The US President used a late-night Thanksgiving post on Thursday in order to revive some of his harshest immigration rhetoric, targeting political rivals and calling for what he described as a permanent pause on migration from what he called “all Third World Countries.”

He began his Truth Social post with a typical holiday wish, but it soon turned into a long rant about immigration, rising crime, and his political rivals.

Trump stated his proposed migration freeze was prompted by a fatal shooting in Washington, D.C., in which the suspect is an Afghan national. He criticized “American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up,” suggesting that lenient immigration policies were to blame.

The 79-year-old president also returned to his usual talking points, repeating complaints about Somalia and Somali immigrants living in Minnesota. Earlier that evening, he told reporters that “Somalians have caused a lot of trouble” and asserted: “We’re not accepting their people anymore. We’re sending many of them back because they only bring problems.”

Trump continued to claim that Minnesota had become a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity” and argued that Somali refugees were “completely taking over” the state.

In one of the most inflammatory moments of his Thanksgiving message, the president Trump used an offensive slur to attack Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Frustrated by what he called politically correct immigration policies, Trump wrote that “The seriously r******d Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both.”

Walz responded on X by reposting the message with the caption “Release the MRI results,” referencing Trump’s acknowledgment that he recently underwent an MRI without specifying the reason.

Attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar and Immigration Policy

Trump directed insults at Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, who was born in Somalia and has lived in the U.S. for 30 years.

He labeled her “the worst ‘Congressman/woman’ in our Country” and mocked her attire, saying she was “always wrapped in her swaddling hijab.” He described her birthplace as a “decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation” and accused her of constantly complaining about America.

The president went on to place blame on immigration policies, criticizing the arrival of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man accused in the recent D.C. shooting. According to CNN, Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024 and was granted it by the Trump administration in April 2025.

As a reporter noted that federal agencies reported thorough vetting of Afghan arrivals, Trump called her “stupid” and avoided confirming whether the suspect’s asylum approval occurred under his watch.

Trump, in his post, argued that many immigrants come from “failed nations or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels” and rely on what he described as “massive” welfare payments. After that, he renewed his call to “permanently pause migration” from all “Third World countries”, a step he said was necessary to “allow the U.S. system to fully recover.”

He said more that his administration would deport any foreign national deemed a security risk, a public charge, or “non-compatible with Western Civilization,” concluding that “only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation.”

Earlier on Thursday, Trump ordered a sweeping review of all green card holders from “countries of concern.” Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow said the reexamination would be “full-scale” and argued that American safety was “non-negotiable.”

Closing his holiday message, Trum wrote: “Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!”

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The Thanksgiving post that wouldn’t end (a fictional political drama)

Part one: the morning after

By sunrise, the message had already traveled farther than anyone in the West Wing expected.
Television producers were rewriting their morning rundowns.
Radio hosts were reading excerpts aloud.
Political strategists were forwarding screenshots to donors, governors, activists, and reporters.
What had begun as a holiday greeting had become the center of a national argument before most families had finished their leftover pie.
The post was not simply being discussed.
It was being dissected.
Every sentence was pulled apart.
Every phrase was interpreted.
Every insult became a headline of its own.
In Washington, nothing ever truly disappeared.
It only evolved into the next battle.
Inside a quiet office overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue, senior adviser Daniel Mercer stared at three screens filled with polling data.
His coffee had gone cold.
No one had touched the tray of Thanksgiving pastries that someone had delivered before dawn.
The room smelled of paper, printer toner, and exhaustion.
A younger aide entered carrying a stack of overnight reports.
“You should see the international reaction.”
Daniel didn’t look up.
“I already have.”
“It’s bigger than we expected.”
Daniel finally turned.
“It’s always bigger than we expected.”
Outside the office, the corridors were unusually quiet.
The silence of a federal holiday was deceptive.
Behind closed doors, phones were ringing constantly.
Immigration officials were receiving new directives.
Attorneys were requesting emergency briefings.
Advocacy groups were organizing responses.
Governors were preparing statements.
The machinery of government was awake.

