Donald Trump's deplorable fest in Minneapolis Thursday night was as ugly as you would expect given the pressure the monster is under as more of the creepy crawlies of his criminal enterprise are exposed every day. Some of it seemed ad libbed, but the most dangerous and inflammatory part—an attack on U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar—was planned.
"As photos of Omar wearing a headscarf flashed across jumbo screens at the Target Center in the city, Trump ramped up his broadsides against the freshman lawmaker, slamming her as an 'America-hating socialist' and a 'disgrace.'" Organizers had those images queued up, ready to go. "I know the people of Minnesota," Trump said Thursday about her election to Congress. "How the hell did that ever happen? How did it happen? […] How do you have such a person representing you in Minnesota?" Trump said. "I'm very angry at you people right now."
But Trump didn't stop at attacking Omar. He launched into broadsides against the Somali community, more than 52,000 people, in the state. "As you know for many years leaders in Washington brought large numbers of refugees to your state from Somalia without considering the impact on schools and communities and taxpayers," he told the crowd. "You should be able to decide what is best for your own cities and for your own neighborhoods and that's what you have the right to do right now, and believe me, no other president would be doing that."
Trump just kept on it, saying "we will always protect American families first" and that hadn't happened in Minnesota. He said that he would not "allow a violent ideology to take root in our country on our shores" like had happened in Europe. Trump has a special hatred of Somalia, for some reason, raging at officials about why he could just ban refugees from "fucking Somalia." He told the crowd Thursday night that if he wasn't reelected, they would see "unvetted, uncontrolled migration at levels you have never seen before."
Minnesota Democrats responded quickly. Omar tweeted "His hate is no match for our movement." Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded immediately in a tweet: "Immigrants and refugees are welcome in Minneapolis." Sen. Amy Klobuchar tweeted "Immigrants and refugees have helped make our state a wonderful place to live and work—which is far more than this President has done. Stop using immigrants and refugees as political pawns!"