So what about his tirade about Omar last night in PA?

[Katinfl]

i have not seen anything about his racist outburst about Rep. Omar last night. It was absolutely disgusting. He was off the rails with his hate filled rhetoric. Maybe the worst of all times for him. If anything happens to her or her family, he is to blame. He said a lot of nonsense last night in PA, but this was as racist and hateful as it gets. It would never have been tolerated previously, yet he gets away with it and it is barely reported.

[maxsolomon]

1. But it's a joke! He's just kidding.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Here is part of trump's rant and attack

Link to tweet

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4. Fucking disgusting.

What a racist POS.

[malaise]

3. I saw it on one program today

Needs way more coverage and condemnation
Rec

[Katinfl]

5. Exactly my point.

[electric_blue68]

6. The Racist pResident is particularly Racid there!

And he thinks he sounds so "cute", and clever. His voice is dripping with delight.

BLARGH!!!!
😬😬😬

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Washington Post-Trump finally confirms using vulgar slur about several countries in 2018

Trump previously denied using the language about Haiti, El Salvador and several African countries — before his nonchalant admission at a rally Tuesday.

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/10/trump-shithole-countries-comment-admission

After years of denials, President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday night that he used the phrase “shithole countries” in 2018 to insult several countries with majority non-White populations, including Haiti, El Salvador and Somalia.

His turnabout came during an event in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — his first stop on a speaking tour nominally centered on his economic policies — when Trump mentioned pausing migration from 19 countries the administration has deemed high-risk. The group, he said, included “hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.”.....

“So they came in. And they said, ‘This is totally off the record, nothing mentioned here, we want to be honest,’ because our country was going to hell. And we had a meeting,” Trump recounted Tuesday. “And I say, Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden — just a few, let us have a few … But we always take people from Somalia. Places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Trump’s remarks at the Pennsylvania event seemed to be a nonchalant admission that he had in fact used such language during his first term to disparage Haiti, El Salvador and several countries in Africa. The Post had also reported that Trump — who was meeting with senators to discuss a bipartisan immigration deal — singled out Haiti and told the lawmakers he did not want any more immigrants from that Caribbean nation......

Trump also griped to his Cabinet that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), who fled civil war in Somalia and later immigrated to the United States, complained about her adopted country too much.

“You know, our country is at a tipping point. … 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,” he said. “Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage.”

Trump’s comments came amid reports that his administration is ramping up immigration enforcement efforts targeting undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Trump recently threatened to end temporary protected status for Somali immigrants in Minnesota and, without evidence, accused “Somali gangs” of terrorizing people there.

[malaise]

8. Here's another link

Trump’s anti-Somali tirade is a shocking new low

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/11/trumps-anti-somali-racism-ilhan-omar

Last week, as ICE agents descended on Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota’s Twin Cities, and members of migrant communities there retreated into hiding, Donald Trump unleashed a wave of bigotry against the area’s Somali population in a moment of vitriol that was shockingly racist even by his own very low standards. Rousing himself to animation at the tail end of a televised 2 December cabinet meeting during which he sometimes appeared to be struggling to stay awake, the president disparaged Somali immigrants, many of whom are refugees from the country’s long-running civil conflict, as ungrateful and unfit for residence in the United States.

And yet for all the seriousness of his rhetoric and actions, Trump’s racist outburst may be yet another sign of his weakness. Trump has frequently returned to racism at moments when he is on the political back foot, as he has been in recent months following persistently bad economic news, the repeated release of new information from formerly classified documents that highlights Trump’s former closeness with the dead child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and the emergence of fractures within his own coalition as alliances break down and ambitious underlings begin calculating how to best secure their own futures after the end of his term.

In such turbulent political times for Trump, white supremacist grievance, xenophobic sentiment and efforts to rally his base against a shared enemy have been a tried and true strategy. But they are perhaps yielding diminishing returns. While once – perhaps earlier in Trump’s time at the forefront of national politics – such racist comments could have provoked a news cycle of liberal outrage that served to stoke domestic conflict and satisfy the right wing id, now, a decade into Trumpism, racist comments from the president have lost some of their novelty. Even Ilhan Omar, the target of Trump’s ire who has faced serious threats to her safety after some of his comments in the past, seemed unimpressed. Responding to Trump’s tirade in a post on social media, she said, “I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.”

Hate seems to be about all that the president has to offer his voters. With his approval rating continuing to fall, the economy still staggering and his own effectiveness waning, he is going back to the well of bigotry and resentment that has driven his previous successes. In so doing, he will inflict indignity and suffering on innocent people; he always does. But that deep well of white, working-class, popular anger that has served Trump so well in the past seems to be running dry. More and more, it’s Trump himself that people are angry at.