Part two: Minnesota

Governor Tim Walz had slept only three hours.
Not because of the post itself.
He had seen harsher attacks before.
Politics had taught him that outrage was renewable.
What troubled him was what came afterward.
His staff had spent the night monitoring threats against local officials.
Community centers were receiving angry calls.
Mosques had requested additional security.
Refugee organizations were reporting frightened families.
His communications director entered carrying a tablet.
“The press conference is in ninety minutes.”
“What’s the mood?”
“Everyone wants a fight.”
Walz looked out the window.
Snow had begun falling across Saint Paul.
“I’m not interested in a fight.”
She hesitated.
“They’re interested in one.”
He nodded slowly.
“Then we talk about people.”
The briefing room was packed long before he arrived.
Cameras lined the back wall.
National correspondents had flown in overnight.
A local reporter asked the first question.
“Governor, do you believe the president’s comments put Minnesota communities at risk?”
Walz paused.
The room became completely still.
“I think words matter.”
He didn’t raise his voice.
He didn’t match the rhetoric.
He spoke the way teachers often do when they know the loudest student is not the only one listening.
“There are children in this state who heard those comments.
There are veterans who came here legally after serving alongside American forces.
There are business owners, nurses, police officers, and teachers who will spend today wondering whether their neighbors still see them as neighbors.
That concerns me.”
Another reporter shouted a follow-up.
“Are you calling the president racist?”
Walz shook his head.
“I’m calling all of us responsible.”

Part three: the family in apartment 4B

Across Minneapolis, Amina Hassan watched the press conference from a small apartment above a grocery store.
Her husband had already left for his delivery route.
Her oldest son was pretending not to listen while scrolling through his phone.
Her youngest daughter was drawing snowflakes on construction paper.
Amina had lived in America for twenty-six years.
She spoke English with the rhythm of two continents.
She still cooked the same lentil soup her mother had taught her to make before the civil war.
When the television replayed the comments about Somalia, her daughter looked up.
“Mom?”
“Yes?”
“Are we going back?”
Amina turned off the television.
“No.”
“But they said—”
She knelt beside her daughter.
“Listen to me.”
The little girl’s eyes were wide with the kind of fear children cannot name.
“This is your home.
Do you understand?”
“But people online said—”
“Online is not always life.”
The daughter nodded uncertainly.
After she returned to her drawing, Amina walked into the kitchen and quietly cried where no one could see her.

Part four: the veteran

In northern Virginia, retired Army sergeant Michael Donovan watched the same news coverage from his garage workshop.
A folded American flag sat on a shelf beside photographs from Afghanistan.
One picture showed him standing beside an Afghan interpreter named Farid.
Michael picked up the photograph.
He remembered the day it was taken.
Dust storms.
Broken roads.
A school reopening.
Children waving from rooftops.
Farid had saved his unit twice.
Once by noticing a roadside explosive.
Once by recognizing a local commander who had switched allegiances.
Farid eventually received a special immigrant visa.
He now owned a small auto repair shop in Maryland.
Michael dialed his number.
Farid answered immediately.
“I was wondering if you’d call.”
“You okay?”
A long silence.
“My son asked if we should take down the flag outside our house.”
Michael closed his eyes.
“What did you tell him?”
“I told him I earned the right to fly it.”
Michael looked again at the photograph.
“Don’t take it down.”

Part five: the meeting

By Monday morning, the White House Situation Room was hosting a different kind of discussion.
The public saw speeches.
The public saw posts.
The public saw television interviews.
They rarely saw the meetings where policy collided with reality.
Homeland Security officials presented legal constraints.
Intelligence analysts discussed security screening.
Economic advisers warned about labor shortages.
Political advisers argued that the public wanted stronger enforcement.
The president listened, interrupted, questioned, and demanded alternatives.
One attorney cleared her throat carefully.
“A permanent categorical pause would face immediate constitutional challenges.”
Another adviser responded.
“Then we structure it differently.”
The debate continued for hours.
Numbers filled the screens.
Visa categories.
Asylum backlogs.
Removal orders.
Refugee admissions.
Security assessments.
Every statistic represented a human story that no spreadsheet could fully capture.

