Relevant Snippets from Trump's 12/9/25 PA Speech
As Kevin pointed out, President Trump gave a speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday during which he attacked Somalis and Rep. Ilhan Omar. I've gone ahead and culled the most relevant words so you don't have to scroll through the transcript of the entire hour and 38 minutes of his speech. In fairness, though, there's still a LOT of immigration content. This is a long one. Buckle in.
This first snippet needs some context. President Trump is talking about Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, appearing on TV to talk about his policies (19:08):
we have the right policy.... We don't have to sell open borders where the whole world is allowed to come into our country from prisons and everyone else. So she's got a little bit easier job.
A short while later (25:30):
Their entire agenda is about robbing working people to fund their far left cronies and give lavish benefits to foreign migrants and illegal aliens. You can't do it. Look, we all have a heart. We don't like what's happening, but when they allow them to come in. We have a border that, by the way, they don't talk about the border. Why didn't you talk about the border anymore? The border is, for months, it's closed. Actually, their people, because they're radical left, their people, their people, radical left, they rate the border and everything. You know how many people came into the border over the last seven months? You know what it is? Zero. Zero. Except for the ones that came in legally, right? Legally.
Then (29:10):
I think open borders are great. Where prisons are emptied into our country, right? Where we have people from all over the world being dumped into our country. The people that aren't wanted in their countries, by the way. Like Somalia...
I love this Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is with the little shing, the little turban. I love her. She comes in. There's nothing but bitch. She's always complained. She comes from her country where, I mean, it's considered about the worst country in the world, right? They have no military. They have no nothing. They have no parliament. They don't know what the hell the word parliament means. They have nothing. They have no police. They police themselves. They kill each other all the time. I love and she comes to our country and she's always complaining about, "The Constitution allows me to do this." We ought to get her to hell out. She married her brother in order to get in, right? She married her brother.
Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister… Beautiful. She's a beautiful person. If I married my sister to get my citizenship, do you think I'd last for about two hours or would it be something less than that? She married her brother to get in. Therefore, she's here illegally. She should get the hell out. Throw her the hell out. She does nothing but complain.
Audience:
Send her back.
Send her back.
Send her back.
Send her back.
Send her back.
Send her back.
So now, and we have our savior in this room. His name is Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. He's right there. ... He is in charge of the investigation of Somalia and the billions of dollars they have robbed from Minnesota, right? I hope you do your job. I hope you're not one of these Republicans where something comes up and they don't do what they should do because they're nicer people. They're much nicer people than the Democrats, but Scott's actually not a nice person at all. So Scott, you're in charge of that investigation? Okay. I'm not interfering at all. I'm just saying, please do a good job, honest and fair, right? Honest and fair.
Oh, if he's honest and fair, you know what he's going to find? It's great. I'd love to have that job. I may switch jobs with you. I'd love to have that job to get them the hell out of here. They hate our country. And she hates our country and her friends hate our country and AOC hates our country. They all do.
(34:08)
Despite the fact that we have many, many bad people entered our country, many of them are being taken out there. Ultimately, they're all being taken out.
(54:50)
Before I entered office, 100% of all new net jobs were going to migrant workers. Think of that. 100% of new jobs were going to migrant. These are government numbers, by the way. These are not Trump numbers. These are government numbers because they say, "Well, did Trump come up with these numbers?" No, I didn't come up. I'm just… Migrant workers and a legal aliens got 100%. But since I took office, 100% of all net job creation has gone to American citizens. How about that? Now, how about that? Even I will give myself a hand. Now think of it. 100% went to American citizens before 100% went to people that came into the country illegally. Again, many of them from prisons, many of them gang members, drug members, Tren de Aragua. More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.
Ah, now that snippet I blogged about a short while back. Anyhoo, moving right along to about at the one hour mark (1:00:04):
And if you look at Norway, they have a section of the North Sea, which in theory isn't as vibrant, and it's a very rich country. They have a tremendous worth because of the North Sea. But UK has to, if they don't go back to oil, I think a lot of bad things are happening to Europe. You know that. Their immigration policies are so bad. They're so bad. Destroying our beautiful Europe. I love Europe. They're destroying Europe and they better do something. I'll give them just some free advice. I'm focused here, but I give them free advice. They better be careful because immigration and energy are going to destroy Europe.
(1:18:25)
A major factor that fueled inflation under Biden was the invasion of 25 million … Think of this… 25 million people came into our country totally unchecked and unvetted, mostly across our southern border. 10 months ago, we inherited the worst border in the history of the world, and now we have the strongest border in the history of our country. We've never had a border that strong.
