Biden injects Trump's 'polluted blood' line on illegal migrants into his speech in the heart of Wisconsin – after Trump tells Iowa crowd he never read Hitler's Mein Kampf

  • President Joe Biden slammed former President Donald Trump for his recent comments about immigrants
  • Over the weekend in New Hampshire, Trump said illegal migrants were 'poisoning the blood of our country'
  • Biden referenced that attack during an economic speech Wednesday at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee

President Joe Biden took a quick jab at former President Donald Trump as he addressed the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee on Wednesday.

Biden compared his economic performance to Trump's as he continued to try to emphasize that “Bidenomics” was working despite his sluggish polling and Americans' generally sour mood on the economy.

He referred to his “predecessor” and then slammed the 45th president for comments he criticized as racist and xenophobic.

β€œThe man who thinks we are polluting the blood of Americans today,” Biden said.

Trump drew widespread condemnation for comments he made in New Hampshire this weekend, telling crowds during his campaign that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

President Joe Biden took a subtle jab at former President Donald Trump as he addressed the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee on Wednesday

The rhetoric led to comparisons to Adolf Hitler, something Trump raved about Tuesday night at a campaign event in Iowa. His comments drew fierce condemnation from the White House and criticism from fellow Republicans.

Trump told a crowd in Waterloo that he had “never read Mein Kampf.”

He then doubled down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric.

'Yesterday we had the highest daily record of illegal border crossings. Once recorded – 12,600 – in one day. We have no idea who any of them are. They come from Africa, they come from Asia, they come from South America, but not just South America – all over the world,” Trump said.

β€œThey're dumping them at the border and they're pouring into our country, and there's no one to check them,” he continued.

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday night in Iowa that he never read Mein Kampf after his anti-immigrant rhetoric was compared to that of Adolf Hitler

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday night in Iowa that he never read Mein Kampf after his anti-immigrant rhetoric was compared to that of Adolf Hitler

Trump said migrants from

Trump said migrants from “all over the world” are “poisoning the blood of our country” β€” a phrase similar to Hitler's β€” during a Saturday rally in New Hampshire

The ex-president called the U.S. Border Patrol “incredible” but said they were told not to do their job.

β€œIt's crazy what's going on,” he continued. 'They are ruining our country. And it is true: they are destroying the blood of our country.”

'They don't like it when I say that. And I've never read Mein Kampf. They said, 'ohhh, Hitler said that,' in a very different way,” Trump said.

He warned that immigrants could bring “diseases” and reiterated that they are “destroying the fabric of our country.”

Biden's 2024 re-election campaign had already condemned Trump's comments and linked them to Hitler.

In a statement Saturday evening, Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa noted that Trump “channeled his role models as he impersonated Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un and quoted Vladimir Putin” during the ex-president's rally in Durham, New Hampshire.