The 47th President of the United States is continuing to leave all norms of statesmanship far in the rear-view mirror. The latest is an outlandish late-night Thanksgiving post on his own social media platform, TruthSocial.
From the very first sentence, Trump sardonically wishes a happy Thanksgiving to his fellow Americans “who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at…when it comes to Immigration.” He bizarrely claimed that “most” of the foreign nationals in the United States are on welfare “or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs or drug cartels.” The president later describes “this refugee burden” as “the leading cause of social dysfunction in America.”
Trump goes on to target “Somalian gangs” in Minneapolis. The city has been a focus of the right-wing media ecosystem due to the Somalian welfare fraud scandal.
The governor of Minnesota, the 2024 vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz, is slurred as “seriously retarded.” Trump then moves on to Minnesota congressional representative Ilhan Omar, who is of Somalian descent: he says she “probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother” (repeating a conspiracy that is basically the 2025 equivalent of the Obama birth certificate story).
More seriously, perhaps, Trump promised some drastic policy changes, including a “permanent pause” on immigration “from all Third World countries”. He also promised a swathe of deportations for various reasons, saying that “[o]nly REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation.”
Legally unworkable and vaguely comedic, perhaps, but Trump’s antics are nonetheless far from inconsequential.
Just last week, the US State Department posted on X: “Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies. Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.”
The position follows Vice-President J.D. Vance’s Munich comments in February. Vance’s speech painted migration and legal restrictions on discriminatory speech as Europe’s greatest security threat, and was interpreted as the beginnings of a “trans-Atlantic divorce”.
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