And people don't talk about it. You notice they don't talk about it. When I ran, when I was running, it was the biggest thing. And before I was running, that's all they talked about, the border, the border, the border. And now I fixed it, and nobody wants to talk about it. Even my people, they say, "Sir, don't put it in your speech." "Why?" "Because nobody cares about the border. You fixed it."
Audience: We do
Donald Trump:
No, but do you know how bad that is? Because they forget what you did. We had a border that was so bad. Everybody, criminals, everybody pouring into our country, anybody.... Venezuela, their entire prison population was dumped into our country. And now we have the tightest border we've ever had. We have one of the strongest borders anywhere in the world.
I would say there's one country that has probably a stronger border. You know who that is? You know who that is? North Korea. North Korea I think has a stronger border. But other than North Korea… North Korea has seven walls of wire, and each of them has a million volts of electricity going through it. So if you get over one, you're dead for the next one. If you get over one, you're in very bad shape. If you get over two, you've set a record. So I don't know. Scott, I think we give North Korea the safest border, don't you agree? But ours is pretty safe.
And I want to thank Pete Hegseth and the military for helping us. And again, for seven months in a row, we've had zero illegal aliens that have been admitted to the United States and [inaudible 01:20:44]. Do you remember when Biden said, "I need legislation to do that"? And I said, "No, all you need is a new president." I didn't get legislation. Scott, did I get legislation? I said, "Close the freaking border right now." And they did it. Because our Border Patrol is incredible, ICE is incredible. That ICE, poor ICE, they take a lot of abuse, but they're the toughest people.
(1:21:40):
Biden and the radical left Democrats turned Pennsylvania into a dumping ground for hundreds of thousands of migrants from the most dysfunctional places on earth, like Somalia, and gave them billions and billions of your taxpayer dollar. But we didn't really give it, it was stolen. And those people should go to jail. Jail. And if they don't go to jail, Scott Bessent is toast. He's toast. I'll tell you, that could be the easiest case. I think it's too easy for you. Just give it to your assistants, they can do that case. These people are crooks. They don't work. 91% unemployment. Okay? It's a scam and it's headed up by the crooked congresswoman.
(1:23:57):
And for the first time in 50 years, we now have reverse migration, which means more jobs, better wages, and higher income for American citizens, not for illegal aliens. And you know what? We all have a heart, we want to take care of people. But these people are getting killed on the walk up. They're dying. They're dying. They have to go through jungles. We don't realize this. They are going through areas that are not … It's not possible to get through some of the areas. They're going through jungles down in the Central America, South America. Some of these areas with snakes, with crocodiles and alligator, they're getting just eaten a lot and they're getting beat up by some of the bad people. Women are being raped.
Remember when I started, I said, "We're going to stop the raping." Women in those caravans, a name conceived of by me. Because it's a caravan, thousands of people, 10, 15, 20,000 people coming up. The women in those caravans are being raped in unprecedented numbers by other people in the caravans. By them not coming, they're not even trying to come now because they know they can't get through. We're doing a tremendous service, because they're not being killed and they're not being raped and they're not… They're staying back in their country where they've been. And they've been taken care of.
I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hell holes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.
Audience: Shithole.
Donald Trump:
I didn't say shithole, you did. Remember I said that to the senators, they came in, the Democrats, they wanted to be bipartisan. So they came in and they said, "This is totally off the record. Nothing mentioned here. We want to be honest." Because our country was going to hell. And we had a meeting. And I said, "Why is it we only take people from shithole countries?" Right? Why can't we have some people from Norway? Sweet and just a few. Let us have a few. From Denmark, do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people. Do you mind? But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. The only thing they're good at is going after ships.
(1:28:59):
If you don't share our values, contribute to our economy and assimilate into our society then we don't want you in our country, we don't want you.
That one is really helpful for me because I talk about the universality of immigration themes–like lack of assimilation—when I teach Chae Chan Ping. I've been using an older quote about assimilation from Trump in 2016. Time to update the slide deck! (Also, President Trump has been re-truthing posts from his base quoting the above statement, further emphasizing its importance.) ** small update: The office White House socials have also emphasized this line. **
The assimilation sentence was followed immediately by this:
I mean, Ilhan Omar, and the people from Somalia, they hate our country. And they think we're stupid people, which actually, when they allow that to happen, they are. That's headed by Governor Waltz, one of the dumber people around. No, but he's given … But think of it, he's given not like peanuts, billions. These are people that don't work in their own country. Their own country's a failure. They have no money there. And yet they come into our country and steal tens of billions of dollars. How stupid are we to allow that to happen? They can't earn 10 cents in their country. They come over here and rob … Are we that easy? Are we that easy to allow a thing like that to happen? That's up to you.
(1:36:45):
After just 10 months, our border is secure....
