Tim Walz says Trump slurs ‘demonize our children’: Video
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz condemned President Donald Trump for his use of a slur in a social media post on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and for his characterization of the state’s Somali immigrant and diaspora community.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Nov. 30, Walz said Trump’s use of the r-word, which the president used to insult to the Democratic governor and 2024 vice presidential hopeful, was “damaging.”
While the word was introduced as a medical term in 1961, it has evolved over the decades to become a slur used to demean people with and without disabilities. Disability advocates seek to end its use, and the president’s post has ignited backlash.
Walz told NBC that “kids know better” than to use the word, and criticized attempts to brush off outrage as “woke” language policing.
“Many times, it’s just about being decent to people and making them feel included,” Walz said of efforts to avoid slurs and other discriminatory types of language. “You can use that word. Sure, you can use that language. But you shouldn’t. And that’s something Donald Trump fails to realize.”
Walz also accused Trump’s Thanksgiving social media posts of demonizing the state’s Somali community − the United States’ largest. The president falsely said “hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota,” along with other comments about the Somali population.
