Trump wants immigrants from ‘nice’ countries, he says

Former president Trump, speaking at a multimillion-dollar fund-raiser Saturday night, lamented that people were not immigrating to the United States from “nice” countries “like Denmark,” according to an attendee.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, made the comment during a roughly 45-minute presentation at a dinner at a mansion owned by billionaire financier John Paulson in Palm Beach, a rarefied island community in Florida.

Guests were seated outdoors, looking out on the waterway that divides the moneyed town from West Palm Beach, a mainland city, according to the attendee, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the private event but provided an extensive readout of Trump’s remarks.

Dozens of wealthy donors helped write checks that the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee claim totaled more than $50 million, an amount that would set a record but had not been verified.

About midway through his remarks, the attendee said,

Trump began an extensive rant about migrants entering the United States, at a time when President Biden has been struggling with an intensified crisis at the southern border.

“These are people coming in from prisons and jails. They’re coming in from just unbelievable places and countries, countries that are a disaster,” Trump told his guests, according to the attendee. The former president has made a similar claim the heart of his campaign speeches.

At the dinner, Trump also lamented the surge of migrants, particularly from Latin America, saying that gang members “make the Hells Angels look like extremely nice people.”