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?”
Why would they leave countries with a higher standard of living and universal health care?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-of-living-by-country
Iceland 191.10
Denmark 190.60
Finland 188.10
Switzerland 185.80
Oman 184.80
Austria 183.30
Norway 181.80
Spain 177.70
Estonia 176.40
Germany 176.00
Japan 175.50
Sweden 174.80
United Arab Emirates 173.80
United States 173.00I live in Spain. I’ve lived in the US. There is literally no reason to go to the US except to visit of for tourism. Quality of life, and having an excellent health care system, good wather, basically no gun problems (contrary to popular belief, I can own a lot of types of guns, even non-auto assault guns, they are just properly regulated) etc. I’m very employable , and would probably make 2-3 times as much as here, but have no real incentive.
That’s the thing most Americans cannot grasp… money isn’t everything.
Capitalism is king 👑
Hilarious Canada didn’t make the list. Shithole country immigrants keep showing up and that’s exactly what happens.
I cut off the list at 173 because I only wanted to show countries higher than the US.
Canada ranks surprisingly lower at 156.40. I’m not sure why. Maybe the temperatures / treatment of first nations people.
Wow what does Oman have going on over there?
Petrodollars. :)
Nowhere as much as Qatar or Saudi Arabia, yet they aren’t on the list. UAE should be higher up than Oman too but it isn’t.
Perhaps what helps Oman are other things besides oil and gas revenues. Perhaps their lush greenery and ancient frankincense trees.
SA is on the list, just ahead of the US, but yeah, I get where you’re coming from.
As I understand it they are exceptionally stable and have been building themselves up since the colonial period. The sultan of Oman didnt live in Zanzibar for nothin’.
No more stable than any other Gulf countries. But they aren’t involved in any proxy wars and always maintained friendly relations with everyone including Iran.
He’s complaining that people don’t want to leave countries with socialized health care and more protections for workers? Maybe he is coming to the wrong conclusions about that.
Paying 420€ per month at most for comprehensive healthcare and 49€ per month for regional/urban public transportation nationwide is really a chore.
And additionally, I even have to live with the burden of getting my master’s degree almost for free! It’s horrible over here! I can barely enjoy my 30 vacation days thinking about the situation!
Without the privilege of crushing debt and social unrest? Inconceivable! You poor bastards!
- Murica
Fun Fact: the Reaganites literally decided to create student debt to stop poor people from having higher expectations from life
I consolidated my AR15 and new Ford F350 into one EZ loan of 29.99% APR and 297 months! Yeeehaw!!!
Calm down, ARs are very affordable.
Unless you want all the options…
And you’re a damn commie if’n you don’t. Might as well buy an AK!
Actually, yeah, toss an AK on there too, they’re pretty fun.
Gotta buy the AK to blast the commies with their our bullets!
Not getting shot and being able to buy real bread is another bonus!
And don’t you just hate the absurdly low chance of being victim of a violent crime?
If only we figured out if those had any link to the social nets.
Best I can do is an armed wellness check. How many firearms should I tell the police you have?
at least 1500 lbs of firearms and a gundam
This fool doesn’t lose his Gundam in the pond
Sure, but how many dozens of guns can you buy immediately with just a simple background check missing tons of information?
Barely any. It’s a shame.
I can barely enjoy my 30 vacation days thinking about the situation!
Username checks out.
What I’m hearing is that if an all out war is accepted in Europe, Trump gets white refugees.
Well they have to be really white though, not like those lazy Spaniards, Italians or Greeks. Should probably leave the Catholics out of it, too, and maybe the Irish for that matter. Do Portuguese count? 🤔 /s
As a person from Denmark; I’m fine thanks.
Ditto from Norway. I’m visiting you tomorrow, though.
You can’t even get a decent kamelåså in the USA.
Well, you just bought 1000 liters of milk
I was actually asked by one of my old bosses, an American lady, why I didn’t leave the impending doom that is Switzerland.
I guess I prefer my godless wasteland with a highly functional public transportation system and our guns very reasonably regulated (we can actually buy more kinds of guns and more easily that the US).
Yeah, Denmark and Norway have populations of between 5.5 and 5.9 million. Of that 11 or so million, in 2023, a total of less than 30 thousand citizens decided to leave. And I would be willing to bet that the majority of those leaving went to one of the following countries: Norway, Denmark or Sweden.
You could double my income, even triple.
…and I still wouldn’t risk rising my children in the US.
Not a fucking chance…
I think the same… And I live in Canada, we don’t have it as good as Denmark or Switzerland but still…
I honestly only go to the States for short visits I dread, because we have family there… Otherwise I wouldn’t even visit
Canada is a shithole, you’ve been brainwashed to accept that it is not.
Literally, had to make this decision four years ago.
In the end I went to the German branch of the same tech company and only made 1/4 the money I would have in the US.
However, because it was a US company they made me do the “what to do when there’s a shooter in the workplace” training course anyway. No regrets about not going.
I remember sth about german students from US colleges having to had back over Visa struggles when Trump was in power
Could it be that America was the “shithole country” all along? 🤔
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.
Subtitle: “Shithole person excretes another turd.”
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.
So they can’t beat 🎉🎇💥 AMERICA FUCK YEAH 💥🎇🎉
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.
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.
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.
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.
We have reached the point of straight up, mask-off white supremacy (again…)
Bout damn time. Make America great again
What about the white peoples of the Middle East and North Africa?
Oh wait, you banned them, even if they were Christians.
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
I mean, not that it would be bad to have more people. Interracial marriages produce the best looking babies!
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.
despite facing 88 criminal charges
Who here wanna bet that Stephen Miller advised him do do a couple more or fewer in order to land at his favorite number?
Lmao it can’t be an accident.
It was at 91 last I heard so if they’ve only gone through 3 in 4 years he’ll be 200 by the time they’re done
