After more than a year of campaigning on a platform based on hate, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia, on January 20, Donald Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States.
Trump-inspired bigotry is already happening. In the 10 days after Trump was elected president, 867 hate crimes were reported across the United States. Not even a week after the election, 18-year-old Nasro Hassan, a Muslim student at the University of Washington, was struck in the face with a bottle while walking on campus. The following week, a vandal destroyed the sign outside of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound mosque in Redmond, which would be defaced again two weeks later. Washington State’s Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA) declared all three attacks hate-related incidents.
