African nations and El Salvador -also said to have been targeted in Trump’s comments on immigration – have had plenty to say. Graham, Durbin said, stood up and “made a direct comment on what the president said”, telling the president his own family story.
President Trump’s use of a vulgar term to describe African countries triggered widespread condemnation, and left the small cluster of tough-on-immigration groups whose agenda Trump has embraced scrambling to figure out what to do with the president. He is also a design engineer in the defense industry and a Haitian immigrant who says the portrayal of his country is offensive.
As Haitian flags flew at half-mast across the Haiti Friday, Moise laid a wreath of white flowers at a mass grave where scores of natural disaster victims were buried.
Trump’s comments Thursday came as two senators presented details of a bipartisan compromise that would extend protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants – and also strengthen border protections, as Trump has insisted.
The White House has not denied the language used at the Thursday meeting on immigration.
We certainly agree, and we’re sure that the millions of people President Trump insulted with his comments do, too.
The African Union Mission in the Washington DC, USA, has asked for retraction and apology from the US government over derogatory remarks made by the US President Donald Trump, describing African countries as “shithole countries” during a bipartisan meeting.
Democrats have not budged on their demand that the almost 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program be given amnesty, along with their parents who brought them here illegally.
I can not believe that in the history of the White House in that oval office any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday.
“The examination went exceptionally well”. Mahama tweeted under a mocked-up photograph of Trump being shown a map of Africa in which all the countries were labelled “Nambia”. “And we’d have to get pitchforks and chase him out of the White House”. Durbin called the moment, “heartbreaking”.
– There’s an estimated 36,000 Haitians living in Central Florida and they’re reacting to President Trump’s comments about their country.
“His vision seems to not only be less immigration but more high-skilled”, Selee said of Mr. Trump, “and that may be the system we’re already getting”.
“Sir”, Colbert said. “They are not sh*thole countries”.
Trump has called himself the “least racist person that you’ve ever met”.
“Immigration is not tied to Donald Trump”.
“It just took the breath out of me”, Saitinor Philius said.