Trump calls Somalis 'garbage' he doesn't want in the country.

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/02/us/trump-ukraine-putin-news#ice-somali-migrants-minneapolis-st-paul

Trump calls Somalis ‘garbage’ he doesn’t want in the country.

“These are people who do nothing but complain,” Mr. Trump said at the tail-end of a cabinet meeting at the White House. “They complain, and from where they came from, they got nothing.”

“When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it,” Mr. Trump added as Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.

Mr. Trump said Somalia “stinks” and “we don’t want them.” He described Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat of Minnesota who came to the United States from Somalia as a refugee and became a citizen 25 years ago, as “garbage.”

“We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country,” Mr. Trump said. “She’s garbage. Her friends, garbage. These aren’t people who work. These aren’t people who say ‘let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.’”

[Ocelot II]

1. I saw a couple of these "garbage" Somali women taking their kids to school this morning.

What a depraved thing to do! Aren't they supposed to be out pillaging or something?

I can't even...

[leftstreet]

2. President of the United States

Talking like someone's racist uneducated Grandpa on Nursing Home visiting day

[kwolf68]

3. ALL THEY DO IS COMPLAIN

Yea Trump, it sure is maddening to always having to be listening to someone constantly whine about stuff. I mean YOU would never do that.

I worked with someone from Somalia, one of my favorite human beings I ever met, an awesome women. But she is trash I guess, brown skin and all.

[eShirl]

4. he's been a dirty racist all his life

his daddy too

[Aristus]

5. Trump makes Richard Nixon look like Mister Rogers.

[pfitz59]

6. The Somali immigrants I know

work their butts off! Many working multiple jobs. Most I've encountered are fastidious about appearance and hygiene. WTF does bubble-boy Trump know!

[dalton99a]

7. Trump is a walking trash can

[eShirl]

8. racism is irrational

[fujiyamasan]

9. This is something I don't recall growing up

A president (of either party) calling groups of poeple ‘garbage’.

I’m too young for Nixon, but even he kept his racist remarks private. Ironically in public he supported civil rights legislation and even some affirmative action programs.

Trump is basically David Duke with a lot more money.

[yardwork]

14. It's unprecedented as far as I know.

It's possible that Andrew Jackson went around calling people garbage, I don't know. There have been some ignorant vile presidents before but Trump is next level.

[malaise]

10. And he called her name - Ilhan Omar

Eff him.

[Diamond_Dog]

11. A meme from the 2020 election

[Irish_Dem]

12. I wonder what he says in private.

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. The same thing

The wheels are coming off

[Irish_Dem]

17. I think it is much worse in private.

But yes we are beginning to see the unfiltered Trump.
It will get much worse before it is over.

[Danmel]

13. Dehumanizing people makes it easy to do terrible things to them

As the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, I know where this type of talk leads.
I'm grateful my father isn't alive to hear this.
It is extremely troubling.

[Rob H.]

16. Someone must've read him articles from the NY Post and The National Review from earlier today

They're slamming Omar, too, and what is Agolf Shitler if not more easily-influenced than an angry toddler?

Edited to add article titles, which I won't link to:

Ilhan Omar Is Not the Kind of Immigrant America Needs - National Review

Ungrateful Ilhan Omar and the Somali scammers are the immigrants we DON’T want - New York Post

Yahoo News characterized his tirade as an "extraordinary rant" because they don't have the balls to call him a racist.