President Donald Trump ramped up his anti-immigrant rhetoric in a speech on Tuesday evening, repeatedly attacking Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and complaining about immigration outdoors of Europe.
“Let’s have just a few from from Denmark. Do you thoughts sending us just a few individuals? Ship us some good individuals. Do you thoughts? However we all the time take individuals from Somalia, locations which can be a catastrophe, proper? Filthy, soiled, disgusting, ridden with crime. The one factor they’re good at goes after ships,” Trump mentioned as he addressed supporters in Pennsylvania.
The speech was billed as an occasion to promote his financial agenda, however shortly devolved right into a campaign-style speech crammed with derogatory insults.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. financial system and affordability on the Mount Ethereal On line casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, December 9, 2025.
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Trump particularly took goal at Omar, a Somali American who represents Minnesota. He appeared to purposefully mispronounce her identify and referred to Omar’s hijab as a turban.
“I really like her, she is available in, does nothing however b—-. She’s all the time complaining. She comes from a rustic the place, I imply, it is thought of concerning the worst nation on the earth, proper?” Trump mentioned.
“She ought to get the hell out. Throw her the hell out,” Trump added.
His supporters then launched into “ship her again” chants concerning the congresswoman, who’s an American citizen.
Omar responded to the remarks, the most recent in Trump’s attacks on her and Somali immigrants, in a submit on X late Tuesday.
“Trump’s obsession with me is past bizarre. He wants severe assist. Since he has no financial insurance policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies as a substitute. He continues to be a nationwide embarrassment,” she wrote.
Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks throughout a mark up assembly with the Home Funds Committee on Capitol Hill on Could 16, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Trump admits to saying ‘s—hole international locations’
Trump on Tuesday additionally recalled a 2018 assembly wherein he advised a bunch of senators behind closed doorways that the U.S. should not settle for immigrants from “s—hole international locations” comparable to Haiti.
When it was reported on the time, Trump himself flatly denied using the expletive .
“By no means mentioned something derogatory about Haitians apart from Haiti is, clearly, a really poor troubled nation,” Trump wrote on X, then often called Twitter.
ABC Information reported that within the 2018 Oval Workplace assembly with senators, Trump expressed frustration over the visa lottery program and requested these within the room why they might need individuals from Haiti, Africa and different “s—hole international locations” coming into america.”
In his denial then, Trump accused Democrats within the assembly of constructing up feedback attributed to him and mentioned that he “most likely ought to report future conferences.” Notably, the president again then didn’t deny he urged that America ought to admit extra immigrants from locations comparable to Norway — feedback that have been confirmed by a number of sources with direct data of the conversations.
President Donald Trump arrives to ship remarks on the financial system at Mount Ethereal On line casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, December 9, 2025.
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However in his speech on Tuesday, Trump embraced the expletive as he boasted about pausing immigration purposes from what he referred to as “third-world international locations” together with “hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and lots of different international locations.”
Somebody within the viewers then yelled the phrase “s—hole.”
“I did not say ‘s—hole,’ you probably did,” Trump quipped. “Bear in mind, I mentioned that to the senators. They got here in, the Democrats, they needed to be bipartisan, in order that they got here in they usually mentioned, ‘That is completely off the report, nothing talked about right here, we wish to be sincere,’ as a result of our nation was going to hell.”
“And we had a gathering, and I say, ‘Why is it we solely take individuals from s—hole international locations,’ proper? Why cannot we’ve some individuals from Norway, Sweden? Just some? Let’s have just a few from from Denmark. Do you thoughts sending us just a few individuals? Ship us some good individuals. Do you thoughts? However we all the time take individuals from Somalia, locations which can be a catastrophe, proper? Filthy, soiled, disgusting, ridden with crime.”
ABC Information’ Justin Gomez and Alexandra Hutzler contributed to this report.
