9 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he tells struggling voters ‘purchase your children fewer toys’ in racist rant
Last night was the first stop of Donald Trump’s “affordability tour”. He kicked it off by telling voters they were imagining higher prices, and they should just buy fewer toys for their kids – before unleashing a vile racist rant
Donald Trump has kicked off a tour of the United States focusing on “Affordability”, after polling suggested he was wildly out of touch with public opinion on the cost of living . And in front of the first crowd he gave a speech to, he branded “affordability” a “hoax” and blamed high prices on Joe Biden. So that’s all going well.
The live streamed footage of the event might have given the impression that his speech was delivered to the same kind of capacity crowd in a cavernous arena that he did in the campaign. Not the case. This rally was delivered to a few hundred rabid supporters in a medium sized casino function room. Like Motley Crue hauling their full upside-down drumkit rig around when they struggle to sell out a student’s union.
And he went on to treat those supporters to a rampantly racist speech, somehow ramping up his already vile rhetoric about people of Somali heritage and confirming a gross Oval Office outburst he’s denied for years was, in fact, true.
Meanwhile in Trumpworld
- Trump gives racist speech to roaring crowd
- He admits “s***holes” slur
- He accused the NYT of sedition
- One of the guys standing behind him is a real character
- He tells struggling Americans to buy fewer toys for their kids
Here’s everything you need to know
1. Trump gives racist speech to roaring crowd
In front of the cheering crowd in Pennsylvania, Trump gave one of the most openly, proudly racist speeches given by anyone in the modern history of the United States.
Taking aim at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who is a United States citizen of Somali descent: “I love this Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is with the little turban [sic]. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch.
“She is always complaining. She comes from a country where it’s considered about the worst country in the world. I mean, they have no military, they have no parliament, they don’t know what the hell the world parliament means, they have nothing. They have no police. They police themselves, they kill each other all the time. I love that she comes to our country and she’s always complaining about ‘The constitution allows me to do this’. ” Ms Omar came to the US in 1995, aged 17. She entered the country as a refugee, with her family, before being granted citizenship in 2000.
“We ought to get her the hell out,” Trump ranted, before repeating a vile, racist, baseless conspiracy theory about the Congresswoman. She married her brother in order to get in,” he said. “Can you imagine if Trump married his sister? She is here illegally. Throw her the hell out.” Ms Omar is not in the US illegally. She was granted citizenship several years before her first (legal) marriage, to a Somali British man named Ahmed Hirsi – who was not a US citizen, and so could not have helped her “get in” the country. Other versions of the conspiracy theory claim Ms Omar married Mr Hirsi (who racists still claim without evidence is her brother), in order to get him a green card or citizenship. Problem there is if he was her brother, he would have automatically had access to a green card and a route to citizenship as a sibling of a US citizen. There would be no need for anyone to marry anyone.
Later in the speech, Trump asks (for some reason) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to “look into” Ilhan Omar’s “brother” – by which he presumably meant her ex-husband. “Whatever happened to her brother, by the way? Is he still…? He went low. He went low. He’s not happy. Would you look into him too, Scott? Find out the brother.” He will have a job. Ahmed Hirsi, who split from Omar in October 2019, left the United States and moved back to the UK. Which is a weird thing for someone to do if their aim is to fraudulently gain US citizenship. Trump’s speech was punctuated by chants of “send her back” from the audience.
2. He finally admitted to calling poor countries “s***holes”
Donald Trump finally admitted to referring to poor countries as “s***holes” during a 2017 meeting in the Oval Office. The Washington Post reported at the time that Trump had grown frustrated with lawmakers who floated the idea of restoring protections for immigrants as part of a bipartisan immigration deal. According to the Post, Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador and African countries, saying: “Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries come here?” Trump denied the comments, saying: “No, I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”
But Trump, on stage in Pennsylvania finally admitted to making the remarks, word for word as they were reported in 2018. “I’ve also announced a permanent pause on 3rd world migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries,” he said. Someone in the crowd shouted out “s***holes.” Trump laughed and said: “I didn’t say s**hole, you did.” Then he confirmed the story was true: “I said that to the senators, the Democrats, so they came in and they said this is totally off the record … I said, ‘Why is it we only take people from s***hole countries. We can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few.'”
