As he comes ever and ever closer to winning the US presidential election, Donald Trump is still dominating the headlines.
It is not just Trump’s own rhetoric making the news, the actions and views of his supporters are now becoming a big story too, and some of their far-right views are almost unbelievable.
Shockingly, a worryingly large number of Trump fans believe that ending slavery was a bad idea.
Despite his outlandish views, Trump is now the clear Republican front runner
According to the results of a poll published by the New York Times, a horrific 20% of Trump supporters in the key state of South Carolina believe that the Emancipation Proclamation was a bad idea and do not support it.
The proclamation, made during the American civil war by then president Abraham Lincoln, declared slavery illegal throughout the US thus freeing every Black person held in bondage.
Also, half of Trump’s supporters want to immediately ban all Muslims from entering the US, which the flamboyant businessman has promised to do if elected.
One third want to expand this ban to include homosexual men and woman, a very hardline position by American standards.
Trump’s supporters have been involved in a number of violent incidents over the last week, especially involving Black protesters.
A rally held in America’s third largest city Chicago had to be called off last night after pro and anti-Trump activists clashed inside a University of Illinois auditorium.
Some Trump supporters wanted to return to days when Black slaves were a common sight
As you can see from the shocking video below, hundreds of anti-Trump activists, many of whom were Black or Hispanic, invaded the auditorium and clashed with the rally’s attendees.
If elected, Trump has also promised build a wall along the Mexican border to keep out migrants and tackle ISIS by killing the families of terrorists.
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