President Donald Trump appears to have endorsed eugenics during a call in to The Brian Kilmeade Show on Friday, telling the Fox News host he believed the country has people in it who are “bad” because “there’s something wrong [with their] genetics.” “A lot of them were let in here; they shouldn’t have been let in,” Trump said, referring to the perpetrators of a spate of recent attacks, including two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion earlier this month. “Others, they’re just bad, they go bad. Something wrong,” he continued. “There’s something wrong. Their genetics are not exactly… they’re not exactly your genetic. It’s one of those problems, Brian. It’s a terrible thing. And it happens.” Trump has nevertheless publicly espoused various versions of the theory since his 2016 US presidential campaign. A PBS documentary at the time noted that Trump’s father had instilled in him the idea that their family’s success was genetic. Trump also alluded to the belief during his 2024 campaign and has complained …