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Tim Walz slams Trump for calling Minnesota’s Somali community 'garbage': 'Unprecedented'

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday for describing the state's Somali community as "garbage."Walz said Trump's statements of contempt for the state's Somali community were "unprecedented for a United States president.""We’ve got little children going to school today who their president called them garbage," the blue state governor said.Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the country, with about 84,000 people in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area of Somali descent. Nearly 60% of Somalis in the state were born in the U.S., while 87% of the...

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