Republican candidate and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump said "no one should be judged by their race or their color" in a speech on Friday at the Faith & Freedom Coalition "Road to Majority" Conference.
Trump's remarks while addressing conservative Christians at conference in Washington D.C. contrast the events in the past year of his campaign. Most notably it contrasts Trump's remarks about the Mexican community calling them criminals and "rapists," remarks he made when he launched his campaign.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," said Trump. "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists," he said about Mexican people immigrating to the U.S. And there's Trump's proposition for building a wall to keep immigrants, whom just days ago he referred to as "illegals," out of the country.
Trump has also been vocal about putting in place a "temporary" ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and has said that his Muslim friends have co-signed the idea.
Other incidents of race and religion in the Trump campaign include:
- Trump making fun of a protester for wearing a turban.
- Trump calling supporters who urinated and beat up a homeless Latino man "passionate."
- Trump saying a Black Lives Matter activist deserved to be "roughed up."
But today Trump said:
Later in the speech Trump said, "We will work together to rebuild and restore and lift up everyone—not a certain group, everyone."
Trump's previously shown he's down with diversity, like when he said, "I have many, many blacks." Of course, there was also that infamous photo for that Mexican holiday where he proclaimed, "I love Hispanics!"
