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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14051533

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?”

  • OneWomanCreamTeamEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    Why would they want to immigrate here? We don’t even have a functioning healthcare system.

    • scoobford@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Seriously. Compared to other developed nations, we do not have our shit together.

      Now if you’re moving from Brazil, Kazakhstan, India, or Russia, I kind of get it. I wouldn’t say our country is better, but there are pro’s and con’s to consider.

      • OneWomanCreamTeamEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        For real. If I got a choice of where to live, the US would be about as low on the list as a developed nation is gonna get.

  • assembly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    If Denmark or Norway would let me in, I would be moving there. I see no reason why they would want to move here.

  • OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    I’ve always wondered if other countries get sold a “Dream” like here in America. Is there a “Dutch Dream”, a “Swiss Dream” or even a “French Dream”?. I’d imagine an average day in Holland beats the American Dream most days of the week.