Former President Donald Trump told donors at a fundraiser this weekend that he wanted immigrants from “nice” countries “like Denmark” to travel to the United States and vowed to extend his controversial tax cuts for rich Americans if he’s elected to the White House later this year.

The New York Times first reported Trump’s remarks about immigrants from his high-dollar fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend. Trump spoke to guests at a mansion owned by a billionaire financier and appeared to defend his controversial 2018 remarks where he called certain nations — including Haiti and some in Africa — “shithole countries.”

“And when I said, you know, Why can’t we allow people to come in from nice countries, I’m trying to be nice,” Trump told donors, the Times reported. “Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?”

“And you know, they took that as a very terrible comment, but I felt it was fine.”

  • Matt
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    142 months ago

    Why would people from Denmark, Switzerland, or Norway want to live in the US? I’m sure the US ranks lower in most metrics against them 😟. He’s literally just listing countries he believes are majority white.

  • @Furbag
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    112 months ago

    People from nice countries probably don’t want to live here anyway.

    • Sabata11792
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      52 months ago

      I wish I had a way out to a nice country but they don’t want you unless your already rich or can land a rich guy job.

  • Drusas
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    62 months ago

    And then they’ll all complain about the budget deficit, so they’ll take necessary programs away from the rest of the country, while of course not lowering taxes for the people losing those programs.