In a Remarkable Post, President Trump Concedes that Undocumented Migrants Play an Essential Role in Our Economy, Yet Still Blames Biden
On June 12th, Donald Trump took to Truth Social for an atypical post. After a solid decade viciously scapegoating undocumented migrants as rapists, murderers, drug dealers and rapists who will happily rape your wife, steal your job and collect millions in welfare and food stamps, Trump came to the staggering realization that, actually, some of the people he derides as a cancer killing our country from inside have worth.
His exact words on the subject were, "Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!"
One of Trump’s trademarks as a Commander-in-Chief is that he never listens and he never learns. He’s a stubborn old narcisisst who never admits when he’s wrong.
That has thankfully changed at least a little in his second term.
Trump’s prevaricatng ways have won him the mocking nickname TACO Trump, for Trump Always Chickens Out.
After brashly announcing that he’d be levying massive tariffs on everything from everyone in a way that will somehow make our country unbelievably wealthy and powerful, Trump has been forced to continually back down.
Sky-high tariffs were delayed and slashed when they did not generate the massive windfall Trump expected. It’s one thing to antagonize the powerless, to depict “transgender for everyone” as a terrible cultural ill and folks who cross the border without our enthuiastic consent as a wave of violent criminals out to destroy us.
But when your bullheaded stupidity and inability to concede that you’re wrong start costing rich people money, things change dramatically.
Trump’s idiotic tariff talk cost a LOT of rich people money, but the enormous costs involves hit people at every econmic level. Trump’s tacky tariffs complicated his relationship with former “First Buddy” Elon Musk, who, just a few months ago, was so enraptured with Trump that he probably wanted to be buried in the same coffin with Trump when the time comes. They’re both big dudes, so it would have to be a VERY large coffin but they could both certainly pay for it.
Trump has chickened out on tariffs. He’s chickened out on punishing Musk harshly for calling for his impeachment and saying that he’s on the Epstein List because he still needs Musk, his money, his following and his support, just as Musk can’t afford to alienate MAGA the way he has the entire American left, AKA the people who bought electric cars before he tainted the entire market with his atrocious personality.
Now Trump is chickening out on dramatically and heartlessly deporting all the “very good, long time workers” who have jobs it would be impossible to replace.
His post makes no sense. It contradicts itself at every turn. By Trump’s own words, a sizable portion of undocumented migrants are skilled, hardworking, dedicated workers who contribute to American greatness and play crucial roles in American businesses.
That actually sounds really good. Trump didn’t need to be told by the “great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business” that undocumented migrants are not the cancer on society that he alwasy insists they are. He knows that because he is a fucking hotelier. He is IN the Hotel and Leisure business. He knows that foreign workers do jobs that no American is interested in, like giving Jerry Falwell’s wife the kind of sexual satisfaction her husband could never deliver in a million years while he masturbates and weeps softly in the corner.
EVERYONE knows that undocumented migrants are a net positive for our country, even Trump. Yet he feels obligated to pretend that undocumented migrants are one lawless, destructive gang out to destroy us because he’s built his entire career on bigotry and xenophobia.
Trump is like regretful Trump voters who thought his tough talk on immigration meant that he’d be rudely ejecting the millions of vicious criminals pouring over our border in an all-out invasion, not making the nice Mexican man who does odd jobs for them disappear.
Trump’s evil minions stole shamelessly from the Lee Atwater Willie Horton playbook, They cherry-picked horrific crimes to create that undocumented migrants are a homogenous parasite sucking the life blood from the country by sharing particularly lurid, disturbing accounts of crimes committed by non-citizens to create the impression that illegal crossings are such an immediate and profound threat that they justify extreme measures.
Most serial killers are white straight men, yet for some strange reasons we’re not scapegoated as potential mass murderers to be viewed with suspicion and fear.
Trump implicitly acknowledges that American businesses can’t survive without undocumented workers yet still finds a way to blame it on Biden. Trump also confusingly insists that rapists and murderers will be lining up to be paid under the table to pick fruit and clean hotel rooms.
Biden’s VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy didn’t succeed in driving away the wonderful, productive farm and hospitality workers that we cannot function without. So now it has fallen upon Trump to keep out all the bad brown people while continuing to exploit the labor of the good ones.
Trump never acknowledges that he’s wrong in a post about how wrong he’s been and all the people and industries he has hurt. Instead he blames Biden, as always.
It’s good that Trump will supposedly stop ICE raids on hotels and farms but they never should have begun in the first place.
When Trump does the right thing, it’s almost invariably because he’s been backed into a corner doing the wrong thing egregiously and shamelessly.
It has consequently fallen upon the farmers and hotel workers to check Trump’s power rather than the media, the judiciary, and the legislature.