Trump Makes Fresh Diabolical Rants Against Non-White Immigration
Back in 2018, President Donald Trump denied using the term “shithole” to describe some nations whose inhabitants immigrated to the United States.
Nowadays, he welcomes it and intensifies his anti-immigrant and xenophobic tirades.
CNN's Jake Tapper takes a look at President Donald Trump's remarks on Tuesday referring to African nations as "shithole countries," and how his comments confirm the president's reported use of the word in 2018, an allegation he denied at the time.
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For example, during a rally in the northeastern state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday that was supposed to focus on his economic policy, the 79-year-old Republican openly ranted and repeated a phrase that sparked outrage during his first term.
“We had a meeting and I said, ‘Why is it we only take people from shithole countries,’ right? ‘Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden?'” Trump told his cheering audience.
“But we always take people from Somalia,” he continued. “Places that are a disaster. Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”
.@POTUS: "I've also announced a permanent pause on third-world migration — including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries. I didn't say 'shithole' — you did!" 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/OpOX6kRPQc
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Recently, he described Somali immigrants as “trash.”
These remarks are “more proof of his racist, anti-immigrant agenda,” Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey commented on X.
Randy Fine, a Florida Republican congressman, defended Trump.
“Not all cultures are equal and not all countries are equal,” he said on CNN, adding, “the president speaks in language that Americans understand, he is blunt.”
Carl Bon Tempo, a history professor at the University of Albany, told AFP that such anti-immigrant rhetoric has historically thrived on the far right.
“The difference is now it’s coming directly out of the White House,” he said, adding, “there’s no bigger megaphone” in American politics.
On the campaign trail in 2023, Trump told a gathering in New Hampshire that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” evoking similarities to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Now back in power, Trump’s government has undertaken a massive and violent deportation effort, as well as banned immigration applications from citizens of 19 of the world’s poorest countries.
Simultaneously, the president ordered white South African farmers to be admitted to the United States, citing persecution.
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By describing some immigrants as “killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies”, as Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem did earlier this month, the White House is designating a target.
This is other than itself for American economic ire at a time when the cost of living has gone up and fears are growing over job security and loss of federal benefits.
As White House senior advisor Stephen Miller recently wrote on X: “This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals.
“You are importing societies…At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”
Trump Makes Fresh Diabolical Rants Against Non-White Immigration
