Nigeria, Jan. 27 -- Donald Trump really doesn't like Somalis. He has repeatedly called them "garbage" and says their country stinks. "We don't want 'em in our country," he told a cabinet meeting. They should "go back to where they came from." He even questioned their intelligence during a rambling speech to the squirming global elite in Davos last week.

It all started around Christmas when Trump seized on a fraud investigation in Minnesota to single Somalis out for "ripping off" welfare and fraud systems, then unleashed the rightwing media pitchfork brigade - with Elon Musk enthusiastically lighting the way.

Of course, Trump had other reasons to target Minnesota. It is a Democratic state whose governor, Tim Walz, was Kamala Harris' vice...