Trump Sends Out Divisive Thanksgiving Post Calling to End Millions of Admissions From ‘Third World’ Countries

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 “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” and said the pause would help “allow the U.S. system to fully recover.” He also promised to “terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions” and to remove people he said were not “net asset[s] to the United States.”

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.

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