Trump Voter Goes On CNN To Trash President’s ‘Racist’ and ‘Dehumanizing’ Somali ‘Garbage’ Comment

Zachary Leeman Dec 6th, 2025, 1:54 pm

Somali American Salman Fiqy told CNN on Saturday that he’s withdrawn his support for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party over the president’s “garbage” comment about Somalis.

Fiqy joined Victor Blackwell on CNN’s First of All and called Trump’s comments about Somalis “racist” and “dehumanizing.”

“It was very dehumanizing and it’s very unpresidential coming from the commander in chief of the United States to dehumanize and to you to dehumanize a whole entire community by calling them garbage and this is not acceptable by any means,” Fiqy, who campaigned for Trump in Minnesota, said.

During a televised Cabinet meeting this week,

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