Part six: the reporter

CNN correspondent Elena Ruiz had covered immigration for twelve years.
She had interviewed presidents.
Border agents.
Judges.
Families.
Smugglers.
Refugees.
Sheriffs.
Economists.
She knew that immigration was never a single story.
It was a thousand contradictory stories forced into one headline.
Her editor called.
“We need something deeper.”
“You want policy?”
“I want people.”
She flew to Minnesota.
Then to Texas.
Then to Virginia.
She interviewed a rancher who believed the border was overwhelmed.
A legal immigrant who had waited fourteen years for citizenship.
A mother whose asylum claim had been denied.
A Border Patrol agent who was burning out.
A refugee doctor working in a rural hospital.
An unemployed factory worker who blamed decades of immigration policy for wage pressure.
The more she reported, the less simple the story became.
When she filed her piece, the headline was surprisingly restrained:
America is arguing about immigration, but immigrants and citizens are arguing about something larger: who belongs.

Part seven: the hearing

Congress returned with cameras waiting.
The committee room was overflowing.
Witnesses included security experts.
Economists.
Mayors.
Immigration attorneys.
A former refugee.
A sheriff from Arizona.
A labor union representative.
The most memorable testimony came from an elderly woman named Margaret Ellis.
She was eighty-one.
She had no prepared remarks.
“My parents came here in 1952.”
She looked around the room.
“They were not perfect.
They were not rich.
They spoke terrible English.
My father cleaned train stations.
My mother sewed dresses.
People told them they didn’t belong.
Thirty years later my brother died wearing an American uniform.”
The room remained silent.
“I’m not here to tell you what policy to pass.
I’m here to ask whether we remember our own stories before we erase someone else’s.”

Part eight: winter

The controversy lasted through December.
Then January.
Court challenges multiplied.
Political ads flooded television.
Town halls became confrontations.
Thanksgiving felt very far away.
In Minnesota, Amina’s daughter won a school essay contest.
She wrote about snow.
About two languages.
About her grandfather’s stories.
About hot tea during blizzards.
The final sentence read:
Home is the place where your future is allowed to exist.
Her teacher mailed a copy to Amina.
She kept it in a kitchen drawer beside old family photographs.

Part nine: the conversation

Months later, Michael Donovan visited Farid’s repair shop.
The American flag was still outside.
They sat on overturned buckets after closing time.
“You know,” Michael said, “people think this debate is about borders.”
Farid smiled sadly.
“It is.”
Michael frowned.
Farid continued.
“But not only borders between countries.
Borders between fear and memory.
Between politics and neighbors.
Between who we were and who we want to become.”
Michael looked toward the street.
Cars passed.
Children rode bicycles.
A church bell rang somewhere in the distance.
“What do you think happens now?”
Farid shrugged.
“America argues.
That is what America does.”

Final part: the letter

The story did not end with a court ruling.
Or an election.
Or a speech.
It ended quietly, the way many important things do.
On the next Thanksgiving, Amina’s daughter wrote a letter for a school project addressed to “Whoever reads this in the future.”
She wrote:
I hope you know that people were scared.
I hope you know that people were angry.
I hope you know that people loved this country in different ways.
Some wanted stronger borders.
Some wanted more open doors.
Most wanted safety.
Most wanted dignity.
I hope you remember that we were all talking about human beings, even when we forgot to say the word human.
Years later, the letter was found in a box during a move.
The paper had yellowed.
The handwriting was uneven.
The spelling was imperfect.
But one sentence remained underlined in blue crayon:
A nation can survive an argument, but it cannot survive forgetting that its people are people first.
And that was the part that lasted.

