Trump's speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants from 'filthy' countries
Source: AP
MOUNT POCONO, Pa. (AP) — On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Donald Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, yet the issue that has damaged his popularity couldn’t quite command his full attention. The president told the crowd gathered at a casino and resort in Mount Pocono that inflation was no longer a problem and that Democrats had used the term “affordability” as a “hoax” to hurt his reputation. But his remarks weaved wildly to include grievances he first raised behind closed doors in his first term in 2018 — and later denied saying — asking why the U.S. doesn’t have more immigrants from Scandinavia.
“Why is it we only take people from s—-hole countries, right?” Trump said onstage. “Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?” Trump said he objected to taking immigrants from “hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries.” He added for emphasis that those places “are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”
Tuesday’s gathering in the swing state — and in a competitive House district — was an official White House event, yet it seemed more like one of his signature campaign rallies that his chief of staff said he would hold regularly ahead of next year’s midterms. But instead of being in an arena that could draw several thousand attendees, it was held in a conference center ballroom at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, a small town of about 3,000 residents.
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Countries with well regulated capitalism and strong social programs and lefty civil rights for gays/women? Hmm....
like ignoring the high prices of their Christmas presents, housing, food, health care, etc. and winding up hate for immigrants. I guess MAGA isn't making affordability great again?
Where are the jobs numbers and other official economic reports? hmm... Maybe the immigrants stole those reports too after stealing the jobs and buying up all the houses.
to spew that garbage to a large "cross section" of Americans.
In 2023-24 alone, the region had seen a surge in high end properties with 14 homes priced over one million dollars that sold that year alone.
The coward spoke to a handpicked crowd in the Mt. Airy CASINO in the Pocanos, for pete's sake! 