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Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US

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?”

mightyfoolish ,

Then explain your father and your current wife.

spalius ,

I am fron Lithuania and I would move to the US as a permanent resident if: It was easier to do so It’s entirely the fault of the US for favoring third world countries over European countries. It’s in their policy.

captainlezbian ,

Yeah I wonder why Danes aren’t flocking here? Must be the lack of bike lanes on the ocean. Can’t possibly be that other developed stable countries offer higher quality of life

Everythingispenguins ,

So are Russians white?

MonkderDritte ,

No way, you’re there.

MapleEngineer ,
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Most majority white countries have better education, better healthcare, better religious and personal freedom, better personal security, lower crime, and better standards of living than the US.

Everythingispenguins ,

So they can’t beat 🎉🎇💥 AMERICA FUCK YEAH 💥🎇🎉

schnurrito ,

Yup. White person from Austria here and while my life is far from perfect, I like having 5 weeks of paid vacation, free healthcare and education, not relying on cars, and many other things I wouldn’t have anymore if I migrated to the US. Maybe Trump should run on a platform of implementing those things in the US.

MapleEngineer ,
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Candian here. No place is perfect. Canada is not perfect. I would never consider moving to the US. I like my freedom too much to give it up.

tiredofsametab ,

A lot of that is why I left the US. Nowhere is perfect, but a lot of things are better for me personally in Japan.

MapleEngineer ,
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So many Americans have never been outside of the US for any length of time. They have no experience with how good things are everywhere else.

FJT ,

He’s right.

PanArab ,

What about the white peoples of the Middle East and North Africa?

Oh wait, you banned them, even if they were Christians.

AnUnusualRelic ,
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I can’t speak for others, but at the moment, even as entertaining as it is, I’d rather watch the US from a safe distance.

dejected_warp_core ,

So would many Americans. Check this out.

perceptions.eu/migration-in-and-from-america-curr…

American emigration to Europe totalled [sic] 3,6 million people in 2005, and 5 million in 2019, whereas Americans emigrating to other countries counted 29,3 million people in 2005 and 40 million people in 2019.

EatATaco ,

Fyi, that article refers to anyone from the Americas as Americans. It does not mean us citizens.

undercrust ,

LMFAO, easy answer - because those countries are demonstrably better than the shit hole that is the United States.

God this fuckin turd just doesn’t shut up and the rest of us are forced to hear about it. Enough already.

FJT ,

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    ben_dover ,

    Why would someone go from a “nice” country to the US? People want to improve their situation

    laughterlaughter ,

    The U.S. is not some homogeneous entity. It’s huge. It has its bad regions, but it also has its awesome regions as well. Just like the U.K.

    13esq ,

    You’re missing the point.

    People don’t up sticks and move across the world for the fun of it. They do it because they seek a better life, the US mostly can’t offer that for people who already live in an advanced country.

    Like wise, if you don’t want immigrants from “shit hole” countries, your options are to help make their own country better so that they won’t want to leave or to make your own country shitter than theirs so that they won’t want to come.

    laughterlaughter ,

    I moved to Germany for the fun of it (you could say that I was seeking a better life, I guess.)

    I’ve also moved across states in the U.S. for the fun it.

    It can happen.

    I’m aware that a whole lot of people do it for different reasons, though.

    And yeah, I find it funny when Americans complain about migrants from, say, Central America. They should learn the role the U.S. played in destabilizing the region in the 80s.

    samus12345 ,
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    or to make your own country shitter than theirs so that they won’t want to come.

    Republicans are certainly trying!

    FJT ,

    Leftists ruin everything. Demonrats destroy it all.

    FJT ,

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    BonesOfTheMoon ,

    But it has no social safety nets really which is what “nice white countries” tend to have. Who wants to move somewhere without universal health care from a place that does?

    And also about half the population is certifiable.

    laughterlaughter ,

    You have a point.

    And no, not half of the population. Maybe half of the voting population. The newer generations are less tolerant of the ongoing GOP bullshit.

    Twice in a row Donald Trump lost the popular vote, by millions of people.

    FJT ,

    Good point, Canada too, stay the fuck out!

    RageAgainstTheRich ,

    Just wanted to say, please move your conservative ass back to twitter or something. We want to keep Lemmy nice 😊

    horse ,

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

    JasonDJ ,

    What? No, we are the greatest country in the world. I know because of 13 years of my youth spent in public school where they kept telling me about it.

    gmtom , (edited )

    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 queers, 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 left most will care about healthcare or vacation time and uprooting their lives more than a better salary.

    mlg ,
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    Not to mention the infara change would feel like such a downgrade.

    Imagine moving to Houston or Atlanta and learning the horror that you must travel to work every single day in a car in traffic for 2-3 hours, and any commercial business is going to be more than a mile away from your home.

    gmtom ,

    Yeah, im on holiday in Dallas right now and its so bad. The nearest convenience store is over an hours walk away, and if I wanted to go to a supermarket its an almost 40 min walk to a bus stop, and a 20 minute bus ride on a bus that comes once per hour.

    seth ,

    Subtitle: “Shithole person excretes another turd.”

    Sam_Bass ,

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

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