Tammy Duckworth eviscerates Trump for painful comments about disabled Americans

Democrats commemorated the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act by coming out swinging against Donald Trump, after his nephew claimed in a new memoir that the former president once suggested people with disabilities “should just die.”

“It’s hard to describe the pain millions of Americans with disabilities are feeling in response to Donald Trump’s newly-reported comments against folks with disabilities,” Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs serving in the Iraq War, said in a statement shared by the Democratic National Committee on Friday.

“But we know this is nothing new for him — he mocked a reporter with a physical disability, dismissed traumatic brain injuries as ‘not very serious,’ attempted to slash support for disabled veterans and so much more. Any human being who suggests that people with disabilities ‘should just die’ is fundamentally unfit to serve.”

Duckworth’s slam comes after the former president’s nephew, Fred Trump III, revealed shocking details from a private conversation the pair had following a meeting about patients with disabilities and their families at the White House at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Those people… The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die,” Trump allegedly said in the Oval Office, according to Fred Trump III’s memoir, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way.

Democrats also sought to tie Trump’s words about disability to Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a potential second Trump administration. Trump has sought to distance himself from the program, despite the fact many former administration officials helped write it.

Friday marks 34 years since former