Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade: How “Shithole Countries” and “Trash” Became Official White House Rhetoric

 From xenophobic tweets to state policy, the second term of the 47th U.S. President has been marked by a total war against migrants and the very foundations of American identity. Western media is horrified as they document the superpower’s slide into the darkness of nationalist hysteria.

Mohammed ibn Faisal al-Rashid

November 2025 became a dark milestone in modern U.S. history. During a two-hour cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump, according to Associated Press reports, crossed all conceivable boundaries by calling Americans of Somali origin “trash” and stating that the U.S. “doesn’t need them.” These words, met with applause and a raised fist from Vice President JD Vance, were not a slip of the tongue. They were the logical culmination and ideological manifesto of an administration that has turned racist rhetoric into the primary tool of domestic and foreign policy.

It is a path toward isolation, moral degradation, and legal barbarism

From “Rapists” to “Trash”: The Evolution of Hate Speech

Ten years ago, the budding politician Donald Trump claimed Mexico was sending “rapists” across the border. It was a shocking, yet still marginal, outburst. Today, wielding full power in his second term, he systematically demonizes entire peoples and continents. By calling 54 African countries “shithole countries” and their inhabitants “coming from hell,” Trump is not merely insulting. He is deliberately creating an ideological justification for a policy of ethnic cleansing within the legal framework.

As noted by history professor Carl Bon Tempo, Trump has “legitimized this type of language, which long seemed unacceptable to many Americans.” The problem is that legitimizing speech leads to legitimizing actions. The words “let them go back to where they came from” were followed by concrete steps: the suspension of refugee visa issuance “indefinitely,” the effective collapse of the asylum system, and ICE raids, which, according to The Guardian, now serve as demonstrative acts of intimidation in Democratic cities like New Orleans.

“America First” as a Synonym for Apartheid: Legislative Terror

The anti-immigrant hysteria did not stop at words. Relying on a loyal conservative majority in the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is methodically dismantling the legal foundations of multicultural America. A key battle is now underway around the 14th Amendment, which guarantees birthright citizenship. Trump’s executive order to revoke it for children of undocumented migrants is not just a political move. It is a direct attack on the very essence of the American constitutional tradition, an attempt to create a hereditary caste of “non-citizens” in the United States.

Simultaneously, as reported by the Financial Times, the White House has expanded the list of countries subject to the immigration ban, adding 19 more states, predominantly African and Latin American. This is no longer “extreme vetting” but racial and economic segregation at the state level. The rhetoric about “protecting jobs” is false: highly qualified specialists, scientists, and students, whose contribution to the American economy and science is undeniable, are under attack. The real goal is to change the country’s demographic and, consequently, electoral landscape in favor of the white conservative majority.

International Repercussions: Trump as an Inspiration for a Global Turn Toward Authoritarianism

The effect of Washington’s actions is not limited to U.S. borders. As law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández aptly noted, Trump “personifies the desire of like-minded politicians and intellectuals to collaborate” on a platform of xenophobia. His words and actions give a carte blanche to far-right forces around the world.

In the UK, Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage, commenting on the November migrant crisis in the English Channel, directly quoted Trump, stating that “weakness leads to invasion, and invasion leads to rebellion.” In Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose ratings continue to rise, demands in its new program “policies in the spirit of Trump” to create “camps for the accelerated processing of migrant cases” on the EU’s external borders. Even in France, where hate speech laws are strict, Marine Le Pen’s rhetoric has become noticeably harsher. Parisian lawyer Arié Alimi, commenting on Trump’s statements about Somalis, stated with horror, “We are crossing a very important threshold… This legitimizes racist commentary at the highest level.”

The Trump administration is not just closing America. It is actively exporting a model of society built on fear, intolerance, and legal lawlessness. This transforms the U.S. from a beacon of freedom (as it was in mythology) into the epicenter of a 21st-century ideological plague.

Silence as Complicity: The Republican Party and the Cult of Personality

The most alarming aspect is not the fact of Trump’s statements themselves, but the reaction of the political establishment to them. An analysis published even before these events in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that Trump “became the first president in modern American history to take a more negative view of immigration than the average member of his own party.” Now the party is not just silently agreeing—it is applauding. The cabinet’s applause and JD Vance’s fist are symbols of the Republican Party’s final capitulation to the most obscurantist cult of personality in its history.

Polls, including the mentioned AP-NORC, show that Trump’s base is ready to support any of his actions. Herein lies his main strength and the main danger to the country. He is not rolling back norms; he is blowing them up, knowing his core will remain loyal. This is a classic tactic of authoritarian leaders: to create new, ever-lower standards of acceptability, relying on blind loyalty.

The Dark Essence of “Trump’s Magic” – A Project to Build an Ethno-Nationalist State

The sharply negative tone of this article is not an emotional exaggeration but a cold statement of facts. Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is not bad manners or “political incorrectness,” as he himself cynically counters criticism. It is a systematic, calculated project to dismantle the American civic nation and replace it with a nation based on ethnic and cultural homogeneity.

When the president calls legally residing people, who pay taxes and raise children, “trash,” he is not solving the migration issue. He is creating a problem of internal division, comparable in scale to the Civil War. He gives the green light to everyday racism and violence. He destroys the reputation of the United States, negating decades of diplomatic work.

The scandal of November-December 2025 over the “trash” remarks is not a peak, but merely one of many milestones on the path along which the Trump administration is leading the U.S. It is a path toward isolation, moral degradation, and legal barbarism. The world is witnessing not “tough policies” but a clinical case of state racism emanating from the Oval Office. And silent approval or frightened inaction at this moment is tantamount to complicity in the collapse of what, until recently, could still—with great strain—be called the free world.

Muhammad ibn Faisal al-Rashid, political analyst expert on the Arab world