THE PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND USED TODAY, ST.
PATRICK'S DAY THE HOLIDAY TO DEFEND THE HISTORY OF IRISH
IMMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION MORE BROADLY AS DONALD TRUMP STANDS
SOME WORD AWKWARDLY NEARBY AS YOU WANT SEE THIS VIDEO THE
WE GATHER HERE EACH YEAR TO CELEBRATE SAINT PATRICK AND
HIS LEGACY.
HE TOO OF COURSE WAS AN IMMIGRANT.
AND ALTHOUGH OF COURSE HE IS THE PATRON SAY OF IRELAND, FOR
MORE MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE, HE IS ALSO A SYMBOL
OF INDEED THE PATRON OF IMMIGRANTS.
HERE IN AMERICA, YOUR GREAT COUNTRY,
35 MILLION PEOPLE CLAIM IRISH HERITAGE AND IRISH HAVE
CONTRIBUTED TO THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND
CULTURAL LIFE OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY OVER THE LAST 200 YEARS.
IRELAND CAME TO AMERICA THE CAUSE DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY, THE
PRIVATE OF OPPORTUNITY, OF SAFETY, OF EVEN FOOD ITSELF, THE
IRISH BELIEVED IN FOR DECADES BEFORE LADY LIBERTY LIFTED HER
LAMP WE WERE THE WRETCHED REFUSE ON THE TEEMING SHORE.
WE BELIEVED IN THE SHELTER OF AMERICA, AND THE COMPASSION
OF AMERICA, AND THE OPPORTUNITY OF AMERICA.
WE CAME AND WE BECAME AMERICANS.
ONE OF TWO THINGS ARE HAPPENING THAT WHEN I SHOT AND
LOOKED AT CHUMS FACE OF THE WHOLE MINUTE OF HIM LISTENING TO
HIM SPEAK, HE IS EITHER THINKING I WANT TO KILL THIS GUY OR
HE IS THINKING I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE IS SAYING THAT I WISH YOU
WOULD STOP TALKING THOUGHT YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS THAT
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING FOR A SECOND THAT
HOW LONG BEFORE HE STOPS TALKING BECAUSE HE LOST ME
A LONG TIME AGO THAT
THEIR FOREIGNERS, I CAN UNDERSTAND THEM THAT THIS
CORNERS WITH HER ACCENT ARE
HE'S WHITE BUT HE STILL SOUNDS FUNNY.
AS JIMMY POINTED OUT DURING THE VIDEO, HE WAS
LAYING IT ON THICK.
THE TEEMING SHORE AND LADY LIBERTY LIFTING HER LAMP AND
EVERYTHING.
THE SECOND A FOREIGN LEADER ADDS ANY AMOUNT
OF POETRY, IT IS TO STICK IT TO DONALD TRUMP AND I THINK DONALD
TRUMP KNOWS.
BECAUSE OF COURSE THE MESSAGE THERE IS AMERICA DOES
HAVE A TRADITION OF TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME: ONE, GROWING
STRONGER AS A RESULT OF BRINGING NEW PEOPLE, NEW CULTURES IN.
THAT IS WHAT WE ARE.
THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE BECOME DOPPLER AT THE SAME TIME,
ALWAYS RESISTING IT.
ALWAYS RESENTING THE NEW GROUP AND FEELING LIKE THEY WILL NEVER
ACTUALLY A SIMILE EVEN THOUGH EVERY GROUP EVENTUALLY
ASSIMILATES AND SO WE WILL HAVE THAT WEIRD TENSE MIX AND
PEOPLE IN WHICHEVER TIME AS THE PRESIDENT HATE THE NEW GROUP
THAT IS COMING IN CAN NEVER LOOK BACK AT THE HISTORY AND REALIZE
WHAT THEY REPRESENT THAT THEY CAN EVER SEE HOW HISTORICALLY
WRONG THEY ARE AND DONALD TRUMP IS THAT PERSON IN 2017.
HE IS LEADER OF THAT MOMENT.
OF COURSE HE DOESN'T LIKE THE REMINDER THAT THE IRISH
WERE HATED EVENTUALLY ASSIMILATE, THE ITALIANS OF
HER HATED EVENTUALLY ASSIMILATED THAT THE GERMANS TOOK OVER
HALF THE COUNTRY BASICALLY.
THIS WILL BE OUR THE COUNTRY AND TO HAVE IT REMINDED HIM IN FRONT
OF EVERYONE WITH CAMERAS ROLLING SEEM TO MAKE AMONG COME TO
THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT
THERE WERE STRUGGLES WHEN NEW IMMIGRANTS CAME.
THEIR THINKING THIS IS A NEW THING, THESE IMMIGRANTS ARE
SAYING WE NEED THEY NEED TO TAKE OVER THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE
THEY WERE AND ARE DOING IT AGGRESSIVELY BECAUSE THEY
BEEN TOLD IS SOMETIMES.
AND READ ABOUT ANY STRUGGLES WITH THE NEW IMMIGRANTS THAT
LOOK NOT SCARY THEN THEY WILL GO OH, IT WAS EASY FOR THEM.
