Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving social screed serves hate instead of turkey

And Miami’s immigrant families are on the menu
Leave it to Donald Trump to turn Thanksgiving — a holiday about gratitude, family and not strangling your tío during political discussions — into a xenophobic midnight rant attacking immigrants. While everyone else was eating leftovers, the ex-president was online serving up a reheated plate of hate for his fans on Truth Social.
And this wasn’t just his usual grumbling about the “border crisis.” This is widely seen as one of the harshest anti-immigrant statements from the Trump presidency to date — combining immigration freezes, denaturalization threats, and proposals to revoke benefits for non-citizens. This was a full-blown manifesto, a laundry list of every ugly idea Stephen Miller has ever scribbled in a notebook, wrapped in a pilgrim graphic and posted on a national holiday.
¡Que viva la tradición!
Trump used his Thanksgiving post to demand a “permanent pause” on immigration from what he called “poor” or “Third World” countries, which is MAGA code for almost every nation that doesn’t look like the inside of a Swiss bank. Never mind that most of Florida — and especially Miami — is built, run, cleaned, fed and literally kept alive by immigrants from those very same places.
Ladra isn’t sure what’s more offensive: the racism or the cluelessness.
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But wait, it gets better. Or worse.
Trump also said we should “remove anyone who isn’t a net asset” to the country. A net asset? What is this, Goldman Sachs? Your grandmother who cleaned hotel rooms for 20 years? Not an asset. Your cousin working two jobs and still sending money back home? Not an asset. Your neighbor who escaped dictatorship and just wants to work in peace? Not an asset.
According to Trump, they’re disposable. He wants reverse migration — which is just a fancy way of saying mass deportation, but without better PR.
He also promised to take away benefits from immigrants, and then went even further by saying he’d denaturalize people who “threaten domestic tranquility.” Domestic tranquility? The man whose name ends many Thanksgivings with a family screaming match now wants to be the arbiter of tranquility?
Please.
Also, who chooses who those “threats” are? Does that mean protesters? Marjorie Taylor Green? All of Portand?
Meanwhile, Trump blamed immigrants for literally everything: crime, failing schools, hospitals being crowded, traffic, inflation, moral decline, “social dysfunction,” the cable outage, your bad haircut, everything. If your flan didn’t set this year, he’ll blame a Honduran toddler.
This wasn’t a message to the country. It was red meat thrown to the most extreme corners of his base, the ones who fantasize about purging neighborhoods like they’re cleaning out a garage.
And it’s especially dangerous here in South Florida, a place full of people who came from politically unstable, economically distressed countries — you know, the kind Trump wants to ban entirely. Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans, Colombians, Hondurans, Dominicans, Peruvians. The list is long — and the hypocrisy even longer. Half the people cheering him on would fail the very asset test he wants to impose.
But MAGA amnesia is a hell of a drug. And we have heard nothing from his South Florida addicts, Congress members Carlos Gimenez, Maria Elvira Salazar — who is too busy selling books to meet with her constituency — and Mario Diaz-Balart, as well as the more local DJTheads, Miami-Dade Commissioner Rob Gonzalez and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
Maybe they’re still mad about his meeting with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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What’s most disgusting is that Trump used a tragic shooting near the White House — a National Guard member killed — to justify his immigrant purge. He’s trying to deflect from the fact that he put Sarah Beckstrom in harm’s way in the first place. And for no good reason other than his own propaganda. His own staff told him this was a bad idea, to sic the National Guard on people. And he also wants to deflect from the fact that he wanted to blame the Biden administration, even though the Afghan national who is charged with the shooting had his asylum approved this year by the Trump administration.
And he can never let a crisis go to waste, especially when you can pin it on a whole population. Never mind nuance, evidence, or the fact that immigrants commit crimes at far lower rates than U.S.-born citizens. Facts don’t get likes on Truth Social.
Trump also pledged to “terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions,” — including those he claimed were approved via autopen signatures (gotta get that in) — and promised to remove anyone “who is not a net asset to the United States,” end federal benefits for non-citizens, and deport foreign nationals deemed “a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”
Again, Ladra supposes he gets to decide what’s compatible with Western Civilization. The guy who thinks windmills cause cancer?
This is the problem with Trump’s Thanksgiving immigration threat wrapped in cranberry sauce: It doesn’t mean anything.It’s a totally subjective standard, which is exactly why he loves it. “Non-compatible with Western Civilization” can mean whatever he wants it to mean in the moment.
And knowing the Trump White House? That could mean people who:

Read books and newspapers
Speak more than one language
Think injecting bleach is a bad idea
Don’t clap on command
Can pronounce acetaminophen
Want to see the Epstein files released

Because let’s be honest: if we actually let Trump decide who’s “compatible with Western Civilization,” the bar is going to be lower than Melania’s expression on any given day.
Trump also targeted specific demographics and public figures. He used an ableist slur to attack the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, in connection with immigration and crime, and he attacked a Somali-American congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, along with broader refugee and migrant communities.
He concluded his post by wishing “Happy Thanksgiving to all — except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for.”
Look in the mirror, dude.
This is the same old Trump playbook: demonize the vulnerable, divide the country, and distract from the flaming dumpster fire that follows him everywhere he goes. Epstein who?
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Ladra hopes Miami knows better. Our streets, restaurants, construction sites, hospitals, offices — our entire culture — are built by the very people he’s targeting. The ones he calls “burdens” are the ones actually holding the city up.
So while Trump was rage-posting at 1 a.m. about “failed nations,” the rest of us were giving thanks for our families, our freedom, and yes, our immigrant communities— the ones that cook the turkey, clean the kitchen, fix the AC, care for our elders, and teach our kids.
Maybe Trump should try some of that gratitude next year. But we won’t hold our breath. Because when a man spends Thanksgiving attacking immigrants with false and hateful rhetoric, you know his real problem isn’t the border.
It’s his own humanity.
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