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Somalis responded with a mix of resentment and resignation on Wednesday to President Donald Trump’s tirade against them in which he said their country “stinks” and the US did not want their emigrants.
Trump’s heated remarks on Tuesday followed a scandal in the state of Minnesota, where prosecutors say around $1 billion had been lost largely through false billing by Somali Americans.
“It is not the first time that President Trump spoke negatively about Somalia and the Somali people, but this time his offences are unacceptable. It is high time that the Somali government breaks its silence and tells Trump to stop insulting Somalia,” Daud Bare, a grocer in the city’s Waberi district, told AFP.
Sumaya Hassan Ali, a 23-year-old university student, said Trump’s comments were “rude”.
“Every country has its own faults, even America,” she said. “We know that many people are being killed in American cities every year, sometimes more than those killed in Somalia.”
In a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the US president accused Somali migrants of being ungrateful, saying “we don’t want them in our country” and in Somalia “, they have nothing, they just run around killing each other.”
The Somali government has said nothing about the outburst, likely worried about offending a key provider of defence and humanitarian aid, even though the support has dwindled under the Trump administration.