THEY JUST CAME INTO THE WORLD AND IT WAS PERFECTLY FINE
BECAUSE WE ARE AMERICAN WE INVITED THEM IN AND THEY
GOT ALONG JUST FIND OUT THERE WAS NO PROBLEM.
NO VIOLENCE OR CRIME, NOTHING THAT WAS GREAT, THEIR WHITE.
SO WE HAD SIGNS OF SAID NO IRISH NEED APPLY.
WHO CARES THAT THEY WERE LIKE THEY COULD EASILY ASSIMILATE.
WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THEY CAN BLEND INTO
VIRUS HAD A REALLY LONG FOR A PROLONGED TIME.
AND THAT'S WHY I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE BLACK.
AS MY GRANDPA COULDN'T GET A JOB.
THE HISTORY OF WHITENESS IN AMERICA IS REALLY
INTERESTING IN THAT HUMAN GROUPS LIKE THE ITALIANS AND IRISH
AT ONE POINT WERE CONSIDERED WHITE.
THEY CALLED THEM WASPS AND A STANDS FOR WITHOUT PAPERS.
AND THEY CALL MEXICANS WET BACKS BECAUSE THEY SWIM OVER.
IT'S ALL HOW YOU DO IT.
HR YOU WITH WHATEVER YOUR EXPERIENCE WAS COMING IN.
THEY IRISH MAKES BECAUSE WE LIKE TO GO TO MCDONALD'S.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT ONE THOUGHT
YOU GUYS ARE SO FULL OF IT.
OBVIOUSLY THE ITALIANS, THEY SPEAK ENGLISH.
COME ON.
THE ITALIANS CAME HERE AND THERE MOSTLY CRIMINALS AND
WE LET THEM IN.
LOOK AT THE MAFIA.
THEY GOT WAS WHEN I GOT HERE THOUGH.
I NOTICED THAT, I WATCHED THE SOPRANOS.
I'M GLAD, THERE'S GOING TO BE TENSE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE
US AND OTHER COUNTRIES FOR AT LEAST FOUR YEARS NOW, WE JUST
ACCEPT THAT DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ARE GOING TO DEAL WITH IN
DIFFERENT WAYS BUT I LIKE THAT COUNTRIES LIKE IRELAND AREN'T
GOING TO BEAT BACK DOWN OR PRETENDED NOT HAVE THE VALUES
THEY DO SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE ROOM WITH DONALD TRUMP
AND I HOPE, IT'S A SMALL HOPE, I DON'T THINK IT WILL HAPPEN BUT I
HOPE THAT EVENTUALLY YOU START TO BE AFFECTED BY THE
PEOPLE YOU ARE IN THE ROOM WITH THEM MAYBE IF HE SPENDS
ENOUGH TIME WITH RESPONSIBLE LEADERS OF COUNTRIES MAYBE
A LITTLE BIT OF IT CAN RUB OFF ON HIM.
HE HAS TO PAY ATTENTION AND LISTEN.
YEAH.
I'M LEANING MORE TOWARD HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
I DON'T EVEN THINK HE IS LISTENING.
I DON'T THINK HE LISTENS WHEN PEOPLE ARE TALKING TO HIS
THINKING ABOUT, I HAVE A GOLF COURSE IN IRELAND I THINK I
THINK I CAN GO GOLFING.
IF YOU TWEETED IT, IF THE PRIME MINISTER TWEETED THAT,
QUICKLY AND ANGRILY HE WOULD BE LIKE, NOW I KNOW WHAT HE SAID.
THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT?
LOOMING IN THE BACKGROUND OUR CONCERNS ABOUT AMERICAN
IMMIGRATION POLICY AND HOW WE DEAL WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TO GET
THEM TO DEAL WITH LARGE GROUPS OF REFUGEES IS NOT JUST THE
PROBLEM OF THE LAST TWO YEARS.
THERE BEEN MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH PEOPLE DYING TRYING TO CROSS
OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM NORTH AFRICA, OBVIOUSLY MIDDLE
EASTERN REFUGEES, REFUGEES IN OTHER PARTS OF AFRICA.
SYRIA, CLEARLY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, ALL OF THOSE ARE
PROBLEMS WE HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH AND WILL CONTINUE TO, BUT
WE
ALSO REPORTED LESS THAN A WEEK AGO ABOUT THE LOOMING MASSIVE
FAMINE IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST THAT COULD POTENTIALLY
LEAD TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF ADDITIONAL REFUGEES.
WE DON'T KNOW WHICH COUNTRIES ARE GOING TO COME FROM OR
TO BUT IT IS GOING TO REQUIRE INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE
AND AT THE SAME TIME THAT DONALD TRUMP IS CUTTING U.S.
MONEY GOING TO FOREIGN DONATION AND CHARITY WORK AND
SHOWING THAT HE PERSONALLY IS NOT INTERESTED IN REFUGEES OR
IMMIGRANTS COMING IN, THAT IS DANGEROUS.
WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE'S LIVES ON THE LINE AND
HOPEFULLY THE IRISH PHILOSOPHY WINS IN THIS ONE CASE.