"The president told the crowd gathered at a casino and resort in Mount Pocono that inflation was no longer a problem and that Democrats had used the term "affordability" as a "hoax" to hurt his reputation. But his remarks weaved wildly to include grievances he first raised behind closed doors in his first term in 2018 and later denied saying asking why the U.S. doesn't have more immigrants from Scandinavia."
""Why is it we only take people from s-hole countries, right?" Trump said onstage. "Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?" Trump said he objected to taking immigrants from "hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries." He added for emphasis that those places "are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.""
"Tuesday's gathering in the swing state and in a competitive House district was an official White House event, yet it seemed more like one of his signature campaign rallies that his chief of staff said he would hold regularly ahead of next year's midterms. But instead of being in an arena that could draw several thousand attendees, it was held in a conference center ballroom at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, a small town of about 3,000 residents."
President Donald Trump told a Mount Pocono audience that inflation was no longer a problem and accused Democrats of using "affordability" as a hoax to harm his reputation. He shifted into questions about immigration, asking why the U.S. does not accept more people from Scandinavia and repeating derogatory language about taking people from "s-hole" countries. He named "hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries" and called them "filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime." The event was an official White House gathering resembling a campaign rally held in a casino ballroom. The White House presented a chart comparing price increases under Joe Biden and Trump to counter voter concern about inflation.
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