A desperate Trump puts his racism on full display

Donald Trump necessities to put the phone down at night and get chosen sleep After spending three hours Monday night manically sharing more than bizarre posts on Truth Social he spent most of of Tuesday s televised cabinet meeting struggling to stay awake and he lost the battle more than once This was just the the bulk newest example of his flagging resource and focus But he woke right up when it came time for him to rant about immigrants It s hard to know if Trump is exclusively ratcheting up his deportation strategy to distract from his low poll numbers and a foreign approach that seems increasingly beyond his comprehension or if this escalation is a specific strategy push by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller What s clear is that the administration has entered a new phase in its plan to rid the nation of immigrants What started out as a campaign promise to deport the worst of the worse gang members like MS- and Tren de Aragua has progressed to a full scale purge of any non-white non-citizen Trump is now even talking about denaturalization and re-migration two terms that are right out of the Great Replacement Theory playbook Related Sorry Trump isn t a lame duck yet After the shooting of two National Guard soldiers on Nov in Washington D C allegedly by an Afghan national who worked for a CIA-run counterterrorism group Trump seized on the crime as an excuse to target Afghan refugees particularly those who had come into the country following the American withdrawal in At the time a multitude of Republicans were highly critical of Joe Biden s administration for not allowing more Afghans to emigrate and using the alleged failure as yet another cudgel with which to batter Biden for fulfilling the agreement that Trump had signed before he left office The shooting by what appears to be a mentally ill refugee opened the door for more criticism of Biden and a pledge to send Afghan refugees back to where they came from This isn t the first time Trump has targeted legal immigrants for removal There s no reason for it This isn t the first time Trump has targeted legal immigrants for removal The administration has already withdrawn Temporary Protected Status from Afghanistan Cameroon Haiti Honduras Nepal Nicaragua Syria and Venezuela and are in the process of deporting those who are already here under that initiative although there is still litigation pending There s no reason for it Like so various of the immigrants who are being harassed and abducted on the streets by Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with Customs and Perimeter Patrol every day they have been working and contributing to our society But Trump has arbitrarily decided they have to go When speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Thanksgiving the day after the shooting he pivoted from his attacks on Afghan immigration to railing against Somalians as well They are ripping off our country he noted pledging we re not going to put up with these kind of assaults on law and order by people who shouldn t even be in our country When a confused reporter requested what Somalians had to do with the Afghan suspect the president blithely replied nothing but Somalians have caused a lot of trouble and then insulted Rep Ilhan Omar D-Minn He continued that theme in his crude late-night Thanksgiving message on Truth Social that characterized Somalians in Minnesota as roving gangs looking for prey as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone Want more Amanda Marcotte on politics Sign up for her free newsletter Standing Room Only now also on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts The president had apparently been exposed to an article by Christopher Rufo one of the right s greater part celebrated propagandists who co-wrote an hysterical article claiming that Somalians had been committing welfare fraud and sending the proceeds to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab which has not been authenticated That s exactly the kind of charge that makes Trump automatically reach for collective punishment Unsurprisingly in the aftermath of Trump s comments Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem has jumped on the majority up-to-date xenophobic bandwagon head first calling for a full tour ban on every damn country that s been flooding our nation with killers leeches and entitlement junkies The country s founders and forefathers she disclosed built this nation on blood sweat and the unyielding love of freedom not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS WE DON T WANT THEM NOT ONE On Monday the administration disclosed it had paused all immigration applications from countries it has already restricted from progress to the U S and is now halting citizenship and green card processing for all of them White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt communicated the administration is halting all refugee admissions except for white South Africans whom they have deemed to be the casualties of racial discrimination Trump also banned the country from the G summit due to its alleged oppression of white citizens We need your help to stay independent Subscribe nowadays to endorsement Heather Digby Parton s commentary Trump s comments at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday put his racism and xenophobia on full incontrovertible display We keep taking in garbage into our country he revealed Ilhan Omar is garbage She s garbage Her friends are garbage when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but b h we don t want them in our country Let them go back to where they came from and fix it Vice President JD Vance pounded the table and the Cabinet burst into applause Noem pledged to deploy ICE to Minnesota to root out the Somali- Americans she proposes fraudulently obtained their citizenship Imagine what it s like to be a Somali-American in current times Your president is calling you garbage on national television and his Cabinet applauds the sentiment The establishment is sending masked thugs into your neighborhood to hunt you down You thought this was your country and now you re being informed it isn t Imagine what it s like to be any immigrant in America right now Read more about this topic MAGA s war on empathy was started by a woman The Trump train and its conductor are losing steam ICE upends Dallas Muslim population with detention of local leader The post A desperate Trump puts his racism on full display appeared first on Salon com