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“Makes my stomach churn that Trump, who spoke favorably about the reprehensible internment of Japanese Americans, won Hawaii,” Hawaii Democrat Brian Schatz said. | Getty Hawaii senator: Trump win 'makes my stomach churn'

Sen. Brian Schatz said Wednesday that Donald Trump’s win in his home state “makes my stomach churn.”

“Makes my stomach churn that Trump, who spoke favorably about the reprehensible internment of Japanese Americans, won Hawaii,” the Hawaii Democrat tweeted Wednesday.

In December, Trump was defending his harsh immigration proposals and proposition to ban all Muslims from entering the United States on MSNBC when he cited President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s immigration actions against "Germans, Italians and Japanese."

"You certainly aren't proposing internment camps, are you?" MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked.

"I am not proposing that," Trump said."It was tough stuff, but it wasn't internment. We're not talking about the Japanese internment camps. No, not at all. But we have to get our head around a very serious problem, and it's getting worse."

But in an interview with Time, Trump said he didn't know if he would have supported the camps.

“I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer,” he said. “I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer.”

“It’s a tough thing. It’s tough … But you know war is tough. And winning is tough. We don’t win anymore. We don’t win wars anymore. We don’t win wars anymore. We’re not a strong country anymore. We’re just so off,” he added.

Hawaii has the highest concentration of Japanese-Americans in the country, with at least 300,000 residents identifying their heritage as Japanese in the latest Census figures.

The state's longtime Japanese-American senator, the late Daniel Inouye, who was a World War II veteran and was awarded the Medal of Honor, lost his right arm storming an enemy machine-gun nest in Italy.