President Donald Trump recycled a common (for him) insult and resurfaced a fairly consistent grudge in comments he made on Thursday after signing a proclamation removing environmental protections for marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean.
It started with a benign comment complimenting the contributions of farmers and fishermen to the country — and then things took a turn.
“These people built the country, not the complainers. They built the country, whether it’s fishermen, farmers or anything else ... me? Guys like me, they built the country,” Trump proclaimed.
“I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining, they didn’t build anything. They couldn’t build anything,” he continued, before bringing up the state of Minnesota for no discernible reason.
“Look at what’s happened in Minnesota. Somalia, all these people came in from Somalia, they ripped off our system,” he continued, showcasing his longstanding and well-documented disdain for both Minnesota and Somali immigrants in the United States, with a specific fixation on Somali American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
