Ever since President Donald Trump said that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) and her friends were “garbage,” the establishment media has found a new lie to tell about the man they love to hate (and desperately wish that you would hate as well): Why, he called all Somali immigrants in the United States garbage! It’s an outrage! It’s racist! It’s beneath the dignity of his office! Yet all the while, Somalis in Minnesota have seemed intent on demonstrating that those who think the worst of them may just be right.
The New York Times huffed about Trump’s “xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants,” saying that it was an “outburst that captured the raw nativism that has animated his approach to immigration,” and even that Orange Man Bad “has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries.” Even in light of that less-than-stellar record, the Times insisted, this latest “outburst” was “shocking in its unapologetic bigotry.”
As the Times quoted it, however, Trump never got around in his “outburst” to actually saying that all Somali immigrants were “garbage.” He was focused instead on those who come to the United States and are manifestly ungrateful to the nation that welcomed them and gave them refuge. “When they come from hell,” Trump said trenchantly, “and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.” He added that Somalia “stinks and we don’t want them in our country,” which is no doubt true both literally and metaphorically, whatever one may think of Somalis and Somalia, and still doesn’t amount to a blanket, xenophobic condemnation of this wonderful group of people.
Trump also said: “We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.” Referring to Ilhan Omar, Trump added: “She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren’t people who work. These aren’t people who say, ‘Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.’”