Trump rhetoric turned toxic: Darcy cartoon 

Trump rhetoric turned toxic: Darcy cartoon

NBC ended its relationship with Donald Trump after he made derogatory remarks about Mexican immigrants in a speech announcing his candidacy for president.

Jeff Darcy, Northeast Ohio Media Group By Jeff Darcy, Northeast Ohio Media Group The Plain Dealer

on June 30, 2015 at 5:35 AM, updated July 02, 2015 at 3:51 PM

This is an earlier version of the main cartoon posted on Donald Trump\'s Mexican immigration comments.Jeff Darcy, Northeast Ohio Media Group

CLEVELAND, Ohio-- The  comments about Mexican immigrants that got Donald Trump fired were derogatory. The context and tone in which the comments were delivered crossed the border from derogatory to inflammatory hate speech.

In the speech announcing his candidacy for president, Trump sounded like the stereotypical angry white guy at the bar rambling on about politics. Trump ranted, "When Mexico sends its people, they\'re not sending their best. They\'re sending people that have lots of problems and they\'re bringing those problems. They\'re bringing drugs. They\'re bringing crime. They\'re rapists."  And then, just in case that sounded too harsh, Trump tossed out that "some, I assume are good people." Trump also declared he would "build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will have Mexico pay for that wall."  

Trump the Troll\'s speech and its delivery were so poorly executed a reporter asked him this week if he has a speech writer. He said his speech advisors are his current trophy wife Melania and his daughter. It actually sounded like he used a Nazi propaganda manual. The way Trump demonized Mexican immigrants, blaming them for bringing problems to America, is not that far removed from the kind of rhetoric Nazis used to demonize Jews and blame them for Germany\'s problems.

A week after Trump decried Mexican immigrants as rapists, Dylann Roof executed nine black men and women, because Roof said they had "raped our women and are taking over the country." Roof was reportedly influenced by reading information on a white supremacist website that uses an innocent sounding conservative Republican interest group moniker.  But hatemongering rhetoric by mainstream public figures like Trump, politicians and TV and radio commentators, can be equally as dangerous. 

Trump would be a shoo-in if he was running for Xenophobe-in-Chief, but he\'s running for Commander-in-Chief of the United States. Trump\'s comments weren\'t just politically incorrect, they were presidentially incorrect. The reckless comments that got Trump "fired" from NBC and Univision, also make him unfit to be "hired" as the Republican nominee, let alone president.