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.”

On Wednesday, he doubled down: “Somalians should be out of here,” he told reporters during an Oval Office event. “They’ve destroyed our country.”

As for Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who has repeatedly criticized the president's rhetoric, Trump dismissed him as a “fool.”

“I wouldn’t be proud to have the largest Somali population,” in the U.S., he

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