Trump's speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants from 'filthy' countries

[PSPS]

Source: AP

MOUNT POCONO, Pa. (AP) — On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Donald Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, yet the issue that has damaged his popularity couldn’t quite command his full attention. The president told the crowd gathered at a casino and resort in Mount Pocono that inflation was no longer a problem and that Democrats had used the term “affordability” as a “hoax” to hurt his reputation. But his remarks weaved wildly to include grievances he first raised behind closed doors in his first term in 2018 — and later denied saying — asking why the U.S. doesn’t have more immigrants from Scandinavia.

“Why is it we only take people from s—-hole countries, right?” Trump said onstage. “Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?” Trump said he objected to taking immigrants from “hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries.” He added for emphasis that those places “are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Tuesday’s gathering in the swing state — and in a competitive House district — was an official White House event, yet it seemed more like one of his signature campaign rallies that his chief of staff said he would hold regularly ahead of next year’s midterms. But instead of being in an arena that could draw several thousand attendees, it was held in a conference center ballroom at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, a small town of about 3,000 residents.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-affordability-pennsylvania-speech-6a7884b814f448ab6b17b9d924a356ba

[niyad]

1. Why not more people from Norway, etc?? Health care, at least semi-sane gov't,

education, stuff the orange grievance doll does not understand.

[IronLionZion]

3. Yeah, why don't people from liberal countries want to come here?

Countries with well regulated capitalism and strong social programs and lefty civil rights for gays/women? Hmm....

[bamagal62]

6. Why would people from

Norway or Sweden want to come here?

[yorkster]

2. What a disgusting cochon. Just go away.

[IronLionZion]

4. Really gets people into the December holiday spirit

like ignoring the high prices of their Christmas presents, housing, food, health care, etc. and winding up hate for immigrants. I guess MAGA isn't making affordability great again?

Where are the jobs numbers and other official economic reports? hmm... Maybe the immigrants stole those reports too after stealing the jobs and buying up all the houses.

[progree]

8. The big jobs report is scheduled for next Tuesday Dec 16 - it will be a combination of October and November

for the headline non-farm payrolls part of it. It will have the November unemployment rate (there was and never will be an October unemployment rate. The separate Household Survey that produces the unemployment rate was never conducted). All this per a November 21 announcement, and according to the Revised Release Dates link below. No guarantees there won't be more changes before then.

Revised release dates for Bureau of Labor Statistics reports: https://www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lapse-revised-release-dates.htm

Given that the latest available (thru September) nonfarm payroll jobs averaged only 39k/month over the last 5 months (May thru September), this should be interesting. And watch for downward revisions of August and September in the upcoming Dec 16 report.

Non-farm payrolls: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001?output_view=net_1mth

ETA-the Oct-Nov combined jobs report was earlier scheduled for December 5, the usual first Friday date reports like these. That would have given the Federal Reserve a few days to look at it before their December 10 rate-setting decision. But on November 21 it was announced that the Oct-Nov report would be released Dec 16; that's 6 days after the Fed decision day.

[IronLionZion]

9. They know the numbers are bad so they are delaying the reports

They know the stock market will react accordingly so they want MAGA insiders to be well insulated.

[tanyev]

5. Because people from Norway and Sweden think the U.S. is a shithole country, Donny.

Thanks to you and your Republican toadies.

[state of stupid]

7. How true and polite of them.

I wonder when they will finally decide to just come out and say in words two syllables or
less, so that mushroom boy and his shroom groomers understand that they think we are
on the downhill slide to hell and that they do not care to accompany us and also know that
they cannot save us.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

11. BINGO, tanyev!

[twodogsbarking]

10. Why didn't he just say he wants "rich white people"?

[some_of_us_are_sane]

12. The "dying brain Trump" wouldn't DARE

to spew that garbage to a large "cross section" of Americans.

In 2023-24 alone, the region had seen a surge in high end properties with 14 homes priced over one million dollars that sold that year alone.

The coward spoke to a handpicked crowd in the Mt. Airy CASINO in the Pocanos, for pete's sake!