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The Thanksgiving post that wouldn’t end

Part ten: the train to Chicago

The train left Saint Paul before dawn.
Snow clung to the windows in thin white ribbons.
Most of the passengers slept through the first hour.
Amina sat alone with a paper cup of coffee that had long since gone cold.
She was traveling to Chicago for a conference organized by immigrant-owned small businesses.
She almost canceled.
After everything that had happened during the past year, the idea of standing in front of strangers and talking about community felt exhausting.
But her daughter had insisted.
“You always tell me not to disappear.”
The words had stayed with her.
Across the aisle, an older man wearing a navy veterans cap glanced toward her.
He had been reading the newspaper without turning a page for nearly twenty minutes.
Finally he folded it carefully.
“Excuse me.”
She looked up.
“Are you going to the business conference?”
She hesitated.
“Yes.”
“My granddaughter is speaking there.”
He smiled gently.
“She owns a bakery.”
Amina smiled back politely.
For several miles they said nothing.
Then he asked, “May I tell you something strange?”
She nodded.
“My parents came from Poland.”
He looked out the window.
“In 1949, people in my hometown said they would never become real Americans.”
Amina listened quietly.
“My father carried that sentence for the rest of his life.”
He laughed softly.
“Then my son joined the Marines.”
The train crossed the Mississippi River.
The water below was dark and almost perfectly still.
The man turned back toward her.
“I don’t know the right immigration policy.”
He spoke with the honesty of someone who had stopped pretending certainty.
“But I know this.”
“No politician has ever looked at my father the way I looked at him.”
Amina did not answer.
She understood exactly what he meant.

Part eleven: the archive room

Washington had an archive room that almost no one talked about.
It was buried beneath layers of security and bureaucracy.
Rows of gray boxes stretched across climate-controlled shelves.
Every administration left behind paper.
Memos.
Drafts.
Letters.
Meeting notes.
Margin comments.
History was often written in pencil before it appeared in headlines.
Daniel Mercer entered the room carrying a request form.
The archivist recognized him immediately.
“You’re looking for executive order precedents.”
Daniel nodded.
“Migration restrictions.”
“Nationality-based reviews.”
“Emergency authorities.”
The archivist disappeared between the shelves.
When she returned, she carried three boxes.
“These are from three different administrations.”
Daniel spent hours reading.
One memo warned that broad restrictions would damage alliances.
Another argued that security screening had become too weak.
A third predicted economic disruption if refugee admissions fell sharply.
Different decades.
Different presidents.
Different parties.
The arguments were almost identical.
He leaned back in his chair.
Politics changed faster than paperwork.
Fear changed slower than either.
Inside one folder he found a handwritten note from an adviser long forgotten by history.
The note contained a single sentence:
The danger is not disagreement.
The danger is when disagreement becomes identity.
Daniel stared at it for a long time.

Part twelve: Farid’s son

Farid’s teenage son, Yusuf, had stopped wearing the jacket with the American flag patch.
Not because anyone forced him to.
Because he was tired of being asked questions.
“Where are you really from?”
“Do you support America?”
“What do your parents think?”
At school he excelled in mathematics.
He played soccer.
He listened to the same music as everyone else.
Yet somehow every news cycle turned him into a representative of something larger than himself.
One afternoon his history teacher assigned an oral presentation titled My Family’s Journey.
Yusuf considered inventing a different story.
A simpler one.
A quieter one.
Instead he brought a photograph of his father standing beside American soldiers in Afghanistan.
When his turn came, his hands were shaking.
“This is my father.”
He held up the picture.
“He translated for U.S. forces.”
“He was threatened by the Taliban.”
“He came here legally.”
“He pays taxes.”
“He owns a repair shop.”
“He tells me to stand up when the national anthem plays.”
The classroom was silent.
A student in the back raised a hand.
“My uncle was in Afghanistan.”
Yusuf nodded.
Another student spoke.
“My dad says immigration is out of control.”
Yusuf nodded again.
“I’m not asking you to agree with me.”
He looked around the room.
“I’m asking you to know I exist.”
After class, the teacher quietly asked for a copy of the photograph.
She later placed it on the classroom wall beside pictures of immigrant families from Ireland, Mexico, Vietnam, Italy, India, and Ethiopia.
The caption read:
American history has many beginnings.

