Mark Takano, U.S. Congressman representing California’s 39th district since 2013, posted a series of tweets on October 20 and 21, 2025, criticizing former President Donald Trump and highlighting issues of racism and public service disruption.
On October 20, Takano posted two tweets. The first included two images without commentary: https://t.co/irPOMEoFlm https://t.co/08DD1LmqKM (posted at 19:40 UTC). In the second tweet, at 19:49 UTC, Takano wrote, “Americans go without paychecks, Trump’s turning the White House into his pet construction project.”
On October 21 at 01:07 UTC, Takano addressed racist language he attributed to Trump and his associates, posting: “‘Never trust a Chinaman’? That type racist, anti-Asian language put my family in internment camps during WWII. Even for this Trump and his cronies, this is a new low.”
Mark Takano, born in Riverside, California in 1960, has lived there throughout his life and earned a BA from Harvard University in 1983. Takano succeeded Jerry Lewis in Congress and has served the region for over a decade.
During World War II, Japanese Americans—including families like Takano’s—were subjected to internment due to anti-Asian sentiment, an experience that continues to inform Takano’s public statements on race and discrimination.
