Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Should Presidents Call Groups of People Garbage? – HotAir

December 3, 2025
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I absolutely, positively believe that the world would be a better place if we spoke the truth bluntly, but avoided insults, nicknames, and hyperbole when discussing public policy. 





Yeah, well, we don’t live in that world. Instead, we live in a world where pendulums swing between extremes, sometimes dancing around uncomfortable facts and using ambiguous language to hide them, and other times using obnoxious insults and exaggerations to make our points. 

People paint with broad brushes, use imprecise language to shape the intellectual battlefield to favor their points, and, unsurprisingly, are total hypocrites when decrying the abuse of language by their political opponents. 

“Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, ‘let’s go, come on. Let’s make this place great.’ These are people that do nothing but complain.”

“When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but b—- — we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.”





Liberals are having a hissy fit over Trump calling Somali migrants “garbage,” although if you parse his words, one could argue that he wasn’t claiming that all Somali migrants are garbage people, but rather that, as a class of people, the group is garbage. 

All true. Are we supposed to pretend otherwise just to spare sensibilities?

Yeah, well, that is slicing and dicing the language to try to make the language sound just a tiny bit better. 

The thing is, liberals do exactly this sort of thing all the time, too. In fact, one could argue that they pioneered it in the modern political atmosphere after the more genteel postwar era, if you can call it that. Every Republican has been a fascist or a Nazi, their supporters racists and homophobes, and religious folks are “bitter clingers” or “deplorables.”





Can you even imagine a past President at any time in U.S. history publicly calling Jews or Italians or Poles in America “garbage,” saying “they contribute nothing,” admitting that “I don’t want them in our country,” and urging them to “go back to where they came from?” You can’t. But here we are in 2025, with a President who proudly spreads this hateful poison about one particular nationality. It’s pure bigotry. Shameful, ugly, and un-American. 

Biden called Trump supporters “garbage” last year.Calling a group of people garbage is dehumanizing and no political leader should do it. It would have been better — and entirely accurate — for Trump to have said that as a group Somalis take from the US far more than they contribute, and that they are probably the single-worst immigrant group in all of the West.I don’t see how it’s arguable that the US (and every European nation) would have been better off if Somalis had stayed in Somalia.

It’s not the style that is different, but the targets of the opprobrium. As a rule, Democrats hate flag-wavers and traditional Christians, while elevating criminals, drag queens, “Queers,” “sex workers,”  drug addicts, illegal aliens, and any class they consider “oppressed.” Rioters in the streets who are assaulting people, occupying buildings, demanding that we “globalize the Intifada,” and pooping in the streets are heroes, while the people who just want their kids learning how to read and write without being propagandized and subjected to sexual harassment in bathrooms and sports are bigots. 





So spare me the outrage. 

Do I think the world would be a better place if we replaced all the insults with dispassionate and fact-filled dialogue about how to improve society and what the balance between tolerance and compassion and enforcing the laws and norms? Sure. 

But be real. All the obscurantist language that hides uncomfortable facts makes that impossible, and the steady stream of insults from liberals aimed at conservatives finally broke the dam among us and encouraged us to be blunt, and sometimes too blunt. 





I don’t believe that all Somalis are “garbage,” but it is manifest that their culture encourages them to be, and that the culture is “garbage.” And because liberals are afraid to say that, we get situations like this:

Everybody knows why Somalis are the ones committing massive fraud in Minnesota. It’s no secret, even to the liberals who claim otherwise. When a Somali commits a rape, the entire community rallies around him. A Somali migrant who lived here for two decades raped a 12-year-old girl, and the excuse the Somali community—who are given tongue baths all the time by politicians in Minnesota—explain that it is just his culture. 

Yeah, model citizen. 

Claims of racism are used to divert attention from an inescapable fact: Somalis come from a low-trust, clan-dominated, corruption-ridden society. The whole reason why they are refugees here is because of that. The Somali refugees escaped because they lost what amounted to a clan war. Ilhan Omar’s father was an official in the Somali government who lost a civil war—they were a clan aligned with communists, and they were kicked out by other clans who wanted power. She openly campaigns in Somali communities based on her allegiance to her people in Somalia, speaking in Somali. 





They are quite open among each other that they live in America to plunder it, and ship our tax money that they stole to continue the clan wars in their home country. 

This is hardly unique to the Somali communities. In Dearborn, the Muslim mayor explained to one of his citizens that he looks forward to the day he can escort one of his critics out of the city. 

The insults hurled back and forth are a consequence of the injection of low-trust values into what used to be a high-trust society, and the reason why that has happened is that liberals worked hard to import third-worlders with third-world values here. They now demand that others sit down, shut up, and pretend that it isn’t happening. 





Third-world countries are third-world because they are garbage societies. No, Haiti is not great already. No, Somalia is not heaven on Earth. Quit pretending otherwise, and we can reason together about the best way to handle the influx of migrants who are harming our society. 

If we can’t do that rationally, then insults it is. It is the only way to get the point across. I wish it weren’t so, but unless liberals drop the gaslighting and quit insulting us for trying to discuss the situation rationally, the best we can do is escalate. 


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