President Donald Trump used his Thanksgiving message to lay out a hard line on immigration and to blast critics and politicians in a series of late night posts on Truth Social. He called for broad new actions and framed them as needed to protect the country.
Trump wrote that he would βpermanently pause migration from all Third World Countriesβ and said the pause would help “allow the U.S. system to fully recover.” He also promised to βterminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissionsβ and to remove people he said were not βnet asset[s] to the United States.β
In the same posts he did not offer a clear plan for how those changes would work or how courts would rule on them. Past efforts to curb migration or ban entry from whole regions have met legal fights and long delays. That leaves many questions about how any new rules might be carried out.
The posts came after a deadly shooting in Washington in which authorities say an Afghan national is a suspect. Trump tied his message to that attack and to what he called failures in vetting. Reporting shows the suspect entered the United States under an evacuation and asylum program after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Trump attached a photo of an airlift from Afghanistan and wrote, “This is part of the horrendous airlift from Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of people poured into our Country totally unvetted and unchecked. We will fix it, but will never forget what Crooked Joe Biden and his Thugs did to our Country!” That line drew sharp reactions online and from political leaders.
He also used the Thanksgiving post to single out people he called enemies of the country. He closed one post with the line, “HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for.” Supporters cheered his tone. Critics said the message was mean and divisive.
The reaction was fast from both sides of the political aisle. Immigration groups warned that punishing whole nations would be unfair and unconstitutional. Some conservative commentators urged caution and noted that sweeping moves could face legal hurdles. Reporters and lawmakers also pointed to the risk of blaming whole communities for one crime.
The debate also grows louder as lawmakers, advocacy groups, and ordinary users on X react to a president linking a national tragedy to sweeping immigration changes, setting off a fresh wave of political arguments online and in Washington.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WITH YOU MR PRESIDENT! AMERICANS FIRST NOW AND FOREVER!
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 28, 2025
I can confirm, Tim Walz is retarded
— Retard Finder (@IfindRetards) November 28, 2025
When you first were President and implemented the "Muslim Ban" I thought you were a racist and cruel for the sake of being cruel.
I was wrong.
You were just trying to keep us safe.
You were right, you are right about many many things.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) November 28, 2025
When you first were President and implemented the “Muslim Ban” I thought you were a racist and cruel for the sake of being cruel.
I was wrong.
You were just trying to keep us safe.
You were right, you are right about many many things.
β Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) November 28, 2025
Nothing says βHappy Thanksgivingβ like a novella-length doom monologue that sounds like it was written at 3AM by someone losing an argument with their own phone.
— Product Of Black History (@BeYourOwnSpark) November 28, 2025
Calling Tim Walz retarded and pausing all third world migration?
Possibly the greatest Trump tweet of all time.
— Kangmin Lee | μ΄κ°λ―Ό (@kangminjlee) November 28, 2025
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