Part thirteen: the strategist

Political strategist Rebecca Sloan had one rule.
Never confuse social media with the country.
She had worked campaigns for twenty years.
Outrage looked enormous online.
Sometimes it disappeared completely when you entered a grocery store.
She commissioned focus groups across six states.
Republicans.
Democrats.
Independents.
Recent immigrants.
Multi-generation citizens.
Rural voters.
Urban voters.
The results surprised everyone.
People were deeply worried about immigration.
People were also deeply worried about being unfair.
The same voter could say:
“The border is overwhelmed.”
And:
“I don’t want legal immigrants treated badly.”
The same person could support deporting violent criminals while opposing blanket suspicion toward refugees.
Rebecca presented her findings to a room full of campaign consultants.
“No one is listening carefully enough.”
One consultant frowned.
“The base wants strong language.”
Rebecca shook her head.
“The base wants certainty.”
She pointed at the charts.
“The country wants competence.”
There was a difference.
A very expensive difference.

Part fourteen: the dinner table

Thanksgiving returned one year later.
This time the Hassan family invited neighbors.
The guest list was unusual.
An elderly Lutheran couple.
A Somali nurse.
A Mexican electrician.
A retired police officer.
A Korean-American teacher.
Farid and his family.
Michael Donovan.
Even the old man from the train, whose name turned out to be Arthur.
The table was too small.
Children sat on folding chairs.
Someone burned the rolls.
The turkey was slightly dry.
No one cared.
Conversation wandered unpredictably.
Football.
Schools.
Snowstorms.
Rising prices.
Citizenship tests.
Military service.
Recipes.
Arthur looked around the crowded apartment.
“This reminds me of my mother’s house.”
Michael laughed.
“How?”
“She invited everyone.”
Amina served more soup.
Her daughter watched the adults carefully.
She noticed something that television never showed.
People disagreed constantly.
But they passed the bread anyway.
At one point Michael raised his glass.
“I want to say something.”
The room quieted.
“I spent years overseas.”
“I learned that countries are strongest when people believe they have a stake in them.”
He looked at Farid.
“I also learned that loyalty is sometimes earned twice.”
Farid raised his own glass.
“To home.”
Arthur added softly,
“To neighbors.”
The children repeated the toast even though they did not fully understand it.

Part fifteen: the unfinished country

Late that night, after everyone had left, Amina stood by the window.
Snow was falling again.
Her daughter joined her.
“Do you think people will ever stop arguing?”
Amina smiled.
“No.”
“Then how do countries survive?”
Amina thought for a long moment.
“By remembering that arguments are easier to repair than silence.”
She looked across the quiet street.
Porch lights glowed through the snow.
Some houses displayed flags.
Some displayed holiday decorations.
Some displayed nothing at all.
Each contained a family carrying a different version of America.
None of those versions was complete by itself.
Behind them, the dishes remained in the sink.
The table was still crowded with empty cups.
The apartment smelled of cinnamon, roasted vegetables, and tea.
Ordinary things.
Fragile things.
The kinds of things that rarely appeared in political speeches.
And as the snow continued to fall, the country remained what it had always been:
unfinished,
argumentative,
hopeful,
afraid,
generous,
contradictory,
and still writing the next chapter.

