Even Trump accused China of genociding Uyghur Muslims by 2020

Evidence

Uyghur persecution in China is not about terrorism arising from Muslims, but about unimaginable evil coming from the corridors of power in Beijing. While it took time for the rest of the world to condemn it for what it is, 2020 ushered in rising voices calling the Uyghur Muslim crisis another ethnic cleansing, or worse. Even Donald Trump, the global figure most closely connected to Islamophobia, weighed in and accused China of waging “genocide on Uyghur Muslims.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 611

Categorization

• CANDY: The irony that the global figurehead of Islamophobia used genocide language against China is a compact, conversation-starter fact.