President Donald Trump took time out from his relaxing holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago to repost a racist claim about Afghans made by a former Navy SEAL.

In between rounds of golf with Wayne Gretzky, all the while ignoring his plummeting approval rating, Trump posted a screenshot of an X post made by former Navy SEAL Robert J. O’Neill, who has claimed sole responsibility for killing Osama bin Laden.

“If you’ve never been to Afghanistan, you wouldn’t understand,” O’Neill’s post reads. ”If you showed these people a Nespresso machine and gave them free coffee, they would assume you were a witch and chop your head off... But let’s bring ‘em in!”

O’Neill’s post is a reaction to the backlash surrounding the Trump administration’s decision to stop processing visas for Afghan nationals in respons

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