Gov. Walz denounces Trump for calling Minnesota’s Somali community ‘garbage’

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Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in St. Paul, denounces President Donald Trump for calling Minnesota's Somali community "garbage" and dismissing the state as a "hellhole." (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz denounced President Donald Trump on Thursday for calling Minnesota’s Somali community “garbage” and dismissing the state as a “hellhole.”

Walz said Trump slandered all Minnesotans and that his expressions of contempt for the state's Somali community — the largest in the U.S. — were “unprecedented for a United States president. We’ve got little children going to school today who their president called them garbage.”

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