President Donald Trump has named where he would prefer immigrants to the U.S. to come from during a rally in which he also took aim at "hellhole" countries.

Speaking in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Trump called Somalia "filthy" and "disgusting," disparaged Afghanistan and asked why immigrants to the U.S. couldn’t come from Norway, Sweden or Denmark.

Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment outside of normal office hours.

Why It Matters

During his first presidential term, Trump was accused of using derogatory language during a 2018 Oval Office meeting in which he was reported to have referred to "s***hole" countries, and disparaged Haiti, as he rejected a bipartisan immigration deal.

Trump later denied he had used the language attributed to him and the White House

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