Trump Voter Goes on CNN and Withdraws His Support Over Trump’s Racism: ‘Not Acceptable by Any Means’
When Salman Fiqy — once a supporter of Donald Trump — sat down on CNN this weekend, he didn’t come to defend. He came to burn the house down.
On live television, Fiqy withdrew his support for Trump and the Republican Party, condemning the president’s recent remarks about Somali immigrants as “racist” and “dehumanizing.”
The backdrop to Fiqy’s decision is unmistakable: during a recent Cabinet meeting, Trump referred to Somali Americans as “garbage,” claimed they “contribute nothing,” and demanded — bluntly — that the United States send them back “where they came from.”
On air, Fiqy said, “It was very dehumanizing … to dehumanize a whole entire community … calling them garbage … this is not acceptable by any means.”
Having campaigned for Trump, the Somali-American told CNN his connection to Trump and the party ended then and there — not over policy debates, but over what he described as a moral line being crossed.
If anything, what’s remarkable about Fiqy’s turnaround is not how dramatic it was — but how overdue. The insults weren’t subtle. They weren’t the sort of offhand dog whistles that politicians usually try to hide behind. They were direct, loud, heartfelt. Fiqy’s public break reflects a broader shock, especially among immigrants and communities long wary of overt xenophobia, that such rhetoric would come from the highest office in the land.
Whether Fiqy is alone among disillusioned former supporters remains unclear. But his defection sends a signal: for some voters, the threshold isn’t “policy disagreement” — it’s dignity. The clip from CNN doesn’t just expose a fracture in the “base.” It exposes a moral reckoning unfolding in real time.
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