MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country’s largest Somali community.

“They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country,” President Donald Trump told reporters during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting. “We can go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.”

Trump doubled down Wednesday: “Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country.”

Hamse Warfe, a Somali-born U.S. citizen from the Minneapolis area who has started series of successful businesses, sees things differently.

“I am not garbage,” said Warfe, who now runs a nationwide education nonprofit, World Savvy.

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