It would be easy to lay the blame at Donald Trump's feet, but he merely hijacked an existing social trend.
Perhaps Trump hijacked an existing trend but, in my opinion, he is the accelerant that has caused the trend the explode....and it was deliberate. His ineptitude is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans but he decided to blame their deaths on anyone Chinese, with his constant statements about people dying from the "Kung Flu".