Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association on Saturday evening, I was invited to appear on France Info Sunday around 3:10 PM.
(Here is the French version of this article: Rien d'anormal quant à l'hostilité ambiante contre Trump et les Républicains quand les Démocrates les taxent sans cesse de Fascistes et de Nazis.)
Aside from noting that the "political polarization" is entirely due to the Democrats, that if anything the attack justifies Trump's decision to build a ballroom in the White House, and that calling Donald Trump a "Christ-like figure" is absurd given how the left idolizes "saints" such as Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Mao, Lenin, etc., here, in essence, is what I said:
No Republican I know is surprised by the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
When you constantly call people racists, fascists, Nazis, or the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, it's hardly surprising that you want to confront these kinds of monsters by beating them up or even assassinating them. Even doing anything to bring about the Republicans' defeat at the polls—including election rigging. And why not?! After all, it's about stopping… Adolf Hitler.
Indeed, Greg Gutfeld called Cole Allen the only rational member of the Democratic Party, since he was the only one who wanted to (re)act on this "threat to democracy."
This guy was not a crank. He was not deranged. Don't buy into that narrative, because it lets these pompous asses off. … He was just following orders. He was operating on a filter that said Trump was Hitler, and therefore it would be immoral if you didn't take Hitler out. So his filter is actually making him logical. He's the sanest one in the group because he took them at their word. [When] MS-NOW says "Trump is Hitler", he's the sensible one! He went after Hitler! … You can't write this off as a deranged person!
Are you aware of the numerous attacks on minorities in the US? A Black man complains that he found a noose hanging from a tree in his backyard. A gay or lesbian student complains that homophobic graffiti was left on their dorm room door.
After a police investigation, it turns out that in almost every case, the alleged victim created the "crime" themselves in order to belong to the victim class.
Why? Since—contrary to what the melodrama enthusiasts constantly claim—there are not enough displays of hatred and racism (!) in the US, the left is determined to create them at all costs.
Over at Issues & Insights, Armando Simón has a compendium of hate crime hoaxes, while Fabius Maximus has many more examples. Turn also to the Fake Hate Crimes Database, which "builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are recommended."
That's is the reason why I call leftists, regardless of their country of origin, drama queens (locofocos, fireeaters).
• Three assassination attempts (at least) on Donald Trump.
• In June 2017, a man opened fire on Republican elected officials while they were practicing for the traditional charity baseball game. Steve Scalise was hit. It turned out that James Hodgkinson was a Bernie Sanders supporter who had read that Republicans were racist fascists. This information was disseminated, among others, by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
• In Virginia, it transpires that one Jay Jones running for the office of attorney general in 2025 fantasized not only about putting two bullets in the head of a Republican opponent but watching his children get gunned down as well.
• A man, armed, attacked a fertility clinic in 2011. He had read that the SPLC had called them "hateful."
• In September 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated during a meeting at a university in Utah. At his funeral, his supporters sont were called Nazis—including last September by former French government minister Aurélie Filippetti on this channel—and the SPLC had recently decided to add its Turning Point USA to the list of "hate groups" that, according to the left, are proliferating in the US.
All these would-be assassins acted after being Pushed To The Edge by reading that Democratic politicians and left-leaning journalists—not to mention teachers, like Cole Allen himself, in charge of educating America's youth—are calling these conservatives racists, fascists, Nazis, and an existential threat to democracy, while calling for "Maximum Warfare everywhere, all the time" against them. Let's not forget that throughout his presidency, Joe Biden referred to Charlottesville to brag about leading the fight against so-called white supremacists.
Above all, these assassins acted after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) labeled their targets racist and this NGO placed their names, or the groups they belong to, on its infamous "hate map."
However, the American press has either ignored or downplayed the major scandal that the FBI has just uncovered. When the SPLC raises millions of dollars to combat racism and extremism, they have used these funds—get this—not to fight the Ku Klux Klan and its affiliates, but rather to finance them—a notorious example being the torchlight procession in Charlottesville in 2017.
"They lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups — even utilizing the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes," FBI Director Kash Patel said.
"That is illegal, and this is an ongoing investigation against all individuals involved."
… "Donors gave their money believing they were supporting the fight against violent extremism," Kevin Davidson, the acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, said in a statement. "As alleged, the SPLC instead diverted a portion of those funds to benefit individuals and groups they claimed to oppose," Davidson added.
(from Neo-Nazi, Klan 'Cyclops' and ‘Sadistic’ biker … 5 of the most shocking SPLC informants)
As Greg Gutfeld comments on Gutfeld!, this is how circular reasoning works. It is "a circular process: you must fund racists to get more racism to then fund more racists," meaning that "The party that started the KKK is still paying the KKK."
Memes have started flooding in:
SPLC: "In order to fight racism, we have to pay people to be racist."
"There's so little white supremacy, so we had to pay the SPLC to manufacture it."
What conclusions can be drawn from this charade?
The hatred of American conservatives is unfounded. The country is not a hell-hole of racism or a nightmare of fascism — far from it. The vast majority of American citizens are good people. There is so little racism in America, so few fascists in the United States, that the Left has to fabricate them, exaggerate their numbers, and (last but not least)… subsidize them.
In fact, the only hatred that exists is against the Republicans, who are demonized to the extreme, and the only extremists are the radical leftists who present themselves as holier-than-thou saints.
Update — Radio Europe 1:
An army of shadows on the social networks destroys all the right's arguments while promoting the left's narratives
