

You don't like Trump, why?