'Astonishing': UK government minister blames Trump for triggering nation's racism crisis

Donald Trump's racism is so conspicuous that he inspires hate across the globe, according to a new report Tuesday.

British government minister Angela Eagle told the Labour Party's annual conference Monday in Liverpool that the former U.S. president's "vitriol" had made racism more acceptable and contributed to "toxic discourse" in the U.K., reported The Guardian.

It's difficult for new immigrants to “rise above the constant drumbeat of toxic anti-immigration, anti-immigrant rhetoric that has become emboldened, not only in Britain but across the western countries," said Eagle, the home minister. “I mean, Trump does the same. If you look at some of the memes that he’s using with the wall stuff at the moment, it’s astonishing, quite the level of vitriol that it has created.”

Eagle hammered the UK's Conservative Party for adopting racist arguments to fight off threats from Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK. Farage is a close ally of Trump's.

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“We had a discourse as the right of the Conservative party got more and more obsessed with what Reform was doing that was very toxic indeed, othering asylum seekers, othering human beings in general, and creating a space, I think, for overt racism on our streets,” Eagle said.

“Because let’s face it, talking about asylum seekers in the way that some government ministers did, at least gave, let me say, at least a yellow flashing light to people that wanted to indulge in a discourse about people whose skin wasn’t the color that they wanted it to be.

“Let’s just put it that way," she added, "and I think creating that kind of toxic discourse around asylum is a real problem."