Trump Toasts the New Year With Race-Baiting Rant

New Year’s celebrations are historically a time for positivity and goodwill, but that’s not the case for Donald Trump, who called Mar-a-Lago guests in 2026 by toasting them with a race-baiting remark. Speaking at the New Year’s Eve party, Trump, 79, repeated his claim that Minnesota had suffered massive fraud – he put forward an unsubstantiated figure of ‘$18 billion’ when referring to what he called the “Somali population” – and said other blue states had suffered similarly. “Can you imagine if they stole $18 billion,” he told his guests, calling it a “giant fraud” and adding, “That’s what we found out.”