Trump depicted migration and migrant aid as an assault on Western countries
At the United Nations, Trump framed migrant aid as financing an invasion and said countries risked being overwhelmed by people with different customs and religions. [The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)]
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At the United Nations, Trump framed migrant aid as financing an invasion and said countries risked being overwhelmed by people with different customs and religions. [The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)]
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His speech linked migration with destruction of national heritage, alongside energy criticism. This records cultural-group framing, not proof of his statistics, crime claims or assertions about London. [The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)]
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immigration · racial-or-ethnic · demeaning-language
The portrayal of migrants’ different customs and religions as a threat to inherited national communities supplies the cultural-group disparagement rationale; no legal finding or private racial motive is asserted. [The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)]
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- Official presidential transcript · The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City
Migration paragraphs beginning “Not only is the U.N.” through “Proud nations must be allowed,” especially customs/religions paragraph; later heritage passage beginning “You’re doing it”; web lines 115–132 and 190–193
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-20
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