"It was very dehumanizing and it's very unpresidential coming from the commander in chief of the United States to dehumanize and to you to dehumanize a whole entire community by calling them garbage and this is not acceptable by any means, Fiqy, who campaigned for Trump in Minnesota, said."
"They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you. Some will say that is not politically correct.' I don't care. Their country is no good for a reason."
"The reason why this decision came about is because it was long simmering, it was dragging from ever since the president got elected. I was monitoring his performance in many fronts and he seems not delivering on the promises that he promised the country or the the people that actually voted for him. So and the last [thing] that broke the camel back was when he called when he called Somali community as a garbage."
Salman Fiqy, a Somali American who campaigned for Trump in Minnesota, withdrew support for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party after Trump called Somalis "garbage" during a televised Cabinet meeting. The Cabinet remarks followed a New York Times report alleging some Somalis in Minnesota participated in a fraud scheme that cost more than $1 billion in taxpayer money. Fiqy described the comments as dehumanizing and unpresidential and ended his ties with the Minnesota GOP for failing to defend the Somali community. Fiqy cited long-simmering dissatisfaction with Trump’s performance and unfulfilled promises, calling the Somali remark the final straw.
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