USA Trump insults people from Somalia as garbage
US President Donald Trump has described Somalia as a miserable country and people from the East African state as garbage. "I don't want them in our country. I'm being honest. Some may say, "Oh, that's not politically correct." I don't care. I don't want them in our country," Trump said at the end of a cabinet meeting. The US could go one way or the other, "and we will go the wrong way if we continue to let garbage into our country".
03.12.2025, 10:48
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Trump repeatedly portrays migrants as dangerous criminals and uses racist insults. He also uses dehumanizing language, saying, for example, that they are "poisoning the blood of our country". His most recent attacks against Somalis were also seen as unusually abusive in the American press. Trump once again failed to provide evidence for his theses.
Last week, Trump claimed that refugees were the main cause of social problems in the USA today - and then cited the state of Minnesota as an example, which had been "taken over by hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia". He had previously publicly announced the end of a protection program for Somalis in Minnesota, which according to current statistics only covers a few hundred people.
Trump also insults members of Congress
On Tuesday, Trump also explicitly insulted Somali-born Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota. "Ilhan Omar is trash. Her friends are trash," he raged. With his tirade, Trump was also reacting to a huge scandal in Minnesota in which several dozen Somalis are alleged to have defrauded the state's welfare system of hundreds of millions of dollars under the leadership of Governor Tim Walz.
Omar responded by saying Trump's "obsession" with her person was creepy. "I hope he gets the help he desperately needs," the Democrat wrote on the X platform. Jamal Osman, a local politician of Somali descent from Minnesota, said at a press conference that Trump's rhetoric had scared many families. The president is racist and Islamophobic, said Osman, but emphasized that they would "not let this divide us".
Raids against Somali migrants in Minnesota?
Meanwhile, the US media speculated about imminent raids by the immigration authorities ICE against Somali migrants in the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota. The "New York Times" reported that the operation is aimed at hundreds of Somalis without the necessary residence papers.
According to media reports, over 60,000 people from Somalia live in Minnesota, most of them legally. It is the largest community of Somalis in the USA. According to the news portal "Axios", they made up 1.05 percent of the state's population in 2023.
