Trump calls Somali immigrants garbage four times in seven seconds, says we do not want them

At a White House cabinet meeting on December 2, 2025, President Trump called Somali immigrants "garbage" four times in seven seconds and said "We don't want 'em in our country" five times about the 260,000 Americans of Somali descent. Trump said Somali Americans "come from hell" and "contribute nothing," claiming they do "nothing but bitch" and "their country stinks." He called Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American congresswoman, "garbage" directly. Trump also revived his "shithole countries" characterization of immigrant-sending nations. On December 9-10, he called for "a permanent pause on Third World migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia." These remarks came weeks before an attacker sprayed Omar at a Minneapolis town hall on January 27, 2026 — specifically angered, according to Omar, that Trump's deportations of Somalis were not happening fast enough.