‘I Love Hitler’: Leaked Texts EXPOSE Young Republicans’ Racist Chat, Politico Reports

Oct 15, 2025 | A new Politico report reveals young GOP leaders across several states trading racist, antisemitic, and hateful messages in leaked private chats. “People who are running the Republican Party at the ground level are immersed in this cesspit of bigotry,” says Chris Hayes. Jelani Cobb joins to discuss.

Donald Trump back in 2018 referred to several countries such as Haiti, El Salvador and some unspecified African countries in an Oval Office meeting with some US senators as ”shithole countries”. The sad irony is, though, that Trump has now turned his own country into a ‘shithole country’! He has ruined a once perfectly decent country and turned into something truly cruel, awful, dangerous, and unenviable. Trump has also emboldened the "deplorables", as Hillary Clinton once so colourfully described them! — © Mark Alexander