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President Donald Trump once again disgraced his office last week, this time by launching into multiple disgusting racist attacks on Somalis in Minnesota, referring to the community as “garbage”.
He particularly singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of his favorite targets. He also froze immigration applications from 19 countries, including Somalia, and deployed immigration enforcement agents to Minneapolis-St. Paul to terrorize the community of 80,000, 83 percent of whom are citizens. Agents have already made multiple arrests, claiming they have seized dangerous criminals; immigration attorney David Wilson in Minneapolis, though, told the Twin Cities-based Sahan Journal that the ICE detainees he’d spoken to had “done nothing wrong but being from the wrong country at a time when the president gets mad.”
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Trump’s rage is visceral and calculated. He believes that angry performative hate will benefit him politically by rallying his allies, smearing his enemies, and deflecting blame. He also, though, sees ethnic cleansing as an end in itself.
Unvarnished racism
The president’s latest hate tantrum was inspired by the Thanksgiving week shooting of two National Guard members in Washington DC. The alleged gunman was an Afghan refugee who had worked with American troops. At a Mar-a-Lago press event the day after the shooting, Trump blamed former president Joe Biden for allowing the man into the country, though his own administration granted him asylum in April.
Trump didn’t just pass the buck, however. He also spiraled off into an attack on Somalis, who were not connected to the shooting in any way. He sneered that the Somali community in Minnesota was “ripping off our country and ripping apart that once-great state,” and added that Somalia was a country with “no laws, no water, no military, no nothing.” Moments later, however, he admitted that Somalis had nothing to do with the violence in DC.
Not content with these vicious attacks, Trump spewed even more bile at a cabinet meeting last week.
Referring to Somali immigrants, he said, “we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. Her friends are garbage … When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country.”
