Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’
Donald Trump bemoaned a lack of immigrants to the US from “nice” countries “like Denmark [or] Switzerland”, offering millionaire donors at a Florida fundraiser a reprise of infamous racist Oval Office remarks about people coming to America from “shithole countries”.
Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president again, despite facing 88 criminal charges and multimillion-dollar civil penalties for tax fraud and defamation, the latter arising from a rape allegation a judge called “substantially true”.
According to the New York Times, which cited an unnamed attendee at the Saturday event in Palm Beach, Trump told his audience: “These are people coming in from prisons and jails. They’re coming in from just unbelievable places and countries, countries that are a disaster.
“And when I said, you know, ‘Why can’t we allow people to come in from nice countries,’ I’m trying to be nice. Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?”
despite facing 88 criminal charges
Who here wanna bet that Stephen Miller advised him do a couple more or fewer in order to land at his favorite number?
Lmao it can’t be an accident.
It was at 91 last I heard so if they’ve only gone through 3 in 4 years he’ll be 200 by the time they’re done
Could it be that America was the “shithole country” all along? 🤔
What? No, we are the greatest country in the world. I know because of 13 years of my youth spent in public school where they kept telling me about it.
You could double my income, even triple.
…and I still wouldn’t risk rising my children in the US.
Not a fucking chance…
I think the same… And I live in Canada, we don’t have it as good as Denmark or Switzerland but still…
I honestly only go to the States for short visits I dread, because we have family there… Otherwise I wouldn’t even visit
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Literally, had to make this decision four years ago.
In the end I went to the German branch of the same tech company and only made 1/4 the money I would have in the US.
However, because it was a US company they made me do the “what to do when there’s a shooter in the workplace” training course anyway. No regrets about not going.
Come to America for Donald Trumps cradle to the grave minimum wage program with zero health care and no retirement.
The model of importing cheap labour from such differing countries seems like a failed one. He does have a point.
its funny because trump isnt even sure he’s making a point here, he’s just riffing. If he wanted to import WORKERS from sweden or denmark he’d implement sectoral bargaining. Of course he wouldn’t do that, he had to be dragged kicking and screaming by canada on the nafta renewal to get min wages for auto workers in mexico.
I don’t think that’s what he’s saying at all. You seem to be talking about something else.
I can’t speak for others, but at the moment, even as entertaining as it is, I’d rather watch the US from a safe distance.
So would many Americans. Check this out.
https://www.perceptions.eu/migration-in-and-from-america-current-statistics/
American emigration to Europe totalled [sic] 3,6 million people in 2005, and 5 million in 2019, whereas Americans emigrating to other countries counted 29,3 million people in 2005 and 40 million people in 2019.
Fyi, that article refers to anyone from the Americas as Americans. It does not mean us citizens.
Ironically (to everyone but him) Trump himself is the reason a lot of people from the “good” countries would never consider moving here.
Nah, that orange furuncle’s just a symptom, the disease clearly reaches much deeper and is probably terminal.
I decided to never go there way before I knew trump. Don’t want my dog to die from a bullet.
What I’m hearing is that if an all out war is accepted in Europe, Trump gets white refugees.
Well they have to be really white though, not like those lazy Spaniards, Italians or Greeks. Should probably leave the Catholics out of it, too, and maybe the Irish for that matter. Do Portuguese count? 🤔 /s
To them, the US is the shithole country, that’s why.
My cousin in the Schengen area got breast cancer and went off to get treatment with 80% of her salary. After the first rounds feeling much better asked the social worker to go back and the answer was, not until you get to the last round and get medical clearance.
Try that in the US.
That shit radicalized me.You go to work while getting the treatment and hope you don’t run out of sick days.
Or make industrial quantities of meth.
I’m from Australia, not some poncy nordic utopia. I wouldn’t describe the US as a shithole country per se, but I sure as shit wouldn’t want to move there.
The whole republican thing does make me apoplectic, and admittedly that’s pretty much all we see from this far away, but I acknowledge that its probably not a big part of daily life. For example, there’s some 4x4 youtube channels I watch and the people just seem like cool normal people who I’d probably like to know in real life, but I’d bet they vote republican anyway.
That’s cause you are comparing the US to Australia, mate
/s
During his presidency, it actually was a part of daily life. We all had to endure a constant drumbeat of headlines about horrible things he did or said until you almost stopped caring. It would be like that again if he gets reelected.
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Eat shit 🥂
He is already full of it
They’re not wrong.
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He’s right.
I’m a Brit. Thinking about US universities for my kid in a few years.
Think i can stay there for a few years while he studies ? No chance.
Thinking about US universities for my kid in a few years.
I hope you’re independently wealthy.
Is that uncommon though?
Isn’t it much more common for immigration laws to prioritize the dependents of a student, not the parents or guardian or a student m?
Didn’t Melania’s parents get fast tracked? Because she was a model?
Good question. Although I’m mostly referring to people remaining in a country on some sort of student visa.
Get them to do a year abroad.
Or go Sydney instead.
Bruv. The high demand private universities here are fucking $80,000/year now. State schools more like $35,000. Shit’s fucked.
wow it would only take 2-3 life insurance policies to cover that.
Why a US university?
Networking, mainly . And he doesn’t speak much Chinese
What about a good Canadian university instead? Some great schools and opportunities here, and no guns.
Why the fuck would they want to come here?
Southern maid donuts and seafood gumbo. Glad I could clear that up for you.
To them, the US is the shithole country.
It is to plenty of us that live here, too.
There are stupid right-wing people in every country.
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Judging by Lord Lard-Ass’ complaints, they still don’t want to come here.
Maybe, but it’s not like anything he ever says is based on evidence.
No way, you’re there.
I am fron Lithuania and I would move to the US as a permanent resident if: It was easier to do so It’s entirely the fault of the US for favoring third world countries over European countries. It’s in their policy.
So are Russians white?
