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Trump intends to inculcate incoming white South Africans with right-wing propaganda, according to a New York Times report.
Trump is planning white nationalist goodie bags for Afrikaner refugees
— AnarchoTerran (@anarchoterran.bsky.social) 2026-06-24T22:20:46.140Z
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Thats the plan thats being finalized in the Trump administration, according to a new story from The New York Times, which cites government documents and an official familiar with the matter, and observes that welcome gifts of this kind are unusual. These welcome bags are a brazen expression of white nationalism. And remarkably, they represent the White House doing exactly what MAGA conspiracy theorists love to (ludicrously) accuse the left of trying to do: Use immigration policy to boost its political fortunes.
According to the Times, the bags are expected to include a letter that reads, The Trump administration understands Americas immigration system must put the U.S. citizen first, and only welcome in those who will assimilate into the American way of life and preserve our borders, language, culture, traditions and ideals.
The president and his administration have long made it clear that Afrikaners are virtually the only people who fit the White Houses criteria. At a Turning Point USA event in April, Trump boasted, We suspended all refugee resettlement except for persecuted South Africans. And Trump has said that the people in South Africa being persecuted are Afrikaners basing his claim on white nationalist disinformation that a white genocide is being perpetrated in South Africa.
Singling out this population, amid all the people enduring wars and serious persecution around the world, was in and of itself a white nationalist salvo. But the letter, combined with other texts and booklets planned for the bag, take it to another level.
trump has banned all non-white people from coming to the United States but the SCOTUS claims that this is not racist
greatauntoftriplets
(179,664 posts)on him, the racist pig.
no_hypocrisy
(55,833 posts)Idaho? North Dakota? Central Pennsylvania?
orthoclad
(5,318 posts)AZProgressive
(30,120 posts)Should move right on the border because Trumps Xenophobic policies are backed by lies and inconsistencies.
EdmondDantes_
(2,299 posts)Although I do wonder if the goodie bag will be able to be used as their white hood.
badhair77
(5,251 posts)And not to trumps pockets, although that will be interesting also.
Norrrm
(6,239 posts)malaise
(299,928 posts)English!
HAB911
(10,754 posts)give them a warm welcome
DavidDvorkin
(20,804 posts)Some of them could be English South Africans who decided to take advantage of the opportunity to move to the US.
LetMyPeopleVote
(184,468 posts)
Ars Longa
(701 posts)They haven't even been here 5 minutes--and they're getting showered with
Goodie Bags paid for with MY taxpayer dollars!