Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’

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?”

  • Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
    59·
    8 months ago

    Why on god’s green earth would I relocate to a country that treats people like farm animals unless I was fleeing war or drug cartels?

    • Rusty Shackleford@programming.devEnglish
      103·
      8 months ago

      Every government treats their people like farm-animals, in my opinion. Some are nicer to their animals than others. “Happy cows make better-tasting milk”, and so on.

      My country’s (the US) government treats us like those industrial hog and cattle farms we have in Nebraska, Louisiana, Texas, etc. I moved to the Netherlands in July of '22; people are treated more like free-range live-stock here, which is an improvement from my condition in the US. I imagine it’s not too dissimilar of a relationship throughout greater Scandinavia as well.

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
        102·
        8 months ago

        Every government treats their people like farm-animals, in my opinion.

        Yeah, no. That’s not how normal governments work.

        My country’s (the US)

        Yeah, that checks out. No wonder you think like that, then. You’ve been indoctrinated all your life to believe no better alternative is possible, so that you won’t strive for one, and will just keep on accepting the monstrously inhumane society you were born in.

        • Rusty Shackleford@programming.devEnglish
          22·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, no. That’s not how normal governments work.

          That’s admirable you believe that, but incredibly naive, given the weight of history.

          You’ve been indoctrinated all your life to believe no better alternative is possible, so that you won’t strive for one, and will just keep on accepting the monstrously inhumane society you were born in.

          No, like all human beings, I must pragmatically hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Time with my wife and the children in my extended family is worth more than overthrowing the government, currently.