Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US ( www.theguardian.com )

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?”

horse ,

Could it be that America was the "shithole country" all along? 🤔

gmtom ,
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Lmao reminds me of my company. They are headquartered in the US, but have a big office in the UK, and about twice a year someone from the US office comes over to try and recruit us to go over there. And every time no one goes, even though they're offering us almost twice the equivalent salary to go over, between the women, the queen's, non-white people, there's not a lot of people left that wouldn't been instantly downgraded the second they stepped off the plane. And out of those most will care about healthcare or vacation time and uprooting their lives more that a better salary.

seth ,

Subtitle: "Shithole person excretes another turd."

Sam_Bass ,

Does the orange crybaby not have any mirrors in his side of the house?

ChonkyOwlbear ,

We have reached the point of straight up, mask-off white supremacy (again...)

nifty ,
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I mean, not that it would be bad to have more people.

Edit to clarify lol: more interracial marriages are welcome!

jordanlund ,
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Why would they leave countries with a higher standard of living and universal health care?

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-of-living-by-country

Iceland 191.10
Denmark 190.60
Finland 188.10
Switzerland 185.80
Oman 184.80
Austria 183.30
Norway 181.80
Spain 177.70
Estonia 176.40
Germany 176.00
Japan 175.50
Sweden 174.80
United Arab Emirates 173.80
United States 173.00

theUnlikely ,

Wow what does Oman have going on over there?

jordanlund ,
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Petrodollars. :)

PanArab ,

Nowhere as much as Qatar or Saudi Arabia, yet they aren’t on the list. UAE should be higher up than Oman too but it isn’t.

Perhaps what helps Oman are other things besides oil and gas revenues. Perhaps their lush greenery and ancient frankincense trees.

jordanlund ,
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SA is on the list, just ahead of the US, but yeah, I get where you're coming from.

vaultdweller013 ,
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As I understand it they are exceptionally stable and have been building themselves up since the colonial period. The sultan of Oman didnt live in Zanzibar for nothin'.

PanArab ,

No more stable than any other Gulf countries. But they aren’t involved in any proxy wars and always maintained friendly relations with everyone including Iran.

elucubra ,

I live in Spain. I've lived in the US. There is literally no reason to go to the US except to visit of for tourism. Quality of life, and having an excellent health care system, good wather, basically no gun problems (contrary to popular belief, I can own a lot of types of guns, even non-auto assault guns, they are just properly regulated) etc. I'm very employable , and would probably make 2-3 times as much as here, but have no real incentive.

jordanlund ,
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That's the thing most Americans cannot grasp... money isn't everything.

FJT ,

Capitalism is king 👑

FJT ,

Hilarious Canada didn't make the list. Shithole country immigrants keep showing up and that's exactly what happens.

jordanlund ,
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I cut off the list at 173 because I only wanted to show countries higher than the US.

Canada ranks surprisingly lower at 156.40. I'm not sure why. Maybe the temperatures / treatment of first nations people.

TheJims ,

Come to America for Donald Trumps cradle to the grave minimum wage program with zero health care and no retirement.

cabron_offsets ,

“Send me white chicks, Melanie is 20 years past her expiration date!”

Viking_Hippie ,

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?

TomMasz ,
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To them, the US is the shithole country, that's why.

pyrate37 ,

They're not wrong.

No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston ,

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.

Ragnarok314159 ,

You go to work while getting the treatment and hope you don’t run out of sick days.

Or make industrial quantities of meth.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

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.

dhork ,

He's complaining that people don't want to leave countries with socialized health care and more protections for workers? Maybe he is coming to the wrong conclusions about that.

agressivelyPassive ,

Paying 420€ per month at most for comprehensive healthcare and 49€ per month for regional/urban public transportation nationwide is really a chore.

And additionally, I even have to live with the burden of getting my master's degree almost for free! It's horrible over here! I can barely enjoy my 30 vacation days thinking about the situation!

ours ,

And don't you just hate the absurdly low chance of being victim of a violent crime?

If only we figured out if those had any link to the social nets.

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