The Donald Trump show dazzles and shocks in first year

In the wake of alleged comment made by America’s Donald Trump, ex-president John Mahama has attracted some “heat” unto himself over a tweet he made concerning the issue which has enraged many Africans.

Condemning the comments “in the strongest terms”, the AU demanded “a retraction of the comment as well as an apology, not only to the Africans, but to all people of African descent around the globe”. Congress is grappling with the issue as they negotiate over a spending bill they need to pass by Friday to avoid a government shutdown.

“The Government of Botswana is wondering why President Trump, must use this descriptor and derogatory word, when talking about countries with whom the USA has had cordial and mutually beneficial bilateral relations for so many years”, said the statement.

PERDUE: I’m saying that this is a gross misrepresentation, it’s not the first time Senator Durbin has done it, and it is not productive to solving the problem that we have at hand.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC, one of the six senators in the meeting with Trump on Thursday, supported Durbin’s account.

This is the type of thing, activists, religious leaders and scholars say, that puts Trump’s presidency in direct conflict with the legacy of King, who was assassinated April 4, 1968 while trying to make America a more inclusive society.

Durbin, a Democratic senator from IL, said, however, that Trump did use “hate-filled, vile and racist” language in the meeting, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., reportedly took umbrage during the meeting. Sen. “That I can tell you”, he told reporters. The governments of Namibia and Botswana have also condemned the comments. When Emma Lazarus asked the world to send America “your exhausted, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, she didn’t do it because she wanted to take them on as wards of the welfare state. Somehow they rationalize that what Trump said was bad and racist but that covering it up is not. “Ask anyone who’s dealt with both”. Trump has been unable to fulfill many of his campaign promises regarding the border since assuming office almost a year ago.

State Department officials said diplomats have been advised not to try to interpret or soften the President’s remarks but rather to listen and acknowledge the countries’ concerns. How do we know he said it – or something close?

His comments were met with scorn by Democrats who branded them “divisive” and “elitist”. Hopefully, it’s all going to work out. He mentioned Russian Federation (3.1%) the most out of other countries, quickly followed by North Korea (3%) and China (1.9%).

His pronouncements have come to be taken with a pinch of salt, whether about the size of his inauguration crowd or whether he really does intend to go through with his pledge to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.

The White House has not denied that Trump said “shithole” though Trump has already pushed back on some depictions of the meeting.

The president reportedly demanded to know why the U.S. should accept immigrants from “s***hole countries” rather than – for instance – wealthy and overwhelmingly white Norway. I don’t know if they were taken – I wasn’t in the room. “I think they talk about DACA, but they don’t want to help the DACA people”. “They took responsibility, they made a mistake”.

In 1953, in response to the CIA’s pressure to overthrow the elected leader of Iran, President Dwight D. Eisenhower wondered aloud in a National Security Council meeting if perhaps we couldn’t try “to get some of the people in these downtrodden countries to like us instead of hating us?”