The White House has dismissed a United Nations report that accused Donald Trump of using “racist hate speech” against immigrants, labelling the assessment as “useless” and biased. The report, published by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, found that Trump and other political leaders may have incited racial discrimination and hate crimes through dehumanising language and harmful stereotypes.
White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said in a statement: “This United Nations assessment is just as useless as their broken escalator, and their extreme bias continues to prove why no one takes them seriously.” She added: “No one cares what the biased United Nations’ so-called ‘experts’ think, because Americans are living in a safer, stronger country than ever before.”
The UN committee expressed deep concern that racist rhetoric, combined with aggressive immigration enforcement, had led to at least eight deaths, increased racial profiling, and restricted migrants’ access to essential services. It recommended suspending immigration enforcement, repealing discriminatory measures, and ensuring due process for migrants. In response, Wales highlighted a decline in the murder rate, claiming it had fallen to a 125-year low.
Trump has repeatedly characterised immigrants as “dangerous”, “animals”, and part of an “invasion”, despite studies showing undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit violent crime than US-born citizens. Public support for mass deportations has fallen by nine percentage points between June 2024 and June 2025, according to Gallup, while a Reuters/Ipsos poll recorded a 12-point drop in Trump’s approval rating on immigration between February 2025 and February 2026.
The White House has continued to use social media to glamorise deportations, turning videos of arrests into memes. Critics have pointed to incidents such as tear-gassing children and the killing of two US citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents in Minnesota. Despite growing public disapproval and UN warnings, the administration has shown no signs of altering its immigration enforcement tactics.