3. Stephen Miller also did a racism on TV
Not to be outdone, Stephen Miller, the White House’s deputy prince of darkness, went on Fox last night and rolled out a time-honoured racist trope. “If you subtract immigration out of test scores,” he said of the US education system, “all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket.” He went on to apply the same evidence-free claim to healthcare and violent crime. It’s not true for any of the issues Miller mentioned. In fact, immigrants in the US are less likely to commit violent crime than US-born citizens. Neither is the US in a violent crime crisis. Crime rates fell about 71% from 1993 to 2022, and after a short spike in homicides during the pandemic, have continued to fall.
4. Trump accuses The New York Times of sedition and treason for saying he looks tired
Trump went on a lengthy and exceptionally unhinged Truth Social rant, seemingly in response to The New York Times’ bombshell revelation that Trump, 79, looks knackered and is slowing down a bit. After apparently confirming that he’d taken another “Cognitive Examination” – this time “in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know” – which he “ACED” – he turned his fire against the Gray Lady.
“Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before,” he wrote. “I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.”
“They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologise on much of what they wrote.”
The New York Times has not apologised for its coverage of Donald Trump. Trump has made this claim before, and the Times issued a statement saying it was “false”. Trump went on: “The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information.” Obviously Trump having a pop at the media is nothing new. However his use of “treason” and “sedition” is a little unnerving, given his recent suggestion that those crimes are worthy of the death penalty.
5. ‘Trump for king’ guy standing behind him
Funny story. There was a guy standing behind Trump at last night’s rally wearing a green MAGA hat. His name is Edward X Young. I met him at Trump’s birthday tank parade in June. He told me he’d been to dozens of Trump rallies over the years, including on January 6th.
He told me he hopes Trump stands again in 2028, and wants to see him installed as King for life.
“I think the Democrats have destroyed our democratic process with elections,” Edward said. “They’ve corrupted it so bad. Let’s face it, this is the greatest President in the history of our country….I want Trump for king.” Fun fact, Edward is also an actor, specialising in grindcore horror. His credits include “Maggots”, “60 Seconds to Die” and “Attack of the Killer Chickens: The Movie”.
6. Trump admits one of the wars he’s ‘stopped’ is actually still happening
Trump admitted during his speech that one of the “eight wars” he had “ended” was in fact still happened.
“I hate to say this,” he said. “But one named Cambodia/Thailand, it started up today, tomorrow I’m going to have to make a phone call. Who else could say I could make a phone call and stop a war of two very powerful countries – Thailand and Cambodia, are really going.”
Nobody, Donald. Including you, apparently. As we reported yesterday, concerns are also rising about a surge of violence in the Rwanda-Congo conflict, which Trump also claims to have ended. In a joint statement released on Tuesday, members of the International Contact Group for the Great Lakes expressed “profound concern” over recent developments in Congo’s South Kivu region where new deadly violence blamed on the Rwandan-backed M23 militia group has exploded in recent days.
The group, which includes Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and the European Union, urged all sides “to uphold their commitments under the Washington Accords of 4 December 2025 and immediately deescalate the situation.”
7. Affordability is a hoax
Given Trump is out on tour ostensibly to change the public’s impression that Trump isn’t actually at all interested in reducing the cost of living and making life more affordable for voters, Trump spent an oddly long time declaring the concept of “affordability” a “hoax”.
He rolled out a graph claiming it showed “Biden price increases” and “Trump prices” going down. “It’s a hoax,” he claimed. “And I can’t say affordability hoax because I agree the prices were too high. I can’t call it a hoax because they will misconstrue that… Our prices are coming down tremendously.”
All of which will surely be reassuring to people who actually shop for groceries, and can see with their own eyes that prices are not, in fact, coming down.
8. Trump admits his tariffs mean your kids can have fewer toys
Trump suggested that his tariffs were so important that the American people should be fine with “giving up” certain products in order for them to succeed.
Including toys for their kids, which is a bold thing to say this close to Christmas.
“You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils,” he said.
“They only need 1 or 2. They don’t need that many. You always need steel. You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we’re doing things right.”
9. Rubio says State Department’s typeface is woke, and demands everyone use Times New Roman
Meanwhile, Marco Rubio has decided the State Department’s typeface is woke, according to the New York Times. During the Biden administration, the department switched its body text font from Times New Roman to Calibri, a sans typeface which is more readable for people with disabilities, including low vision and dyslexia, and people who use screen readers. Rubio has decided this sop to diversity in the workforce was a step too far, and that the “informal” Calibri should be immediately reverted to the far more boring Times New Roman. Switching back, he said in a memo, would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.”
