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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?”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Then explain your father and your current wife.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

So are Russians white?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No way, you're there.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So would many Americans. Check this out.

https://www.perceptions.eu/migration-in-and-from-america-current-statistics/

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

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