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PBS News Hour - Segments

Trump’s affordability speech turns into a rant against immigrants

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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President Trump was on the road in Pennsylvania Tuesday to address affordability, an issue that has dragged down his approval ratings. But at the event the president reverted to campaign mode, delivering a long speech that included a rant about immigrants. Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross and Republican Tiffany Smiley, a former U.S. Senate candidate, join Amna Nawaz for two perspectives. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

President Trump was on the road in Pennsylvania last night to address affordability,

0:05.4

an issue that's dragged down his approval ratings.

0:08.1

But at the event, the president reverted to campaign mode, delivering a speech that lasted more than an hour and a half,

0:14.3

including a rant about immigrants.

0:16.6

To discuss that, we turn now to Democratic strategist Amisha Cross and Republican Tiffany Smiley,

0:22.2

a former U.S. Senate candidate in Washington State.

0:25.0

Welcome to you, Bill.

0:25.7

Thanks for being with us.

0:27.2

Thanks for having me.

0:28.1

So for anyone who missed this speech last night, the president's remarks,

0:31.3

here's just a part of what President Trump had to say,

0:33.7

including confirming what he'd said earlier about Haiti and African nations during a

0:38.4

2018 meeting that was later widely reported.

0:41.7

On, take a listen.

0:43.1

We had a meeting, and I say, why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right?

0:50.5

Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few. Let us have a few.

0:57.1

From Denmark. Do you mind sending us for you people? Send us some nice people. Do you mind?

1:03.8

But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.

1:13.6

Tiffany, he also called other countries, including Afghanistan and Somalia, hellholes.

1:18.6

This was billed as a speech about affordability.

1:21.6

Is this what voters want to be hearing about right now?

1:24.6

Well, look, President Trump was elected because we had an immigration crisis.

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