The irony is Trump's, and their, racist rhetoric feeds their own fears and carries the danger of poisoning attitudes of young people against them for decades to come.
The shame is that Trump feeds their fear to the detriment of American cohesion - to divide - and for his own personal political gain.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”