Washington DC - President Donald Trump is facing backlash after he shared a video of a woman being beaten to death on social media.

On Thursday night, the president shared a post on Truth Social that featured surveillance camera footage showing a man identified by authorities as a Haitian immigrant beating a woman with a hammer outside a gas station where she worked in Fort Myers, Florida.

Trump claimed the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden granted the man Temporary Protective Status, a program he described as "abused and fraudulent."

He said his administration is working to "terminate" the program, but "Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way."

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He went on to say he felt an "obligation" to share the violent video so that "people can see what Democrats are protecting, and wanting to come into our Country."

The Department of Homeland Security also shared the video, but blurred out parts of the attack.

President Trump has repeatedly used isolated incidents such as the one in the video to justify his aggressive immigration agenda by pushing the narrative that immigrants are criminals and murderers.

During the 2024 presidential race, he and Vice President JD Vance pushed the unfounded claim that legal Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating the pets of their White neighbors.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, told The Guardian, "There hasn’t been an administration this openly racist since Wilson invited the KKK to the White House."