Final part: the last page

Twenty years later, almost no one remembered the exact wording of the Thanksgiving post.
People remembered the feeling.
They remembered the arguments.
They remembered the endless television panels and social media battles and family dinners that ended too early.
But memory had a strange habit.
It sanded away the sharpest edges and preserved the moments that revealed who people became.
The Hassan apartment was gone.
The grocery store below it had become a bookstore.
The children had grown.
Yusuf had become an engineer.
Amina’s daughter, Leila, had become a teacher.
Farid’s repair shop had expanded into three locations.
Michael Donovan had grown older, slower, and quieter.
Arthur had passed away, leaving behind a box of letters that his granddaughter eventually donated to a local historical society.
In one of those letters, written only weeks before his death, Arthur had described that crowded Thanksgiving dinner.
He wrote:
I spent my life believing history happened in capitals and courtrooms.
Then I learned that history also happens when strangers decide to eat together.
The letter became unexpectedly famous.
Not because it was eloquent.
Because it was ordinary.
One spring afternoon, Leila brought her fifth-grade students to the historical society for a field trip.
The curator showed them photographs of immigrant families from different eras.
Irish dockworkers.
Italian seamstresses.
Vietnamese fishermen.
Somali nurses.
Mexican construction workers.
Afghan interpreters.
Children stared at the black-and-white images with the curiosity of people who cannot imagine that adults were once children too.
Near the end of the exhibit, the curator opened a glass case.
Inside was Arthur’s letter.
Leila read it silently.
She smiled.
One of her students tugged on her sleeve.
“Ms. Hassan?”
“Yes?”
“Why were people so angry back then?”
She looked around the room.
The answer could have been a lecture.
It could have been a history lesson.
It could have been a speech about politics, economics, security, or identity.
Instead she said,
“Because they were afraid.”
The child frowned.
“Of each other?”
“Sometimes.”
“Sometimes of being forgotten.”
The student looked back at the photographs.
“My family came here five years ago.”
“I know.”
“Will people forget us too?”
Leila knelt beside him.
“No.”
“How do you know?”
“Because you’re here.”
Years later, when Leila was asked to speak at a citizenship ceremony, she carried a copy of Arthur’s letter with her.
The ceremony was held in an old courthouse with high ceilings and wooden benches polished by generations of waiting.
More than a hundred new citizens sat together, each holding a small American flag.
Some wore suits.
Some wore traditional clothing from countries scattered across the world.
Some were nervous.
Some were smiling.
Some were quietly crying.
Leila walked to the podium.
She did not mention presidents.
She did not mention elections.
She did not mention court cases or executive orders.
She spoke about Thanksgiving dinners.
Train rides.
Repair shops.
School presentations.
Neighbors.
She spoke about the difference between being known and being assumed.
Then she unfolded Arthur’s letter and read the final paragraph.
The country was never finished.
That frightened some people.
It inspired others.
The truth was that both groups were helping write it.
The only question was whether they would remember that the people on the other side of the argument were also part of the story.
When she finished reading, the room was completely silent.
Then the judge stood.
He administered the oath of citizenship.
Voices from dozens of nations repeated the same words together.
Different accents.
Different histories.
Different journeys.
One promise.
After the ceremony, an elderly woman approached Leila.
She held her certificate carefully, as if it might disappear.
“I came here thirty-two years ago.”
She smiled through tears.
“I was so afraid.”
Leila reached for her hand.
“So was my mother.”
The woman looked surprised.
“Did it get easier?”
Leila thought of Amina standing at the apartment window.
She thought of Farid refusing to take down the flag.
She thought of Michael preserving an old photograph.
She thought of Arthur on the train.
She thought of children asking questions that adults had been asking for centuries.
“Yes,” she said softly.
“It got easier when we stopped trying to win every argument and started trying to keep each other.”
That evening, Leila visited the cemetery where Amina was buried.
She placed a small bouquet of white flowers beside the headstone.
The stone was simple.
It bore her mother’s name, the years of her life, and one line that the family had chosen together:
She made strangers feel expected.
Leila sat quietly until sunset.
The wind moved through the trees.
Somewhere in the distance, church bells rang.
A call to prayer drifted faintly across the neighborhood.
The sounds overlapped without asking permission from one another.
She opened Arthur’s letter one last time.
The paper was fragile now.
The ink had faded.
But the final sentence remained perfectly clear.
Every nation decides whether fear will be the author of its future.
Leila folded the letter carefully and looked toward the horizon.
The country was still arguing.
It always would be.
There would be new elections.
New crises.
New headlines.
New accusations.
New fears.
New arrivals.
New departures.
History would continue its endless conversation.
But somewhere, in classrooms and repair shops and kitchens and train stations, children would keep asking who belonged.
And adults would keep answering, imperfectly and incompletely, one relationship at a time.
The last page of the story was never a law.
It was never a speech.
It was never a post written late at night.
The last page was a table with one empty chair left open for whoever came next.
And in the quiet that followed, that empty chair became the most hopeful sentence in the entire story.
The End.
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