Trump Criticized For Calling U.S. ‘A Garbage Can For The World’

Former President Donald Trump was criticized on social media for saying that the United States is a “garbage can” nation. 

“When [Vice President] Kamala Harris came in, she deliberately dismantled our border and threw open the gates,” Trump claimed during a campaign rally in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday. 

“She threw them open – the gates to an invasion of criminal migrants from prisons and jails from insane asylums and mental institutions from all over the world, from Venezuela, to the Congo in Africa,” he added. “A lot of people are coming out of the Congo, not just South America. They’re coming from 181 countries as of yesterday.

“We’re a dumping ground,” he claimed. “We’re like a – we’re like a garbage can for the world. That’s what’s happened – that’s what’s happened to – we’re like a garbage can. 

“You know, it’s the first time I’ve ever said – said that,” Trump shared. “And every time I come up and talk about what they’ve done to the country, I get angrier and angrier. First time I’ve ever said garbage can but you know what, it’s a very accurate description.”

The former president soon received backlash from X users over his remarks.

“How THE F— does MAGA accept this fucking rhetoric from Donald Trump,” the user @jeremyfromga asked on X.

“Donald Trump’s disrespect for this nation and what it stands for couldn’t be clearer,” another user, @American_Bridge, wrote on the platform.

“The man running to lead our nation publicly called the USA ‘The garbage can of the world,'” @Damaan4u33 wrote post. “When has anyone ever heard a U.S. presidential candidate bash his own country before this mofo’er came along? Fuck Donald Trump and anyone stupid enough to vote for the no-good P–!”

Trump also received backlash from Harris, who stated on CNN that his remark at the Arizona rally is “just another example of how he really belittles our country.”

“This is someone who is a former president of the United States, who has a bully pulpit,” she noted. “And this is how he uses it? To tell the rest of the world that somehow the United States of America is trash?”

“And, I think, again, the President of the United States should be someone who elevates discourse and talks about the best of who we are and invests in the best of who we are – not someone like Donald Trump who’s constantly demeaning and belittling who the American people are,” the vice president declared.

Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung defended the 45th U.S. president’s remarks while arguing that Harris had been responsible for illegal migrants treating America contemptuously.

“Kamala Harris has allowed terrorists and criminals into our country, and they have wreaked havoc on Americans and communities across the country,” Cheung wrote. “They have killed, raped, and terrorized citizens and have treated our country with disdain.”

During a fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, Trump complained that the United States has not been receiving immigrants from “nice countries” like Denmark and Switzerland.

The former president was slammed for claiming that migrants are being released from “insane asylums” to the U.S. during his speech at his New Jersey campaign rally on May 11.